TweetI’m sure by now you’ve heard that Twitter has launched a new new design. I love it and I think you will too, but I’m not going to review it here, I’m just going to tell you how you can get the new design early, if you don’t already have it. According to Twitter, the [...]

TweetFacebook announced on their blog today that they have made a “bunch of improvements” that will be rolling out to users over the next several days. Rather than rewriting their post I’ll just give you the link here, but below is a video explaining the new sharing options which are going to make it a [...]

TweetOne of the best ways to get traffic to your website or blog is from the search engines, and in particular, Google, but you may not be ranking as high as you think. If you want your pages to rank high in Google searches you probably pay attention to SEO and search for keywords and [...]

TweetTwitter announced yesterday that they will be adding photo uploading from within Twitter, similar to the way we can do it on Facebook, as well as a new photo and video search and sharing feature. Obviously this wasn’t good news for TwitPic and some other third party apps but based on this video it’s going [...]

TweetFor those of you old enough to remember the original Twitter (okay, I know it wasn’t that long ago) the first design was quite narrow, too narrow given modern monitor widths, but it had one very nice benefit; it gave us plenty of room for really cool custom backgrounds. When viewed on a 1280 pixel [...]

TweetFan Gating or Like Gating are terms recently coined to describe the practice of using a two-stage reveal welcome tab as the default landing page on your Facebook business (fan) Page. The most popular use is to offer an incentive, such as a free eBook or discount coupon, to incentivize clicks on the Like button. [...]

TweetWhen Facebook launched the new design for Pages they moved the row of tabs that linked to our Wall and any custom tab pages that used to run across the top of the page and put them in the left sidebar as text links below our photo/logo/banner. Although I kind of like it the new [...]

TweetUpdate: Twitter launched a completely new design on 11/10/2011 so don’t bother reading the rest of this post. We no longer have a transparent right side panel. Edit: Please note that this hack now appears to only work with Internet Explorer 8 or older but not IE9, Chrome or Firefox. When viewed on any browser [...]

TweetYou may have heard that UberMedia, the company who owns mobile Twitter clients UberTwitter and Twidroyd, recently acquired TweetDeck for a reported $30 million. UberMedia CEO Bill Gross is apparently working on building a Twitter empire and I don’t think Twitter likes the idea. They just suspended UberTwitter and Twidroyd. I understand how the name [...]