1930 – World Cup Uruguay Logo

This was the first ever world cup which was won by the hosts Uruguay 4 –  Argentina 2  therefore Urguay where named as the first ever world cup winners.

1934 – World Cup Italy Logo

The final match was between Italy and Czechoslovakia with final score Italy 2 – 1 Czechoslovakia once again the hosts winning the world cup.

1938 – World Cup France Logo

The world cup was hosted in France, surprisingly Italy won the won the world cup after winning the previous the world cup, Italy 4 – Hungary 2 and brazil managed to secure third place beating Hungary.

1950 – World Cup Switzerland Logo

The world cup was put on holt for 12 years because of world war 2 and resumed in 1950 which was then hosted in brazil  where host managed to loose 2-1 against brazil.

1954 – World Cup Switzerland Logo

The world cup was hosted within Switzerland with the final score West Germany 3 – Hungary 2.

1958 – World Cup Sweden Logo

The Sweden world cup was extra special because this was the fist time someone from outside of Europe won the world cup which was brazil who beat the hosts of the world cup sweden in the final 5 – 2 the most ever goals to be scored in a world cup final.

1962 – World Cup Chile Logo

Brazil vs Czechoslovakia where brazil won for the world cup for second time in row with a score of  3-1.

1966 – World Cup England Logo

1966 an historic year for any Englishman the first and only time to data England have won the world cup, successfully beating west Germany 4-2 meant England was the first team to win the world cup in the united kingdom.

1970 – World Cup Mexico Logo

Brazil managed to win the world cup for the third time and became the country which has won the world cup the most times ever. The final score was brazil 4 – and italy 1.

1974 – World Cup West Germany Logo

The host Germany where victorious winning their second world cup beating Holland 2-1.

1978 – World Cup Argentina Logo

Once again the hosts of world cup managed to come out victorious meaning Argentina became south America second team to win a world cup.

1982 – World Cup Spain Logo

Italy where the winners of the world cup for the third time, against Germany a 2 –1 win.

1986 – World Cup Mexico Logo

This was the first time a country has hosted the world cup more than once. The final was between Argentina and Germany where Argentina won the beating Germany 3 –2.

1990 – World Cup Italy Logo

Germany where in the past two world cup finals third time lucky being in the final and manged to win the world cup 2-1 beating Argentina who they lost to in the last world cup.

1994 – World Cup USA Logo

Brazil managed to get their 4th world cup title beating Italy in the final 0-0 but Brazil won on penalties.

1998 – World Cup France Logo

France hosted their second world cup and beat brazil 3-0 a fantastic result for France.

2002 – World Cup Japan And Korean Republic Logo

The final score result was brazil 2 – and Germany 0, which meant Brazil won the world cup for the 5th time.

2006 – World Cup Germany Logo

The world final was 1-1 therefore ended up going into penalty shootouts where Italy beat France 5 – 2 on penalties.

2010 – World Cup South Africa Logo

This is the 2010 world cup logo but where yet to know who the winners, i will updated the post when we find out who won.

A  great blog post of high quality icon sets which is a greate reference to bookmark for future reference. This post was time consuming putting together therefore any comments on your thoughts about the article would defiantly be really appreciated.

1. Extreme Grunge Garments Icons

This high quality, hand made, icon pack is full with 9 Extreme Grunge Social Media Garments. Each icon is in .png format with transparent backgrounds, sized at 256×256px. Icons are free for commercial and personal use.

2. 50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons

The icons are provided in both raster and vector formats: The transparent PNG versions are 256×256, and we have also included Illustrator files so that you can resize the icons as needed.

3. Exclusive Payment Method Icon Set for our readers

This icon sets download package contains the six icons, and include a choice of eight different sizes: 12px, 16px, 24px, 32px, 64px, 128px, 256px and 512px. The icons are entirely free for personal or commercial use.

4. Free Fresh Slick RSS Icon Set

A very fresh but slick RSS icon set exclusive to Creative Nerds Readers, the icon set includes a range of various different colours for you to have a play around with. I hope you like the icons, we would love to hear your thoughts and feedback about the icon set.

5. Free Social Media Icons: Old Bottle Crowns Icon Set

The theme is worn-and-torn, so it’ll look great on grunge, vintage, classic-themed web designs. This set contains 20 200px x 200px PNG files that you can easily resize and edit for your website design.

