None of us are ignorant here, and I think it’s safe to say that we all realize how stale the YGG blog and forum have been lately. Extended periods of time between posts, not much commentary, little interaction from site owners, and so on.
Firstly, thank you to all of you who have stuck around long enough to be reading this post.
Secondly, as I’m sure most of you already know I’ve taken over as Technical Director over here at YGG. I’m sure even more of you have heard rumors floating around about some new features and maybe even a new design that we’ve got in the works. If you’re anything like the majority of the folks we’ve spoken with, you’re more than excited to hear about them. I know I am!
These factors have contributed to our decision to unveil some details to our readers as to what we’re working on, and why the hell we’re so quiet right now. We can’t give away too much right now, but you can expect to see more posts like this one in the following months with more sneak peeks and surprises.
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Why Traffic, Your Subscriber Count and Money Doesn’t Matter
Live by the numbers, die by the numbers. An interesting opinion on the unimportance of blogging metrics.
Designing For Flow
A List Apart breaks down the process of designing for flow into four steps to help you improve your process and your user’s experience.
Fail.
The Blog Council? Seriously? You created a council to help big wig suits be more personable through blogs? Sounds genuine, doesn’t it? (Four five straight questions?)
The Coolest Ad Campaign… Ever
A prime example of innovative advertising. Copywriting and creativity in real-time!
Alpha HYPHEN Graphics
If you talk the talk, you have to wa-
lk the walk.
The 4 types of community
So you want to create a community. Great. But do you know what type of community?
How do you know when is the right time to quit your day job?
Seven questions to ask yourself before you bank your elimination of employment on a gut feeling.
The Toolbox Toolbox: 100-Plus In-Depth Resource Collections for Web Workers
One of the most extensive lists of lists. Take a few days off and you should plow right through it from top to bottom.
A-Team Limo Service Available (In England)
This one’s for Eric. The A-Team limo is done. Maybe you can throw the Batman logo on your’s and call it the Batmobile?
7 Unhealthy Eating Habits of Unproductive Bloggers
Looks like my inactive blogging is the result of an unhealthy diet. Now I have to blog more and eat better. Damnit!
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Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay’s Registration
eBay is an awful looking website in many regards. Digital Web magazine shows how simple details can enormously improve the appearance and usability of their registration page, and make it look much less uglier.
FFFFOUND!
Centripetal Notion shares an extensive collection of photos snatched from a new Del.icio.us for images type site named FFFFOUND. The site is still in private, invite-only mode, so this is a nice sneak peek at the type of imagery it’s collecting.
The proper way to stalk a journalist - video version
John gives some tips via a video as to the proper way to follow, plan and pitch to journalists.
Be A Design Cast 45 : Shaun Inman
YGG became users and advocates for Mint, a web analytics app, a couple weeks back. This is an intriguing audio chat with the creator of Mint, Shaun Inman.
Napkin Notebook: For Your $1,000,000 Ideas
Another simple idea for ideas that I wish I thought of.
…Office paintball takes a lot of work?
A really cool video documentation of a photo shoot and the eventual Photoshopping for an unusual magazine spread.
How to Create a Blog That People Really Digg
Several tips from Copyblogger on how to write Digg worthy copy.
The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral� Videos
This has to be the most controversial post on TechCrunch, with even Mike Arrington disagreeing with the guest author’s opinion. The 400+ comments are even more interesting than the post.
Why Are So Many Bloggers Selling Their Blogs?
As you’ve probably seen, plenty of blogs have hit the market in the past several weeks, including our YGG member Adnan’s Blogtrepreneur.com. Yaro tries to break down the reasons as to why there’s such a spike in blog sales.
Introducing the new look GigaOM
Om’s site went under the knife a couple days ago and ditched the cluttered look for a slick, clean approach. I like it much better, but do think it could still use some refinement. What do you think?
5 Ways to Profit from Good Ideas
Lifehack, king of the lists, has put another one of it’s goodies together to help you get the most from your ideas.
Seeding Clouds to Produce Brain Storms
An essential list of tools that can kick your idea generator into gear and expand your creative abilities.
The Idea Factory - How to Enable Your Creativity
Three idea links in a row. This should be a sign as to the significance and necessity of ideas in our society and workplaces. Collis has another NxE classic on his hands here.
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I saw an interesting article pop up last week about Nissan developing color changing paint… Sounded like something perfect to blog about on my color + design blog, so to confirm the story, I sent an email into Nissan Motors and they were nice enough to call me back. Turns out Nissan has no idea where this current web urban legend originated from and they confirmed that they aren’t developing color changing paint.
As I tried to search for where the story originated, I stumbled into the blogging equivalent of a childhood game of telephone. How exactly did this rumor spread in 3 days from a small energy news site to some of the highest trafficked auto & technology blogs on the web? Could Wired, GizModo, Engadget, Jalopnik, etc. really have been part of such a badly spun web of news?
Follow us post by post in the latest game of Blogophone…
Around November 6th, NextEnergyNews.com put up a story about the color changing paint technology being developed. They explained the basics of how this technology works, but they set this all off when they mention Nissan in passing::
The process starts out with a standard galvanized piece of automotive sheet metal steel. A special polymer is applied to the steel with superparamagnetic iron oxide particles embedded within it. The nanoscale crystalline particles of magnetite (iron oxide) are controlled using a low grade magnetic field which is used to effect the spacing of the colloidal crystals and thereby controlling their ability to reflect light and change color.
The coatings are perfect for an automotive application because a continuous small magnetic charge is needed to keep the desired color active and the driver also has the ability to turn off the system at which time the vehicle turns back to its default color of white.
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This revolutionary new paramagnetic paint is a technical wonder and is viewed by Nissan and other auto companies as an amazing innovation…
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What seems to be the first blog to pick this up, luxvelocity doesn’t add much to the story, but a little suggestion of a sexy Nissan spotscar to imagine this feature on…
Fancy the White color on your soon to be ordered Nissan GTR?
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This is Where the Blognannegans Really Begin…
Motor Authority picked up the story, and definitely got inspired by luxvelocity… they added fancy image of a red, black and white Nissan GTR and connected the recently released Self-Healing paint by Nissan to this new technology.
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One carmaker looking into the technology is Nissan, which has already developed a self-healing paint.
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