http://dougdosberg.com  - Web Design, XHTML, CSSenThu, 22 Oct 2009 07:30:49 PDTdougdosberghttp://feedburner.google.comhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dougdosberg/~3/owKSNNx_MT0/A few people have been asking about my site Popvine.com, and wondering what happened to it. Well, after about a year I've decided to pull the plug and shut it down. Popvine was a celebrity gossip aggregator that harvested RSS feeds from celebrity gossip sites, including perezhilton.com, popcrunch.com, celebritybabyblog.com, ...http://dougdosberg.com/2009/10/22/goodbye-popvine/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dougdosberg/~3/LmLuUEZmiP8/Apparently Twitter has been having some issues within the last 24 hours with their following and followers features for new accounts. Last night, the number of people I'm following at @DailyBlunder dropped to zero and was latter restored, but now Twitter has taken all of my followers! After doing ...http://dougdosberg.com/2009/07/28/dear-twitter-please-give-us-back-our-followers-thanks/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dougdosberg/~3/UBxJtdOcJP8/With the amazing growth Twitter has had over the past year I often find myself explaining Twitter to family and friends. The most common response I receive is, "why would I want to broadcast my life?" which is a reasonable question to ask. This video below really hits the ...http://dougdosberg.com/2009/04/09/what-is-twitter/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dougdosberg/~3/C_t4fM9KgIk/If you're like me and have a hard time adapting to change, then here are a few things you can do to get your old iGoogle back. In my opinion, it was a pretty jolting layout change and one that could have used better transitioning. Facebook's transition from their ...http://dougdosberg.com/2008/10/17/hey-google-what-did-you-do-to-my-igoogle-i-want-it-back/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dougdosberg/~3/JDMbu7BNQos/I just checked out the new Propeller design, and... Wow, I was a bit shocked. It took a few minutes to comprehend what the hell was going on and I found myself struggling with some of their layout decisions. Not only was I surprised by the radical new ...http://dougdosberg.com/2008/07/24/propeller-redesign-fail/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dougdosberg/~3/yvjV3lQXQsg/I've been working on a site called Popvine for the past few months and everything was going great until the other night. Monday night I pulled down the htaccess authentication and I immediately started receiving timeout and 500 server errors. I built Popvine on a shared hosting box at ...http://dougdosberg.com/2008/07/03/daily-grip-goodbye-godaddy/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dougdosberg/~3/HnyWgOrZ9o4/Understanding how users find, see, and interact with your website is a great way to improve your content, design, and navigation. Understanding your site will help you craft a better user experience. There are several tools on the web that can expose telling data about your site. Below ...http://dougdosberg.com/2008/06/02/10-tools-to-analyze-your-website/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dougdosberg/~3/YmdVCmzjuvI/Recently I was talking to a guy who runs a pretty successful website and after an hour or so of him boasting about his company's growth we got on the topic of site redesigns, and when to redesign a site. Even-though there may be several reasons to redesign a ...http://dougdosberg.com/2008/05/28/when-to-redesign-a-website/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dougdosberg/~3/ZDDnpiSSm9A/Over the past few months I’ve been following the presidential race offline and online. I’ve been fascinated how each candidate leverages technology to communicate with their supporters. You can find all of them on today’s popular social networking sites getting their messages out and recruiting voters. After looking at ...http://dougdosberg.com/2008/04/24/predicting-the-next-president-with-social-web-data/http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dougdosberg/~3/fayc7PHHorw/Jason is founder of 37signals. He spoke at SXSW about what he has learned in the last two years. His presentation was insightful and he touched on several points that I strongly agree on. I've outlined Jason's presentation below. Think of them as Jason Fried quotes. Read ...http://dougdosberg.com/2008/03/11/jason-fried-at-sxsw-2008/