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Okay, so you’re sitting in front of your computer and you get an urge to make a website, but you’re not all that good at CSS. You could just open up PhotoShop, make a few slices and export it to HTML and make the worst possible site ever, leveraging image maps and tables to get the job done (yuck), or you could crack open PhotoShop and then head over to PSD2CSS Online.

PSD2CSS Online is a San Diego based company. Their service takes your PSD file and creates a nicely tuned CSS awesome, based on your design – like magic! There are few things you’ll need to do to your PSD file first (guidelines), but all in all, the time you spend in PhotoShop making these changes will be far less than learning CSS if you’re completely new to it. (more…)

A year ago, when we first started Sociosophy, never would I have thought I’d be writing about a plane. My time in the air, before Virgin America came into view, was spent in American Airlines and Southwest Airlines for the most part. The most entertainment you’d get out of the flight would be playing the “decipher the PA” game and “what’s that smell?”.

Virgin America sets itself apart through the wonders of knowing today’s generation. Amazing what a little insight into “now” can do for a company. Their planes pretty much social networks with wings. Once in your seat you have access to shows, chat, games (like DOOM, f**k yea!), a power outlet and now wi-fi. Yes, Wi-Fi, on a mother f**kin’ plane. (more…)

Oooooooh, Twitter. How awesome and bountiful your spin off applications and various website doodads have become. MrTweet is something that never seemed like a pretty good idea until we actually found out about it. Need a social media consultant? Well, a fake one? MrTweet will tell you who you should be following.

Yep, you read that right. MrTweet is a site dedicated to growing your newb network into a noisy cluster of tweet-o-rama awesomeness so you can basque in the glory of Twitter in all of it’s wonderment and outright tweet-chatter.

How’s it work?

Simple – Follow MrTweet.

They give a little bit of what’s up with MrTweet on the site:

Who created this? @mingyeow / @ambivalence
Why? Cause Twitter can be even better with some insights and discovery
Really? We think so, but you tell us how to make it work for you
What is next? Kick ass features that make you productive and smart!

Sounds good to us! Give it a try, we just did.

Sociosophy is starting something new. We review blogs, we review sites, but now… we’re going to start highlighting individual posts we find awesome at least once per day. So, without wasting any more of your time, AwesomePost Numero Uno is:

BinaryWolf – Low Cost Video Production in Your Pocket

This post covers the San Diego Social Media Breakfast talk/event help earlier this month, featuring the talk via video, followed by a great detail of working with Flip Mino and a Gorilla Grip tripod to create a very affordable video presentation, vlog, or otherwise.

To learn more about the author of BinaryWolf.com (Steve), click here and here and here.

What a horrible, horrible idea. Be a Magpie is an advertising network that turns you, or the people you follow, into potential ad-cannons. What does this mean?

This is up there with your friends sending you ad-banner links via email, or Viagra spam email forwards from their junk-mail inbox, and turning a dime for it. Twitter has gone through a few interesting and awkward phases as the user base grows wider and farther. But Be A Magpie (which we’re not even going to link to because we don’t believe in promoting this service) missed the boat completely of what Twitter is all about.

It is true that Twitter, and other micro-blogging communities, define their own core culture and sub-cultures, but never have I seen one of them be leveraged for advertising in such a grotesque and selfish manner. People that follow others on Twitter do so because that person specifically finds something of value worth sharing, it’s not some bot telling their time line what to spill to their friends.

Who would use this service?

1. Someone who doesn’t understand Twitter at all
2. Someone who doesn’t understand Social Media at all
3. Someone who has no problem using their friends for revenue
4. Someone who doesn’t mind watching their Twitter follower count drop like Brits during the Black Plague

We usually want to maintain a happy disposition within our reviews of our Internet findings, so mark this down as the real, authentic, first time we’ve ever voiced truly HATING a service that exists. Magpie is an utterly and completely despicable service. It’s a smart, HORRIBLE idea.

Congratulations to the creators of this and other services like this… Turn your creativity into something that harnesses Web 2.0 and the Social Realm positively instead of filling it with this Web 1.0 mentality and muck.

Logo & Links were not posted to this article with intent & on purpose.

Update: I’ll be posting stories I find of Mudpie-Fallout like this:

http://bub.blicio.us/ – The Fastest Unfollow in the Midwest