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More than half of us adults use Facebook: study (AFP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - use more than half of us adults online social networking service Facebook, an upcoming study.
A report from Edison research and Arbitron Inc. on 5 April contains the statement, the 51 percent of U.S. residents of age 12 or older set up on Facebook profiles have.
Facebook terms of use require people to be at least 13 years old, to members of the online community that offers more than a half billion users.
"We have been the growth of Facebook since 2008 tracking and have it saw from eight percent use three years ago, 51 percent to go today," said New Jersey-based Edison in a version.
Tracking companies market the results on a survey of January of 2,020 people. Results of the study presented in a webcast will include the popularity of access to social networks with mobile phones, according to Edison.
Digital Painting 101 (1 of 5)
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Posted on: 27 March 2011
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Sony's virtual cherry blossoms increase aid (Mashable)
Combination of play and, Sony Online Entertainment has created virtual items in the game, the players concerned to support Japan's recent earthquake and tsunami can purchase philanthropy.
Players for some SOE games can a cherry blossom by a in the gaming market designed, buy the awareness of the tragedy. SOE donates $10 for each cherry blossom bought between March of 25 and 28 March to the American Red Cross relief operation help. In addition to the cherry Bossoms, alternative items are in magic: the gathering tactics, Star Wars Galaxies and PoxNora. To learn about the program, click here.
SOÉ's is the latest relief operation of Sony Corp., the 3.6 million $ has so far provided for aid in his homeland. Now the idea of the merger of social media and charity has effectively raising funds for various tragedies in recent years. Last year's earthquake in Haiti, for example, asked that Red Cross initiative, experiment with a text to donate something the Organization has repeatedly this year for Japan. Allow PayPal, Jiwire, Tumblr and other other alternative ways have in the meantime Japan sacrifice offered this year. Zynga, developer of FarmVille and other Facebook based games, has also possibilities for consumers, the crisis by buying virtual donations were offered in their games.
SOÉ's use of the cherry blossom as a symbol of the tragedy, one comes now, such as New York's poignant coverage this week with nuclear symbols for the flowers introduced.
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10 Mini Websites with Javascript Animation
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# javascript animationWeekly Web Design Inspiration #92
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How Gemvara the art and manner changed fine jewelry online is purchased (Mashable)
There is no one that e-commerce news is on the rise. Not only are more consumers turn to the Web for the first time purchase online, they also catch in more expensive category-including, a startup has found, buy in fine jewelry.
Gemvara is a Boston-based startup, which specializes in high-end, customizable jewelry. Shoppers can browse a catalog of more than 1,500 original designs, mix and of 26 different types of precious stones and eight precious metals to a probably unique, tailor-made piece match.
The a-year-old company of this week announced that it has raised $ 15 million in a series C round of financing led by European venture capital firm Balderton capital, known a lead investor in another start, SCVNGR Boston. Gemvara has so far raised more than $25 million.
Experience plans to use the funds from the catalog build and their online shopping develop Gemvara. The company has plans to open a NYC Office and its staff of 40 are doubles.
26-Year-old CEO Matt Lauzon much success of the company on its Zappos how customer service that is available via phone, e-Mail and live chat available leads. Building trust between businesses and consumers is essential especially for expensive purchases such as fine jewelry, Lauzon says. About acquired 45% of the Gemvara of customers have never before online a piece of jewelry, the company in a recent internal survey found.
"What is amazing is the number of the activities [our customer care representatives] have after a purchase," says Lauzon. "It has nothing to do with the product;" "Customers are only check-in because a friendship with the customer care Rep has been created."
The average price of an order is close to $1,000, he says, and the company receives orders often in the range of $5,000 to$ 10,000.
"Jewelry, shops at all not go away, but rather, their business is online," said Lauzon. "On the basis of the inventory restraints [shop] customers often have rules, and disappointing." Our goal is to provide people with the same perfect jewel, "says he."
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Posted on: 27 March 2011
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2011 Web Design Trends – Vol.1
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# 2011 #Trends #Web DesignA Showcase Of CSS Based Websites
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# CSS #Inspiration #WebsitesWhat is the best mouse for a designer?
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# Design #mouseAppeal of Twitter data from WikiLeaks probe to keep (AFP)
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP)-appellierte Internet lawyers U.S. judge the order, must pass in the data of the three users in contact with the controversial site WikiLeaks Twitter.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called the March 3 ruling for Icelandic parliamentarians Birgitta Jónsdóttir, one of the Twitter users targeted by the decision.
The EFF and ACLU want magistrate judge Theresa of Buchanan's decision annulled and WikiLeaks investigators to reveal similar requests for information from other Internet companies.
"Except in very rare cases the Government should not be allowed to get information about the individual private Internet communications in the secret," ACLU staff attorney Aden said fine.
"When the judgment may be, our customer can never know how many other companies turn over information about them have been ordered, and they can never possibly challenge the invasive questions."
In addition to Jónsdóttir the Twitter accounts belonging to U.S. computer Explorer Jacob Appelbaum and Rop Gonggrijp, a Dutch volunteer for WikiLeaks.
The Government details of Twitter was request public because of the California based microblogging service, notified them according to the EFF
In its decision, Buchanan rejected arguments that the gripper for Twitter information freedom of speech and privacy violated.
She said the three "already their Twitter posts and associations publicly exposed" and voluntarily provided information about Twitter in accordance with the website privacy policy.
