As usual Google first ignored my begging for an invite on the official page, but Florian Rohrweck (http://www.stilbruch.at) somehow had pity with me and sacrificed one of his invites for me. Thanks a lot, Florian!
After one minute on google+ I knew this would be a long night and way too little sleep.
The startpage reminded me a little bit of another social network, just less blue…
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Some time ago I created this set of social media icons and decided to share them with you, they were not a creative revolution, but hey, they are for free! As I got some positive feedback, I now revamped them a little bit, updated and added some new companies, like amplifiy, picasa, bebo, diigo, Google buzz, Google Plus and xing.
Same issue as before feel free to use them, if you want to give me credits, it would be nice, but you do not mandatorily have to.
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Author: mr-mojo-risin
- Tags: amplifiy, bebo, del.icio.us, digg, diigo, facebook, flickr, foursquare, free, friendfeed, goodreads, google, Google buzz, graphic, icon, icons, iconset, logo, picasa, social media, xing, yelp
Thinkup is a open source software you can install on your webserver, requiring php 5.2 or higher and a MySQL database.
Fine. But want the heck is it good for?
Thinkup gathers your social media activities, plus their reactions, like comments, retweets or likes and stores it in your database, so you can sort, export, analyse or display your very own social media footprints as you wish.
It comes with features like wordpress integration and an easy-to-use web installer.
The benefit is you do not have to dump you data to another third party analysis applikation/software/webservice so you are able to do that on your very own server under your control.
What I am really interested in, are the analysis functions. I’m already hooked, so let’s check it out. Will keep this post updated!
Thinkup is created by Gina Trampani (she also made the Better Gmail2 FF Addon, which I can only recommend to use) in cooperation with Expert Labs.
Dragos Jieanu a highly skilled CG-generalist from Romania, check him out: www.jieanu.com
Conceptual Artist Alexey: http://karanak.deviantart.com:
Thang Le, designer and conceptual artist: thangle.com:
Christopher Rabenhorst: his blog:
via conceptships.blogspot.com
As I had been occupied most of my time by this great open source CMS lately, I would to share my experiences withyou. If you use, you will learned to value drupal at least for its vast amount of extremly useful modules, flexible user management and easy-to-handle content editors.
As basic requirements one needs a hosting account which has php (version 5.2 or higher) and mysql installed. Download the latest versions here, I’d recommend to choose version 6.x as most of the modules and themes are not available for 7.x, which is still in development status, but will come up with neat features.
On first hand you will have to set up a mysql database, no worries you will just have to specify just the database name, a username and a password! Now you upload the drupal core file into a folder in your webspace. After doing so you reach your drupal installation via www.yourdomain.com/[drupal installation folder]/install.php .
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Ok, Twitter has had to fight many battles, the hardest one still is the fail whale – and spammers.
I heard about Michael Jackson beeing delivered to the hospital due to twitter.com was off, so my good ol’ TV attracted my attention, there I heard the news…
Nevertheless these troubles are just a sign of the incredible success twitter.com is facing at the moment. Establishing as an important news source, marketing tool or social play ground the service it self has to evolve…
Now they have taken the first step, aplusk beeing the first tweeter to break the 1,000,000 followers barrier, now having 2,530,98, the twitter coders finally smoothed up the user management. You can choose between a list view and a expanded view showing the last Tweet, additionally there is a option menue offering the following activities: mention the twitter user, send a direct message, unfollow and block user.
But it still ain’t a big hit, but think it looks (a little bit) sexier now. There still are no batch operations, which would be an evident feature for the the most people…
There is still a lot to do in the twitland backend – execpt locking up the fail whale securely…
