I Am Thousands of Flavors
One of the attractions of this landing page generator would be its name. Inspired by a every person and their individuality. The swatches of color are reminiscent of an ice cream brand which boasts of its 38 flavors.
Flavors.Me is a web product used as “personal homepages, lifestreaming, splash and microsites, celebrity fan pages, commercial promotion, brand marketing – and everything in between. ” That’s 17 words that read: versatility!
What started private beta testing late last year, Flavors.Me is now a web product with more than 50,000 accounts created. As a recent signee, sign-up and settings are easy to do in 10 to 15 minutes tops.
Flavors.Me makers, Jack Zerby and Jonathan Marcus decided that a website’s uniqueness encourage people to do more with their web page. Templates are a lot but because of some purchase requirements to be able to download and edit the CSS. Some are free and editable but bug-ridden.
The potential of a web page is endless with Flavors.Me, with just these settings to work on:
Layout- standard layouts are:
About
This tab is where you put a Title and tag line or text entry. This is where you get to put hyperlinks to your existing sites.
Services
There are several social networks to integrate with. This feature funnels your traffic to any of your sites. Updates on any of your sites would automatically register to the services you may have accounts in already. Flavors.Me has 15 of the most used social network icons: Twitter, FaceBook, tumblr, posterous, Blogger, WordPress, LinkedIn, Good Reads, NetFlix, last.fm, YouTube, Flickr, fourAquare, Etsy and RSS.
Design
Under this tab are the elements of your web page design. You have the layout which serves as your page structure: basic, wide screen, accordion.
Backgrounds
You can choose from the default background designs or just upload your images. Either way you can upload it normally, tiled or stretched.
Colors
There are default palettes which you can choose from and if these won’t inspire you there is always an option to set your own palette.
Fonts
The font choices are only several but well chosen to compliment any web page name. I used DogJaw for my Flavors.
As a tribute to human uniqueness and hidden designer talent, Flavors.me encourages uploading personal images. The results are of one of a kind web pages beautifully harmonized and built- for free!
The features don’t stop in its tools or Flavors integration abilities. What people will like the most is having all web pages, blogs, eCommerce sites that link to this very page. Diverse subjects taken up by the same person get equal feature on the page.
Say you have several blogs about pets, each blog dedicated to a certain specie. With Flavors.Me all your blogs appear and get the attention it deserves. Getting the traffic to your specialty sites is no easy task, yet with an optimized web page featuring links to your blogs the traffic spreads to all your sites.
Flavors so hot, can you tell me what yours is?
Roll Top: Foldable Laptops Anyone?
The evolution of most gadgets are inspired by the words: convenient and handy. The computer started out being as big as room with large pneumatic reels or punch-cards for data. Then came the bulky personal computers which were boot-able with floppy disk software. What came next was the OS that made booting obsolete and from the 5.1 floppy came the 3.5 versions which still came with bulky CPU’s and screens. Both the CPU’s and screens got sleeker and more functional with the dawn of the internet where data can be stored in the bigger memory and higher hard drive. Then came the lap tops which went through changes in width, size, memory, capacity and features. For the past 2 years we have the new generation notebook which is the size of a medium-sized notebook, makes it the most portable one in the market…
Just today though, while looking for another web find and trend to write about, I see the OLED technology being used as a specification for the RollTop foldable laptop. Oh, sure the “laptop” is bigger than a notebook. But when we talk ‘portable’, the RollTop (in prototype) will be the only rollable and luggable laptop.
The base is the plugable power source which has the loud speakers, webcam, USB ports and power button. The 17″ screen is an OLED and is rolled off the base and hidden in its back panels is the stylus pen, prop strip and the seal that locks the screen into place.
What I do like about this product would be the screen itself, which has an OLED (organic light emitting diode) display that includes the keyboard. There are no pieces or even IC’s to protect and the screen is a shiny glassy surface which is perfect for its touch screen technology.
This product is not only convenient and handy, it is also versatile. The screen itself can be converted into a 13″ tablet for stylus aided editing and navigation.
The only drawback I could see would be if the RollTop could make it through as an all-weather carry-on. Extreme temperatures are known to have an effect on electronic parts. The carry-on feature would also be useless for travel to far flung places that have no service providers nor power. Yet the design would fit for urban use, can’t picture the RollTop braving the elements on a hiking trip or a trip to the Himalayas.
I’d like to think that the RollTop would also get rid of owners having to buy pricey water-proof cases though.
