Interviews Video Interview with Founder of Vanilla, "A WordPress for Forums" Longtime forum moderator Mark O'Sullivan's Vanilla, an open-source, standards-compliant, fully extensible discussion forum CMS, is a favorite of many designers and webmasters alike. One reviewer said it best: "Forget how 'normal' forums are done - Vanilla strips it back to what's important: the conversations. Not the smileys, the bandwidth-hogging… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Twitter UPDATED: Sometimes, You Get What You Need: Twitter Improves UI on Follower/Following Pages Twitter has announced some changes to their follower and following pages interface design and functions. Now, when web users click to see lists of the people they follow or who follow them, they will see more information than just avatars and usernames. The new, improved pages contain full names, locations, most recent tweets, a one-click follow… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
Gritty Entrepreneurs Learn to Negotiate and Close This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. "It ain't over till the fat lady sings" means that nothing happens until you get the signature on the contract. That is when the money gets wired. Deals often get derailed. They drift, and then nothing happens. Or a… Bernard Lunn View comments
Music Video Interview with Pandora Founder Tim Westergren Pandora is one of the Internet's slow and steady success stories. After years of work and more than $20 million dollars invested, the company is finally looking at the light of the end of the tunnel: Turning a profit. In this exclusive interview with founder Tim Westergren after a town hall meetup in Richmond, Virginia, we discuss the company's… Play Jolie O'Dell View comments
Google Google Toolbar 5 Now with "Advanced" Translation Feature According to an announcement on the Google blog, Google Toolbar users can now instantly translate web pages with a single click. The toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox, and this new feature has apparently only been rolled out for IE as far as we can tell. The functionality is hit and miss, as you'll see in the… Jolie O'Dell View comments