I’m thinking you might want to offer your users a good mobile experience.

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Here’s something great for my tech news geeks.  Flipboard and Techmeme together at last.

If you read tech news you no doubt know about Techmeme, the mother of all destinations for tech news and trends. If you have an iPad and enjoy killing old media then you no doubt have the Flipboard digital social magazine thingy.

Now it’s time to learn how you can literally have the best of both worlds:

1)  While logged in to Twitter visit twitter.com/techmemedirect

2) Create a new Twitter List that contains only this Twitter account

3) Load up the Flipboard iPad application and click “Add a section”

4) Select your Tweetmeme Twitter list from the menu

5) Start patting yourself on the back because you’re done!

As you can probably already assume this an easy way to add just about any dedicated publication to Flipboard.

Happy flipping!

Remember when MTV actually played music videos?

I certainly do and those were easily some my most fond music memories. Of course I was a teenager so my life was basically nothing but music and trying to figure out girls.

Well thanks to myspace it’s time to fall in love with music videos again. This time around thanks to the myspace music romeo web and iPad app.

Check out some of these screenshots then Thriller your way over to check it out.

tell myspace romeo how you feel and what you’re doing

love music videos again

share your favorites with friends (and enemies!)

So Romeo, now all you need to do is get the iPad app or check out the web based version.

Related:

• Official Press Release
• myspace music news
• Guide Page

Recently he announced his new $30 Million fund appropriately called 500 Startups. Dave has long reffered to himself as the master of 500 hats which started to get me thinking. Certainlly there must be enough data points or humorous jokes about Dave to assemble an infographic with.

Turns out there is and it looks something like this:

Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments!

It’s a timeless question that launched a meme and a life of its own. For those not aware of such Internet history please take a moment to familiarize yourself.

For Internet troublemakers like myself this question is a great way to test any new Q&A service. I was the first user to pose such a question on Quora and when Facebook introduced its own questions product I did the same.

Here’s what happened:

Go ahead and try it yourself!

Are you there? Are you a comic-con dork? Use this handy graphic to find out.

Twitter is an amazing device for telling the world you’re having a sammich. It’s also great for spreading information FAST. Sometimes too fast, like today when tweets flew around all morning saying today was a date used in the Back to The Future.  Turns out that’s not the case, but mark your calendars for October 21, 2015, because that day is going to be AWESOME.

Probably even have hover boards by then too.

Oh real quick, here’s some other wierd stuff about Back to the Future:

and of course:

Additionally John confirmed this overlap based on his own user feedback. So today I’m happy to say this integration is now live.

I really like these guys because they took a very simple concept and executed upon it perfectly. With their latest addition of MySpace and WordPress integration they now syndicate out to all the great  platforms.

Here’s how you sync your MySpace and Formspring accounts:

1) Visit your FormSpring services page http://www.formspring.me/account/services

2) Click the MySpace icon under social networks

3) Auth your MySpace account

4) Pat yourself on the back because you’re done!

Now when answering questions you’ll also notice an option to share each answer with MySpace:

Here is the result:

All Photos by Lan Bui of The Bui Brothers.

Here it is folks.

THE killer app for the iPhone 4 with its video calling ability. Chatroulette.

The show is still a little rough but I’m looking forward to helping develop it.

Catch us weekly (and live) every Thursday at 11am PST.

This Week in Social Media with Brian Solis on YouTube

Lesson: If you’re going to create some waves, be creative about it.

/via ideaboner

The DOW Jones crashed today some 900 points over issues related to Greece economic crisis. It quickly recovered thanks in part to some Windex that was put on it.

From Yahoo:

U.S. stocks plunged suddenly but briefly by more than 9 percent on Thursday afternoon before pulling back to a near 3 percent drop, as investor worries mounted that Greece’s debt problems could spread.

The MySpace page certainly has some interesting things to note. For one he’s rocking a Microsoft Zune theme, but lets delve a little deeper…

First lets check out that “About Me”:

Just moved out to San Francisco from Raleigh, NC. Got a job at apple, and it keeps me busy enough during the week. enjoy huge club parties as well as jazz trios in coffee bars. I enjoy mighty leaf tea and super hoppy IPA’s.. I’m a gadget whore I’ve been trying to make use of all the bike lanes out here. love to travel I can make you laugh I take pictures I hate the rain.. well ok it’s growing on me out here in the bay, but I’ll take sun anyday!! Into any live music, drum and bass, dubstep, earthy hip hop, electroglitch, funk, soul, vinyl, photography, tech culture, apple, and anything else I can see, hear, smell, or touch.. and I love it out here in the bay!!!

