http://webrulon.com Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:47:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en China has been long been known as a lover of social networking sites. The top three traffic getters, however, feature no familiar faces to us Westerners. Let's take a look, shall we? Renren.com - This site started out as Facebook clone but soon blew up to be the most popular social ... http://webrulon.com/chinas-top-three-social-networking-sites-some-new-faces/ Cold Hard Flash is on the case to entertain all of you flashheads out there. This blog aggregates all of the best in news and tips. The kind folks over at the site also showcase hot videos, animations and programs to show you what is possible with everyone's favorite web ... http://webrulon.com/cold-hard-flash-your-source-for-flash-news-tips-and-videos/ Unfortunately, you cannot avoid the issue of search engine optimization (SEO) when developing an Adobe Flash-based Flex rich Internet application (RIA) or Flash Website.  Fortunately, the Flash SEO Tool is almost here to help ease us into comfort and security. Peter Gwiazda, the author of this handy app, has this to ... http://webrulon.com/flash-seo-tool-simply-plug-seo-in-to-any-finished-flash-application/ Google has published a rather detailed, 49-page report that rates the search engine optimization (SEO) on its various properties including, but not limited to, the Google search home page. The result? Not so good. On the bright side, the company says it plans to use this information to improve its own ... http://webrulon.com/google-releases-report-outlining-the-failure-of-its-own-seo/ Conan O'Brien may have been shoved off of NBC to make way for Jay Leno, but he seems to have found a new outlet. Twitter! CoCo joined Twitter just a few days ago and has already racked up over a half million followers. He has entertained his many followers by ... http://webrulon.com/conan-obrien-joins-twitter-racks-up-a-half-million-followers-in-days/ The U.S. Department of Defense has lifted it's ban on social networking sites that had been in place for some sections of the agency since 2007. The Department of Defense issued a memorandum on Friday that sets a new policy allowing access to social-networking services from the DoD network. "Service members ... http://webrulon.com/us-defense-department-finally-lifts-ban-of-social-networking-sites/ Even you Photoshop experts out there could stand to learn a thing or two, right? Of course! With that in mind, we present to you a trio of tutorial links to help you achieve Photo manipulation nirvana. A Little Photoshop - This set of tutorials is useful for photographers. Love to ... http://webrulon.com/a-trio-of-helpful-photoshop-tutorials-march-2010-edition/ White House Press Secretary is taking it the people, Twitter style. He signed up for the popular social networking site last week, claiming  his deputy Bill Burton had been using it and it looked like "great fun." He ha racked up thousands of followers in the scant few days he's ... http://webrulon.com/white-house-press-secretary-joins-twitter-interacts-with-ordinary-americans/ Adobe has been having some trouble getting Apple to adopt flash on their best-selling iPhone. This has not stopped the company from giving away six million copies of their Photoshop iPhone app since it was released last October. It's the second most popular free photography app in the entire Apple  ... http://webrulon.com/photoshop-app-for-iphone-tops-six-million-downloads/ A post on the forthcoming iPad would probably have been inappropriate here so instead we leave you with three useful Twitter apps for Mac computers. These are all new and you may have missed the radar blip when they were released. Macs sometimes get the short end of the app ... http://webrulon.com/three-new-twitter-apps-for-mac-you-may-have-missed/