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Status King hits 50,000 active users! Over 6000 of the best status updates on Facebook

Jeff Harmon — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:06:18 +0000

Yesterday we crossed a huge milestone at Status King. We now have over 50,000 monthly active users! Here are some more stats on Status King:

We have over 6000 of the best facebook status updates on the web.
The top status update of all time now has over 1,500 votes.
We now have over 1250 fans on our Status King page.
Out of 80 reviews we have 4.7 out of 5 stars. That is pretty dang good.

It took a long time to get to this point (we started back in January), but I think the Status King content is excellent and it is only going to get better as we move forward. We have been mentioned in the USAToday and on Mashable (one of the top 10 blogs in the world). Recently I talked to a guy who created one of the top 10 apps on facebook. I believe Status King is going to be a top Facebook app.

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Father’s Day t-shirts and facebook gifts at Dadtastic.net

Jeff Harmon — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:00:15 +0000

Lately it feels like I have ended up in the business of t-shirts. This past Christmas my brothers and I created Status King, a t-shirt store that puts your facebook status update on a t-shirt. It has been fairly successful and now has over 23,000 users.

This week, here at FamilyLink, we released Dadtastic.net. Dadtastic does two things:

1 Make clever Father’s Day t-shirts for Dad.

Here is my favorite t-shirt image. I bought this on for my dad last week.

2 Dadtastic.net gives you a simple way to celebrate Father’s Day on Facebook.

: To celebrate Father’s Day simply click “Share on Facebook” and it will automatically upload the image to your facebook.

This being my first project as a Social Marketing Manager at FamilyLink, I am hoping hoping hoping that it goes very viral before Father’s Day.

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facebook now has English but for Pirates

Jeff Harmon — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:03:31 +0000

I just found this on facebook’s languages:

It made me laugh.

Another thing I noticed that I really like about their languages is that they don’t try and write all of their langauges in English. You can see that English is in English, Français is in French. It would make sense that if you are looking for Chinese it will be easier for you to find your language in Chinese.

One more thing, I think it is brilliant that facebook has an application that lets their users translate the site for them. Each phrase on the site is translated and then voted on by the users. Makes for much better translations. I think we will use this idea on Pixlin one day.

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iMovie videos on facebook – how to get high quality results

Jeff Harmon — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:28:56 +0000

Last week I learned that iMovie is amazingly easy to use. I googled “how to make an iMovie” and found this post. In less than two hours I had created my first 2 minute film! Easy as pie.

Sharing my video on facebook was step two. I exported my video for “web streaming” on iMovie and sadly my video looked like this (it is grainy and horrible in every way):

BEFORE

The crappy

After some (actually a ton of trying and reading everywhere) I now believe I have found the best way to get great quality from your iMovie and upload it to facebook. Here is the same video AFTER my experimenting (you can see that it is BIG CLEAR and beautiful):

AFTER

The better way to upload to facebook from iMovie

HOW TO TURN YOUR IMOVIE GREAT QUALITY FACEBOOK VIDEO

For the settings I used Vimeo’s tutorial on iMovie. They said you can keep it at the current frame rate, or shrink it to 15 per second if you need a smaller file. At the current frame rate my 6 minute video exceeded the 300 mb allowed on facebook. That is when I changed it to 15.

What size do I export my iMovie to be on facebook so I don’t loose quality when facebook resizes it? I learned from Scobleizer’s blog that facebook’s standard width is 606 pixels. Height? Facebook doesn’t change your video according to height, so just leave it blank and check the box “preserve your aspect ratio”.

DON’T FORGET TO CHECK THE “DEINTERLACE SOURCE VIDEO”. If you don’t your video will come out looking really bad.

You are done! Now just finish up and upload your new video to facebook.

In the end, I think Apple would be wise to make a dummy proof export for facebook, Youtube, Vimeo, MySpace, and the top 10 video sites. It just doesn’t make any sense to have a lame little “web streaming” export that doesn’t look good on the web.

Apple guys, if you are reading this, here is my wish list: an automatic uploader for the top 10 video sites that lets you pick from a simple “low quality”, “medium quality”, or “best possible quality”; if the file is too big it can automatically pick the best possible quality available (for example on facebook you are limited to 300 mbs or 20 minutes, if I have a 20 minute video there is no possible way I will get the same quality I can with a 2 minute video jammed in 300 mbs, so iMovie could just figure out the best for me and do it); if the video is too long for the site it could automatically split it into shorter sections and upload it as a play list.

Just some ideas. I am sure they would go over well.

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