Sounds like the right guy, now what about that “Who I’d Like to Meet” section:

Steve Jobs, busta rhymes

Hmmm, do you think he has met Steve yet?

Well once you get done patting yourself on the back for owning such a magical device you’ll no doubt want to start tweeting from it. Of course that’s easy enough right? Through the myriad of apps and web services that should be no problem right?

WRONG.

Truth be told, there is a surprising lack or great ways to tweet from the iPad at launch. I suppose I only say this because there is no native iPad version of Tweetie available right now. Tweetie of course being the widely popular and awesome iPhone Twitter client from developer atebits.

You might disagree with me when I say Tweetie is the ultimate mobile Tweet suite and that’s fine, I mean you’d be wrong but everyone is entitled to their opinion. Of course you can still run Tweetie on the iPad via the simulator, but let’s face it, that experience really blows.

So until Tweetie releases their native iPad app what’s a little birdie to do? Let’s look through some of the options we have in the meantime.

Tweetdeck

I’m not sure what’s wrong with Tweetdeck but it’s not for me. Maybe it’s because when I’m using it I feel like I’m cheating on Seesmic. Maybe it’s because there is just something not right with the UI, something feels foreign, communist even. In any case Tweetdeck is one of the few major Twitter clients to ship with a native iPad version at launch. It’s nice, but not great. It can be really slow and at times seems to get stuck on something. This forces the entire app to freeze until it coughs up whatever snag it has encountered. It is however free right now so it’s at least worth trying out.

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

Twitterrific

Popular iPhone app Twitterrific has also released a native iPad version of their Twitter client. I had never really used Twitterrific mostly because of its silly name. I don’t know if I would go as far as to call this iPad version terrific but it gets the job done. It’s also free so you can’t argue with the price. However if you want to use multiple accounts and remove the ads it’ll cost you $4.99. If Tweetie is like driving a fine german automobile, Twitterrific is like driving a used Ford. It’ll get you to work but don’t expect to pick up any hot chicks on the way.

http://twitterrific.com/

Twitter Mobile Web View

Let’s not forget about the web based solutions too starting with the OG Twitter mobile view. I know a few people who live by Twitter mobile web for use on their phone and I can see why. It’s a no fuss experience with few bells and whistles. Just straight tweeting like God (@jack) intended it. And the good folks at Twitter already added the iPad browser agent to the mobile view so all you need to do is browse to Twitter.com on your pad and you’re in.

http://mobile.twitter.com/

Seesmic Web

For my normal desktop tweeting I almost always use the Seesmic Air app. It’s simple and reliable with a unique style much like its owner @loic. While the Seesmic Web view hasn’t been optimized for the iPad yet it still works pretty good here. Seesmic CEO Loic tells me via email that soon we should see a full iPad optimization. That makes Seesmic web a very powerful alternative to app based options.

http://seesmic.com/app/

Brizzly

Home to one of the best mascots of the day, Brizzly has already released an iPad optimized version of their popular Twitter and Facebook client. Just like all products from Thing Labs, it has great style and smooth UI. Bonus, you also get inline media so you can easily see various types of media like photos and videos directly in the stream. Double bonus, you can also switch over the Facebook mode and get a nice view of your newsfeed there.

http://brizzly.com

How are you tweeting from your new iPad? Let me know in the comments or @percival me.

This device really is amazing, it’s not going to replace my laptop, or my phone or my penis or anything, but it actually is magical. It’s a glorious way to consume content and literally touch the web. My iPhone feels awkward after just a few hours with this thing.

It’s strange because I can vividly recall being at comdex some 10 years ago when some of the first tablets were shown. I remember how excited I was then and honestly that excitement hasn’t wained much.

Of course in terms of software and the web that was way too early for such a device. Right now however the timing couldn’t be more perfect. With so much of our lives living in the cloud I’m not missing much as a look into this new lens called the iPad.

I’ll write more once the honeymoon is over but if you have questions here are a few of my initial answers:

Should I get one now or wait? Both.

Favorite apps so far? Netflix and Tweetdeck.

How jealous is wifey? VERY.

How does it feel? Easy to hold and like butter to touch.

How’s the keyboard? Not as horrible as I imagined.

Did Jobs do it again? Yes.

To help crystallize what that UX is to become, Mike Macadaan and his team took over a better portion of Floor 1 at our office in Beverly Hills to create The MySpace UX Studio.

The idea is something new for MySpace, a place where anyone in the company can see what’s coming up next, see what ideas are literally “on the drawing board”. It’s an open and transparent format that produces great results and a few epic debates. They also tend to have candy or snacks down there so it’s usually a good place to hang out.

