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Monthly Archives: December 2008
Top Ten Twitter Tools To Try Today
Alliteration is fun. Anyway, what follows is a list of what I believe are the top 10 tools to use with Twitter, roughly in order of usefulness:
Web Design Superheroes: Download Your Superpowers Here!
With x-ray vision, photographic memory and the cure for color blindness, now you too can enhance your web design ability to superhero level! Simply download your desired superpowers from the list below to get started.
Tutorial: Building Your Ultimate Social Networking Console
With hundreds of social networking websites in a constant cycle of death and rebirth, it’s fairly common for one person to have multiple accounts. Here is how you can use your iGoogle page to view and update all your social networks from a single console. For the more advanced users, I’ve included some extra tips.
Awesome Highlighter: A Tool for Researchers & Editors
Here’s just a few of the awesome things you can do with Awesome Highlighter:
Highlight with multiple colors and add annotations on websites.
Tag your highlighted pages to your heart’s content.
View your saved pages and edit the highlights, notes and tags.
Easily share with a hyperlink, or send your pages to Twitter and Delicious.
Remind yourself and others why [...]
When in Doubt – BS Your Way Out!
Business Speak (BS) originally served the innocent purpose of delivering unfavorable messages in a sensitive and gentle manner. It’s always nice to be mindful of recipients’ feelings when we’re forced to criticize them or bring them bad news. Recent trends and general consensus, however, indicate that BS is now being used for everyday communication between [...]
Kawaii Creations – Orisinal by Ferry Halim
We can’t be all business all the time – it’s important to balance work and play. That’s why, every so often, I will post a “Kawaii Creation” – something excruciatingly cute that I’ve found on the web.
Gubb: The List-Maker’s Paradise
Are you a compulsive list-maker? Or maybe you just need to keep track of a few things. Either way, Gubb is a simple web application made especially for you. On the surface, it’s intuitive and straightforward – you just make lists.
Can We Really Create Experiences?
Lately, I’ve noticed an interesting trend in how web design and interactive marketing agencies are describing their services. Here are some examples:
Design Spotlight – Now Accepting Entries!
This is a casual contest that anyone can enter and is judged purely by subjective methods. What good is that, you may ask? Consider that your website is constantly judged by such methods every time you get a visitor. It may not be scientific, but if you win, it will make you feel good. And [...]
Setting the Stage – Thoughts on “Web 2.0″
Let’s get this Web 2.0 talk out of the way – does anyone else feel like it might be just a little bit out of control? I figured I’d use the special occasion of my first post as an excuse to lay down some ground rules. Well, really just one: This blog is not about [...]
Design Spotlight – Dec ‘08 Winner – Now Accepting Entries for Jan ‘09!