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  • May 5, 2007 in Product Reviews

    Why Didn't I Find Grouper.com?

    A few posts ago, I did a little analysis of the popular video services out there. In all my research for that post, I didn’t find grouper.com. Now, there’s nothing special about grouper as far as I’m concerned. It’s basically a YouTube clone. I’m just blown away by the fact that the search term “upload videos” typed in on Yahoo! failed to bring up grouper (at least not within the first 15 pages or so). It’s a large video site that’s been around since 2004. So what gives?

  • May 4, 2007 in Product Reviews

    ClickTale :: Because every user has a story

    After a long wait, clicktale.com is finally running a closed beta on their new web stat analyzer. As one of the beta testers, I have to say that I am pretty impressed. I think that their visual approach to tracking web site usage is much more useful than anything else we’ve seen in a while. Liquid Design Media will definately be using clicktale.com for clients in the future. Also, check out crazyegg.com if you like what you see and you just can’t wait.

  • May 3, 2007 in Mirificam Press News

    London Office Space

    You never know when a blog post will strike a chord with someone or connect you to someone you would otherwise never have met. After my last post about map mashups, I quickly received an email from Jurga and londonofficespace.com explaining how they are using a map mashup to create a new service.

  • May 2, 2007 in Design Tips & Tutorials

    Adding a Maps Mashup to Your Site

    Adding maps to a web site is a great way to bring a more interactive and personal experience to the visitor. At Liquid Desgin Media it’s become standard practice to embed a Google map with directions on every site that we produce. Now, with the ability to easily add photos and videos to maps, we are already seeing some very creative mashups out there. With sites like palatial.com and communitywalk.com, you can add a lot of mapping capability to your site for free including the ability for your visitors to contribute to the map. Another good way to get your map up on your site fast is to use the new “My Maps” feature at maps.google.com and then use a service like ongopongo.com to embed the map that you create into your site. If you are willing to do a little coding, you can use yahoo! maps and do a mashup like I did on fightmap.com.

  • April 29, 2007 in Product Reviews

    Choosing a Video Publishing Platform

    I’ve found that getting video published on the web for clients of Liquid Design Media becomes more and more a part of my daily routine. It also seems like there is a new YouTube popping up every time I turn around. So I took some time this weekend and just did a quick evaluation of the pros and cons of the services out there. YouTube.com, of course is the most used of the services out there right now so it works great if your primary concern is to make your video available to as many searchers as possible. However, I think it lacks a little in the ability to integrate multiple videos into an existing web site. BrightCove.com is my favorite of the services that I looked at. It’s got good uploading and editing tools and it has a great system for publishing your video content back on your own web site. A good example of a BrightCove mashup site is bodyarchitect.com . I think BrightCove has taken it to a new level. ZippyVideos.com, Dropshots.com, Voeh.com, and Vimeo.com all have similar features with just slight variations. They are all worth checking out but none really stand out. Yahoo! and Google both have video services that I think fall into this category. Revver.com has a unique advertising model that allows creators and sharers to share in advertising revenue. They also have an API that will allow you to integrate the system with your own site but it’s a little bit cumbersome for a weekend project. VideoEgg.com seems like another YouTube Clone at first glance but they offer special development to add their system to your web site. I know dogster uses them and there are few others. I was a little disappointed when I found out they don’t support mpeg2 uploads, though. Last but not least, Blip.TV offers the ability to publish your video in multiple streams with one upload. So you can upload one high quality video and it then subscribers can get it in iTunes, on the site, embedded, etc.

  • April 25, 2007 in Business & Process

    Web Site A La Carte

    As I have worked with clients at Liquid Design Media over the last six months or so I have come to realize that, up to this point in time, web site content has been “consumed” in a very limited way. For the most part, web site strategies in the past have amounted to little more than “How can we get hits on this web site?” Now (and by “now” I mean within the last few months) I find myself asking more and more “How can we get more people to subscribe to this web site?” It’s no longer good enough to have a good web site. There are a ton of those. You have to make content available to each guest in a format that is comfortable for them. Email updates, RSS, desktop widgets, and podcasting is the name of the game. Need an example? mibmidland.com is a site I just finished that is a perfect example of this web site a la carte concept. The content has been wrenched from the design and who knows where it will end up. I think this is the final step in the rise of the on-demand generation.

  • April 25, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    A List Apart Survey

    When A List Apart asks us to fill out a survey, we do it and we don�t ask questions. Seriously, though, I am excited to see what the results are. http://alistapart.com/articles/webdesignsurvey When A List Apart asks us to fill out a survey, we do it and we don�t ask questions. Seriously, though, I am excited to see what the results are. http://alistapart.com/articles/webdesignsurvey

  • April 19, 2007 in Web Design Culture

    Web Site Designer - The Most Fulfilling Job Ever

    I had a moment yesterday where I started to contemplate my vocation and wonder whether or not I would have or could have been happier had I chosen a different path. I thought about other jobs that require talents and skills similar to mine and I came to this conclusion: My job at Liquid Design Media is the most fulfilling job ever. It�s that simple. There is no other job at any other moment in history that could afford me the flexibility, creative license, and happiness than where I am right now. In the future, we will probably come to expect these benefits from every job and in the past they were out of the question. But right now they are fresh and exciting. I find myself more and more at the center of company strategies as the world migrates to the web and every day presents a new and interesting challenge. What can I say?

  • April 13, 2007 in Product Reviews

    SpringWidgets

    SpringWidgets If you use feedburner on a regular basis, then you know that they give you the option to automatically create a little RSS agregating widget using spingwidgets.com. What can I say? Very cool stuff.

  • April 10, 2007 in Design Inspiration

    Illustration Inspiration

    Incorporating complex illustrations into traditional CSS design has become a growing trend in the web design world. N.Design Studio is doing a great job using this technique. Incorporating complex illustrations into traditional CSS design has become a growing trend in the web design world. N.Design Studio is doing a great job using this technique.

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