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If your looking for a great resource for adding custom links with your own images for social media buttons

http://atlchris.com/1665/how-to-create-custom-share-buttons-...

This solves: load issues, ugliness of buttons (you can style or use images however you like), social media button visitor tracking


For all those stating in the comments they only need to use Adobe products for an hour a month and can't justify CC.

You can download Adobe CS2 for free.

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?pid=4485...


Maybe this can help in turning around those connotations.


> People should learn two programming languages at the same time

I agree with this. I think its a great way to understand how those new concepts and ideas work in two different universes. Its helped me separate and understand how core ideas and concepts work and how they can work different.


Great article, clear and to the point. Any suggested reading for one to dig further?


http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics-2/ is a good one for SaaS startups.


Type I also, Looks like its time to get over that huge fear of contact lenses.

I dont care if i have to clockwork orange my eyelids, this sounds awesome


What's Yahoo? I'll google it.


+1 all these replies. As a designer first, I taught myself to code, Just as I taught myself how print medium works. These details are integral to the end product.

A web designer that doesn't understand code != a web designer.

I think Photoshop should be replaced with Illustrator. for the initial design phases. 1) You can do wireframes in Illustrator, then build directly on top of that for design. 2) Multiple artboards lets you layout multiple screen sizes/breakpoints. 3) Resizing elements and keeping crisp edges is much faster.


This is ridiculous speculation. Source?


Well, they went from allowing you to have a private profile (ie. not searchable and non-friends see no info) to making name/age/gender/profpic/email/friends list public. There's quite some evidence that Facebook is using private messages in targeted ads (meaning the ad buying now knows private information about you).


Please don't mislead people. Ad buyers do NOT receive any private information from Facebook users when they run an ad. They tell Facebook what kind of user they want to see their ads, and Facebook shows the ads to those particular users. There is no exchange of information.


Pretty much what Beagle said. Targeted ads on Facebook are the social network equivalent of a spear phishing email. It's trivial to target a very specific set of even just one individual if you've done your research and then follow them around the web


Not directly, no. But at least in 2010 (last time I did anything to do with ads), you could buy the ad according to your demographics on facebook, and then plant a cookie to correlate to other sources of information.

So, yes, I was able to use facebook to mark specific people (by buying an ad that targets them), and then follow them around the internet by participating in real time bidding on their views.

So even though facebook does not directly sell that information, you don't have to be very smart to indirectly "buy" it from them (and AdNexus and friends).


Have you ever created a facebook ad?


They've apparently been targeting ads based on things said in private messages. http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/01/facebook-sued-for-al...


3 second google search yields these results from 3 months ago:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/facebook-p...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2454109/Faceb...

This is pretty well known, and has been happening every 1-2 years. Are you new on the internet?


This Title could be "2013" and it wouldn't make a difference.


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