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EmailA month or two ago, I decided to check out Twitter. I’ve known about Twitter since its inception from the fine folks at Obvious, who were also known in the “podcast-o-sphere” as the creators of Odeo before they sold it to SonicMountain.
Image above is copyright © 2008 Twitter
Twitter has always remained a mystery to me in terms of why it’s become so popular until I created an account and started using it. It’s simple, it’s addictive and most importantly it’s fun. Being able to “follow” your friends or in my case, people I admire in the Web design and Mac community, helps me feel as if I’m in their heads.
Maybe it’s the same feeling people have using social sites like Facebook and MySpace. What I like best about Twitter is that they don’t devalue the word “friend” but instead refer to everyone as someone you follow. That’s important to me because I reserve calling people friends who are actually my friend and not just a random stranger across the ether.
Check out my Twitter page and add me as one of the people you follow. I’ll return the favor and follow you.
Comicraft's Never-To-Be-Repeated Font Sale
The fine font designers and letterers at Comicraft have their Annual Never-To-Be-Repeated Sale coming up next week on January 1st, 2008. The sale starts at midnight on December 31, 2007 and ends at midnight on January 1, 2008. For 24 hours, all fonts will be on sale for $20.08
Do you get it? Next year is 2008 and the sale price of the fonts are $20.08. This sale is never going to be repeated just like last year’s sale of all fonts at $20.07 wasn’t repeated this year. Those guys are so clever.
37signals' Backpack for the iPhone (sorta)
Justin Michael as created some CSS to help restyle your Backpack pages for use on the iPhone. It’s simple enough to implement. Just create a divider element on your backpack page and copy and paste his CSS code in it. That’s it. Done. For those of you who don’t have a Backpack account you need to get one. 37signals, the creators of Backpack, have pricing plans ranging from Free to $14 per month. It’s a great way to organize and collect information that is accessible from any Internet connected computer or device, including Apple’s iPhone. Now if only I had an iPhone.
