Interview with New Twitter app Taweet: The Future of Twitter

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As Twitter has blown through other social media sites, it's become one of the most trafficked websites of the present day. Everybody and their grandma is using Twitter, and there's no shortage of helpful applications and Twitter resources for them all! Ranging from Twitter wallpaper creators to free icons or avatars, the internet hosts them all. I recently ran into such an app at http://taweet.com/. It's a beautiful application, and it lets you share and store dates of future events through … [Read more...]

The Web’s Cutest URL Shortening Service Moourl.com

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I know I know, I'm a guy and the word "cute" shouldn't be in my vocabulary. Well if I ever needed to use the word cute to describe anything, it would have to be moourl.com. It's a URL shortening service with an actually bearable design to it. Beautiful vectors and color scheme, I love the site! It offers some of the most basic features you would expect - forwarding to a new page, creating custom URL's, etc. It doesn't seem to have any tracking stats or clicks from what I can tell, which is … [Read more...]

Interview with is.gd URL Shortener

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New URL Shortening services hit the web every week it seems. I can remember not too long ago when TinyURL was just starting up, and that hit with a huge bang. Ever since then, there have been countless creations of URL shorteners (where some even provided stats). However, only a select few have really succeeded to hit mainstream popularity and be of any use. I got an interview with the creator of is.gd, another very popular URL shortening service with many key features. Allowing you to track … [Read more...]

Founder of Omegle.com Answers Questions From Redditors

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Omegle.com has spread across many social networking hubs, forums, and internet chatrooms rapidly over the past few months. It's a new site with a very simple concept: you log in anonymously and talk to someone else. Someone random, someone you've *probably* never even met before, just talking about whatever. It seems like a breeding ground for spam and pranks, but it ultimately seen very positive results in traffic and user response. After logging into Reddit the other day, I was surprised to … [Read more...]

Behind the Scenes at Posterous.com: Filesharing Made Easy

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Sharing files over the internet used to be a devilish task. Finding the right application, storage space, or transporation method for files used to be very difficult only 5 years ago. Now with file upload sites and forums/bulletin boards to share files, sending your friend a song or posting up a funny picture has never been easier. Posterous is going to change file sharing for the better. All you need to do is e-mail them the files you want, and you instantly get your own space on Posterous … [Read more...]

Collection of Photos from Digg’s Office in San Francisco

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Digg is undoubtedly the most popular social news website on the internet. Hell, it sort of invented the social news genre itself! Digg has been a huge inspiration to me as a designer and developer, and I have learned so much through Digg's progression over the years. So I took it upon myself to find a bit more about the site: by digging around Flickr! I found a great collection of office photos inside Digg's main headquarters in San Francisco, CA, and I've posted it up here to share with all my … [Read more...]

Interview with Indaba Music: The Online Music-Making Community

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Are you a musician looking to find others to jam with, write music with, or just talk to? Or maybe you have a band, but want to find others who are writing the same kind of stuff? Yeah, listen to their tunes, kick back, maybe even share some wisdom with each other. Well look no further, as Indaba Music can cure all your problems. A social networking site at heart, Indaba Music is an online community of musicians, recorders, sound/audio producers, and anyone with a love for sound. You can … [Read more...]