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Twitter gives you the bird

Looks like Twitter is steering away from it's old icons and forcing us good web dev teams to make changes to all sites that use the old Twitter icon. They give us the bird with new guidelines that they outline here. They DON'T Allow the birds referenced above : Talking birds, dying birds, a family of birds, really blue birds, birds on the ground, cartoon birds or birds with hair, SO BE CAREFUL HOW YOU GIVE THE BIRD! (more…)
June 14, 2012
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jQuery UI Touch Punch

No, not Kickpuncher - I'm talking about Touch Punch. If you updated to WordPress 3.4 yesterday or today, and read the New Features notes closely, maybe you were like me, intrigued by the new inclusion of "jQuery UI Touch Punch". I mean, it certainly sounds cool - what else do you need? Well, what else it does, is help make all the excellent jQuery UI abilities, like Draggability, sliders, and more, work nicely on touch devices like your (i)Phone /…
June 14, 2012
Marketing

Google + Local New Scoring System

Google + Local has replaced its star ratings with a new scoring system. Individual reviews are also counted different. Where a "3" is "excellent, a "2" is "very good", a "1" is "good" and a "0" is "poor". Google then takes these ratings and averages them out to give the business a "score" between 0 and 30 - with a 30 being the best you can do. What this means to most businesses is that you must continue to provide…
June 13, 2012