http://4sq.com/ieXWMv
May 19, 2012 at 01:21PM
Foursquare Checkin: Dawg It
Foursquare Checkin: EVOS
http://4sq.com/9J1yGz
May 17, 2012 at 12:24PM
Instagram: Cat in a box. #cat
http://instagr.am/p/KtZk1lp4HS/
Web Design Inspiration May 14th, 2012
Three lifestyle comps today for your web design inspiration:
First of all, check out Dann Petty’s Behance page. Pretty friggin’ impressive.
Great use of full background image. Immerses the visitor completely and lets them feel the happiness.
Not sure I can find any fault with it besides the text by the video being hard to read, but thats probably because of detail being lost when generating the JPG.
Seriously, this makes me want to learn how to surf.
Wonderful emotion here. Family. Beauty. Adventure. Love the use of the HHonors stamp.
The “TURN POINTS INTO” text gets lost in the background. Maybe a box around the call to action with a slight backround gradient?
This actually seems like a comp where the header background is an ad for 66 North. Imagery gets the point across that they are pitching the outdoors. Its not exactly inviting, but they must be going for the danger and exciting theme.
Till next time…check out more web design inspiration.
Instagram: $1 Billion Built on Open Source and Cloud
And this isn’t even about Red Hat.
Tools and technologies that Instagram uses:
Ubuntu 11.04
nginx
Amazon’s Route53 for DNS.
25+ Django app servers on high CPU Xtra-Large EC2 instances.
Gunicorn as their WSGI server.
Fabric to deploy in parallel to all machines.
3 12 PostgreSQL-server clusters on Xtra-Large memory instances.
EBS as a software RAID configuration.
Apache Solr for geo-search API.
6 memcached instances for caching.
Gearman task queue.
Foursquare Checkin: Apple Store
http://4sq.com/5Vt6dW
April 04, 2012 at 01:08PM
Web Design Inspiration March 31st, 2012
Couple sites today for your web design inspiration:
Love the slants on this web design. The green on white definitely gets the right feeling across. Interestingly, they are using Twitter Bootstrap for some of the CSS.
Unfortunately, I think the header images might be a bit too tall. Maybe its the resolution I was looking it, but between the header taking up all of the viewport and the floating footer, I didn’t realize there was more content below.
Jessica’s portfolio site is beautiful. Check out how she uses her domain and post URLs.
Navigation and footer text is a bit hard to read, but maybe I’m just getting old.
Check out more web design inspiration.
Harry Potter eBooks Have No DRM
The Harry Potter ebooks aren’t going to have any DRM. From a gigaom article:
But by far the biggest break with tradition for Pottermore is that all the books will be sold without DRM restrictions…the Potter books will be personalized or watermarked.”
Am I the only who thinks a custom watermark with a buyer name or graphic would be pretty cool? Upsell opportunity. Essentially, buyers pay to “DRM” their own copy.
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Foursquare Checkin: Ringside Franks And Shakes
http://4sq.com/rv3Psx
March 27, 2012 at 12:22PM
Instagram: Nom nom nom. #cupcakes #foodporn
http://instagr.am/p/IqTV1EJ4Bo/