For some crazy reason they even let the Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher down there recently. With her trademark flip cam in hand this is what she found:

Here’s the trailer in case you missed it:

Tron: Legacy in HD

Since I joined up with MySpace everyone keeps asking me ”What’s next?” and of course “What the hell is going on over there?”.

So far we haven’t been able to say or show much. That’ll change soon enough as we incrementally roll out what the teams have been working on. In the meantime we gave a sneak preview to some press recently, here’s what they had to say:

From The Los Angeles Times MySpace looks to the past for its future

Self-expression has long differentiated MySpace from the more stripped-down look of Facebook. On MySpace, an individual’s profile page can be customized to the point of neon garishness. To aid in refining the look, MySpace has recruited contemporary artists Shepard Fairey and Buff Monster to design profile page templates to allow for a more polished presentation.

From USATODAY Once-fading MySpace undergoes youthful reincarnation

MySpace is moving back to its original DNA: appealing to self-expressive, creative under-35-year-olds who are into games, music and movies. More than half of MySpace’s estimated 100 million users are 25 and younger.

The rebranding is illustrated in design mockups splashed across the walls of a user-experience lab here: Simple, clean pages with vibrant looks designed to draw artists, hard-core social-media users, brand managers and others. There is even talk of a new company logo.

MySpace is not only reinventing itself, but recasting the competitive climate. ”When we think about Twitter and Facebook, we don’t think about competition as much as we think about partnership, distribution and synchronization,” Hirschhorn says.

Kara Swisher made a bunch of weird references I’m way too young (or not Jewish enough) to understand in her article and video: New MySpace Co-Presidents Hirschhorn and Jones Talk About the Past (Troubled!), Present (Work in Progress) and Future (Revival?)

Thus, here’s a video interview I did with Hirschhorn and Jones–at their joint desk, like some digital Oscar Madison and Felix Unger–where we talk about all this and more, including whether or not Hirschhorn is akvetcher or not.

Top cartoon that illustrates my view of where MySpace is headed by Gaping Void.

Your Ingredients.

/via @ratherfancy

Basically you could post content into a new blog or the ”About Me” section of your profile. While that type of sharing may have worked once, it’s pretty clear that it is not ideal today. Instead users prefer to share content directly into their activity streams like good little fishes.

So I’m happy to see some upgrades to the MySpace sharing process which include pushing content directly into the MySpace activity stream. You can test it out for yourself on the button below:

Oh, and good news for webmasters: if you already have MySpace share buttons in place the legacy code will continue to be supported through this new UI. No need to make any changes. It can’t hurt to check out some of the new buttons though.

Read more on the MySpace developer blog.

A Super Bowl commercial from Dockers pants is offering free pants. Learn more at http://dockers.com/freepants

Dockers: Wear the Pants

2010 Super Bowl Commercials

It’s Super Bowl time and that also means SuperBowl commercial time as well. The Super Bowl profile over on MySpace is tracking all the news and streaming videos of the Super Bowl commercials as they air.

Here’s the list so far:

• McDonald’s 2010 Superbowl Commercial with LeBron
• The Last Air Bender Trailer from 2010 Superbowl
• Boost Mobile Shuffle Super Bowl Commercial
• Bud Light Asteroid Superbowl Ad
• Doritos Watch Yourself 2010 Superbowl Commercial
• Simpsons Mr. Burns Coca-Cola Commercial
• Doritors Dog Collar Super Bowl Ad
• T-Pain Auto Tune Superbowl Commercial
• CareerBuilder Underwear Commercial
• The Wolfman Super Bowl Trailer
• Docker: Wear the Pants
• Dr. Pepper Cherry with Little Kiss Super Bowl Commercial
• Cars.com Growing up 2010 Superbowl Commercial
• Robin Hood 2010 Super Bowl Commercial
• Monster Job Hunt Super Bowl Commercial
• FLO TV: My Generation Commercial
• Dodger Charger 2010 Superbowl Commercial
• Harry Potter Superbowl Commercial
• Bud Light: Light House Commercial
• Papa Johns Delivers Super Bowl Video
• Megan Fox in a Bathtub Superbowl Commercial
• Denny’s Free Grand Slam Super Bowl Commercial
• Bridgestone: Tires or Wife?
• Google Search On Superbowl Commercial
• Census 2010 Super Bowl Commercial
• Kia Toy Fantasy Superbowl Commercial
• Audi Green Police Commercial
• Doritos Gym Ninja Super Bowl Commercial 2010
• Denny’s Chickens Freaking Out

What commercials were your favorite?