Twitter Launches Follow Button for Websites

June 1st, 2011 | No Comments »

Twitter has launched a Follow button, enabling users to subscribe to the Twitter feeds of companies and individuals directly from their websites with a single click.

Previously, website publishers had to redirect users to their respective accounts on Twitter.com before users could opt to follow them. The new feature will likely encourage publishers to increase the number of “follow us” prompts on their sites, because they won’t have to risk redirecting their audiences off-site.

Users will still be able to preview profiles before opting to follow them by clicking the username next to the Follow button.

Those who are interested in adding the button to their own sites can set one up here.

(via Mashable)

Adobe kuler

August 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

Adobe kuler is an online tool that helps designers create and select colour schemes. Users can view submitted schemes from the online community or create analogous, monochromatic, triad, complimentary, compound or shades based schemes. It also has the feature to create colour schemes from any given photo.

TypeTester

August 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.

New Facebook Feature: “Facebook Questions”

August 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »

Facebook has joined the likes of Yahoo and LinkedIn with the rollout of a new Q&A product called Facebook Questions. While the Q&A format is nothing new on the web, Facebook’s more than 500 million users add an interesting twist to the space, and potentially, create an opportunity for small businesses as the feature evolves.

(via Mashable)

Twitter Launches Official Tweet Button

August 20th, 2010 | No Comments »

Twitter has just launched the “Tweet Button”, an official option for web publishers to count retweets and let their readers easily share content.

As Mashable was first to report earlier this week, the new buttons let readers quickly share stories and follow relevant users, such as the website or author that posted it. While several large publishers are already live with the button at launch, some simple copy and paste code is available for others to start implementing immediately.

As we postulated in our earlier reporting, the current de facto Twitter sharing service (with some 750 million daily retweet button impressions), TweetMeme, hasn’t been left out in the cold here. In a blog post, Twitter writes that, “We’re pleased to be working closely with the good folks at TweetMeme and, from here on out, they will be pointing to the Twitter Tweet Button.

On its blog, Tweetmeme writes that, “We will be assisting Twitter with the technical challenges involved with the button and secondly we will be working even more closely in the future on delivering real-time curation of the Twitter Firehose. This will manifest itself in the launch of a number of new products and the first of these is being unveiled today.

(via Mashable)

New Site Live

August 19th, 2010 | No Comments »