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Yesterday I tweeted on my Twitter stream

“Number of product roll-outs does not equate to product innovations. Most times, it works the opposite” [link]

And today I found this website, still in beta, in my RSS streams – FootyTube, as if to prove a point regarding the above. FootyTube is an aggregator site with an engine that trawls the open web and gathers football related content in the form of videos and articles and republishes them into, yes, FootyTube. Better yet, the value of FootyTube is the categorisation and channels it creates out of the jumbled up, perhaps noisy search data that gets returned form these searches.

I’m pretty impressed by what FootyTube has done in terms of organising these disparate, mixed up data and turning them in visual-information gems.

Website is in beta. You’d need to be a registered member to view videos. (I registered) Here are some screenshots. And my annotations/review.

CEOs Who Use Twitter: Tweets from the Chiefs – BusinessWeek: Tweets from the Chiefs

In August 2008 we (BusinessWeek) reported on 18 chief executives who use the microblogging application Twitter to clue customers in on new services, help them with questions about their products, and generally get a little bit personal with customers, business associates, and the public.

Not even a year later, we bring you nearly 50 CEOs who find tweeting a personal and professional delight…

So read on to learn how Virgin Group’s Richard Branson, Zappos.com’s Tony Hsieh, and dozens more CEOs harness the simple powers of Twitter.

(via: BusinessWeek)

For benefits of my time-starved colleagues, I’ve listed down who they are. For further reading, their bios, why and what they use Twitter, click the link above or here.

1. Richard Branson, Virgin Group Chairman
2. Guy Kawasaki, Alltop CEO
3. Oren Michels, Mashery CEO
4. Phil Libin, Evernote CEO
5. Pete Cashmore, Mashable CEO
6. George Colony, Forrester Research CEO
7. Gary Stockman, Porter Novelli CEO
8. Rob Howard, Telligent CEO
9. Tod Sacerdoti, BrightRoll CEO
10. Richard Rosenblatt, On Demand Media CEO
11. John Battelle, Federated Media CEO
12. Jeff Booth, BuildDirect President and CEO
13. Mark Cuban, HDNet Chairman
14. Bob Parsons, Go Daddy Group CEO and Founder
15. Ian Schafer, Deep Focus CEO
16. Mike Ferrari, SmartyPig Co-founder
17. Aaron Patzer, Mint.com CEO
18. Timothy Young, Socialcast CEO
19. Alex Yoder, WebTrends CEO
20. Edwin Ong, CastTV CEO
21. Avner Ronen, Boxee CEO
22. Diane Hessan, Communispace CEO
23. Jeremy Allaire, Brightcove CEO
24. Jason Alba, JibberJobber CEO
25. Jacqueline Novogratz, Acumen Fund CEO
26. J’Amy Stewart, Infonetics CEO
27. Tom Bedecarre, AKQA CEO
28. Marcel LeBrun, Radian6 CEO
29. Jay Adelson, Digg CEO
30. Peter Bordes, MediaTrust CEO
31. Kevin Rose, Digg Founder
32. Tony Hsieh, Zappos.com CEO
33. Jason Calacanis, Mahalo.com Founder
34. Michael Arrington, TechCrunch.com Co-editor
35. Loic Lemeur, Seesmic Founder
36. Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media CEO
37. Jack Dorsey, Twitter Chairman
38. David Sifry, Technorati Chairman
39. Christine Perkett, PerkettPR President
40. Michael Hyatt, Thomas Nelson Publishers CEO
41. Jeff Bonforte, Xobni CEO
42. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems CEO
43. Shafqat Islam, NewsCred Chief Executive
44. Barry Libert, Mzinga CEO and Chairman
45. Eugene Lee, Socialtext CEO
46. Kel Kelly, Kel & Partners CEO
47. Lois Paul, Principal of Lois Paul & Partners
48. John Lilly, Mozilla.com CEO

Without a doubt, there are more out there. And I want to archive them all. So please feel free to comment in with names of those not in the list already.

Here is a series of GUI frameworks collected from various sources to help in visualising product and user interaction flow.

Mostly in Photoshop and OmniGraffle stencils (which can be extracted into EPS or Illustrator formats), these frameworks are quite useful when planning some sort of product schematic and features.

Advice for non-designers: One way I can recommend how these can be used is by exporting individual UI items into transparent PNG so that you can drag and drop them into your favourite compositing software (like Powerpoint) to do fast, quick visualisations. UI designers as usual, have the luxury of using these frameworks any way warranted to achieve the goal.

I may also have missed many more framework links. If so, please feel free to comment in. I’ll update soon as I get them.

iPhone User Interface Frameworks

iPhone GUI #1 (source: Teehanlax)

iPhone GUI #2 (source: SwissMiss)

Graffletopia iPhone GUI stencils for OmniGraffle (source: Graffletopia)

Ultimate iPhone Stencil for OmniGraffle (source: Graffletopia)

The Ultimate iPhone User Interface Gallery (source: Engadget)

Mobile Phones User Interface Framework

General Mobile Stencils for OmniGraffle (source: Graffletopia)

Mobile Device Wireframe for OmniGraffle (source: Graffletopia)

Google Code Mobile iUI (source: Google Code)

Steal This Template UI framework (source: Little Springs Design)