6. Free Set of Social Media Icons – Large Icons Social

Large-Icons.com, part of Aha-soft, brings to Six Revisions readers a free set of social media icons called Large Icons Social.

7. Free Cute Furry Monster Icons for Mac, PC and Web

Last week I posted an Adobe Illustrator tutorial covering the process of creating your own cute and fuzzy vector monster. This week, I’ve put together a little family of monsters, available for free download in the form of icons. Each monster can be found in PNG, ICNS and ICO filetypes for use on your Mac, PC or for inclusion in your website designs.

8. New exclusive icon set: Copenhagen

If you are working on a web app, these icons will spice up any feature list. They are based on the most popular search terms from IconFinder, but targetted web design for web apps.

9. New exclusive icon set: Copenhagen

We are beginning here a new tradition, a humble and honest way to pay back to all our kind readers. From now on, we will be giving away each week a special Icon set designed exclusively for the blog audience.

10. Rise : PNG

21 folders icons .

11. High detail social icons | All our free icon sets

A high details of over 20 2d social media icons.

12. Onebit free icon set

cojoy.com presents Onebit free icon set of 50 icons. Other icon sets from this style.

13. 330 Free Letter Pressed Icons

A collection of over a 100 letter pressed icons, in various letter pressed styles exclusive to Creative Nerds readers. The icons include three PSD files which are full of icons which you can drag and drop into your designs.

14. Free, Quirky Icon Set: The Dream Geek Team

A dream The set features well-known IT celebrities: Bill Gates, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Steve Jobs, and Steve Ballmer. There are 8 PNG files included in this set. We hope that you find a good and fun use for these!

15. Free, Quirky Icon Set: The Dream Geek Team

A dream The set features well-known IT celebrities: Bill Gates, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Steve Jobs, and Steve Ballmer. There are 8 PNG files included in this set. We hope that you find a good and fun use for these!

16. Vector Social Media Icons

This free set includes 80 icons of the most popular social media networks on the internet. The icons are designed in 32px and 16px vector format. With the vector format, you can scale the icon to any size to fit with your design or use it in high quality print materials. What you will get from the zip package: 16px, 24px, 32px in PNG format and a vector EPS file. Don’t forget to get our Moi icon set to match with this style.

17. Free Furry Cushions Social Icons Set

You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.

18. Freebie: Incredibly Detailed 3D Icon Set

We’ve released a few other freebies on MediaLoot before, and as we get closer to the launch, we thought it would be nice to give away some icons! (you like icons, right?)

19. Freebie: Incredibly Detailed 3D Icon Set

A brand new set that consists of 20 3D icons in PNG format (64×64 & 128x128pixels). Hope you’ll find them useful

20. Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set

This woven fabric set of social media icons was created by Jan Cavan from Dawghouse.

21. Free ‘Social Media Bookmark Icon +’ pack, the ever growing icon set

This woven fabric set of social media icons was created by Jan Cavan from Dawghouse.

22. Free ‘Social Media Bookmark Icon +’ pack, the ever growing icon set

Hate or love social media sites, they do bring you visitors to your site and the best way to do that is to show them what websites you are supporting. So I’ve designed the first 14 social media bookmark icons that you can download and use wherever you like, for free as well!

23. Free ‘Social Media Bookmark Icon +’ pack, the ever growing icon set

These 50 icons are released under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 and can be used commercially – just don’t redistribute them without written permission.

24. Free ‘Social Media Bookmark Icon +’ pack, the ever growing icon set

I am very excited to release LBOI’s first set of social icons in 2010. Iconshock contacted me to make icons for the blog and they did an amazing job on the first set that even had me iconized. For their newest icon set for LBOI, I wanted them to make moleskin social icons and boy did they make them or what? I love these RSS, Twitter, Delicious, Stumbleupon and Facebook clad moleskins. They are so awesome! I hope you find good use of these icons, they are free for commercial and personal use. They come in 256×256 resolution in PNG format. Thanks Iconshock! And be sure to check out Iconshock – icon sets

25. Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers set

This set of free hand drawn doodle icons includes 14 graphics tailored specifically for bloggers. Including social media graphics for Delicious, Design Float, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter as well as commonly used icons such as RSS, Home, Comments, Contact and WordPress.

26. Isometrica (Volume 1): A Free Social Media Icon Set

Ahoy there! It’s another social icon set to soak up your precious bandwidth, royally entitled, Isometrica.

