Posts Tagged ‘applications’

Who Should You Unfollow on Twitter?

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

There are dozens of sites that tell you who to follow, but the most useful Twitter tool I’ve found in months tells you who to unfollow. Manage Flitter analyzes the people you follow on Twitter and allows you to select and batch unfollow based on criteria you set. You can analyze who doesn’t follow you back, who doesn’t have a profile image, people who haven’t tweeted in a month, people who tweet more than five times a day and people who tweet less than once a day. After creating your list you can filter out verified and popular users so you don’t accidentally delete Shaq or Fake Steve Jobs.

Click here to check out Manage Flitter.

Free Web UI Sources

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Mashable has collected 10 sets of great UI templates for Photoshop, Illustrator and Omnigraffle. These sets include everything from icons, to skin-able vector buttons, to browser specific form elements that can really speed up the prototyping process. The posts get a little redundant if you go through the entire list, but there are definitely some gems if you dig a little.

Click here to read the full article.

Click here for free vector icons. Great for getting your idea across without going through the process of creating your own illustrations.

Click here for a vector wireframe kit.

Click here for a robust browser kit with editable form fields and browser bar elements for all major browsers.

Open Screen Project

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

This may have been up for a while, but it’s new to me. We’ve been working closely with Adobe for a few years on their multi-screen initiatives and are now officially a member of the Open Screen Project. Were listed among some pretty impressive partners and are glad to be part of the project.

In addition to this, we are part of a concept video on the OSP homepage. The first video in the carousel titled “Fun with Friends” includes a conceptual mockup of what our AIR Application Fanbase could look like in the future. It’s just a concept at this point, but is fun to see. The folks at Adobe did an amazing job putting this together.

Check it out.

Open Screen Project

EGO – All your web stats in one mobile app

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

EGO is a mobile application that lets you check all of your web statistics in one place, from a mobile device. It supports Google Analytics, Twitter, Vimeo, Tumblr, Feedburner, Ember, Mint and Squarespace all in one application, with new services being added frequently. While the iPhone version only lets you view high level stats, like page views and follower counts, the iPad app lets you dig deeper and view the full sites associated with you analytics inline. A must have for anyone who wants to keep tabs on their website and the social web surrounding it.

Check out EGO here.

EGO App

My Pic In Billboard Magazine

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

A picture of the panel I was on at NARM 2010 showed up in Billboard Magazine this week. I’ve been interviewed by Billboard before but have never seen my picture in print without knowing about it beforehand. While this may only be interesting to my friends and family, I wanted to post it here for posterity.

With the cover

Billboard magazine

Detail

Billboard magazine detail

NARM 2010 Mobile Applications Panel

Monday, May 17th, 2010

Today I was on an amazing panel at the 2010 NARM Convention discussing the use of applications in the music industry. While the focus was on mobile apps, we discussed desktop apps, widgets and the mobile web as well. The panel was moderated by Tom Constabile from Verizon Wireless and contained experts in design, development, and publishing. It was a great honor to be included in a healthy debate on an important part of the music business. I’ll be posting a link here once the video is online.

NARM 2010 Convention link.

NARM 2010 schedule of events.

Usability Assessment of MySpace Apps Leaked

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

MySpace has never been know for its simplicity or usability. Fortunately for users they were trying to do something about it. Unfortunately for MySpace those documents leaked online. MySpace was seeing poor install and retention rates for their apps compared to Facebook and hired a usability team to make some web design and user experience recommendations. It’s more pixel pushing than redesign, but a very interesting look into one do the largest sites on the web and how they strive to improve their business.

Click here for a link to the document.

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