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...