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Links for late June

Posted on June 29, 2010 by admin

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• Facebook Open Graph Search, A Semantic Web Tool That Actually Makes Sense – A real competitor to spider based search indexing? It’s just crazy enough to work.
• In Online Retail, Usability Is Rated No. 1 – eMarketer – At the very end of this article is an important point. If visitors to your e-commerce site are there for research, you can think of your site like any other non-e-commerce site where the goal is efficient access to valuable information. Good to remember.
• Music – AudioJungle – I haven’t bought anything from this music collection yet, but if you’re familiar with the other online options for sound effects or background music for video, you’ll recognize the potential here. Plus, it’s part of Envato, so you can expect quality.
• Bounce – A fun and easy way to share ideas on a website – Simple to make notes on website design layouts and share them. Enter a URL, it loads. You overlay notes and share with others. Perfect and easy. via @vinthomas
• Blog Navigation WordPress Plugins: Related, Recent, Most Popular Posts … – Old post from Feb 2007, but great links in here for customizing #wordpress nav. I’m sure some of these plugins must not work anymore…
• Data Monday: Mobile Apps vs. Mobile Web – Clients are often quick to request we build an app when often a mobile website makes more sense. Then again, Jobs says the future is apps. Here are the user tendency numbers to help you decide.
• Article: Twitter Moms Care for Content over Coupons – Congrats to moms everywhere for bucking the Twitter-Direct Marketing love fest. Promos and coupons, your days are numbered. Let’s all follow our mothers and demand more for our follows.
• ALERT: Facebook Phonebook Is Not A Security Threat – Also tells how to hide your phone number on Facebook.
• Twitter Launches Promoted/Sponsored Tweets Before USA World Cup Game – Save some of that Adsense money for promoted Tweets. Can’t wait to see the auction action for this new medium. Also, has anyone else noticed the number of ESPN3 pre-roll spots has increased as we near the finals? Love the #worldcup.
• Launchlist – Your one stop website checklist! – A nice pre-launch checklist for web development. Some of the list items are pretty vague, but this is a great start for creating your own list with more detail.
• When Social Media Becomes The Message: The Gulf Oil Spill And @BPGlobalPR – I hear BP got in the social media game after the gulf disaster. That spells inauthenticity. If all other tactics to sell the importance of social media participation don’t work, here’s your scare tactic angle.

Pogue sells me an iPad, new Facebook Page type, can Twitter influence be bought?, iPhone/iPad UI design tools

Posted on April 12, 2010 by admin

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• Personal Tech: Apple iPad FAQ’s – @pogue answers all of the important questions I had about iPad. Video out, how’s the typing experience (really), USB, they 12hr battery life claim is not a myth.
• Facebook’s New Solution For Unofficial Pages: Community Pages – Facebook makes a distinction between brand pages and pages meant to build community around a topic. Think it will take off?
• BRITE: Influence on Twitter can’t be purchased with Kim Kardashian | Econsultancy – Can you buy influence on Twitter? Maybe this should say “meaningful influence”?
• iPhone and iPad Stock Files – collis – GraphicRiver – iPad UI graphic elements kits from Envato for your application design and wireframing needs.
• Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0 – Custom post types is going to be a game changer for my dev team. We currently use a few plugins to massage WordPress into a CMS, namely Flutter and Secondary HTML Content. Custom post types might eliminate the need for those plugins. RT @danielbachhuber.
• Mirror files across systems with rsync – Backup utilities – Lifehacker – I know this is the right way to backup. Real geeks use rsync. I haven’t had the chance to poke this bear yet, but Gina’s article is where I’ll start.