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19 Aug
“Buddycons” – Vector Social Media Icons
Freebies, Icons, Social Media
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Today we’re giving away a wonderful set of social media icons designed exclusively for WDD by Orman Clark, a web designer from the UK.
The icon set is called “Buddycons” and includes 126 vector social media icons. Included in the set are PNG versions of all 126 icons in both circular and rounded variations as well as a vector source file for easy resizing.
The icons are free to use for personal and commercial usage, however, redistribution is not allowed, so if you’d like to share these icons with your friends, please direct them to this page so that they can download their own copy from here.
See a full preview of the icons and the download link after the jump. Thanks to Orman for this fantastic set and we hope you enjoy the new icons! Read more
19 Jan
Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set
Freebies, Icons, Social Media
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We absolutely love icons and today we have another exclusive great set available for you.
This woven fabric set of social media icons was created by Jan Cavan from Dawghouse.
Although not suitable for every type of site, these icons will look wonderful on websites that use texture and have an organic approach to their design.
There are a total of 26 icons available as transparent PNGs and they are completely free for personal and commercial use, however, if you’d like to share them with your friends, please refer them to this page so that they can download them from here.
The download link and a full preview is available after the jump… Enjoy… Read more
23 Nov
The History and Controversies of Digg
Digg, History, Social Media
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Most people have probably heard of Digg by now.
It’s one of the unofficial poster children of Web 2.0, and was one of the first social news sites to come out.
It gets millions of visitors every month (Compete says about 43 million in October 2009), and those visitors vote on thousands of stories every day.
In this article you can learn about how Digg came to be from its humble beginnings to the massive popularity it has now as well as the controversies that have surrounded it. Read more
7 Oct
The History and Evolution of Social Media
History, Internet, Social Media
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Social media has become an integral part of modern society.
There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries.
There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there.
There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends.
It seems there are social solutions to just about every need.
In this article, we’ll review the history and evolution of social media from its humble beginnings to the present day. Read more
20 Jul
The Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter
Part II
Social Media, Twitter
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We published the Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter at just at the right time when everyone wanted to know about this Twitter thing, how to start using it, and how to sleeve it into their websites and blogs.
The guide is still being tweeted at the rate of a few tweets per day, which is remarkable considering that it was published a few months ago.
We’d like to thank everyone for the excellent reception of that post and we will continue to report on Twitter as it evolves.
We’ve also incorporated all of your suggestions in the comments on the guide into this update post.
As usual, we encourage you to submit more news about Twitter in the comments’ area so that we can include them in this post or in future ones. Read more
31 Mar
30 Funny Twitter Comics
Comics, Social Media, Twitter
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As you probably already know, Twitter is hotter than ever. Everyone seems to be tweeting these days about anything and everything that’s on their mind.
If you’re still not into Twitter, check out our popular Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter that we recently posted here.
In this post, we’ll take a look at 30 Twitter comic strips that reflect on how the world is using and reacting to Twitter, the latest social media trend. I’ve also added a funny video at the end of this post.
Feel free to add links to more related comics in the comments section and if you like this article, why not tweet about it? Read more
24 Mar
The Ultimate Guide for Everything Twitter
Social Media, Twitter
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Twitter isn’t just a cute way for keeping in instant touch with friends on mobile phones anymore. It has ramped up quickly to be the search engine of choice for some with its human driven results.
Applications galore allow you to find friends all over the world with similar interests and keep up with them in real time.
Businesses can form instant direct relationships with their customer bases simply by signing up and using the service regularly, and according to the models Twitter is trying out, they will soon be able to advertise to the Twitter community as well. It has grown into a behemoth that is hard to get your hands around, which is why we’ve put this article together for you.
We’ve compiled an alphabetized glossary here for you so that you can just scan down the list and find the term that you are looking for, as well as a list of popular Twitter applications and instructions for incorporating Twitter into your website and blogs.
Read more
16 Mar
Best Practices for Designing a Social News Website
Design, Social Media, Usability
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How do you get your daily news these days? Well… you may be visiting your favorite sites and blogs, but that’s inefficient since those blogs may not have any updates. Perhaps you subscribe to them using RSS, which delivers all the new articles straight to you, but in this case you’ll have to sort through all the new stuff to find what’s interesting to you. Another option today would be to visit a social news site.
Social news sites are link aggregators, which means their main function is to collect and share interesting links. This may be done through user submissions, or it may be done automatically by the system. The aggregation aspect is only part of it though because these sites also sort the links. Again, this may be done through user voting or some mechanical algorithm (although in this case, can we really call it a “social” news site?). The end result is the same however: the most interesting links rise to the top. This particular feature makes social news sites a great alternative to RSS.
In this article I’ll showcase some of the current top social news sites, will identify trends and patterns in their designs and suggest some best practices to follow when designing such sites. Let’s begin by looking at four popular social news sites and see how their designs compare. Read more
6 Jan
I’m LiveBlogging This RIGHT NOW
Blogging, Social Media, WordPress
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Liveblogging may very well be the future of traditional news media and blogging. Now you can stream information live on the internet and Twitter while an event is happening using nothing more than your laptop and free LiveBlogging software.
People have been doing it on a widespread basis for the past year, thanks to a plethora of free LiveBlogging tools that have sprung up almost overnight.
Whether you are a business striving to build a name and reputation in your industry or you are a web designer or web dev pro building a reputation, you need to be aware of Liveblogging and the tools used to conduct it.
We have moved from the “I’m blogging this” world to the “I’m Liveblogging this” world very quickly. People are no longer satisfied with hearing news after it has happened – they want access to news while it is happening. Read more
15 Dec
How to Make Money Off Social Media
Blogs, Digg, Social Media, Twitter
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Social media sites and technologies like Twitter and Digg are something that the tech savvy take completely for granted. We just automatically assume that if you are on the Internet, you are using social media. This isn’t really the case. There are some very important people that are not yet aware of social media and what it can do – your clients.
Social media is definitely a source of new income for you as you have the opportunity to go back and update your old clients to current technologies. The foundation-laying for social media came in 1999 when Rick Levine and others wrote the Cluetrain Manifesto. This manifesto lays out simple rules for online markets and social media. Read more
27 Nov
Twitter is No Longer an Option. Why You Should be Tweeting.
Social Media, Twitter
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Twitter is kind of like Apple fandom – either you love it or you find it a dreadful inconvenience to interface with. In reality, Twitter is not a time-intensive scary monster or the be all and end all of social media. It is simply another tool that you can use to interact with your customers, or in the Twitter world, your followers.
Given that everyone on here has a modicum of tech savvy, we’ll just take for granted that you can set up an account on Twitter yourselves. We’re here to help with the rest. Read more