In a little over 2 weeks (October 16th & 17th) some of the brightest minds in the social media world will be converging on New York City for the first ever SMX Social Media conference which is being put on by Danny Sullivan and co-chaired by Neil Patel. I am speaking on the first day as part of… [read more]
Asmallworld.net is a social networking site where membership is by invitation only and is intended to have members of only the most elite social spheres around the world. Would you like to join this network? If so, have your diplomas and financial info at the door folks. Do you have a first home… [read more]
The top two social news website, Reddit and Digg have their differences. Even though Digg is more popular, Reddit might have the edge right now due to these four cool features (you might not have known were even there). What's Hot Now Reddit's main page is a lot different from Digg's. Reddit's main… [read more]
Microsoft has approached Facebook in recent weeks and the two companies are in talks about Microsoft making an investment in the social-networking startup. Microsoft's investment would give them up to 5% in the company and that would value Facebook at $10 billion or more according to a report in The… [read more]
Some things are easier to do than others when manipulating type. Here is a quick tutorial on how to transform and distort your type in an easily scalable way with a vector mask. This works on the same premise as distorting or transforming a basic shape. When you convert a text layer to a shape a vector… [read more]
Every time that I see one of my younger cousins or nieces/nephews I implore them and their parents to get them involved with the Internet right away. Forget having to work at a supermarket for their after school job (nothing against this - I did) but they can be working right from their house, earning… [read more]
Sometimes I wish I was a movie star simply because I would have more occassions to wear gowns. I don't even watch that many movies. But if I did have a chance to wear one gown this year it would have been this one from Oscar De La Renta. I loved it when I saw it on the runway, and it still looks amazing… [read more]
1) Today Digg will be rolling out a major update to make the site into a much more "social" environment. I did a complete write-up on the changes in an article for Search Engine Land. The main enhancements are going to be: Increased friend capabilities. "Shouting" and "posting". Enhanced profiles. Read:… [read more]
More text style tips! Text styles are a great way to get away from the same solid color on a background and add some subtle 'pizazz' to the type. For this tutorial we will need a photograph or an illustration to go behind the text that we will be applying the style to. Step 1. Place your photo… [read more]
Text styles are always a great way to get away from the same solid color on a background and add some flair to the type. Text style is used to further express the mode of a piece. Chrome could be considered mechanical or cool. This technique can be applied to text, an object or shape to add a cool… [read more]