27. 180 Massive Minimalistic Icon set

A minimalistic icon set which is available in a range of various colours, which includes over 175 icons all in one set available to be used in commercial design projects.

28. 180 Massive Minimalistic Icon set

If you would like to see different icons in the set let me know and I’ll include them in the next release.

29. 180 Massive Minimalistic Icon set

After the great success of our Free Social Media Icons, I have added another 10 social media icons to the pack. The new icons are AIM, Bebo, eBay, Hi5, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Windows Live, Ning, Orkut and Yahoo Messenger.

29. micrOS icon pack

This is my first atempt to small icons itented for webdesign. I really enjoyed making those icons zooming in and out from photoshop to try to get them a nice feeling. I know already I can improve this, so stay tuned for the next set!

30. Paint Icons

Hii there, after looong time, i design two icons based in paint theme .There in PNG 3 sizes 512, 256 & 128

31. Cute Critters Free Icon Pack

Each icon is in .png format sized at 512×512px with transparent backgrounds. Altogether, there is more cuteness than you could shake a stick at.

32. 120 free new icons!

A set of 120 simple icons, in 2 resolutions: 68×68 & 48x48px. In the zip file you will also find the AI & EPS files so you can either grab and freely use various elements or crop them for your resolution.

33. Social Icons Made of Wood

Here’s another social icon set from webtoolkit4.me. This time the theme is wood. The set consists of 11 icons in PNG format (64 x 64). It’s free for both personal and commercial projects. Here it is then. Enjoy

34. 24 Free Exclusive Vector Icons: ‘Handy’

‘Handy’ is a set of 24 free and exclusive vector icons that can be used on websites, logos and more.

35. Gorgeous Mini Social Networking Icon set

Gorgeous Mini Social Networking Icon set was a part of design assignment for a friend of mine who is planning to roll out a new design blog. The main reason why I’m releasing it as a freebie is, I’ve designed a whole lot of social icon sets. But they were usually fancy or too attractive to be used in decent blog designs.

36. Sleek! Free Tab Style Social Icons

Here’s one beautiful and sleek set of Social Icons. Inspired by Tabbed Social Icons This sleek tabbed social network icons are designed with a slight web 2.0 feel. And are great for those who want to use those icons which are present on DISQUS, Intense debate comment forms. It can be used with a beautiful hover technique to bring life in these social Icons.

37. The Ultimate Free Web Designer’s Icon Set (750 icons, incl. PSD sources)

There are thousands of free icon sets out there, and every other day we see new sets being released by the design community. In fact, Smashing Magazine has been releasing icon sets for years now, too. But today’s release is particularly important. Over the last 1.5 years, Oliver Twardowski was designing and preparing an “ultimate web designer’s icon set” exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Today we release the third, final version of the set, an extensive pack with over 750 free icons (48×48px) for designers and Web developers. The .PSD-sources are available for free download as well.

38. iPhone Toolbar Icon Set

Set of 64 toolbar icons for the iPhone toolbar. These buttons contain beautiful shaded portions to give added depth and to highlight icon features.

39. Twitter vector icons massive icon set

The best high quality collection of free twitter bird icon.

39. Office Supplies

A sweet high quality collection of free office icons.

40. Pixel Social Media

Free for personal and commercial use!

41. Five Free Vector Icons: Plastic Iconset

The Plastic Iconset is a group of five free beautiful and high quality icons released to you, Six Revisions readers, by Iconshock. They’re released royalty-free, so you may use them for any commercial or personal purpose.

42. Five Free Vector Icons: Plastic Iconset

Social Sketches is a free icon set containing several icons of popular social networks exclusively released here on Six Revisions. All the icons are done in sketch style, which brings them a new look and makes them especially fit for grunge/hand-drawn themed websites; in fact, the set was created initially for use in Referrer Detector plugin on The Daily Faces, my new “daily sketch” project, but then I decided to release it for public use.

43. PC Social Media Icons

A FREE social media icon set! which comes with 10 icons. You can freely use these really cool and special social icons for both your private and commercial projects.

44. Free Icons Module

A dozen of beautiful and stylish icons in style of QuickTime X.The set is free and intended for non commercial usage.

45. New free social icons sticker set!

Merry Christmas to you all! Hope you like this new set of social icons. You will find them in the zip file in PNG (64×64 pixels), EPS and AI format.

