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Category Archives: SocialMedia

Useful links: Open Graph++, Content Prototype, Justin Bieber, Testing, CSS transitions

Friday, September 30, 2011

Why Facebook’s New Open Graph Makes us all part of the Web Underclass by Adrian Short is a powerful opinion piece and well worth reading. The Semantic Social Web talks about how Facebook’s Open Graph is going to change things in a big way – the semantic web is involved. Content Prototyping in Responsive Web [...]

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Facebook will give away ad money to small businesses

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Facebook announced that small business will receive $10 million worth of free advertising on Facebook. The Facebook Small Business Boost program will give $50 worth of free advertising on Facebook to 200,000 small businesses. The program begins in January 2012.   The program is a joint project of Facebook, the National Federation of Independent Business [...]

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Kathy Sierra speaks out on the nymwars and hater comments

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Mary at Geek Feminism Blog transcribed the video, if you’d like to see a transcript. BlogHer has had a code of conduct for online comments from day one with moderation for those who don’t keep the conversation civil. It works. Here’s more about that from BlogHer co-founder Elisa Camahort Page.

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Useful links: HTML5 sections, block level links, charity: water

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Don’t Style Headings Using HTML5 Sections is a look at the section element and how it works with headings and document flow. Very interesting. Block level links and accessibility from 456 Berea Street looks at headings and other block level elements from a different point of view. Charity: Water Sends Personal Video Thank Yous. There’s [...]

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Useful links: HTML5 media, real names, Jonathan’s card

Monday, August 8, 2011

HTML5 media is a new site that promises their script will let you get HTML5 audio and video working with just one line of code. Supposed to work for all browsers and phones. Haven’t tried it – have you? In the previous post, I linked to danah boyd’s thoughts on real names. Now Kathy E. [...]

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Guest Post: 4 Web Design Trends in 2011

Monday, August 1, 2011

With the unavoidable presence of mobile devices and social networking, 2011 saw some major changes in the way websites are designed. In order to have any presence in the new online experience, web designers have embraced a number of changes, but here are four trends that won’t be going away any time soon. Image Credit: [...]

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Useful links: gender, AccessWorks

Friday, July 29, 2011

We were talking a while back about Google+ allowing for an “other” option among the gender checkbox choices. Now a group called All Out is trying to get Facebook to do a similar thing. Their PR on the petition drive for Facebook linked to this two spirits map, which is quite interesting. Knowbility and Loop11 [...]

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A little test to see what drives Flickr views

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

I took some photos at an Eliza Gilkyson concert the other day. I put a few of them up on Flickr. Here’s one: Then I did a little test to see what social networking tool would bring more views into my Flickr account. I sent one photo to Twitter, posted a different one on Facebook, [...]

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Useful Links: Document Outlines, Google+ Gender, #Dell Listens

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Great explanation of Document Outlines at HTML5 Doctor. Perfect resource link if you’re teaching an HTML5 class. Google is listening to the feedback on Google+. Google isn’t the only company listening to what users want. Sarah Kimmel is on her way to Austin to talk with Dell. If there’s something you want Dell to know, [...]

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Google+ makes a lot of ripples

Friday, July 8, 2011

Google+ has been more popular as a topic of discussion this week than cute cat tricks. And that’s saying a lot. Most people are writing enthusiastic blog posts about how much they like Google+. See Bloggers React to Google Plus. A few folks are trying to point out the good and the bad. And, of [...]

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