Be Social: Google Friend Connect

Google Friend Connect allows Developers to make sites social without PHP & JavaScript.
Google just announced that your personal site can be a social network thanks to Google’s Friend Connect.
As someone who wants to design for arists, this new feature will be great for actors and artists that want an easy way for people to connect [...]

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Facebook Project Planatir Visualization: Whoa, That’s Pretty.

{via TechCrunch post}
Facebook has created a visualization of the connection between its users. I just watched the video of a Facebook developer demonstrate the pretty visualization of different interactions between users around the Earth. It was created by developers at the most recent Hackathon event, so it’s not an official Facebook feature. Maybe later.
Oh well, [...]

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I’m Hiding In the Twitter Bushes

“I can’t believe that b&@#% broke up me. I’m going to stop following Kelsey on Twitter.”
“Good idea, bro.”
“There, I’m done with that dumb wh#%*!”
“I’m proud of you.”
“Alright, now to TweetStalk her.”
“I’m sorry, what?”
“I’m using TweetStalk to follow her tweets without her knowing. That way I can know what she’s up to.”
“Don’t you think that’s creepy [...]

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Hot Trends: oDesk

“Hm, I keep checking Craig’s List for a web developer to design a site for my cookie store…but I’m hesitant. I don’t want to pay a ridiculous amount of money to a firm. I just need some kid in his mom’s basement that knows how to program a PHP user interface for some extra cash. [...]

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Hulu via MySpace Primetime: Will It Rip Me Away from Surfthechannel.com?

Well actually maybe. But first let’s jump into the question: What is MySpace Primetime? It’s basically a player that allows MySpace users to customize Hulu’s content for their profile. You can both watch and share your favorite shows (with commercials of course.)
Hulu, for the majority of peeps that still haven’t found this website, is a [...]

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Another Veteran’s Day Post: TroopTube

Our bravest soldiers are now streaming vids on the net with the help of TroopTube. The military doesn’t let troops broadcast on sites like YouTube, and it makes a lot of sense. But they also acknowledge the need for some Internet 15 minutes of fame.
Popular vids include a message from General Petraeus to the troops [...]

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Local Heroes: Sushi Yaa

Yesterday I ate at the delicious Sushi Yaa in Arlington, TX, but it’s not the food that got my attention. It was their website. Sushi Yaa has a great design and an awesome user interface. You can compete in a photo contest, earn loyalty points to compete for prizes,  and even rate menu items like [...]

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Powerful Tools for Facebook Developers

Salesforce.com announced today that they’ll be giving a set of tools to developers to create dynamic business idea apps like their effective My Starbucks Idea app on the popular social networking site Facebook. Sweet.

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Candidates’ Developers Hard at Work

One thing is for sure, the web developers for both campaigns will not get rest today. Several things need to be orchestrated as the day goes on.
1) Bandwidth. If millions of people look towards their candidate’s site for news, then your site is going to get bogged down. Expect the bandwidth needs to surge at [...]

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