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Video Slideshows With Animoto
Researching for a client recently I came across a neat little service called Animoto. The problem we had was needing a photo gallery that lives on a single page. Not a huge problem in itself and any of these… would work, or numerous others I’ve worked with or built over the years. But the issue here is the CMS we have to work with doesn’t have the ability to upload media, this has to be done separately via FTP, so it’s a messy process and not ideal to leave in the hands of the account team. So I figured
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Introducing www.BadTwitterFriends.com
So I posted yesterday how to use the Twitter API but failed to mention my exact reason behind why I started messing with it in the first place. Quite simply it was because a friend I was following on Twitter wasn’t following me back. And I wondered who else wasn’t following me, the Twitter website was no real help as it only offers separate views of your friends and followers without any way to cross reference them. And after a little digging around I couldn’t find anything that did this, there was nothing in the Twitter clients I use, and…
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Make your own magazine – Issuu.com
Every now and again I run across a site/web app/web service that gets me really excited and restores my faith in the power of the web and the power of the people that make the web – the users and the developers. And today that site is Issuu.com…. In a nutshell it is the YouTube of magazines. Any budding publisher can now make their work instantly available to the world, and the rest of us can spend our time enjoying the creative work offered. And just like YouTube the magazines you create are embeddable into your website (it does
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Enhancing Twitter via TweetDeck, aka Twitter day three
Okay so it’s day three of Twitter for me and I started to feel like I was pretty much tweeting to myself and didn’t have many people I was following, I was far from understanding the power of Twitter and what makes it so addictive. Getting ‘friends’ on Twitter didn’t seem all that easy, I find that the search facility provided is far from useful, unlike say the Facebook one which I find quite thorough.
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Interactive Youtube videos
Okay so day one in the Twittersphere and it’s already proved quite useful. @skillwill, who is my old school boy from London, twittered about something called an interactive game on youtube. I followed the link and was quite surprised to find myself being able to play a game on Youtube.
Admittedly I knew nothing about the ability to make these interactive Youtube games and began googling them, expecting to find that they were a new phenomenon, only to find that they have in fact been around since at least May of last year, the earliest one… I’ve found -
I still think Twitter is a bit shit, but I joined anyways…
…and probably way later than I ever should have. I work in digital advertising and really should stay on top of all these social media apps, especially one with as much prominence as Twitter. I think when I first came across Twitter some years ago I looked into it, and I found it to be quite obnoxious and self indulgent, and all around I found it a bit shit, I certainly didn’t feel like I had anything so interesting to say that I could tweet multiple times a day and people would follow me, so I moved on. And no…