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Jan302009

Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape

Posted by Gene in Business, Marketing, Branding, Social Web

More Gary Vaynerchuk @Web 2.0 Expo NY this past year, I can’t get enough of what he’s selling (not the wine) but the message.

Gary really hits it home here for me. Your product/service is YOU, you have to be honest and work hard and just make sure you like and respect the people your working for or with.

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Jan282009

Client Launch: NW White

Posted by Gene in Our Clients

New site launch for one of our newest clients NW White. You gotta love big trucks moving rocks!

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Jan192009

Tweetdeck gets funding, insanity? really?

Posted by Gene in Software, Web Development, Twitter

Just perusing my RSS feeds and came across this article “Another Twitter App Funded: TweetDeck Raises an Angel Round. Next Up: A Business Plan” where Tweetdeck (or specifically it’s creator) is getting 500K in funding. I then came across this article on gigaom.com where Om Malik thinks it’s insanity. Or Twitter insanity. Reading his replies to other commentors he’s really not hip to it.

[Tweetdeck] one of the many Twitter desktop apps that use Adobe Air and has been downloaded 250,000 times, is getting just shy of half a million bucks from New York-based incubator Betaworks. I’m not quite sure why! Though I think I understand — it uses Bit.ly, a service that shortens URLs to be exchanged on Twitter and is also backed by Betaworks.

He goes on to reply later that he doesn’t understand it, since Tweetdeck is JUST and Adobe Air app…

I think is one of the things that people working in/on this industry (the internet) falls prey to. We get so caught up in how it all works and how its put together we forget the big picture. Normal people don’t give a crap. People will respond to something that looks neat and works, things that make them feel cool for what they are doing. Maybe Tweetdeck does that for ya, who knows. Now I know Mr. Malik is “IN” on the internet and he needs to write stuff, but seriously, I’m happy for Tweetdeck, I think it rocks they got some money for their creation. I’m not going to take anything away from them for getting investment money to continue the cause, especially in today’s financial climate.

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Jan142009

UMS: Site Review Podcast, Episode 4

Posted by Gene in Uncategorized, Design, Blogging

Check us out this week. We’re back after a long Holiday break.

This week we talk about ESPN (espn.com), Shannon Moeller (shannonmoeller.com), Giant Creative, (madebygiant.com), and NewGenCoal (newgencoal.com.au). Enjoy!

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Jan122009

New favicon for Google

Posted by Gene in Design, Branding, Details

google

I am not really sure why Google has changed their favicon again. If memory serves they just created one a few months ago. I thought it was pretty horrible. This one is no different. Looks like the same lowercase g but with primary colors encircling it. This kind of thing normally isn’t a big deal, I mean favicons are favicons, but with Google any small change is big.

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Jan072009