Here is another selection of my favorite articles from the around the web for the previous week. Interesting week for Google but have you tried the Firefighter 360 augmented reality app on the iPhone yet?
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Select Technologies Stories From the Week
- Embedding Social Media Channels in Modern Web Design
Published: November 13, 2009
Source: Inspired Magazine
Well the Twitter stream integration is almost a standard these days when designing a portfolio website, but there are some brands with a more complex view when it comes to social media integration. Here are four brands with entire websites built over Wikipedia, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Enjoy and leave your suggestion in the comments. Skittles Campbell Ewald Krispin Porter Almost At Modernista
- iPhone augmented reality game sets the world on fire
Published: November 12, 2009
Source: Joystiq
The new Firefighter 360 for the iPhone 3GS lets you experience the thrill of seeing everything around you burst into flames, without all that pesky heat and death. The augmented reality game, developed by Presselite, superimposes fires — and virtual victims — over the iPhone camera’s view of the world, with flames generated in every direction, spreading and multiplying. And it’s up to you, as an inexplicably cel-shaded fireman, to douse the fla…
- Sites of the Week #77
Published: November 13, 2009
Source: Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the new PocketSmith and Gowalla. Also we’re featuring a great portfolio by Diego Morales, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy to feature your site. !–break– You can send me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or twitter.com/abduzeedo, and include #abdz_sites in the messa…
- Hey, Google! There’s Another Programming Language Called Go!
Published: November 13, 2009
Source: Mashable!
Just because you are big does not mean that you do everything correctly. I wonder if the team at Google new about this but just decided it wasn’t an issue?
When you’re a huge web company, and you choose a name for something as important as a new programming language, you should take great care to investigate whether the name is already taken. Apparently, Google didn’t do that. Frank McCabe, a developer working at San Jose, Calif.-based Starview Technologies, has created a programming language and named it Go years ago. In fact, he published a research paper about it in 2004, and devoted an ent…
- 40 Beautifully-Designed Navigation Menus
Published: November 11, 2009
Source: Vandelay Design Blog
Navigation menus are, of course, important for usability purposes and creating a user-friendly website, but they also provide opportunities to add some visual appeal to the design. In this post we’ll showcase 40 examples of attractive navigation menus, including a variety of different types and styles. For more on navigation menus please see: 50+ Gorgeous Navigation Menus 50 Gorgeous Navigation Menus – Part II Utah Travel Lift Interactive…
- 40 Free High-Quality WordPress Themes
Published: November 12, 2009
Source: Smashing Magazine
High quality free WordPress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). However, the quality of freely available themes has improved as well; in fact, some themes are very advanced and professional and can serve as a solid foundation for your next designs.There are a lot of choices out there…
- 11 Ways to Influence People Online and Make Them Take Action
Published: November 11, 2009
Source: Dosh Dosh
Influence can be defined as the power exerted over the minds and behavior of others. A power that can affect, persuade and cause changes to someone or something. In order to influence people, you first need to discover what is already influencing them. What makes them tick? What do they care about? We need some leverage to work with when we’re trying to change how people think and behave. But there’s a problem. You won’t be able to m…
- Why Didn’t Pownce Trounce Twitter? – with Leah Culver
Published: November 12, 2009
Source: mixergy.com
Always great to see success and failure…
We talked about more than Pownce and Twitter in this interview. Leah Culver is a developer who launched many projects. …
- The Crunchies Are Coming, The Crunchies Are Coming!