46. Orb Icons

Merry Christmas to you all! Hope you like this new set of social icons. You will find them in the zip file in PNG (64×64 pixels), EPS and AI format.

47. Social Media Balloons

As now blogging is becoming more and more popular, social networking and sharing is one of our essential daily tasks. Social media icons are also popular as people want to customize their sites in different styles.

48. Boolean 1.1

For every ten icons added to the set, the count will be bumped by 0.1 that is for 110 icons the version will be 1.1, for 200 icons the version will be 2.0 and so on.

49. Mobile Device Icons

For every ten icons added to the set, the count will be bumped by 0.1 that is for 110 icons the version will be 1.1, for 200 icons the version will be 2.0 and so on.

50. Sketchy Icons

I’ve been doing this for quite a while. I’ve recently bought a tablet, and it turned out that my hand isn’t listening as it used to. So I’ve been doing this for practice. I designed some of the icons, modified some and just redraw the ones that i found pleasing.

51. Consoles

In this collection you will find the evolution of interactive lightweight entertainment electronic devices or game consoles from the very first Atari to the Microsoft XBox console .This icons set comes with detailed characteristics, keeping the exactly same colors of the real ones, designed in an isometric perspective so you can see almost all the details of the consoles. This is a cool professional icon set inspired in those who are mad about electronic devices.

52. Industrial Itsy

Icon for Itsy (twitter client) made to suit the theme made by Nawong.

53. Halloween

This set of icons have nice shapes and textures, that make them look like they were made in plastic, with some spooky characters such as Jack (from nightmare before Christmas) an skull, and the main character of scary movie, perfect for Halloween time. Designed with shadows to give deepness to the icons, and very detailed characteristics to make them look great in any application or personal project.

54. Vista Style Base Software Icons Set

Previously known Elements Icon Set is advanced into Base Software Icons Set. It contains new icons and modifications suitable for every type of software and web sites. Base Software Icons offers icons that mean actions, objects and states. These icons are suitable for ribbons, toolbars, status bars, menus, categories, links, etc.

55. Web 2.0rigami

After creating my Twitter bird logo in an origami style a week ago, I wondered what other icons would look good all origamized.  Turns out a few of the web 2.0 apps/sites look great, so I decided to create a little collection for everyone to use as they see fit.  I suppose you could look at these with the view that web 2.0 companies can be extremely beautiful objects, yet are still very fragile and can be crushed instantly.

56. Xi4Dox

Finally it’s done, hope you’ll like it the file contains also pngs of my Dev id !!

57. Web Injection

Finally it’s done, hope you’ll like it the file contains also pngs of my Dev id !!

58. icon for transformers

this is my second icons! you can see my inspiration comes from transformers. hope you like it!

59. A Set of 32 Free Sketchy Icons

If you have got a sketchy or handy drawing style website, you might be looking for some icons in a sketchy style as well. After I presented the tutorial of “How to draw a sketchy style icon“. Here is a free set of 32 icons named “Sketchy” which is in a sketch drawing style. The set includes two drawing styles: Plain and Scribble (see Preview images below).

60. Free Set of Social Media Icons – Rivet Social

I collect social media icon sets like an addict. I love them. So, I figured that it was about time I gave back to the community and created a unique set on my own, to release to you Six Revisions readers and the design community.

61. NX11 Unfinished

Unfinished set of icons, I remember saying that I would probably have these done before 2009 but I failed and it doesn’t look like I’ll ever finish them, so I might as well share these few icons now.

62. Free Vector Icons Set + Twitter Birdy Icon

As promise, I am going to release my very own icons. This is the icons I created for LoonDesign redesign. I like them very much and I like sharing. I decided to release in vector format. So, you will find a .ai a .eps and 32px X 32px .png within the zip file.

63. LiveJournal turns 10

LiveJournal is celebrating its 10th Anniversary! Why is that important to us? It’s easy, thanks to LiveJournal designers Denis Kortunov and Dmitri Joukov got acquainted with Yegor Gilyov, which marked the birth of Turbomilk! Also, a bunch of our friends work for LJ. It did not take us long to come up with the right present for the Anniversary: we created a set of icons for LiveJournal. Designer Mike Zhiharev drew three types of LJ users and also the company’s branded pencil, a <SUP> pan, and of course the mascot of LiveJournal – the legendary Frank the goat.

