January 2012
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New Service: 500px
Photography is a foundational element of the Flavors experience. Our fullscreen media galleries and customizable grid displays were designed to showcase high-resolution images in stunning visual fashion. And so, we are pleased to be announcing support for 500px, a photography community powered by creative people from all over the world that lets you share and discover inspiring photographs.
If...
December 2011
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Lijit Stats
Have you ever wondered who’s checking out your Flavors site?
Premium Flavors users can add Lijit analytics in the external statistics area to gather even more details about their visitors and site performance, including data on pageviews, referring sites and searches, and geography — valuable information that can help you shape your Flavors site to better take advantage of incoming...
November 2011
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The New Flavors
Today we are pleased to announce the release of a major update to Flavors, including the introduction of an innovative new way to share and view content from more than 30 services around the web: Social Streams.
Social Streams
With Social Streams, users can now easily follow their favorite Flavors sites and experience photos, videos, blog posts, check-ins and more in one consistent and...
October 2011
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Steve Jobs Remembered
Steve Jobs had an incredible influence on creatives and businesspeople, including the HiiDef team. Here, we reflect on his work and his drive, which was both relentless and contagious, inspiring us and others to produce well-considered products while always keeping an eye on what’s next.
Not too long ago, Michael Dell suggested Apple shut down and return what little money it had left to...
September 2011
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Featured Flavors User: Comedian Kirk Zipfel
You’ve probably caught actor and comedian Kirk Zipfel in primetime television spots, sporting a meat poncho in a commercial for Degree or donning a pair of women’s skinny jeans in a spot for Miller Lite. His work also extends beyond 30-second slots, ranging from songwriting to creating and starring in an original web series and performing standup in California. Here he took some time...
Flavors Customer Support Closed on Monday,...
Our customer support team will be off on Monday for Labor Day. Enjoy the long weekend, Americans! While we’re out, have fun browsing the Directory. Here are a few favorites that we’ve recently featured on Twitter:
Oliver Blank, composer
Aline Calixto, samba singer
DaVinci, hip hop artist
Devereau Chumrau, actress
Shanee Pink, musician
Startup Weekend Shanghai -...
August 2011
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LA's Best Coffee app in LA Weekly
The LA’s Best Coffee iPhone, iPad and Android app is featured in LA Weekly. Check out their Flavors-powered site to learn more and grab the app.
Java addicts outside of the Los Angeles area can get their fix, too, thanks to other apps by Blue Crow Media: San Francisco’s Best Coffee, New York’s Best Coffee and London’s Best Coffee, all with sites powered by Flavors.
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Hallo! Ciao! Hei! привет! Hej!
If we just greeted you in your language, you can help us translate Flavors!
We’re looking for volunteers who can lend a hand with Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Russian and Swedish translations, to add to our ever-growing list of supported languages.
Email support @ flavors.me with your details if you’re interested. We’ll send you a special thanks for your time when you’re...
July 2011
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Flavors Support Will Be Closed on July 4
Customer support will be closed on Monday, July 4, in honor of U.S. Independence Day. In the meantime, enjoy these photos from around the Flavors community:
Matt Dunn
Hoon Park
Ryan Ressler
Theresa dela Cruz
Bryce Seifert
Charls Jiménez
Sara Swezy
Rebecca Koenig
Happy Fourth!
June 2011
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New Service Option: Flickr Sets
A long-requested option for the Flickr service is here! Now you can narrow down displayed photos to specific sets under Content > Manage (click the pencil icon and select “Photos” if it isn’t already checked, then select sets).
This also allows visitors to navigate to specific sets from a handy dropdown.
Enjoying Flickr sets? Let us know at @flavorsme or...
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Flavors in the Wild: Dengue Fever on PBS Arts
LA-based band Dengue Fever, which artfully combines Cambodian pop with psychedelic rock, was recently featured on PBS Arts’ “SOUND TRACKS Presents: Quick Hits.” Watch them perform “Gendjer Gendjer” for PBS below and check out their Flavors-powered site, denguefevermusic.com.
Watch the full episode. See more Sound Tracks.
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Watch“Flavors ♥ Music” featuring “Mirror” by Kordan
May 2011
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Customer Support Will Be Closed On Memorial Day
Our team will be off duty during the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, May 30. General questions, suggestions and reports of minor issues sent to our support email address and posted in the forum will likely not receive a response until Tuesday, May 31.
In the meantime, enjoy reading interviews with featured users, such as Curt Smith, here on the blog, and finding inspiration in the Directory!
