Unfortunately I can’t design. I can art direct websites to a certain extent, being that I have the web experience, taste level, and eye for detail that my opinion is always welcomed by my creative colleagues. But give me a blank canvas to work with and I am stuck. Even when it’s something as simple as personalizing colors for my Twitter homepage I don’t have the confidence to hand-pick a palette myself from scratch. Luckily I work alongside some of the top creative talents in the industry and am spoiled for choice when it comes to picking a designer for…
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…
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