64. I like buttons 3a

Part 1 of my third set of buttons. All files are in .png format, size 512×512.

65. ID

A well designed icon set available for commercial use.

66. Social Icons hand drawned

A water colour hand drawn icon set, which look awesome.

67. Social Icons hand drawned

Free icon set that includes 36 hand pointer icons of 6 diferent types with 6 color variants. Icon set also includes .psd source file.

68. Social media beakers

A high quality icons set created by the team over at icon shock.

69. Original google buzz icons

A high quality icons set created by the team over at icon shock.

70. Amazing social icons

A high quality icons set created by the team over at icon shock.

71. Programmers

A high quality glass programmers icon set.

72. Adobe suite free icon set vol 2

A high quality glass programmers icon set.

73. Go adobe free adobe icon set vol1

A high quality glass programmers icon set.

74. 21 free social vintage icons

A high quality glass programmers icon set.

75. Cutielicious! A Free Twitter Bird Icon Set

Twitter Apps, Twitter Icons! Looks like we cant seem to stop liking them afterall! After the huge response received from our Previous Twitter Birds 1 and 2. We decided to bring out another Free Premium style Twitter Bird Icons.

76. Cutielicious! A Free Twitter Bird Icon Set

The Grass Textured Social Icon Set has been created by Richie Thimmaiah, from RichWorks exclusively for Speckyboy Design Magazine readers and are free to use for both your personal and commercial projects but may not be modified, sold or redistributed.The icons are packaged with 3 different sizes to suit your needs: 256px, 128px and 64px.

77. Freebie Release: Social Network Icon Set

These Iconshock icon set comes in 6 different sizes: 12×12, 16×16, 24×24, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512 covering social various social network logos like Blogger, Delicious, Facebook, Flickr, Linked-in, Reddit, RSS feed, Stumble Upon, Technorati and Twitter. All icons are free and you can download and use them in either personal or commercial project. If you like what you are downloading, consider linking back to this article

Read more: Freebie Release: Social Network Icon Set | Icons http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/social-network-icon-set/#ixzz0sj6pGeej

78. 3D Social Media Icon Pack | 20 Icon Set

Inside this Icon Pack are Twenty 3D Social Media Icons, created exclusively for the viewers of Tutorial9 by Dawghouse Design Studio.

79. Free Set of Office Icons by IconShock

Our friends at IconShock have designed another set of free icons for readers of Vandelay Design. IconShock designs high quality icon sets and in recent months they have provided the design community with a lot of great, free icons.

80. Vintage Stamp Social Media Icon Pack

This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.

81. TwitterJoy icons

TwitterJoy free icon set of 3 twitter-bird icons. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

82. Free Exclusive Vector Icon Pack: Web User Interface

The Web User Interface vector icon pack is a group of five free beautiful and high quality icons released exclusively to you, Six Revisions readers, by Iconshock.

83. Free Social Icons from IconShock

IconShock has designed social icons exclusively for Smashing Share readers. These free social icons are awesome and free to use for both your personal and commercial projects. Included icons are for following services. Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter and Delicious.

84. Free High Quality Premium Apple IPAD Icons

This is Icon stet of is Apples brand new latest product the Apple Ipad. The Icon set feature four high premium icons for you to enjoy for person use and commercial use.

85. Free Social Media – Networking & Bookmarking Icon Set

Introducing the first of many, many free icon packs here at Digital Art Empire. There are a total of 36 icons with 9 different Social Media – Networking  & Bookmarking sites.

86. Free Social Media – Networking & Bookmarking Icon Set

In this post we release Twi bird — a Free Twitter Icon Set, a set of 9 beautiful and lovely Twitter icons. Released exclusively for Splashnology.

87. Free Icons: Worn-Out Soda Cans Social Media Icon Pack

I’ve been a happy user of DesignBump, a site where you can share, save, vote on, and discover the best design related links from around the web. So when they launched their very own design blog, I decided to contribute for them. For my very first contribution, I’ve created for them the Worn-Out Soda Cans Social Media Icon Pack. The icon pack once again features icons of our favorite social media sites in 200×200, transparent PNG formats.

88. Free and Exclusive Icons: Brown Social Icon Pack

In the pack, you will find 12 glossy polished icons in different size variations: 32×32px, 64×64px and 128×128px for maximum flexibility. All files are .PNG format and are mainly brown-colored especially for all you brown fanatic bloggers that like to share posts over the social networks nowadays.

