http://smaknews.com/blog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:35:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So we were able to convince our good friends over at Schmoozd that our members are just too cool to pay the ticket price to attend their March 25th event @ Wokcano, Santa Monica and not surprisingly --- they agreed!! Join us in if you are in the LA area for ... http://smaknews.com/blog/2010/03/10/schmoozdevent1/ We have a lot to be thankful for this year, but if we had to keep it short and sum it up at the dinner table, here are the top few reasons -- as of late -- that sticks out most to us. We are simply most thankful for... 1. The girls ... http://smaknews.com/blog/2009/11/26/top-reasons-why-smaknews-is-most-thankful-this-year/     So still getting used to seeing my face in a freeze-frame off YouTube, but for the most part the message is laid out visually for your eyes and ears to see & hear... If you haven't yet heeded my "Happy Labor Day" weekend greeting, well here it is up above via ... http://smaknews.com/blog/2009/09/09/some-video-announcements/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Giving new meaning to "Labor Day Weekend Traffic...""][/caption] Actually, we meant the type of traffic you WANT. We are now introducing to the public a friendly-looking “Talk Smak” button that looks like this: Feel free to copy the code we have here to start offering your frequent visitors, or even ... http://smaknews.com/blog/2009/09/03/talksmakbutton/ There are many "top" numbered lists (we're sure of) that have been written and buzzed about from us, but none other than this now latest one will actually mean the closest to our hearts. Being a very young start-up, we realize that we would be nothing without our users giving back ... http://smaknews.com/blog/2009/08/09/the-super-sweet-16-users-of-smaknewscom-so-far-that-is/ Hey every one!  Our team created these cool photos for all you site owners to post as a 404 error page, please tell us what you think of these photos and which one should we use as our error page? Have a great weekend. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="490" caption=""][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="490" ... http://smaknews.com/blog/2009/07/30/5-funny-error-404-pages-using-failed-celebrities/ We've been keeping rather busy at SmakNews since the last time you so graciously landed here on our blog. Our beauty give-away went well but luckily the kind people at ELF generously gave and so we still have some more! Anybody still interested for some new cool make-up can just leave ... http://smaknews.com/blog/2009/07/28/update-on-smak/ SmakNews is running an awesome promotion with e.l.f. cosmetics -- together, we're giving away some cool make-up kits to make sure you have the latest looks for Summer ;) Contest Rules: All you need to do is make sure we know you're "talking smak" on SmakNews.com by having an active user ... http://smaknews.com/blog/2009/06/29/free-recession-rewards-smaknews-shes-a-beauty-give-away-competition/ Forgive us for updating at 3:30 in the morning (or later if you're on the East coast) but we just launched our 2.0 version!!! Check out our new specs here and be sure to tell us what you think ;) http://smaknews.com/blog/2009/06/23/smaknews-20-now-launched/ Forgive us for the long gap in updating this beloved blog... we've been keeping busy (tremendously busy!) with some exciting plans that we'll soon be rolling out shortly for our "2.0 Release." Since last we met you here, we were basically raving about our first month's achievements. We couldn't be more ... http://smaknews.com/blog/2009/06/12/test/