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Twitterrific Rocks the iPhone App Market with Dynamic RT Functionality

July 23, 2010 By 6 Comments
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As Twitter is growing in popularity each and every month, more people are looking to the mobile web for entertainment. Whether it be waiting online at the bank or supermarket, or even relaxing at a relatives house with some time to kill, mobile phones are making it easier for us to connect with the entire web. With iPhone sales launching through the roof, we can only see how mobile Twitter clients will become more and more useful. As Twitter has officially purchased Tweetie to be their … [Read more...]

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MySpace Updates User Profile Designs and UI Elements

July 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
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The former reigning king of social networking land MySpace is rolling out new user profile designs. The update came from Sean Percival, Myspace's VP of Online Marketing. In a short tweet Sean linked to his online profile, describing it as a "Clean new profile". The design updates do look amazing, and you can't help but realize these are long overdue. MySpace has always looked like a 10 year old's playground when it comes to profile pages frontend and backend. Luckily it appears as though the … [Read more...]

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Exclusive Interview with Relations Manager of DesignFloat

July 14, 2010 By 3 Comments
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At this point most web designers & developers ingrained in the field know about DesignFloat. It's a very popular social news submission service where blog authors or content readers can submit their favorite or most interesting news articles, and the published stories with the most votes hit the front page. It has spurred many similar sites, but DesignFloat has always reigned king. I recently had a fantastic interview with the site's Relations Manager Mortimer. He revealed some … [Read more...]

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New Web Design/Development Community Forrst Blows up Across the Web

July 5, 2010 By 6 Comments
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Since the major success of Dribbble designers and developers have been looking for such amazing communities to share resources. Because of this, Forrst.com isn't really a totally new idea in and of itself. However the implementation and UI features are so unique, the community has exploded over the past few months since launch. Forrst allows you to register an account and run your own profile, similar to a Twitter or Foursquare profile. You can follow other designers/developers in the … [Read more...]

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Google Releases Exclusive Real-Time Stats Dashboard for Blogger

July 2, 2010 By 2 Comments
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An update today on the official Blogger blog has introduced us to Google's latest invention: Blogger Stats. An inline analytics tool working in real-time on all blogs powered by Blogger. You can see current trending searches, visitors and total times per page, along with so many other features. You can view historically over the past weeks/months, or check your blog posts day-by-day to see which one's are gaining the most momentum. Google seems to be utilizing a lot of tools from their … [Read more...]

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