Scrolling through my bookmarks and I realized my past blog favicon was a little dated. It had followed the style of my past blog theme, but not my current. A favicon is a small icon that appears next to your URL in a web browser. Readers can favorite your site and with many browsers it will also save the favicon. Having a favicon can bring old users back who may have forgotten about your blog or site. Making a favicon is easy; making one that people will remember is slightly more difficult.

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In my email the other day I got an invite to a closed beta service known as Wix. I didn’t remember signing up for the private beta, but I decided to see what it was. As soon as the page loaded I knew I had made a huge mistake.

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Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, Revision3, and Pownce, is at it again with Pance. Similar to Pownce, Pance lets you share pants with your friends around the world. How does it work? Pance is working with the postal service to offer discounted pants shipping (DPS). With a super cheap way to send pants, the idea of sending and receiving pants will revolutionize web 2.0.

The service is still in private beta and is only allowing pants sending in the United States. Kevin Rose has promised Pance integration in Pownce and Digg; giving Pance a huge network at it’s finger tips. Revision3 is also in talks to create a Pance related web show showcasing new and interesting pants.

Levi’s has given Pance $12.7 million in funding and has shown interest in offering a “one size fits all” pair of pants. The new communal pants will be durable and long lasting where ever they are in the world.

I also was able to grab a shot of the Pants website. It’s very simple and takes many design queues from Pownce. Click picture for larger picture.

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When I see a great logo on the Internet I save it in a folder on my computer. I don’t save them to copy them later; I use them as inspiration or as a way to start ideas. After going through my folder of logos I’ve found four that are odd. I think the designer had something else on the mind while making these.

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This kids energy…is OVER 9000

Being an avid blog reader I started noticing “free link exchanges” on some of my favorite blogs. Free link exchanges have become more popular because it promotes your site for free. I decided to try out the SPOTTT link exchange service and I was pretty happy with it, at first.

I was getting a few links back to my site, but it wasn’t anyone that was going to come back again. One of my goals this year was to generate some readers and the link exchange isn’t going to do that. Having the link exchange on my site wasn’t that big of a deal until I started seeing what links where showing up on my site.

Refreshing my site about a dozen times I had four links that were questionable. The SPOTTT terms of service says no “adult” links, but these ones are sure adult-ish.

I don’t think having these links show up on my site it alright. It makes my blog look trashy and that’s no good for bringing in new readers. I want the readers to way in so I have set up a poll. What do you think?

While the Engadget Mobile/T-Mobile fiasco is just heating up, I was surprised to learn that colors can be trademarked. It’s hard to understand how “a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect” or color can be trademarked. There are only so many colors (millions and millions), but it’s not like someone’s going to find a new color any time soon (the LSD crowd begs to differ). How can companies like T-Mobile trademark a color that has been created naturally? I’ve been researching the ability to trademark colors and I have yet to understand why any company has the ability to do it.

Color trademarks won’t affect the general public, but it could affect artists and designers who have to avoid certain colors. On the other hand, this helps companies separate themselves from their competition.

I was also surprised to learn that T-Mobile isn’t the only one with a trademarked color and that there are dozens of color trademarks. 

T-Mobile: Magenta

The obnoctious magenta is seen on everything from the T-mobile logo to TV commercials

UPS: Brown

“What can brown do for you?” really makes sense now.

Cadbury: Purple

Cadbury uses this purple on all of its packaging.