Facebook Introduces a Brand New, Sleek Home Design

A few days ago Facebook released their newest design. Nothing has changed on personal profile pages, but when you log into your account you should see some major changes to how everything is layed out. This came as a shock to me when I logged in to check my status for the first time earlier today - a brand new look! ...

February 6, 2010 · 2 min · 301 words · Jake

Interview with Yahoo! Answers Q&A Competitor Blurtit

Yahoo! Answers has to be the most well-known and popular Question & Community on the web. However there is always room for improvement on apps like these, and Blurtit takes the cake. Building more of a community around the idea of the “Ask Any Question” niche, Blurtit allows users to connect like never before, searching for the most popular questions and sharing knowledge between everyone. ...

February 4, 2010 · 5 min · 942 words · Jake

Check Your Username Availability on Tons of Websites with Namechk

Many of us enjoy sticking with our usernames. We sign up with the same username on multiple websites, and this is especially true with social networking/bookmarking sites as it allows your name to become a presence in the community. Only thing is, there’s so many people online that the chances of our username being take is, well, pretty decent. ...

January 24, 2010 · 2 min · 305 words · Jake

Plurk Rivals Twitter as the Next Popular Microblogging Platform

Twitter - you either love it or hate it. The application has exploded onto the web, where not only everybody seems to need one, but even larger corporations have set up Twitter accounts. Tweeting is the next big thing! tons of people are getting into this new trend, while naysayers stand behind and wave their fingers in disgust. ...

January 17, 2010 · 4 min · 665 words · Jake

New Digg-Themed Social News and Media Website Thuhm

Digg has become the popular site for internet marketers and bloggers to aspire to. Digg used to be a popular tech website, where tech enthusiasts and internet lovers could gather to share links. Whichever links got the most “diggs” would hit the front page, generally to recieve a surge of traffic. ...

January 8, 2010 · 3 min · 584 words · Jake

Interview with New Twitter app Taweet: The Future of Twitter

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. ...

January 6, 2010 · 5 min · 897 words · Jake

Organize your Schedule Online with Plan.fm

So I found another cool app the other day. plan.fm, simple name with a simple purpose of uniting all of your plans in one place. You can draw in feeds from social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter and merge your plans all into one calendar. ...

January 5, 2010 · 2 min · 371 words · Jake

Configuring TortoiseSVN to Manage Updates on Pligg Sites

I am extremely fond of the new social news script Pligg CMS. I have been following it since early release, and updating Pligg sites used to be very difficult. However from instructions from this wiki, you can use TortoiseSVN to control the version and upgrades of your Pligg site with ease. ...

November 14, 2009 · 1 min · 91 words · Jake

The Web's Cutest URL Shortening Service Moourl.com

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! ...

November 8, 2009 · 2 min · 359 words · Jake

Interview with a Digg.com Software Engineer Kurt Wilms

As a web designer myself, I have found that other web designers I talk to always have favorite websites they go to for inspiration. Not saying they want to copy a specific website, but there are just some site’s that “stick” and really inspire you to create web designs. ...

November 2, 2009 · 6 min · 1084 words · Jake