Posts Tagged ‘Design’
Twitter Rolls Out New Interface for All
Twitter today launched a new interface for all users, adding search and trending topics to the sidebar for all those using Twitter.com.
It’s not a totally new concept: Twitter has been testing this interface for months and new accounts were already seeing it, along with selected groups of users. Seemingly content with how those trials went, Twitter has now deployed these features across all Twitter accounts.
The update adds two...
WordPress Leaps Into Social Networking With BuddyPress 1.0
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is moving into social networking, with the 1.0 launch of BuddyPress, an installable, open source software platform that runs on your own website. The software is freely available, and can be downloaded from BuddyPress.org.
The move comes more than a year after WordPress acquired BuddyPress, which at the time was essentially a series of plugins for adding social features to your WordPress blog....
Laid Off? Tell Your Horror Story Anonymously on Telonu
When are you most likely to vent about your employer? Well, for some jobs, maybe every day as soon as you leave the place, but for a lot of people lately, probably right after they become the latest victim of a layoff. Telonu, a site that lets people anonymously review their employers, is looking to capitalize on this trend with a section specifically for the laid off: Layoff Talk.
To tell...
9 Must-Try Adobe AIR Apps for Better Productivity
Elliott Kosmicki is the founder of GoodPlum.com, a productivity and personal development blog for home business owners. You can also follow Elliott on Twitter.
Adobe AIR came along and changed the application world overnight. Developers could now use their web app knowledge and translate that to an application that ran on a PC, Mac or Linux desktop. For users, such as...
Kyte Offers Branded iPhone Apps for Celebrities and Musicians
Kyte, the catch-all site for video production, creation, and distribution via Web or mobile phone, has been avidly working behind the scenes to further their monetization opportunities and boost their celebrity content.
The site, which has been building up its base of celebrity users and experimenting with in-show overlay advertising, is now moving into bluer oceans. Today, Kyte is...
Facebook, CNN and Obama: The Reunion
In what both brands hope will be another successful melding of mainstream and social media, CNN and Facebook are set for a rerun of their successful live streaming partnership during the Presidential Inauguration.
On Tuesday evening, President Obama’s address to Congress will be live streamed online by CNN, accompanied by live updates from Facebook: discuss Obama’s address with your friends or view all the...
18 of the Best Music Tumblelogs
Tumblr has long been a site that promotes outside-of-the-box blogging with inside-of-the-box restrictions. Originally just a short-form way to tumble across the web and quickly post photos, videos, audio, text, and quotes, Tumblrs everywhere now appear in all shapes and sizes. One very popular niche approach is to focus tumblelogs around celebrating the art form that is music.
The tumblelogs featured here are...
HOW TO: Deal With Social Media Conflict
Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com.
No matter how knowledgeable you are and how much research you do, there will come a time when someone disagrees with something you write. Might be a friend on Facebook or a stranger on
It’s the last day to apply for what’s been hailed as the “best job in the world” by the Australian tourism board: writing a weekly blog post, maintaining a video blog and uploading photos while exploring Australia’s Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. 
Some iPhone app developers blog about the process of developing their apps. Some even make videos. One development company - Ten23 Software - has gone much further.