89. Mac 3D icon set

Bored of your 2D mac logo. Wanna give your dock a new touch with a 3D effect? Need a creative mac logo for your webdesign?

90. 27 Free Wooden Badges – Social Icon Pack

Inside this Icon Pack are 27 Free Wooden Social Icons, created exclusively for the viewers of Tutorial9 by Dawghouse Design Studio.

91. Grunge Peeling Stickers Social Media Icons

This Icon Pack is chuck full of 20 Grunge Peeling Social Media Stickers, created exclusively for the viewers of Tutorial9 by Dawghouse Design Studio.

92. Free Social Media Icons for Designers – A Life in Pixels

The set includes 16 32px x 32px PNG files. They are monochromatic and can work with many other colors, which is perfect if you are looking for icons that are subtle and muted so that they do not dominate your design.

93. Tabbed Social Media Icon Set 50+ Icons

A Beautiful icon pack exclusively to Creative Nerds readers designed by chethstudios. A huge collection of icons including over 50 simple but elegant icons which are perfect for minimalistic websites. I hope you like the icons also we would love to hear your thoughts and feedback about the icon set.

94. Burnt Wood: A Social Media Icon Set

Burnt Wood is a collection of wood-tiled icons branded with various social media network logos that are perfect for your next grunge-styled web design.

95. Social Cubes – Exclusive Vectortuts+ Free Pack

This new Vector Freebie Pack is created by Oindrila Mukherjee and is available exclusively from Vectortuts+. If you’re looking for high-quality social icons for your next web project, then check out these icons. This set of 18 high quality freebies is available to download today! Enjoy!

97. Free Vector Icons: Panda Social Network Icons

The Panda Social Network Icons is a free package containing 12 sweet panda animals, 128×128 pixels each, that have social network marks on their stomach. The set is created by Webby freebies and released exclusively for the readers here on Six Revisions. You’ll get 12 .png files and 1 vector (.ai) file in case you need to rescale them (in Adobe Illustrator format).

98. 81 Pixel perfect Social Media Icons

81 Pixel perfect Social Media Icons free for personal and commercial work. Each icon is hand crafted and available as a large share button, 32 pixel and 16 pixel icon.

99. Free Farm-Fresh Web Icons

FatCow “Farm-Fresh” is a new free icon set, containing exactly 1000 with 2000 more to come 16-by-16 and 32-by-32 pixel icons. Formats include ICO (PC, desktop), PNG (web, toolbars, UNIX), GIF (alive?!), DMG (Mac). These are Fatcow’s Amazing variety of icons related to web design / development / web hosting available free to download.

So I gave it some thought… what makes my great clients so fantastic to work with? Are there commonalities between them and if so, are they things that can be spotted before taking them on? The answer is yes there are several traits that all my best clients have and below are my top three. So next time you’re thinking of taking on a new client, try running this checklist and see how they measure up – it may save you some headaches!

1. They’re experts in their field

This is a key one; someone who has achieved expert status is established and knows their subject. They have a proven background and tend to have one specialism. This person will be focussed on what they do and will respect your expertise and experience, that’s why they’ve hired you. They want results and you’re the one to tell them how to achieve it online. Basically, they’ll want you to explain your strategy and ideas but they’ll have no interest in what programming language you plan to use.

In my experience it’s best to avoid like the plague anyone with a little bit of web design/SEO/programming knowledge who says things like “I want you to build my web site with [fill in the blanks] because I’ve read a book about it so I can tinker with it myself” or “What can I do myself to save money” or “My [Friend/Sister/Boyfriend] has done an evening class in web design so they’ll be helping out”. Just politely excuse yourself and run for the hills at this point.

These clients are difficult, energy draining and time-consuming to work with. First they want to learn from you, nothing wrong with that, but they usually expect you to provide expert 1-to-1 tutoring at no additional cost. They’ll bombard you with emails starting with; “Can you just tell me how to…” and you end up spending more time providing tech support than doing what you were hired to do i.e. fire-fighting rather than designing fab web sites!

If you do choose to work with a client like this, because we can’t always be so choosy, then just make it clear from the outset what’s included in your fees and what’s an additional extra at what price. Of course that’s always easier once you’ve identified them!

