30 Excellent Cross Branding Twitter Profiles

I like individuality, and pretty much everyone else struggle to be unique. However Twitter makes this portion of my online experience easier, and it had make it easier for some individuals that have take that single image customization to the next level.

This showcase not only features unique and great Twitter customized profiles, yet further in the seek of uniqueness, this individuals have manage to cross market their brands through a single image, these are great Twitter Backgrounds with an amazing cross branding strategy. Continue reading ‘30 Excellent Cross Branding Twitter Profiles’

Cool Websites with Great Footers, 2008 Wrap Up

2008 was probably the year when Footers rose awareness to everyone that is Internet savvy. The intensity that Web Designers are blogging and applying Footers styles shows that is not only a trend to follow but a very valuable tool to be taken in consideration when comes to innovative Web Design, the way that Footers are making their way into the spotlight its impressive and I really wish to see some more innovative solutions for Footers this coming Year. Continue reading ‘Cool Websites with Great Footers, 2008 Wrap Up’

Dear Santa… A Web Designer’s Holiday Wish!

Dear Santa: as you may already know, I’ve been an undeniable good boy this year. Yes, that’s right, I didn’t get wasted on any weekday, I did behave my best while partying with my friends and family, I even called my mother twice this year, I did not stalk my friends’ lives on Facebook, I got to talk about my Digg, Stumble and Delicious addiction with my girlfriend… I’m definitely using them less. Continue reading ‘Dear Santa… A Web Designer’s Holiday Wish!’

Geek Trends: 21 Fantastic Footers in Web Design

Increasingly Footers are becoming an essential integrated part for User Interface on web design, an area that just some time ago was practically unexplored. Footers are getting into the big picture, and is more noticeable how designers and User Interface designers are starting to give areas bellow content more importance.

We present you 21 more websites with incredible footer usability that have and the incredible ability to push content to areas that still to some degree unexplored. Continue reading ‘Geek Trends: 21 Fantastic Footers in Web Design’

Geek Trends: More Extraordinary Sliders & Ribbons

Exposing content is a hard task for web designers and there is not easy solution to this specific task, however we continuously finding more sites that feature smart ways to reach content exposure. Previously we featured 21 websites that features Extraordinary Sliders & Ribbons, here are 21 more Extraordinary Sliders & Ribbons examples that take feature content to the next level.

1. Apple

2. Auditude

3. Biola

4. Causecast

5. Eventful

6. Expression Engine

7. Fox

8. Going

9. Miro

10. National Geographic

11. NBC

12. Popsci

13. Portfolio

14. Stumble Upon

15. The Huffington Post

16. Tokyo Cube

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17. Topix

18. USA Today

19. Wallet Pop

20. Wall Street Journal

21. Yahoo! Video

Geographically Streaming: 15 Excellent Services - Part 2

The Internet is reaching our backyards… and we see more sites that are devoting their services to enhance our geographical experiences, in a previous post we showcase 15 Excellent Geographical Service - Part 1, in this post we showcase 15 more excellent geographically services.

Center’d, a tool that make easier the fact of putting plans together by involvement of rated places, and trusted friends.

Chow, valuable information about food, drinks, and social places is just the beginning, it features audio, video and anything else the web has to offer.

Couch Surfing, is as simple, CouchSurfing provide with the necessary tools to connect with travelers worldwide and create insiders point of view from local communities, and the greatest part of the community is that they provide shelter to each other in their travel arrangements.

Dopplr, share your future travel plans with friends or privately. It keeps you on the loop of who and wheres may happen.

Driftr, community members share their traveling experiences through blogs, videos, and photos.

Going, Share the party animal within, and see if the rest of the world share that wild side with you!

Loopt, real time location and a social compass, use your mobile phone as a tool to enhance your daily experiences and the ability to share experiences and enjoy recommendations.

Mixx Local, Even popular aggregated content sites are giving a more local side to their main streams of information. Still in its infancy and personally I hope to see a more enhanced navigation through the local capability of the service.


Topix
, another site that aggregates news from all over the web and then classifieds these news on geographical groups, the navigation and interface makes it one of the best sources to present local news, Top Stories, Community Favorites, Categories, Conversations…

Travellers Point, yet another community for sharing travel experiences.

Tribe, an almost complete way to stay connected with your local community, reviews, conversations, suggestions, lifestyle…

Trip Say, connect with traveling friends and strangers to exchange tips and experiences.


Tripwolf
, a social travel guide, to easy customize your next trip.

Whrrl, a tool that lets you locate you
r self in the map and share experiences, a very useful navigational interface makes the service a must try!

World 66, It promotes that travelers are the source of travel information, and are the ones that should be writing the travel guides.

We hope you have enjoyed the showcase and take advantage of these fabulous ways to enhance your real positioning in the planet, remember to leave comments to make the post more fun…

Microblogging: is the end of Blogging approaching?

Is there room for non commercial blogs? Bellow are some insiders opinions about where blogging is heading.