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New Premium Feature: Google Maps
Upgraded Flavors users have a new option under Custom Content: Maps!
The new Google Maps integration provides an easy way for businesses, festivals and site-specific projects to share their location with visitors. To create a map, head to Content > Add > Custom > Maps. Enter an address or place name, and click “Find.” When your map appears, drag the image to customize its...
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Featured Flavors User: Tears for Fears Co-founder...
Curt Smith, co-founder of seminal pop band Tears for Fears, has an exciting year ahead, with a range of projects including a tour and the re-release of Mayfield. The artist recently took time out to talk to Flavors about his plans and inspirations, why he uses Flavors, and the importance of staying engaged online.
Flavors: What is the biggest change you’ve seen in the music industry since...
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New Service: The Hype Machine
It’s not always easy to find the best of the best in a growing sea of music blogs. Enter The Hype Machine, a music discovery engine that makes finding new tunes and MP3 blogs easy. Check through popular songs, browse the blog directory, love and follow your new favorites, and more.
Hype Machine is now available in our growing selection of services, allowing you to share your listening...
Goodsie Launches To Make Online Retail Easy →
New York, NY May 2nd, 2011: HiiDef, the creators of Flavors.me, announced today the launch of Goodsie, the easiest way to set up a branded shop online. Retailers of all kinds, from eBay power sellers to artisans in handmade goods marketplaces or indie bands, need their own branded storefront to connect directly with their customers and drive brand awareness. “While there are hundreds of...
April 2011
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Flavors Record Store Day Interview with OK Go
Viral video helped OK Go rise to international stardom. Solid pop rock songs and innovative resistance to traditional models have kept them in the spotlight. The band recently took a few minutes to talk to us about their latest projects, and offer a bit advice to others in the Flavors community.
Flavors: We, being nerds, loved Damien’s participation in NPR’s April Fool’s...
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Flavors Music Week Interview with The Cassettes
The Cassettes, also known as The Cassettes Musical Explorers Society, was partly formed as a diversion from frontman Shelby Cinca’s other projects, which include punk group Frodus and electronic solo project Triobelisk. Shelby took some time out for the group’s US tour to tell us how it feels to be back on the road after time abroad.
Flavors: The Cassettes are defined as...
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Flavors Music Week Interview with Paul Thomas...
Passionate acoustic musician Paul Thomas Saunders just finished his latest EP, Lilac & Wisteria. Check out our Q&A with him below, and stay tuned to his website for updates on its release!
Flavors: The brief synopsis of your upcoming EP states “Inspired by Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman.’” Could you tell us a bit more about that?
Paul Thomas...
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Flavors Music Week Interview with Wye Oak
Wye Oak drummer, keyboardist and backing vocalist Andy Stack took time out from the duo’s tour to chat with the Flavors team. New Yorkers can catch them tomorrow, April 14, at Bowery Ballroom.
Flavors: You received a good amount of press coverage around SXSW, and played a lot of shows that week! How was that experience, and how has it changed the band’s public profile?
Andy: This...
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Flavors Music Week Interview with Nosaj Thing
Nosaj Thing is the work of LA-based electronic musician Jason Chung, who took time out from recording his next album and prepping for his performance at Coachella to answer a few questions for Flavors. If you’re there this weekend, be sure to catch him and the new visuals in his show:
Flavors: You started making music at a young age and have a wide range of influences. How did you give...
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New Features: Links, FB Like and More!
We’re happy to announce a few frequently-requested features, live now on your Flavors site!
Links
Head to the About menu in your Design Panel, and you’ll see a new option called “Links.” This feature is handy for pointing visitors to sites that don’t use RSS, without taking up room in the Information field.
The position of your link varies by layout. In many, links are in line with the...
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Flavors Music Week Interview with DEDE
Awesome acts from around the world have selected Flavors to host and aggregate their online presence, integrating services like SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Tumblr, Facebook Pages and more to connect fans with their music and news.
In honor of upcoming Record Store Day, we’re featuring some of the amazing bands and solo artists who, to our delight, are part of the Flavors community.
Up...
March 2011
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We Are Hiring: Front-End Developer (New York or...
We are looking for a design-minded front-end developer with an extremely thorough understanding of Javascript, Django, jQuery, Jinja and cross-browser compatibility.
We’re after someone with a can-do attitude, excellent communications skills, a good sense of humor and a calming, down-to-earth personality. He or she consistently finds simple and elegant solutions to difficult problems, and...
