Webdesign, CSS, Social Media, Tech News

• Web 2.0 Badge Creator
  Collection of web 2.0 badges text and video tutorials, plus a neat Web 2.0 graphic generator
  
• Huge list of sites offering Photoshop Rescources and Tutorials
• Univers revolved: a 3-D font
  “The revolved letters create a new alphabet that recaptures the element of experimentation the Latin alphabet held in its early days. Encountering it for the first time, we re-experience the excitement of learning to form words from letters as children.”
• Retro Arcade Museum In Upstate New York
  If you can’t get to NYC here’s the blog version: the Retro Thing
• fractalsponge.net: 3-D space ship art
  This site is seriously cool as it shows highly detailed 3-D views of Star Destroyers, T.I.E. Fighters and a All-Terrain Shock Enforcer (AT-SE) i.e. They alsoprovide download links to the 3ds, maya, max6,  lw.8x project files.
• Building your own tiny URL with wordpress
• CSS Cheat Sheet
  The basics. One one view.
• Star Wars Fine Art prints
• Igarashi Design: Futuristic studies
  Radical and freaky studies of a helicopter, motorcycle and high speed snow mobile
• Cardboard Endoskeleton T-800
  Blogger made a  T-800  papercraft from the  Teminator films in the  scale 1:2, which looks really awesome.  Behold of the Judgement Day!
  

Looking for informations, advices, strategies or hints guiding you on your paths through the  social media djungle?
Here you’ll find a  composition of free ebooks that might be helpful on your efforts to successfully use  social marketing mechanisms for building a brand, attract traffic or gain significance on a certain topic.

So these Links will keep you busy for a while…

Instructions and sum ups

The Art of Listening and Engagement Through Social Media
Brian Solis about new tools and philosophies,  how to effectively listen and engage with customers and in turn, cultivate a more significant community, enhance your brand and build relationships.

Social Media and Social Networking Starting Points
Social Media expert Chris Brogan gives you  starting points how to inroduce your organization into social media and social networking

What is Social Media?
“a short, sweet summary of the phenomenon called social media”

The Essential Guide to Social Media
A sum up of some essential guidelines, written by Brian Solis

The Art and Science of Social Media and Community Relations
Interesting example of a company entering the realm of social media communities

Social Media Marketing Kit
Tips and tricks for the survival in the social mediasphere, plus a video Webinar

The Zen of Blogging
Really amusing story about  a guys efforts to dive into the higher spheres of blogging – with a slight wink of an eye

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News aggregators:

friendfeed.com
Friendfeed works as a feed of your social community activities, one adds services like flickr, picasa, twitter, google reader, digg, stumbleupon, del.icio.us, youtube, fast.fm and of course own blogs sharing the own post/messages/links with other people and commenting the interesting stuff from others. Seriously good source of hot news right from the streets!

toluu.com
A service to share and tag rss feeds and to find people of the same interest.
Quite new, one still needs an invite code – if you need one drop me a message.

delicious.com
Social bookmarking site, which recently launched a new, fresh layout, for sharing, tagging links, creating networks with friends/users of the same interest.

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The discussion whether the one is killing the other is getting hotter and the opinions are raging high.
First of all these two “opponents” are hard to compare as friendfeed being a information aggregation tool and twitter a hybrid between instant messenger and micro blogging device.

Both serve certainly completely different needs, twitter mainly focuses on spreading rather personal opinons/feelings/emotional states/gossip, only randomly establishing a real conversation.
Friendfeed resembles a honey pot of information gathered by its user acting as honey bees collected from various flowers, like Digg, GoogleReader, del.icio.us, stumbleupon and many more.

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