checkthis - Impressive Microblogging platform
Tumblr should take note of the user interface here - it is far more appealing, dynamic, and can structure a post in interesting ways. More about it’s features:
More info from their About page here
- No clutter
No registration. No set-up. No save button. No sidebar.- Clear privacy
Create and share on your terms.- Temporary or permanent
One day, one week, one month. You choose.- Public or private
Open to the world or password-protected. One editor or many.How does it work? First step: go to checkthis and put up your content. Second step: publish and share your beautiful link. There is no third step.
How is that possible? Everything you publish – videos, text, pictures and more – is automatically saved to its own web address. Something short and random like checkthis.com/abc. You can leave it public or password protect it, then invite other people to have a look or edit it themselves.
Website: Don Draper in Downtown LA
Don Draper goes to California on a business trip and then decides to bail on everyone and everything back home to start a new life. But where will he live? Downtown Los Angeles of course! <— insert Mad Men theme music here.
A blog about a 1960s advertising executive checking out the scene and looking for an apartment, live-work loft, or condo conversion among the hipsters of Downtown Los Angeles.
- Before there was Don Draper… (beliefnet.com)
- It’s As If Apple Has Hired Don Draper (techcrunch.com)