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New Service: Instagram
Instagram has become a hit with iPhone users who want to snap and share photos on the go. It allows for quick and easy sharing across social networks, and comes with more than ten custom filters for transforming your photos into wonderfully stylized images reminiscent of film formats from the days of yore.
Now you can showcase your Instagram pics on Flavors, along with your social profiles,...
February 2011
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“Wye Oak’s records work on many levels: as rock music that billows...”
– First Listen: Wye Oak, ‘Civilian’ : NPR Wye Oak will be releasing their new album on March 8th and headlining their first show in New York in almost two years!
To learn more about Wye Oak, visit their Flavors-powered site: http://wyeoakmusic.com
“To stay on coffee’s cutting edge, and because modernity requires us to...”
– Coffee Chronicles: ‘New York’s Best Coffee’ iPhone App | Serious Eats If you are a coffee lover in New York, head on over to Flavors-powered New York’s Best Coffee and download the app!
January 2011
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We're Hiring! Join Our Growing Customer Support...
Support Team Member (Full- or Part-Time)
HiiDef - Flavors.me & Goodsie
We are looking for a dynamic individual to join our world-class customer support team. The ideal candidate has excellent communications skills, a good sense of humor and a calming, down-to-earth personality. He or she is very comfortable in a small, autonomous team that does not tolerate drama or undue pressure. This is...
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Q&A with Artist and Flavors User Peter Stichbury
Award-winning artist Peter Stichbury paints portraits that emphasize the oddities of his subjects. Flavors recently emailed the artist to learn more about his process and perspectives.
Flavors: How did the portrait of [Flavors investor] Zach Klein come about? Peter Stichbury: Serendipity. I found Zach’s website by chance and emailed asking if I could include him in my portrait project....
December 2010
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Featured User: Cody Simms, VP of Entertainment...
Cody Simms is VP of Product Management at Yahoo! for the Entertainment and Lifestyles products and also lectures at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
He recently moved his domain name, kidsallright.com, to Flavors and wrote to us to rave about its simplicity and flexibility. Check out what he had to say:
“I have found myself migrating to simpler and simpler...
Brand New Feature: Custom Content
Even though we support over 30 of the best web services like Soundcloud Tumblr and Dailybooth, there are certain use cases that just don’t quite fit and aren’t well supported. For example, people really like to write detailed biographies. Restaurants need a simple space for their menus. Retailers want to publish a list of their locations. The demand for static pages with rich media...
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Announcing Custom Domains from Tucows on...
Custom domains are most premium Flavors users’ favorite aspect of the upgrade. It is quite simply the best way to brand your Flavors.me homepage, giving it a unique identity and allowing your visitors to easily remember your site’s address.
Using a custom domain name for your Flavors site hasn’t been completely easy though, as it required searching around on other websites to...
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Featured Site: The San Diego Chargers
Having grown up in San Diego, Flavors.me founders Jonathan and David Marcus are die-hard Chargers fans. They spent many Sundays rooting for all the Charger greats, from Lionel “Little Train” James to Natrone Means and Junior Seau. And with Philip Rivers currently leading the charge to make the playoffs this year, we are thrilled to announce that the San Diego Chargers are officially using...
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Q&A with Comedian and Flavors User Ilana Glazer
Funny, slice-of-life, NYC-based web series Broad City has received press from the likes of The A.V. Club and The Urly Show. We recently got in on the action via an email chat with Flavors user and one half of Broad City, Ilana Glazer.
Flavors: How did you and [Broad City co-star] Abbi Jacobson meet?
Ilana Glazer: We met in an improv group. We were both taking classes at the Upright...
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New Service: DailyBooth
A picture is worth a thousands words, which is exactly why some folks tell their life’s story with photos via DailyBooth — now a service on Flavors.me.
DailyBooth is a fun way to display daily photos of yourself in a profile that you can share with friends, family and fans. Adding DailyBooth to your Flavors profile gives your visitors a great way to get to know you in the context of...
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New Service: Bandcamp
We have a musician or two here on the Flavors team, so we know how important it is for artists to connect with their fans and get their product (awesome music) out there. We pride ourselves on making it easy for bands and solo artists to easily share their music with the world, and we’re always keeping an ear out for suggestions on how to make things even easier.
Adding Bandcamp to our...
