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Search Engine Ranking
| 2.11.2006
If you’re trying to drive traffic to your site, you know the value of monitoring your site’s search engine rankings. UrlTrends provides insight into the most important trends at a glance. Enter a Url and UrlTrends displays your Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, and link popularity trends (the number of incoming links) for Google, Yahoo, and MSN, as well as information for social bookmarking sites Furl and Del.icio.us. Results are displayed in graphs (hoverpod graphic above).
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Three's a Charm
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Every blue moon, there comes along an application that makes the sun shine for me. My rating is easy. It has to be ubiquitous, indispensable (mostly) and beautifully designed. Most fail the latter. Without further adieu, see my top 3 salutary apps:
High Priority: High Priority is an inexpensive Mac OS X 10.4 or higher menu extra whose sole purpose is to help you manage your To Dos in a simple, intuitive, and pleasant manner. Leveraging the power and simplicity of iCal, Apple's calendar software bundled with Mac OS X, High Priority allows you to create, edit, and remove your To Do items directly from the menu bar, without having to have iCal open.
Yellow Icon: Here you´ll find the best icons from the best artists in the world. The icons here listed at Free Community Icons belong to the individual authors or companies and are free for personal and non commercial use. If you are an icon designer and want to include your work just click on Add Icons in the main menu.
Browseback: If your a big surfer, your browser history probably fills up pretty quickly. Finding a past page or link that you surfed weeks ago can be frustrating. This application lets you scan your history visually with thumbnails.
posted at 1:58 AM
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Yeah Dude!
| 2.04.2006
I was commenting to J-, my wife, about how all the major mountains must be feeling the economic strain with all the unusually warm weather and rain we've been having the last couple of months. Suddenly, I had a flashback to some snowboard designs I did way back when, for a Japanese snowboard company called Messy. I hunted for some pictures and was rewarded with one I had shot for a magazine spread. Boy, it takes me back....
posted at 11:28 PM
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Failing is Good
| 2.03.2006
I'm teaching again this semester at BU and driving through a process-centric curriculum. Initially, many of the students wanted to come away with a portfolio or personal site at the end of the class. Who wouldn't? Having a personal that gives people an idea of who you are and why you matter, is a satisfying experience. With that said, I've been looking for new and fresh portfolio and music sites that I think are best of breed. Below are my top 3 this month.
1. Bob Schneider music promo site - As one student mentioned, "There are tons of music sites out there. Some are beautiful but most suck!" I find this one very unique, quirky and doesn't take itself to seriously. The music is also great. Nice use. Nice use of Flash, exploratory and visually stunning. What else could you want.
2. WeFail - Another great Flash site. These are 2 guys who have a "Radiohead" edge to them don't take themselves or the industry too seriously...or at least that's their "brand." They create music sites (see above) and promotions for the artists and the entertainment-related industry. In class, we had a great discussion of when and when not to use Flash. The gratuitious use of Flash is decreasing but there are still tons of sites that use it cause they can, while not really thinking too hard about an appropriate application, their audience or the intended experience. They sort of remind me of what the shy and reclusive design collaborative, Tomato, use to be. The site is tons of fun. I bet my friend Jonathan is going to love this one.
3. Top-Ten things you wish you could say to a client - This is a splinter viral site from WEFAIL. It's simple which makes is so powerful. Fun use of Flash and fun to click and hear. My favorite is #4.
Thanks to my friend Dave for turning me onto some of this.
posted at 10:46 AM
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