Google+ Now Allows You To Share Circles

 interface, Internet News  488 Responses »
Sep 282011
 

 

 

Google Plus’ big killer feature from the start has been that it lets users organize their friends and acquaintances into Circles to control what is shared, and with whom. But creating all these curated groups seemed a little like a half baked feature seeing as you couldn’t let anyone else in on that perfectly organized group. Well, now you can. Google is rolling out the ability to share circles on Google+.

To share a Circle, just click on the Circle in question and choose Share. This will pull up the familiar composition field where you can choose who to share it with.

via Maximum PC | Google+ Now Allows You To Share Circles.

Righthaven copyright suits tossed in Colorado, too

 Law  446 Responses »
Sep 282011
 

In the last year, newspaper copyright troll Righthaven has brought its dubious lawsuits in two states: Nevada and Colorado. (Update: a lawyer in South Carolina says Righthaven filed a single case there as well.) With a new ruling today from a Colorado federal judge overseeing all of Righthaven’s cases there, courts in both states have now told Righthaven to take a hike—and to pay court costs before it goes.

Righthaven’s business model has been based largely on suing small-time bloggers and forum posters who have copied articles or photos from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post. When threatened with a federal lawsuit for copyright infringement, many of these users decided to settle for a few thousand dollars instead. It turns out they needn’t have done so, however; Righthaven never had the right to sue them in the first place.

via Righthaven copyright suits tossed in Colorado, too.

ZipShare Allows for Sharing of 100MB Worth of Files to Your Facebook Wall, Groups

 interface, Internet News  454 Responses »
Sep 282011
 

 

 

ZipShare is an application from WinZip that quickly and easily allows users to share up  to 100 megabytes worth of data on Facebook, either to their groups or on their Wall. The app brings you through Facebook Connect, asks you to upload your files and where you want to post  them (group or Wall). The app then converts this data into a zip file and publishes a download link.

via ZipShare Allows for Sharing of 100MB Worth of Files to Your Facebook Wall, Groups.

Building an immersive environment with CSS and JavaScript

 interface, Web Design  259 Responses »
Sep 282011
 

 

 

Technologist Benjamin Bojko and art director Dan Mall, on behalf of digital agency Big Spaceship, give us an exclusive look behind the creation of Activatedrinks.com and explain how they pulled off the loading process and added depth and fluid parallax motion to the particles effect on the site

ACTIVATE engaged Big Spaceship as digital agency of record to oversee digital strategy and production, including the brand’s social and mobile marketing. The redesign of Activatedrinks.com and establishing their Facebook presence emerged as the primary initiatives in re-setting their online presence for this growing brand. When the Big Spaceship team began brainstorms towards these goals we didn’t have a lot of time to pull this off.

via Building an immersive environment with CSS and JavaScript | Tutorial | .net magazine.

DIY Facebook Page Management: The Choice Gets Harder

 Internet News, Marketing, Your Brand  393 Responses »
Sep 232011
 

Companies that must grapple with whether to maintain their Facebook pages in-house or outsource them to firms – thus adding another line item to their budgets –  are finding the decision harder to make.For while Facebook is indeed enhancing its own features for DIY users, third-party providers are also beefing up their own offering. The latest example of the former is new functionality Facebook appears to be testing that gives page administrators “per post” data.

via DIY Facebook Page Management: The Choice Gets Harder – MarketingVOX.

Mac trojan poses as PDF to open botnet backdoor

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Sep 232011
 

Malware continues to be a minimal threat to most Mac users, but that doesn’t mean attackers aren’t constantly trying to come up with new ways to steal information or turn users’ machines into botnet drones. The latter appears to be the case with a new Mac trojan posing as a PDF file, discovered by security researchers at F-Secure.

via Mac trojan poses as PDF to open botnet backdoor.

Borrowing Kindle e-books at over 11,000 libraries begins today

 Education, interface, Tech News  394 Responses »
Sep 232011
 

 

 

All your e-books are belong to us. That sums up Amazon’s Library Lending service pretty well. Get ready to borrow all the free e-books your Kindle (or Kindle app) can handle, because the service is live, as of today.

Going to the library is something of a trip, or adventure, depending on how you look at it. Our generation doesn’t go to library because we have the Internet and we read most of our books on e-readers or through e-book apps on tablets, smartphones and laptops.

Back in April, Amazon unveiled its plan to allow Kindle and Kindle apps to borrow books from libraries. The only downside was having to actually go to a physical library.

That’s no more. Borrowing an e-book from a local library requires only a visit to its website and a working library card.

via Borrowing Kindle e-books at over 11,000 libraries begins today | DVICE.

Love, Phrases, Page Tabs, Videos, Cards and More on This Week’s Top 20 Emerging Facebook Apps by MAU

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Sep 232011
 

 

The applications that grew the most on our emerging list by monthly active users this week included some love quizzes, the German Phrases app, a few Page tab apps, video, greeting cards and more. The apps on our list grew from between 147,600 and 613,900 MAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook. We define “emerging” applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week.

via Love, Phrases, Page Tabs, Videos, Cards and More on This Week’s Top 20 Emerging Facebook Apps by MAU.

.net Awards 2011: the 10 sites of the year

 interface, Web Design  338 Responses »
Sep 232011
 

 

 

In the last of our .net Awards 2011 profiles, we showcase the 10 websites of the year that you have nominated. They all are rich in visual flair and imagination but which one really pushed the boundaries of the web this year?

Over the last weeks we’ve profiled eight categories in the .net Awards 2011. Today it’s the turn of the big one: site of the year.

via .net Awards 2011: the 10 sites of the year | Feature | .net magazine.

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