Buchanan dismissed the argument, that the order of the fourth amendment of the U.S. Constitution, violates protects people against "unreasonable" search.
When the trio forwarded information about Twitter, it was "all reasonable expectation of privacy," she said.
"Services such as Twitter have information that we track and link our communication across multiple services such as Facebook and Google mail, can be used," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn.
"The magistrate herrschenden that users have no way to protect that information from the US Government is particularly worrying."
President Barack Obama administration get a court order last year that keeps information from the Twitter accounts such as he has published against WikiLeaks, a flood of secret diplomatic documents.
WikiLeaks, who has strongly criticized the order, said that three Twitter users for the website never worked, however, that two public helped make a video, a 2007 helicopter strike showed us in Baghdad, which killed several people.
A camera was worn by an employee of Reuters news agency the recordings the Apache pilots than mistaking a rocket drive grenade launcher.
WikiLeaks has since a number of internal correspondence among us diplomats around the world angered US authorities posting secret documents on the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and release.
Logo design process and walkthrough for BioThemes
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It must be well over a year since I created the BioThemes logo, but the BioThemes website has finally launched with a bang so I thought I’d pull out my logo design to share my design process with you guys and girls. The BioThemes logo was pretty different to the majority of logos I’ve worked on in the past, which made it a super interesting project.
John O’Nolan and Gilbert Pellegrom are the guys behind BioThemes. John got in touch back in early 2010 to ask if I’d be interested in designing the logo for their BioThemes project. Being a good friend of John in the design community I jumped at the chance.
In his brief, John was keen to play on the word Bio by linking it with nature and the environment. He gave examples of the Coda logo and the work of Alberto Seveso as examples of the style he’d like to aim for in the logo, so it looked like I’d definitely be throwing out the rulebook in terms of creating a simple or flat logo design and aim at something more detailed and semi-realistic.
The design I developed for BioThemes features a range of detailed leaves that fill out the entire word. In the background a tree bark texture and intricate vines all add to the theme.
Unlike most of my logo designs, the BioThemes logo was build in Photoshop at super large dimensions. The whole design is based on a leaf texture file sourced from Caleb Kimbrough.
The flat leaf shape was then transformed using the Warp function in Photoshop.
All four corners were moved together and the handles stretched out to form a typical leaf shape.
A quick Hue/Saturation adjustment altered the green tones and brought out the vibrant colour of the leaf.
The basic text was then laid out in Photoshop, with a temporary green gradient added as a layer style.
Copies of the leaf were then pasted in, scaled and rotated into position over the first letter. A Drop Shadow effect will help add depth to the leaves once the numbers begin to add up.
Each new leaf was easily created by holding the ALT key while dragging the item to create a duplicate. It was then randomly rotated and re-positioned.
Once a number of large leaves had been placed, another copy was scaled down and squashed into a different shape. This new leaf is then duplicated to fill out the gaps.
The final series of leaves is a collection of smaller leaves bunched together to fill out any unsightly gaps.
A simple Photoshop brush was then used along with my Wacom tablet to draw a series of vine shapes between the leaves and extending beyond the outline of the letter.
In order to give these white strokes the appearance of vines a Gradient Overlay was first applied.
Next, a Satin overlay gave subtle changes in tone across the vines to counter the predictable flow of the gradient.
A Bevel and Emboss effect gave the vines a three dimensional appearance with bright green highlights and darker green shadows.
Finally a subtle Drop Shadow lifts the vines where they appear over the text or the leaves.
A few splodges of black and white using a large soft brush then added variances in colour and tone to differentiate the leaves from each other. This layer is set to Soft Light at 70%.
The first letter is now complete. The same process is then repeated on the following two letters to finish off the word.
A new group of layers kept the hundreds of layers for each letter separate to keep the PSD clean and tidy.
The vines layer was added half way down the stack of leaf layers so the vines interweaved above and below the leaves.
To add a little extra detail to the background, the letter outlines were used as a layer mask with a tree bark texture. This replaces the original green gradient.
The final touches to the logo were a series of water droplets. The base of these droplets were created with a round Photoshop brush with the scattering settings turned to max.
A series of layer style effects soon created a water drop appearance. First the layer was set to Multiply to render the white transparent, then a Bevel and Emboss effect added.
An Inner Glow helped outline the drops with a white glow. The key is to turn the opacity right down low to create a subtle effect.
Finally a soft Drop Shadow gives the droplets a subtle three dimensional appearance.
A quick addition of a butterfly links in with the ‘bio’ theme. The colour of the butterfly is used to balance off the word ‘Theme’s on the second half of the logo.
Everyone who creates logo designs knows the core principle that a logo should also work in mono format, or in other words be reproducible in black and white. On first impressions this full-on raster based photomanipulation logo might seem far from versatile, but we can make some tweaks to recreate the logo in file formats that can be used in multiple applications.
A selection is made of the entire logo in Photoshop, which is then converted into a Work Path. This path is then pasted into Illustrator to create a solid vector version of the logo.
A detailed and simple vector version of the logo was also supplied along with the high res raster logo so it can be used on any kind of design; big or small; web or print.
So here’s the final BioThemes logo in all its colour and intricate detail. Head over to BioThemes.com to see it in action. Don’t forget, if you’re an Access All Areas member, you can get yourself 30% off the ShowOff theme!
Chris Spooner is a designer who has a love for creativity and enjoys experimenting with various techniques in both print and web. Follow Chris' daily design links on Twitter, and be sure to check out his second blog over at Line25.com.
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