URL: http://spins.fm/The easiest way for music fans to request any song on any radio station using facebook or twitter. Despite the popularity of internet radio among fans, terrestrial radio is still the driving force behind paid itunes downloads and demand for nationwide shows and appearances. With Spins.FM artists and labels now have the ability to use social media....
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Every minute millions of actions take place on Facebook. Here are some notable numbers...
Privacy & Ethics | don't we care about people's privacy anymore?
I think as a professional designer in the space of online media, including social media, I have an ethical responsibility to people that I design content and services for - the people I call “consumers” or “visitors” during my working hours. These people also happen to be the people who ultimately pay my salary and allow me to have a great job. Funny enough, I am such a “consumer” too, and so are you, and I would like to know that I am being treated well. Wouldn’t you?
"Are we are evolving our contract with society through our increasing interactions with digital platforms, and in particular, through what we've come to call the web?
What's My Independent Identity? What happens when the Independent Web starts leveraging the services of the Dependent Web? Do we gain, do we lose, or is it a push? We seem to be in the process of finding out. It's clear that more than ads can be driven by the algorithms and services of the Dependent Web. Soon (in the case of Facebook Open Graph, real soon) Independent sits will be able use Dependent Web infrastructure to determine what content and services they might offer to a visitor. Imagine if nearly all sites used such services. As they stand today, I can't imagine such a world would be very compelling. We have to do a lot more work on understanding concepts of identity and intent before we could instrument such services – and at present, nearly all that work is being done by companies with Dependent business models (this is not necessarily a bad thing, but it's a thing). This skews the research, so to speak, and may well constrain the opportunity. The opportunity is obvious, but worth stating: By leveraging a nuanced understanding of a visitor's identity, every site or service on the web could deliver content, services, and/or advertising that is equivalent in relevance and experience as the best search result is to us today. The site would read our identity and click path as our intent (thus creating the "query"), then match its content and service offerings to that intent, creating the "result." Leveraging our identities, Independent Web sites could more perfectly instrument their sites to our tastes. Sites would feel less like impersonal mazes, and more like conversations. But is that what we want?"
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I just logged into my @Peekr account to see what's new with Lil' Peekr and I was given the option to try the new Twitter... so I did, of course.
I figured I'd grab a few screenshots for other folks that have not seen it yet and give folks a taste of what they might be missing (or think they're missing anyway). The screenshots below were taken while logged into Twitter using my @Peekr account via web as I was beginning to test the new UI with the @Peekr bookmarklet.
I just logged into my @Peekr account to see what's new with Lil' Peekr and I was given the option to try the new Twitter... so I did, of course.
I figured I'd grab a few screenshots for other folks that have not seen it yet and give folks a taste of what they might be missing (or think they're missing anyway). The screenshots below were taken while logged into Twitter using my @Peekr account via web as I was beginning to test the new UI with the @Peekr bookmarklet.
Can you hear me now?
A few Google links and a screen shot or two. Yeah, I'm sure you've heard the news by now but I thought I'd share it anyway...
Another helpful Twitter tool by the folks @grader - http://tweetingsince.com Kinda neat little app, and they also make other great stuff like http://grader.twitter.com Why not check it out?
Seems I joined the same day as Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) and other notable Twitterati -- I'm in the top 10 for that day but no where near the influence... bummer. When I grow up, I'm gonna be "somebody" I just know it!
This is amazing... I'm just trying to absorb it all!
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After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain ajax and flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on.
Boilerplate is not a framework, nor does it prescribe any philosophy of development, it's just got some tricks to get your project off the ground quickly and right-footed.
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Here's a quick post on the new 'tweet' button from Twitter, a few helpful/relevant links, and an example of the button (why not use it and give it a try?) in action and a snippet of code to make is easy to add the button to your own site.
