Flavors.me announced today support for web fonts using @font-face in HTML5.
Users can now access 50+ of the highest-quality fonts from FontSite, Mostar Design, CanadaType and many other top foundries. The transition from Flash to HTML5 also extends the Flavors experience to the iPad, iPod and other mobile platforms. Fonts are delivered in TrueType, WOFF, EOT and SVG for the best overall rendering quality and browser compatibility.
“Typography is a core element of the Flavors.me design process. Broad access to commercial fonts is an important step forward for the entire look and feel of the Internet. The advances in performance and personalization are profound. With well more than 100,000 users, this is among the largest implementations of web fonts using the @font-face standard,” said Flavors designer Jack Zerby. Flavors will continue to expand its library as more of the best professional fonts become available.
Additionally, Flavors.me is officially releasing a groundbreaking new grid-style layout system built to showcase the entire digital life stream at a glance. The grid uses a hierarchy structure that allows users to define the relative importance of each service within the page layout. “In the grid, user content defines the entire presentation. For the first time, information and design truly become one,” said Flavors designer Rob Morris.
Other notable features in this release include powerful meta data options for search engine and Facebook Open Graph optimization, as well as custom ‘favicons’ for even more brand control.
About Flavors.me / HiiDef:
Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant and dynamic website using personal content from around the Internet. It automatically organizes all kinds of information – Posterous blog posts, Twitter status updates, YouTube videos, Last.fm music listening habits, Flickr photos, LinkedIn resume details, Etsy store listings and more – into a constantly growing, interactive montage that is ideal for personal homepages, lifestreaming, digital business cards, brand marketing – and everything in between.
HiiDef is an Internet incubator that was founded in mid-2008. It owns and operates Flavors.me, Goodsie, Dashboard.me and Superkix. HiiDef’s team has a strong track record in the consumer Internet sector with experience from Vimeo, Digg, Mahalo, Zend, Wordpress, IAC, Pentagram and Digitalmash. The Company is distributed around the east coast of the United States, Canada and Australia.
Aventura, FL February 23, 2010: HiiDef Inc. announced today the public launch of http://flavors.me, and the introduction of premium accounts.
Flavors.me allows anyone to create an elegant website using personal content from around the Internet. It automatically organizes all kinds of information – Posterous blog posts, Twitter status updates, YouTube videos, Last.fm music listening habits, Flickr photos, LinkedIn resume details and more – into a constantly growing, interactive visual montage that is ideal for personal homepages, lifestreaming, digital business cards, splash and microsites, celebrity fan pages, brand marketing – and everything in between.
With the launch of premium accounts, Flavors.me is officially open for business. For $20 per year, users will have access to: custom URLs using A Records (easiest configuration, fewest DNS lookups and support for permalinks); real-time traffic statistics and support for Clicky and Google Analytics; and a lightbox-style contact form. In the coming weeks, Flavors.me will be releasing a more advanced layout framework, an updated members directory and powerful search and browsing tools.
During the past three months of private beta testing, more than 50,000 Flavors.me accounts have been created. In February alone, the site generated more than 275,000 unique visitors. Dana Oshiro from Read Write Web covered the beta with a post titled “10 Code-Free Minutes to a Sexier Web Presence”, Daniel Raffel from Yahoo included us in his TechCrunch guest blog post “From A Geek’s Geek: Daniel Raffel’s Favorite New Projects, Products and Features of 2009” and Mark Krynsky from the Lifestreamblog wrote a “Build a Beautiful Lifestream Quickly with Flavors.me”.
All beta features are now publicly available and will remain free indefinitely. Flavors.me currently aggregates API-data from 15 of the most popular social media sites, in addition to most RSS/Atom feeds. Both free and premium accounts will have access to new content as Flavors.me continue to integrate more services such as Soundcloud, Picassa, Yelp and Gowalla. Flavors.me will soon be switching to exclusively licensed @font-face web embeddable fonts, which use HTML5 instead of Flash on compatible browsers.
The Flavors.me team will be presenting at SXSW Interactive’s Meet the Press Event on Saturday, March 13th at 11:15 AM. For the Flavors.me user Gallery visit: http://flavors.me/directory and for user feedback visit: http://flavors.me/feedback.
About HiiDef Inc.:
HiiDef is a web services incubator that was founded in mid-2008. It owns and operates Superkix, Flavors.me and Goodsie. HiiDef Inc.’s team has a strong track record in the consumer Internet sector with experience from Vimeo, Digg, Meetup, Zend, IAC, Pentagram and Digitalmash. HiiDef Inc.’s core group is a distributed team based around the East Coast of the US.
