by nickw
Matt Cutts is declaring today “Break out of your rut and play with a Web 2.0 start-up” day. There are a few interesting companies on the list, but none moreso than….. wait for it…..
So at the risk of inviting a self promo hell thread, lets join in and list a few lesser known web2.0 companies worth a look..
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by nickw
Here’s an interesting tagcloud of “Feeds that Matter” produced by these guys, courtesy of this guy, which is based upon public bloglines subscriptions for various categories. There’s a PDF on that link describing their research, but I was bored before I’d even opened it.
The tagcloud is pretty cool though, and a cursory glance tells me it’s worth further investigation..
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by nickw
This post by Chopianissima caught my attention today. I think there’s an opportunity for some enterprising programmer to make a big splash by creating a widget like this with the Metrics API.
And what’s more, Chris is right (first comment), it IS easy to do.
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by nickw
As part of the Beta of Performancing Exchange, our free classifieds style job and blogs board, we used an AJAX voting mechanism so that members could rate jobs.
We’ve already had a couple of jobs voted to the homepage by the community, but there were negative comments about the value of a voting system for job offers at the beginning, and i’d like to open some discussion on it’s value.
Personally I like it. A well written, interesting job offer can make it to the Performancing homepage without need for me, chris, or any other admin to decide on it’s worth — the community decides (in fact, i’d like to do this for all posts, including forum/blog/etc..).
It also provides a way for bloggers looking for job to quickly scan and discard those offers with poor scores.
What we need now, is to hear what you think, and whether you like or dislike it and why — and whether we should move the system out onto the rest of the site?
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by nickw
I’ve been running Gentoo for about 3yrs now, and have managed to do most things pretty well with regard to my daily work. However, an increased interest in video blogging (watching, not making) has tipped me over the edge.
Gentoo is pretty hardcore, and I think it’s probably served its purpose now, which was to teach me how to really “do” linux. Now I think I’m going to give Ubuntu a try, as I’m told that it handles all types of media very well — particularly im fed up with having to wget raw video rather than just watching it in Firefox.. and I know that at least one tech blogger I know and value the opinion of on such things is pleased with it on a T43p
So, the questions is: Are there many of the Performancing bloggers running Linux, and specifically Ubuntu?
And if so, what are your experiences?
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by nickw
I just read that Darren Rowse of Problogger.net is opening a jobs board, not unlike Performancing Exchange, the free classifieds style blogging board we put out in beta a couple of weeks back.
There are probably 2 main differences here:
So far we’ve had some excellent paid blogging gigs written up on Exchange, and I know there’ll be room for both services and that we’ll continue ot have fun with the Exchange, that with Raj Dash and Ahmed Bilal moderating and evengelizing, can’t go far wrong!
The winner here is hopefully the professional blogger looking for a job, and the company, blog network/enteprise looking for those pro bloggers.
Good luck with the venture Darren.
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by nickw
After a huge effort on our lead Firefox dev, Jed’s part, and a great deal of discussion with some fantastic MySpace folks, we’re proud to finally announce the release of The MySpace Blog Editor, which you can download and install from Mozilla. There’s even a a great screencast to walk you through the install process.
As far as I’m aware, Performancing is the only blog editor to support MySpace.
The MySpace Editor REQUIRES Performancing Firefox 1.3, our open source, multi platform blog editor for Firefox.
The new MySpace editor was built using the new addons api, and makes for a powerful demonstration of the extensibility of PFF in version 1.3
We hope you like this first public version of the MySpace addon for PFF, please let us know what you think so that we can continue to improve it!
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So, you have all the web2.0 ingredients: Silly name: check, Hosted service: check, Big blog arses kissed: check, working website: doh!
It’s a bit of a shame for poor CrazyEgg because it sounds like a pretty fun service, and certainly Brian Benzinger thinks it’s cool. Let’s hope they get their hosting problems sorted out ASAP as it’s almost certainly something a lot of the Performancing community would be interested in aswell. Keep an eye on it, and tell us what you think when it’s back up.
Note: If the link above works for you, at the time of writing it was giving either a blank page or a 500 server error.
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