A day in the life of a Web Designer

I got passed this video today from a friend who knows the industry I work in and after watching this they thought of me.

Be warned, it has some pretty heavy language in there but unfortunately I can completely and utterly relate to the sentiment.  For all those web designers out there who know what I mean.

Just Enjoy.

(And to all those “clients” who mirror this sentiment… well , just watch the video)

oh god.  I just found another one.

Twitter Lists, Linkedin and Retweets on Tweetdeck

I have been waiting for this update to Tweetdeck since the announcement by Twitter of the changes to ReTweets and the development of the Twitter Lists. I wasn’t sure how it would be handled by Tweetdeck as it basically already allowed Groups and it seems like they have done a great job in working out a solution to this possible clash by allowing you to convert your current Tweedeck groups  into a twitter list or keeping it private in Tweetdeck itself.

The thing is, and in a surprisingly quiet move, Tweetdeck have also went one step further and integrated LinkedIn status updates to the software, something that the other desktop apps currently neglect or are developing.  Quite a shrewd move!

The New Tweetdeck Features list

Twitter Lists

Follow, create and manage both public and private Twitter Lists from within TweetDeck. Export your old TweetDeck Groups to Twitter Lists and add new columns to monitor your favourite Lists using a slick new interface.

LinkedIn

Add a configurable LinkedIn column to view updates from your network, send status updates & view profiles easily

Retweet

Perform both new-style and traditional retweets with ease. All retweets are now visible in your TweetDeck columns

Geolocation

Instantly locate your Twitter friends by showing an online map for those tweets that have been geo-tagged

And of course the video detailing the new updates and explaining how to set up all your new features.

Well, all these changes may be dramatic and a little confusing at first but it has solidified Tweetdeck for me as the software of choice for managing my accounts and staying up to speed on the latest information and my social networks. Its installed now so I’m clicking buttons and adding accounts, maybe you should be checking it out as well, you can download the new version on Tweetdeck.com. Have fun and speak to you soon!

Google Social Search working?

Im not sure what’s happening but I just realised that Google Social search, which was only available in labs previously but which was turned off and made unavailable after one month has suddenly become available to me in the Google SERPS and in the specific “Social Search” option.

And its really rather cool!

I was under the impression that this would not be rolled out and indeed I haven’t heard anything about it being made available, I have just been messing around and seeing what results come back. Have a look at the results below for the search term:

Seo Dojo in Google Social Search and SERPS

(in case your wondering the SEO Dojo is a forum for SEO training and its cool, check it out.)

In the Google SERPs themselves this appears at the bottom just, click the image to enlarge:

Google Social Search working?

And when you select the social search only option like so:

Google Social Search working?

I get this lovely list of results, which is actually quite extensive, and rather accurate. Click it to enlarge.

Google Social Search working?

I have asked around but no one else has this option working at the moment, do you?