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Alex Chousmith

Culture

This is Rad : Sezio’s Four Day Weekend

Saw this radness off the Facebook feed while eating lunch in my cube (give me a break, it looks wet and cold outside) : Sezio Presents : Four Day Weekend featuring The Dodos, Avi Buffalo, Dominant Legs, and The Tree Ring. That is four nights of goodness in a row, with those bands plus SD locals The Vision of a Dying World, Writer, Cuckoo Chaos, and Chairs Missing. I am especially stoked because when Jeromy was going on vacation a…
October 6, 2010
DevelopmentTips

URL Alias Your Facebook Page(s)

This post is as much for my own reference as it is for everyone else. Ever wonder how http://www.facebook.com/Ninthlink got to that URL instead of being something like http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Diego/Ninthlink/362960366842 ? Isn't it much cleaner, easier, and quicker to refer your own business's fans to "www.facebook.com/" than "www.facebook.com/pages///" ? Never fear - the solution is quick and easy - your Page just needs a Facebook Username. (more…)
September 22, 2010
DevelopmentTips

Props Where Props are Due : Google Talk Chatback Widget

In the first of what I hope to be a set of weekly posts, I would like to call out Thanks to the plugins that make our new Ninthlink.com site possible. In particular, this week I am thankful for the Google Talk Chatback Widget plugin, which now appears in the floating footer across our site, whenever anyone chooses to Chat with a Pro. (more…)
September 16, 2010
DevelopmentTips

Slimming Down Facebook (FBML) Tabs

The news came out a month or two ago. After however long of allowing custom FBML tabs at 760px width, Facebook decided they liked them better at 520px so the general info column could stay on the left. At that time, nobody knew when the change would happen, though estimates were for October. Since then, the change has been made, and any custom tabs that were set for the 760px width are now getting cut off and losing that last…
September 10, 2010
DevelopmentMarketing

Blown up Google’s Logo yet Today?

Have you had a chance to check out and play with the latest round of innovating on the logo area of the default www.google.com search page? Using CSS3, HTML5, and some javascript, you might just never be able to actually get your mouse on one of the balls that makes up today's logo. Which caused MSNBC to come up with this humorous headline. Maybe today is Google's birthday. What do you think?
September 7, 2010