Published: November 11, 2009
Source: TechCrunch
Let the trumpets sound and the games begin. It’s not the Oscars or the Olympics, but it is the commencement of the 3rd annual Crunchies Awards that we’re pleased to co-host with GigaOm and VentureBeat (click for their coverage today). Yes, this is the time of year that we stop bickering among ourselves as bloggers, and come together to honor the startups, products and entrepreneurs who make our lives so much fun. The Crunchies Awards celebrat…
- 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9
Published: November 11, 2009
Source: Technosailor.com
Gentlemen, start your engines! WordPress 2.9 is just around the corner. Unlike WordPress 2.8, which Mark Jaquith describes as the Snow Leopard of WordPress since most of the basis of the WordPress 2.8 upgrade was complete rewrites and optimization of the infrastructure that ran WordPress instead of providing lots of new features in the same way Apple’s new OS X release is a focus on improved performance instead of features, WordPress 2.9 brings…
- 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging
Published: November 12, 2009
Source: Freelance Advice and Resources – Freelancer Magazine
Guest blogger Jimi Olaghere is a young business owner who runs Broke Tycoon, a blog and forum with advice for business and marketing techniques. Seems like everyone is a blogger these days, publishing articles on personal or freelance business blogs, updating statuses on twitter – even commenting on previously written articles. Face it, we’re blogging. But how can we stand out in a sea of keyboard happy drones? Repent from these sins and may…
- Clicker.com
Published: November 11, 2009
Source: ZePy
Clicker.com s a video search engine, which aims to index all of the movies, TV shows and other video content available online and arrange it by network, genre and show name. Clicker.com launches with an index of 300,000 episodes from over 5,200 shows on 1,200 networks, in addition to 1,200 movies and 50,000 music videos. The company has a deal with Boxee, and said it will soon also index Netflix’s 14,000 available movie titles. Roughly 30,000…
- Younger Women Step to Social Beat – eMarketer
Published: November 11, 2009
Source: www.emarketer.com
Generation Y females have redefined the idea of “peer group” to encompass online friends, bloggers and anonymous reviewers, according to the “Why Y Women?” report from PopSugar and Radar Research. Lo
- Vivaty Takes Social Games Back-end Platform Live
Published: November 11, 2009
Source: Virtual Worlds News
With social games development reaching an inflection point, third parties which base their business model on providing the tech components of social games may be in for a windfall. One such company, Vivaty, today announced a back-end tech solution for social game creators, its Social Gaming Platform.Writing on the company blog, Vivaty co-founder and CEO Keith McCurdy calls the launch of the platform an important evolution for the company. The…
- Social Dev Playdom Raises $43 Million
Published: November 11, 2009
Source: Gamasutra News
Social game developer Playdom, which focuses on MySpace- and Facebook-hosted games including Mobsters and Sorority Life, has raised $43 million in a venture capital funding round. According to a TechCrunch report, the studio’s Series A financing pulled in investors including New Enterprise Associates, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Norwest Venture Partners. Playdom co-founder and chairman Rick Thompson also further invested into the company. Pl…
- 13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App
Published: November 10, 2009
Source: www.readwriteweb.com
These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now …
- Find the 15-Minute Competitive Advantage
Published: November 9, 2009
Source: HarvardBusiness.org
Just because this is a time of transformation doesn’t mean that it’s easy to sell transformational ideas. Economic uncertainty has reduced the audience for bold, grand rhetoric. Besides, even in boom times innovation is risky. Innovators often have to ease anxieties by sounding conservative while doing something radical. We all want breakthroughs; it’s just that we can’t know exactly which of the bold new ideas will break through. For every Must…
- We’re combining forces with EA!
Published: November 9, 2009
Source: Life at Playfish
We at Playfish are proud to announce that we are joining the Electronic Arts family, one of the most successful games companies in the world. Read the full press release in our press section for the official announcement. Needless to say we’re very excited about the increased resources and scale that this brings to Playfish and ultimately to our players. We can’t wait to start exploring social versions of some of the well-loved franchises th…
- 25 Outstanding Lighting Effect Tutorials for Photoshop
Published: November 9, 2009
Source: Vandelay Design Blog
Lighting effects are a great way to make an impact with a design, and there are plenty of options for creating these effects with Photoshop. In the past we have published collections of Photoshop tutorials for lighting effects and they drawn a lot of interest from readers, so here is a collection of newer tutorials. For more, see: 40 Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects 40 Photoshop Tutorials for Amazing Lighting Effects – Par…
- EA trims its 2010 lineup, focuses on high-profit games
Published: November 10, 2009
Source: Joystiq
As the mushroom cloud still hangs in the air after Electronic Art’s devastating quarterly report, which also brought with it 1,500 layoffs, the publisher plans to focus on games that are sure bets. MCV notes EA CEO John Riccitiello’s statement, made during an investor conference call yesterday, that the company will release approximately 30 titles in its 2010 fiscal year, a 50 percent cut from fiscal year 2008. Develop picked up on the executive…
- Bloggers and (Personal) Brand-Building
Published: November 5, 2009
Source: eMarketer Articles
Gaining visibility as thought leaders
- Ad:tech Panel Urges Deliberate Approach to Social Media
Published: November 10, 2009
Source: ClickZ News
Participating in social media can help a brand in many ways, but to be successful, the brand’s strategy needs to tie social media into business objectives.
- Social Media Users Tout Brands
Published: November 5, 2009
Source: Adweek.com – Top News
Almost half of Facebookers, Tweeters use networks to talk about products and brands.
- Fox News Makes ‘Room’ for Web Video Strategy
Published: November 9, 2009
Source: Adweek.com – Top News
Born as a wall-to-wall political channel about a year ago during the peak of the heated 2008 presidential race, Strategy Room was a short-term experiment — that clicked. Now, it’s at the forefront of an expanding amount of live news programming on the Internet. And it is also helping to elevate the digital reputation of Fox News — a group that just a few years ago was an also-ran on the Web, despite utterly dominating news ratings on cable TV.
- Marketing Spending Pays Off for Small Biz
Published: November 8, 2009
Source: eMarketer Articles
Spending money to make money
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Thanks for including my work!
No problem – you can learn as much, if not more, from real stories of failures as successes.
Also – I was just getting into Pownce when it ended. I was sad to see it go.
April showers bring May flowers.