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Kristin is a UX Designer living in the suburbs of Chicago.
This website is a stream of her daily activities, updated via an iPhone, a Droid, and a Blackberry, with an occasional blog post here and there.
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Facebook adds face detection to photo uploads
Facebook made tagging and sharing photos easier with its new face detection algorithm, a nifty little feature Facebook acquired when it purchased Divvyshot back in April. No more clicking on photos to select the faces of your friends as the new face detection…
iPhone OS 4 to integrate with Facebook
Filed under: iPhone Developers have done a little more poking around with iPhone OS 4.0, and it looks like Apple is set to get much more social with the next version of the iPhone. Not only will the new OS…
Facebook Launches Share Buttons for Publishers
Sharing content on Facebook hasn’t generally been as easy as it has been on Twitter. Part of Twitter’s advantage is just how easy it is to share from blogs and other websites. A lot of this has to do with…
Facebook 3.1 With Push Notifications Coming Soon
Early this morning developer of the iPhone Facebook application, Joe Hewitt, posted that Facebook 3.03 is on it’s way to squash a few bugs. Even bigger news is that update will then be followed by Facebook 3.1 which will include…
(1) Turn on your MP3 player. (2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode. (3) Write down the first 25 songs that come up--song title and artist--NO editing/cheating, please. (4) Choose 25 (or less) people to be tagged. It is generally considered…
Is UNO the New Scrabble on Facebook?
In case you don’t remember the Scrabble fiasco on Facebook from last year, here’s how it went down in a nutshell: a developer built a wildly popular application called Scrabulous that was ultimately shutdown by the game’s license holders, only…
The Myspace IM client has been desktop only until now. They're going to start rolling out their new browser based client soon, which will be located in the bar at the bottom of the browser window, similar to the one…
Here it is.. yet another fun facebook music meme... Rules: Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW…
MySpace’s Experimental New ‘Events’ Product Finally Taps Into The Social Graph
MySpace’s Events page hasn’t really seen a major upgrade for years - the site looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2005, and now lags behind Evite and the current leader Facebook by a wide margin. Today, it looks like…
Turn Your Facebook Photos Into Printed Albums
Digital photography has brought us the benefit of being able to take as many photos as we like without additional cost, but also the curse of nearly never having the actual physical photos in our hands. With Facebook, it’s gotten…
Facebook fbFund Winner Wildfire Launches Promotion App (Beta Invites)
Facebook fbFund winner Wildfire is launching the private beta of its web application, The Wildfire Promotion Builder, which allows companies to create their own branded interactive promotions, including contests, coupons, sweepstakes and giveaways. Using Facebook Connect combined with the power…
Scramble Live lets iPhone users play against Facebook users
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Software, iTunes, iPhone, App Store, iPod touchZynga has released a new iPhone game called Scramble Live, and while the game itself isn't anything really new -- it's Boggle, basically -- the technology is pretty…
New Facebook Pages: A Guide for Social Media Marketers
This post is co-authored by Curtis Hougland and Kristen Vang of Attention. As more and more marketers use Facebook as a key conduit for brands online, it is important to note some of the new changes to their Business Pages.…
Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing
Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog and is the founder of #journchat. It doesn’t matter if you’re on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr;…
Facebook Pages Redesign Coming
Facebook launched Facebook Ads in November 2007 to give brands and businesses a way to create a presence on Facebook and interact with users. Starting next week, says a source with knowledge of the new product, those pages will be…
Yahoo SearchMonkey Adds Facebook Profile Actions Into Search Results
Yahoo just embedded some Facebook functionality directly into its search results via SearchMonkey. When you search for a person on Yahoo, if they have a public Facebook profile, a link to that profile will appear in results, along with a…
Import Facebook Photos Into Your iPhone Contact List with Photo Phonebook
How much overlap is there between your Facebook “friends” and the real contacts in your mobile phone’s address book? If those two world’s align and you have an iPhone, you might want to check out a nifty utility called Photo…
Every individual makes a difference.
Ok.. I've got to complain! Why does William get an album cover that looks so cool, and mine looks like it's some honkey country album? To Do This: 1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first…
Facebook Connect Adds a Cut-and-Paste Comments Widget
Social is the new trend for both Google and Facebook’s Connect platforms. Just a week after Google’s social bar announcement, Facebook’s getting even more social too. The social networking powerhouse is making it even easier for bloggers and publishers to…
Where are Twitter and Facebook’s Geolocation Features?
I’ve been playing around with Google Latitude on and off since this morning. I must admit, it’s pretty cool and demonstrates why geolocation is interesting, and services like Loopt and BrightKite have found some success as early players in the…
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