As I no longer do the whole #FollowFriday thing I thought it only best to post my recommendations here. And “Designers Rock” refers to the Group I’ve set up in TweetDeck just for these great Tweeps.

By the way, it’s 53 great follows then me, I’ll let you be the judge of whether I’m worth a follow

Oh, and if this is your first visit to this (very new) postmodem site, stay a while and have a look around.

(Click on the images to view their Twitter profile pages)

@darylsws - c'est moi

@wpstudios

@calgemy

@vardenrhode

@vpieters

@tommytrc

@tahniaroberts

@welshstew

@styletime

@svgrob

@makakman

@minervity

@phaoloo

@boagworld

@oneluvgurl

@nikibrown

@mistygirlph

@mimojito

@mlane

@mdrisser

@mrrichardson

@mjnewham

@markboulton

@lisaduplessis

@lboi

@iamkhayyam

@katharnavas

@justcreative

@iblend

@imjustcreative

@gracesmith

@gissisim

@gabriellasky

@freelancesw

@abduzeedo

@elliotjaystocks

@davewilkinson

@chrisspooner

@cheth

@cameronolivier

@mayhemstudios

@inf0rmer

@behoff

@briancray

@brandonacox

@andysowards

@andrewkelsall

@andrewburnett

@alexpuig

@al75

@fragments77

@applemacbookpro - Great links from Italia

@chadengle

@aaroni268

Marc soon contacted me via Twitter and suggested talking on Skype, which i wasn’t really able to do whilst at work, but as I knew it would be a fairly quick conversation I decided to head over to TinyChat to start up a room.

To cut a long story short, the Contact Form issue was user error on my part in that I hadn’t properly read the readme (The moral of this story is definitely RTFM) – so that’s now working fine.

What happened next though came as a bit of a surprise. When Marc joined the chat, TinyChat was tweeting the link to the room so it was filling up with people from Twitter quite rapidly. Seeing as my HashOne issue had been resolved I decided to leave the chat before I got sucked in and carried on with my Friday afternoon of work.

When I saw the link to the chat room again in twitter some 20 minutes later I decided to have another look and almost spat out my coffee. What I didn’t realise about the TinyChat site was that it now has the capability to display multiple webcams at once – a la video conferencing. Extremely impressive for what I thought was just a simple web based chat room!

What surprised me even more was there were a few very familiar faces staring back at me from TinyChat, namely Chad Engle (@chadengle) and Chris Spooner (@chrisspooner).

Here’s a quick screen grab I took of the session:

The Friday afternoon TinyChat

I didn’t spend too long chatting as I wasn’t able to use my Mic and thus found it difficult to get heard (although you can see me top left) but suffice to say I was very impressed with TinyChat and I’ll certainly be looking at the “Embed on your website” feature very soon!

The first I saw of the new bing logo was via this post over at the imjustcreative blog. I’m with Graham completely, it’s amazing that a company the size of Microsoft would actually sign off on such a badly designed logo. In contrast, take a look at the new logo for Google Wave – it’s pure simplicity in echoing the colours of the Google brand whilst creating a wave with the letter W is a definite win. Look at the logo’s side-by-side and see what you think.

Comparison of the new logo's from Microsoft and Google

The rebranding car wreck doesn’t end there though. Not happy with just creating a shockingly bad logo for bing the designers of this launch micro-site (which I assume is being used to herald the new dawn of Bing to the world) have blatantly ripped an idea from this site: dragoninteractive.com. Of course, it goes without saying that the Dragon Interactive site is far superior in many ways – but why have Microsoft so obviously not invested time in the design of these sites let alone the bing logo?

The 'rip-off' bing micro-site

The far superior dragon interactive site

And then there are the other micro-sites like this which uses Silverlight of all things when it’s completely unnecessary. What also strikes me though is that the micro-sites sitting under http://www.discoverbing.com/ have no clear brand continuity.

Why Silverlight??

Bring back Live – all is forgiven?

What do you think to the Bing logo and Sites? Please feel free to drop a comment below.

UPDATE There’s also this great post analysing the new bing logo at logoblink.com

As they say – “Watch this Space”

However, before I embark on my blogging adventure (albeit belatedly) I want to thank the guys at Obox design in South Africa for this wonderful WordPress theme which I won on their From The Couch competition. You guys Rock ;o)