Dwight Silverman - Are blogs obsolete?
Paul Boutin - Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004
Jason Calacanis - retirement from blogging.
Jeremy Wagstaff - The End of Blogging Utopia
Darren Rowse - 5 Emerging Trends in Blogging

Geek Trends: 20 Extraordinary Obama Illustrations

From very well know artists of the illustration stardom to uprising stars, all the designs have something in common, self consciousness represented from the artist through their own creations, and not a well elaborate campaign. We present you an alphabetical collection of 20 extraordinary Obama illustrations.

1. Antar Dayal

2. Art of Change

3. Burlesque Design

4. Change the Thought

5. Cody Hudson

6. Creative Rescue

7. David Choe

8. Felix Jackson Jr

9. James and Loretta

10. Hyperakt

11. Kitsch Worth

12. Mac

13. Munk

14. Shepard Fairey

15. Carlos Ramirez Armando Lerma

16. Richard Rodriguez

17. Sam Flores

18. Viva Che!

19. Xtra Pop

20. Zoltron

Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty - organizations and causes with outstanding websites

Blog Action Day 2008, for those of you that are involved please jump to the next paragraph, and for you that need a little more information here is what Blog Action Day is, an initiative was brought in 2007 by leaders of the blogging community as a way to bring bloggers from all over the world to write about a common topic to capture the attention of organizations, leaders, and the general public opinion.

Today, once again bloggers are united by Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty, each one of us contribute to a great action that needs to be addressed not only to organizations and governments but to each one of us individually.

We are proud of being part of the Blog Action Day once again and we present you a list of 12 great causes and organizations with outstanding webdesign. Lets be part of the solution and lets take action today by joining the causes that appeal more to you and that gets you close to the ideals you behold.

Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty, Today thousands of bloggers will unite to discuss a single issue - poverty. We aim to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web!



Change.org, aims to address this need by serving as the central platform informing and empowering movements for social change around the most important issues of our time.

Compassion, Share your love, prayers and support with a boy or girl who lives in poverty.

Concern, is a non-governmental, international, humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.

End Poverty 2015, its main goal is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

Kiva, connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

Micro Place, help alleviate global poverty by enabling everyday people to make investments in the world’s working poor.

Millennuim Promise, investing in health, food production, education, access to clean water, and essential infrastructure, these community-led interventions will enable impoverished villages to escape extreme poverty once and for all.

One is nonpartisan; there’s only one side in the fight against global AIDS and extreme poverty.

Oxfam, is a confederation of 13 like-minded organizations working together and with partners and allies around the world to bring about lasting change.

Street Smart 4 Kids, is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with San Francisco restaurants to help homeless children get the help they need.

Stand Up, Stand Up is a global mobilisation to end poverty and inequality

Geek Trends: Extraordinary Sliders & Ribbons

One of Web designer’s major challenge is to improve content exposure without compromising intuitive models and layouts. We see and experience many new features applied to sites everyday, we present you today “21 sites with extraordinary and well styled ribbons”, from well know sites to new vanguard pioneers taking design to the next level.

1. 45 Royale, web stars, lol… a web design studio that create works for several cool sites and blogs.

2. Asylum, one of the best sources in the web to find off topic information and some of the most crazy things in the world… the whole site is an incredible work of art regarding navigational features.

3. Barak Obama, you knows it all.

4. C Net, one of the most visited sites in the world continue delivering news in very smart ways.

5. CNN, after the latest redesign has shown once again why continue been one of the leaders and most reliable source of news

6. Coda, we just can’t get enough of CODA… it’s has been featured in pretty much all the relevant blogs, directories and anything related to web design. Did created such an incredible buzz that even there is a jQuery script to recreate the slide effect check the coda slider jQuery and see if you want to add some functionality to your site navigation, or for easy results check the Wordpress Coda Theme.

7. Dirty Coast, good site for cool t-shirts.

8. Gizmodo, the gadget guide…

9. Joost, very impressive the maximization of all featured and relevant items above the fold, too bad that their system has so many bugs and such a limited selection of shows, lets see what Joost could bring next.

10. Lake Crack, because: “a picture is worth a thousand words”…

11. mashable, it was about time that Pete Cashmore decided to make some changes to that old boring design, bringing sexy back is not an easy job for a well branded blog but Pete you have done it!

12. Nile Inside, the site itself is a long ribbon, the fold exist still it’s just less notable.

13. nYq Studio, a symple way to show a few featured items

14. New York Times, yet another news site, this emphasize on how important is to expose information.

15. O’Neil, another simple way to feature more than one item before the fold.

16. Sound Provisions, I’m not the biggest fan of flash and with that been said this site is a well presentation of products in one single page.

17. The Horizontal Way, once again a ribbon like design for blog powered by wordpress.

18. Tree Hugger, well who doesn’t like tree hugger, lets all join the ways of sustainability… not a typical ribbon almost a little big to be one but worth to mention it.

19. VCU, education at glance, yet a more simplistic featured photo slide.

20. Vimeo, yummy… eye candy and more, one of those site that theres is always something new to discover Street Dance.

21. You Love Us, glad to see designers taking risks on presenting their identity in non conventional ways, well done!