Glorious Icons
The requests for service icons has been overwhelming and unrelenting ever since launch :) And so after very careful design consideration, we are happy to offer a flexible system that incorporates iconography as an option into every layout. Each icon - and there are tons of them - were hand drawn with love by Rob, so you know they look just right.
We offer several different ways to present the...
November 2010
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The Highlighter & Facebook Albums
Just in time for Thanksgiving, we are releasing a new free layout and a significant upgrade to our Facebook support! The ‘Highlighter’ layout was inspired by a popular style of t-shirts commonly seen on the streets of New York. It’s a bit cheeky, but undeniably striking. And we now support Facebook Photo Albums, making it easy to choose exactly which albums to display on Flavors, or not....
Flavors Customer Support Closed for Thanksgiving
Flavors.me customer support is officially closed for the Thanksgiving holiday from Wednesday November 24, through Sunday, November 28.
In the meantime, you can search through previously asked questions in our forum and check out staff replies. You can also browse the directory to get inspired by other Flavors users.
Here are a couple of our favorites, featured on @flavorsme:
...
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Featured Site: "Chief TwiT" Leo Laporte
Last week, TWiT Netcast Network president and tech broadcaster Leo Laporte and tech journalist Amber MacArthur invited Flavors.me CEO Jonathan Marcus on Net@Night.
The three chatted about Flavors while Leo created his first Flavors site live on air. We were delighted to see that he found the process to be easy, fast and enjoyable! Check out the great-looking final product:
Leo is using the...
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New Service: Gowalla Location-Based Social...
From deep within the heart of Texas comes location-based social networking service Gowalla, now a service on Flavors.me!
With Gowalla, you can keep up with your friends, share the places you go, and discover the extraordinary in the world around you — like digital souvenirs redeemable for real-world rewards.
If you haven’t joined yet, take a tour on their homepage, then sign up,...
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Behance Creative Portfolios Come to Flavors.me
Flavors.me has teamed up with leading creative professional platform Behance, bringing the best in portfolio building to the best in personal websites.
The Behance Network allows you to showcase your work to millions of visitors each month, including top recruiters, creative companies and journalists across the globe. Now you can amplify that exposure by sharing your Behance portfolio on...
Pro Tip: Tumblr Audio + Flavors = Handy Playlist
In addition to SoundCloud, did you know that Flavors provides another way to create a public, shareable playlist? Check out how Flavors CEO, Jonathan Marcus, listens to music on the road:
Step One: Create a Tumblr account. Step Two: Upload audio files to Tumblr (one per day limit). Step Three: Log in to Flavors and authorize Tumblr under Content > Add in the Design Panel. Step Four: Go to...
Congratulations to Soundcloud!
You couldn’t ask for a better company to partner with, so their accomplishments are truly well deserved!!
david-noel:
Stoked about this platform milestone!
soundcloud:
Yeah, let’s celebrate!
We’re happy to announce that there are over 100 third-party mobile, desktop and web apps now connected with SoundCloud.
Read more about today’s announcement on our blog or jump straight to the new...
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New Flavors.me Controller
How do you improve upon a design that you spent an entire year perfecting?
Go back to the drawing board and start from scratch of course! To accommodate all of the new functionality we have in store - services, layouts and more - Jack, Sean and Rob needed to rethink the core navigation structure and interaction methods of the Design Panel. A herculean task no doubt!
Modeled after the...
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Featured Site: The European Parliament
The European Parliament is the only directly-elected body of the European Union, and plays an active role in drafting legislation that has an impact on the daily lives of EU citizens.
As part of its social media outreach, the EP’s Web Communication Unit has chosen Flavors to aggregate content from official European Parliament accounts on Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, plus feeds from its...
October 2010
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Flavors in the Wild: Foundry on Elm in the Boston...
Today the Boston Globe counted Flavors user Foundry on Elm among the “hip” and fine fare to be found in Boston’s Davis Square. This actually marks the restaurant’s second appearance in the Globe, which also published a preview this summer.
Foundry on Elm uses Flavors to share their menus via Tumblr, connect with customers via Twitter and Facebook, and direct diners to...
September 2010
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Flavors in the Wild: Brady Becker on TechCrunch
Flavors user Brady Becker was recently spotted on TechCrunch, in an article covering his new stealth startup, Forkly.
Brady is a former founder of Brightkite, and uses Flavors to aggregate his online presence with LinkedIn, Flickr, Tumblr, Twitter and the RSS option for Brightkite. Brady has also upgraded his account so he can use a custom domain, http://bradybecker.com.
To learn more about...