November 2010
9 posts
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...