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A unique perspective of the Web and social media...

January 7, 2010

10 Tweeps Who Will [fill-in-the-blank] Your Creative Juices!

There are a bunch of people on Twitter talking about everything and anything, nonetheless, we all need our constant supply of creativity! So, in our unending service to humanity, we would like to share with you the top 10 creative tweeps who you must follow on your Twitter account.

These are people who perfected the art of a 140 character creativity, and are able to stimulate your creative juices with their brilliant “single” liners.

1. @bkmacdaddy, Brian McDaniel

Biography: Web and graphic designer: SEO XHTML CSS PHP Joomla Templates, Magento Themes, Wordpress Themes, Twitter Backgrounds – all your web design dreams in 1 place!

Interesting Tweets:

A Showcase Of Logos Of Logo Designers – http://bit.ly/5KlrBW

Surreal Illustrations by Mámo Tuja – Abduzeedo – http://bit.ly/8spXHj

@bkmacdaddy: Inspirational design related tweets

@bkmacdaddy: Inspirational design related tweets

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October 10, 2009

Google Wave: First Impressions from Real People, Not “Experts”

Note: This post was written by Brian K. McDaniel (@BKmacdaddy on Twitter). Don’t forget to check out his amazing web designs at: bkmacdaddy.com, and follow him on Twitter.

In case you’ve been living under a rock & haven’t heard, 100,000 invitations to try out the much-hyped Google Wave were sent out last week. Everyone that received an invitation was also given 8 more invitations that they could send out to whoever they deemed worthy.

The story…

Social media & technology geeks (like me) drooled with anticipation, & when it became obvious that I was not going to be a recipient of the initial ‘wave’ of invites (pun intended) I began using Twitter to try to cajole someone into sending me one of their 2nd generation invitations with promises of lifelong friendship & dedication. Sure enough, thanks to the power of Twitter, I received offers from a few of my followers who were willing to send me a golden ticket, & my joy knew no bounds. My young friend @storiesofmac assured me he signed me up to receive one of his coveted invites, & the waiting began. Finally, almost a week later, I opened my Gmail inbox to the most wonderful automated email I’ve received to date. I signed up & created my Wave account, then began looking for contacts to add.

But alas, the first day I was only able to connect with two, & at separate times. So in essence, my first impression of Wave was that it was pretty much another version of instant messaging. I had a couple brief conversations, marveling at the real-time vision of someone else’s letters appearing as they typed, & laughing at their typos & edits (& mine). My joy was diluted, although I could see the obvious potential.

Google Wave - first impression: IM service

Google Wave - first impression: IM service

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