Connect with Readers through a ‘Twitter Shoutbox’
Shoutboxes have long been staples in a lot of Pinoy blogs. Essentially, their mini chat rooms right there on your blog. It's pretty effective with Pinoys primarily because we just love shooting the breeze with friends.
Jotabl essentially extends that shoutbox to the twitterverse, including followers who most probably dont spend hours on your blog but are hooked on Twitter.
More after the jump: Minervity: Connect with Readers Through Twitter via Jotabl
(via Minervity)
How The Huffington Post Works
Interesting article on how one of the most popular websites/blogs really work. It's run like a (suprise!) news paper but with a deliver model thay accommodates more op-ed pieces. Very interesting...
How The Huffington Post Works - http://pulsene.ws/10O3Q
Customize your Facebook Fan Box
Facebook offers a standard fan box that's pretty consistent with the way facebook looks. Now, that's fine if your blog looks like facebook but if you're very particular about design, it always stands out like a sore thumb.
Fortunately, The nice folks at DaddyDesign.com came up with a pretty comprehensive tutorial on how to customize the fan box so it blends well with your site design. Happy Designing!
LINK: How to Customize your Facebook Fan Box (DaddyDesign.com)
Powerful and Easy Picture Editing with Picnik
Ever find yourself wondering how your friends create those wonderful effects? Photoshop and GIMP are both very powerful and very customizable tools with which you can create ANYTHING, but the sheer number of options is just overwhelming at times. This is where Picnik comes in.
Picnik has predefined effects and feature sets that is sure to make the most novice user look like an expert in photo editing.
I created some sample images.
This is the original picture:
Original Picture
And this is the outcome after applying a 60's effect:
60's Effect
After using the vampiric effects:
Vampire Effects
Hopefully the above samples convinced you. Here are a few more samples so you can see the other effects at work also:
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- Original Picture
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- 60′s Effect
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- Face Paint
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- Crystal Ball
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- Focal B/W
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- Focal Soften
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- Lomo
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- Vampire Effects
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- Cross Processed
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- Zombie
Just go to Picnik and upload your pic. Yep, it's that easy. 
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