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BlogBuzz December 5, 2009
Dec 5, 2009 by Matt | Posted in BlogBuzz No CommentsPoll: What Do You Think of Twitter’s New Retweet Feature?
Dec 4Twitter rolled out their new native retweet feature recently. Few desktop/iPhone clients have added support for it yet via the API, but many users can already use it through the web interface. What do you think of it? Is it a good idea, or…
What Fun Geeky Things Are Coming in WordPress 2.9?
Dec 3Yoast has a post up discussing some of the Geeky bits in WordPress 2.9. Thanks to Peter Westwoord’s WordPress Beta Tester plugin, this blog is on the 2.9 development track again, after having been off trunk for a couple of months. That plugin makes…
Slashtags: Adapting Twitter Culture to the New Retweet
Dec 2Twitter users have on more than one occasion invented their own new functionality for the microblogging service, and the developers have often taken the conventions and integrated them into Twitter’s core feature set. Originally the @reply concept was just that: a user-developed practice that…
The End of the CrunchPad
Dec 1Remember TechCrunch’s internet tablet, the CrunchPad? It sounded like an interesting product, and it wasn’t too far away from being being a reality. And then it all came crashing down. Bizarrely, we were being notified that we were no longer involved with the project.…
Smashing Freebie: iPhone PSD Vector Kit
Nov 30Smashing Magazine certainly has no shortage of freebie themes, icon sets, and vector images. This particular one could be useful for designers/developers working in the iPhone arena. The iPhone PSD Vector Kit is a set of images that would work well for mocking-up iPhone…
BlogBuzz November 28, 2009
Nov 28AOL Rebranding Disaster
Nov 27AOL, in their effort to reimage themselves as a “new media” company, is rebranding. The bad news? They’re ditching the classic triangle-circle logo in favor of random imagery with the white text “Aol.” overlayed. That’s right, no more caps and an extraneous period. While…
The Death of the Boring Blog Post
Nov 26Don’t miss this amazing Smashing Magazine article: The Death of the Boring Blog Post. What if bloggers published less articles, but spent a lot more time on them? This is something that has been recommended by blogging legends such as Vitaly Friedman and Darren…
Dropbox: Easy File Synchronization
Nov 25As long as people have worked with multiple computers, they’ve always had to find ways to transfer files between them. Back in the old days, we used square plastic things called “floppy diskettes” to store data and recall it on any convenient computer. They…