2. They know their product/service offering and audience

This sounds truly bizarre I know; why wouldn’t someone know this about their business? But if you meet a new client for the first time and they can’t explain to you what they do concisely i.e. they don’t have an elevator pitch; then the alarm bells should be ringing.

I’ve been caught out by this a couple of times recently, where a potential client hasn’t been able to explain clearly what it is they’re trying to sell and to whom. Essentially what happens is you try to extract this information, you think you’ve got it and then throughout the project they just keep changing their mind. Basically it boils down to the fact that they are not yet an expert in their field and so they make it up as they go along.

Of course you can charge them extra every time they re-brief you but that’s a fast way to erode the relationship leaving you and they frustrated. The best thing is to avoid the situation in the first place, so either always take a comprehensive brief and get the client to approve it before you start work, or don’t take the project on.

3. They own the business or at least have decision making control

It might seem obvious to say that a web site project will run more smoothly if you’re dealing with the decision maker. That doesn’t make it any less true. What’s more likely is that you won’t end up being the victim of Chinese Whispers – you can get instruction from the horse’s mouth so to speak.

By decision maker, it boils down to someone who has authority to sign off your invoices for payment. If that person is happy with the job then you’re home and dry. I’ve recently had a job where I was working with a marketing executive who’d been assigned to run the web site project, unfortunately she didn’t know much about web sites or anything related to them. What happened was that we went round and round in circles for quite some months; she briefed me, I carried out the work, her boss said it wasn’t right… that we hadn’t understood. I did my utmost to help her to learn but it turns out that her boss didn’t know that much about web sites either so she was hung out to dry really. The client ended up paying additional money to cover the re-works and the girl got moved off the project. It was hard work and unnecessarily stressful.

At the end of the day, if you’re dealing direct, you can question and suggest ideas and the whole process is just much more gratifying for everyone.

Some other things to look out for…

Of course there are other things that can indicate whether someone is going to be good to work with; positive, enthusiastic and upbeat people are always going to be a joy to be around, they create a buzz and inspire you to come up with great ideas for them. Entrepreneurs and innovators are very exciting to work with but they’re often strategists and not so hot on the detail – make sure you are!

Busy people are usually very precious of their time and so will be less inclined to waste yours. Organised people plan and prepare – again they make great clients because they’ll have done their leg-work and you can hit the ground running with the project. Always rejoice in the client that takes time to prepare and send you a well-thought out brief before you meet them – they’re like hen’s teeth.

And last but by no means least; it seems that if you consciously think about and associate with the positive types of clients you want to work with, then mysteriously they seem to turn up.

Reputation is our most valuable asset and it’s much easier to provide a top-notch service when you’re working with people who value you and respect you. These clients will reward you by recommending you to everyone and anyone who’ll listen and your business will soon be flying.

For all practical purposes, .co domains are the same as .com domains; that means they are available to everyone and come on a first-come, first-serve basis. One of the biggest advantages of the .co TLDs, besides the fact that they’re similar to .com TLDs, is the fact that they are already widely recognized. More than 20 countries, including the UK (.co.uk) and Japan (.co.jp), already use them for their country-specific domains.

One of the early adopters of the .co domain name is Twitter (), which snatched the domain t.co, and is currently using it as a link service.

We’re also honored to have Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg nominated as one of the the “.com 25″—a recognition of the 25 companies and people whose contributions were fundamental to shaping the Internet as we know it today. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates are among the 75 nominees. The final “.com 25″ will be honored May 26 at a gala in San Francisco.

Mark McLaughlin
CEO, VeriSign Inc.

Looking back at the first .com 25 years ago is a little like discovering what was the original document to come out of the first printing press. It’s interesting but what came after is the real story. And what came after symbolics.com, the first .com registered, has defined a generation.

McLaughlin

Ross

Crawford

Gross

During the past 25 years, .com—also known to its friends as “Dot Com”—has done more to change the world than any person or event. It has opened the world to potentially unlimited access to information and has encouraged people and governments to recognize—as they did at the UN’s “heads of state” World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)—that “freedom of expression and the free flow of information, ideas and knowledge are essential” and that we are universally committed “to the freedom to seek, receive, impart and use information … for the creation, accumulation and dissemination of knowledge.”

From virtually every corner of the world, people are able to use .com to connect with friends and family, learn about economic opportunities, interact with governments (including the opportunity to tell “truth to power”—sometimes at great personal risk), save lives, help others and to make the world a better place for future generations. It doesn’t get better or more powerful than that. Thank you .com and happy anniversary/birthday!

