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Kristin is a UX Designer living in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband and two boys.
This website is a stream of her daily activities, updated via iPhone, with an occasional blog post here and there.
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FacebookEverywhere.com - Be On Facebook All The Time
Can’t get enough of Facebook, can you? If that is the case, then you are part of an even-increasing group whose members are truly passionate. I don’t know whether that is wrong or that is right. What I know is…
Choosing the Right Social Media Tools for Your Business [Video]
Last week, I shared with you the first in a series of videos sponsored by UPS in the style of their “whiteboard” TV commercials. The idea is to take social media concepts and explain them in 1-2 minutes, giving businesses…
TwoQuick.com - Simple Google And Twitter Search
What it doesIt is very common to find people using Google and Twitter at the same time. Imagine that you want to get information about a particular fact related to politics and you need to check the official sources to…
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…
1. Small Feature Set 2. Good API 3. Profit!
I start my work days by checking out the Mashable inbox. In the last couple of months, I can easily divide the news into two parts: news about Twitter, and everything else. And the first part is almost as big…
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…
Woopets.com - A New Pets Community
Some questionsWhat gives it an edge over other pet communities on the web today?In their own words“Online pets community.”Why it might be a killerPet lovers are certain to relish having a new meeting place on the World Wide Web.What it…
Skittles Site Receives an Extreme Social Makeover
Many companies are starting to realize that whatever content they offer online still can’t match the various social media offerings out there, where the community contributes to the whole. Few, however, have taken it so far as candy maker Skittles,…
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;…
Twitter Fail Whale Tattoo is Awesome, Kinda
If you must ink some kind of web 2.0-related geekery on your body, there’s a whole lot of awful choices and only a couple of good ones. Within that scope, Twitter’s fail whale doesn’t fare too bad; in fact, “normal”…
Readernaut.com - Where Book Lovers Meet Online
What it doesThe term “book worm” is not exactly a term I feel should be used indiscriminately. It does paint an accurate picture, but only because it has a certain offensive power, and that gives it a sort of conciseness…
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…
I'm having a little issue finding the value behind Google Friendconnect other than the use for comments which I've put into blog posts here. If you're using Google Friendconnect on your site, I came across a little directory that has…
20+ Great Greasemonkey Scripts for Improving Your Facebook Experience
Facebook is the social network of choice for millions of people, but like any site out there, we all have our own list of improvements we’d like to see. Luckily the Greasemonkey script community feels the same way and has come…
Zentact Might Be the Best Social Networking Idea This Year
With the rise of social networking, many of us have hundreds if not thousands of online contacts. But how many of them do we actually keep up with? Probably not many. That’s the problem Zentact attempts to solve through a…
Send a Virtual Drink That Will Actually Get You Drunk (Invites)
Virtual gifts are big business, and virtual drinks – sending someone a cute graphic featuring a martini, a Jack and Coke, or a Mike’s Hard Lemonade, for example – is an immensely popular activity on social networks. GiveReal is a…
BellyHood.com - A Social Site For Mothers
In their own words“Bellyhood.com is a utility that connects mothers (including expectant mothers, grandmothers, adoptive mothers and foster mothers) with others like themselves for purposes of networking, learning, and sharing ideas relating to their roles, concerns, questions and experiences as…
Atomeet Might Be the Simplest Event Management Tool Yet
This post is part of Mashable’s Startup Review series, which highlights great unsung startups. The series is made possible by Sun Startup Essentials. Company Name Atomeet 20-Word Description Atomeet is a free web service that helps you organize parties and…
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