Andrew, manager of policy communications at Facebook, is looking forward to tomorrow’s policy forum in Washington, D.C., to discuss the impact of 25 years of .com on our lives and our world.

There is quite a handy tool for all the users of iPhone out there and it is iPhone Explorer. With iPhone Explorer you can easily Copy files to or from your iPhone via USB link regardless of the format of that file and in that way you can also use your iPhone as a USB flash drive.

You can also access your iPhone’s Pictures, videos, songs and ringtones  directory and can easily transfer them from your iPhone. The special thing about that software is that it can also be used with iPod.

Download iPhone Explorer

Samsung has finalized and announced Skype Enabled HDTVs. Samsung New Series TVs like 7000 and 8000 Series Televisions will have access to Skype.

Panasonic and Samsung has already launched this facility but now Samsung will be their competitor too in this facility of providing access to Skype.

Users will be able to log in or create their account using their remote control and can make live audio and video calls through their PCs.

However It will require HD Video Processing  Webcams which should have an average quality VGA video at 22fps rather than 720p which will surely have a high cost.

Security companies have noticed a rise in trojans known as diallers that used to be popular during the days of dial-up net access.

On a smartphone the diallers are being used to call premium rate lines leaving victims with a big bill.

Experts say the diallers are proving popular as a quick way for criminals to cash in.

Diallers were widely used during the days of dial-up net access when most people connected via modem.

Many diallers lurked on porn sites and, once they snared a victim, disconnected their modem and then placed a long distance call. Many victims were left with huge phone bills.

The economics of international calls meant that some of the cash spent on the call would be shared with the criminals. Some diallers were very sneaky in that they muted the speaker on a modem so victims could not spot when the overseas call was being placed.

Now, the security wing of software firm CA has said it is seeing a rise in diallers for smartphones. This time, instead of calling international numbers, the diallers call premium rate lines and land victims with the bill.

Writing on the CA security blog, Akhil Menon said it was seeing a “an increasing trend of trojan diallers”. Mr Menon profiled one such virus, called Swapi.B, which sends premium SMS messages.

“The messages sent out are in the typical format to invoke premium services and land the mobile user with heavy mobile bills without the user’s knowledge and consent,” wrote Mr Menon.

Many diallers, including Swapi.B, are contracted from porn sites which disguise themselves as software, video clips or helper programs.

Mikko Hypponen, head of research at F-Secure which makes security software for mobiles, said it had seen a “handful” of diallers in recent months.

They were popular, he said, because they get round one of the big problems facing anyone wanting to make money out of Windows viruses.

“PC malware can’t just directly steal money from your machine; it has to jump through hoops like keylogging your credit card number or sending spam,” he said.

“However, mobile malware can just instantly steal from you by making premium-rate calls or messages,” said Mr Hypponen.

Some creators of diallers were also working to ensure that it was hard to shut down the premium rate service they had set up to cash in.

Mr Hypponen said some diallers sent messages or rang many different numbers, including legitimate ones.

“The trojan can place calls to, say, 100 different premium-rate numbers, only one of which is his own number,” said Mr Hypponen.

“How would you fight this? Shut down all the numbers, including the innocent ones?”

Mobile phone firm TeliaSonera has completed work on two 4G networks in Oslo and Stockholm.

The company said that the first customers will be able to start using the networks in early 2010.

Despite the launch of the network, no handsets can yet use 4G. Initially customers will connect via a dongle and a laptop.

Fourth-generation, 4G, networks are based around the Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology and downlink data speeds can hit 100 megabits per second – about ten times quicker than the fastest 3G networks.

The technology has been designed to overlay existing 3G networks and most operators have committed to upgrading to the faster system.

TeliaSonera said it was recruiting customers to pilot the network during the first quarter of 2010.

It has released no information about the cost of connecting to the high-speed network. The dongles for connecting to the LTE network are made by Samsung.

Phone equipment maker Ericsson has put together the network in Stockholm, Sweden and Chinese firm Huawei is behind the one in Oslo, Norway. Both networks cover the central regions of both cities.

TeliaSonera said it expected the boost in speed to drive many novel applications including gaming on the move and much greater viewing of video on laptops.

Handsets that can use LTE are expected in mid-late 2010.