DailyBuzz/Archive16
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17:02, 28 March 2008 (PDT)
Thursday, 27 March 2008
- Congrats to the Wikimedia Foundation - Institutional support of $3 million to Wikimedia Foundation over three years will support organizational growth and technical innovation.
- This Saturday, the 29th, is Startupalooza.org in Portland, OR. AboutUs is participating. See the Silicon Florist post about it: Startupalooza: Join fellow startups to compare notes
- Beautiful Girls Video
- Congrats to the SEOcontest2008 UK Winners
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
- The Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia's parent non-profit, is testing the capacity for a single user login across all of their projects. It's currently available to sysops only, but should be open for all soon. This enables people to use a single login in potentially hundreds of wikis (there are eight larger Wikimedia project, but each has many language versions). Steven | talk to me 11:59, 26 March 2008 (PDT)
- We get an interested link from Turbott.net My Delicious Bookmarks.... ~~ 75.148.54.233
- The German website DoubleSlash.de has this great explanation of OpenID, using our website as an example - translation. ~~ 75.148.54.233
- Check out this open dialogue with domain registrar Name.com (AboutUs sponsor): DomainRegistrarTransfer. Very cool! TedErnst (talk)
Monday, 24 March 2008
Sunday, 23 March 2008
- This excellent video, Did You Know 2.0 - encourages me that the AboutUs wiki is a place that businesses and organizations can begin to enter a world that is coming quickly. ~~ MarkDilley
- Nice design at Wikia for edit (see UWEB) and version history, also nice placement of tabs to the left and right. [1] ~~ MarkDilley
Saturday, 22 March 2008
- ChiefTech points out two interviews at his weblog ~~ MarkDilley
Friday, 21 March 2008
- From PanamaNewsBriefs.com: To Catch A Thief, quotes Udachu.com -- TedErnst (talk)
- From Report-Gisol.com: “AboutUs.org/Gisol.com” - Was it you?, with a screenshot and link to Gisol.com. TedErnst (talk)
- Happy Friday everyone! To kick off this morning found an interesting page on WebWire.com =]. link --Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ]
Thursday, 20 March 2008
- Congratulations to Michael Berkley and our friends at SplashCast for raising a $4MM Series A! - Ray | talk
- Among the things that the new (still under construction) "Domain Box" layout does was made the various badges show up a little weird, especially ones based on my initial template design. I fixed all the ones I knew about and added them to Category:AboutUsBadges.
- This should fix the vast majority of badge issues in "Domain Boxes". Especially where more than one badge (like VentureNW, PortlandTech or SeattleTech) were present.
- Common issues that still happen are on pages with multiple badges where people added <br/> or <br /> tags to try to bludgeon a fix under the old "Domain Box". To resolve these issues, just take out the <br/> tags.
- The way badges now show really is forcing some more standard sizes for these so they play nice on pages with multiple badges. To accommodate this, I created better instructions on badges, which is also on the Category:AboutUsBadges.
- As there are likely to be more changes to the way badges happen in the future as we noodle with the "Domain Box", please be sure to add the Category:AboutUsBadges category to your badge template (the code I propose on the category page includes this) so that in the event things change we can double check all the various badges. If you have any questions or problems with setting up your own badges, just let me know. -- TakKendrick | talk 15:57, 20 March 2008 (PDT)
- Newsletter is set to send at 8am PST (see it here)
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Welcome to the latest AboutUs
Astute readers of AboutUs will notice that we changed our design a bit today, replacing the old layout with a slightly redesigned one.
Beyond just the aesthetic shifts (like site navigation moving to the left-hand side of the page), this move provides a foundation for a variety of improvements to the AboutUs experience, some of which you'll notice right off, and with other features that we'll be rolling out in the weeks and months to come.
For now, here are some of the things that have changed:
- Redesigned layout: The layout now is "three columns" with navigation on the left-hand side and "account information" splitting off and remaining on the right-hand side. Among other things, this shift allows for the "useful links/site navigation" to live in its own space without hiding in the drop-down box as with the previous layout.
- Fixed width: You'll also note that AboutUs articles now are "fixed width" which allows WikiPages to maintain a consistent size, rather than having the article width scale depending on your monitor/window size. This provides a clarity of size and design across all the pages and fixes nagging issues when pages were designed to look good on laptop monitors suddenly breaking apart on 23" or bigger screens (and vice-versa).
- Backend changes: With the new-look, AboutUs supports a new backend platform on top of which the existing MediaWiki engine sits. This will allow for us to offer a variety of non-MediaWiki features shortly. Stay tuned for more information and exciting features as we unveil them.
As with all change, there are bound to be a few unintended consequences or errors. We've been testing the new-look AboutUs for a couple of weeks, but if you see anything that isn't working, is broken, or just seems off, please report it on our AboutUs Bugs page.
Thanks, and happy Wiki-ing! -- The AboutUs Team
Other Wednesday notes
- Stewart Mader at his blog on wiki patterns calls Ward Cunningham (CTO of AboutUs) "undoubtedly the hero of the wiki world" in his post Ward Cunningham interviewed by Jon Udell -- TedErnst (talk)
- From the wonderful GeekCulture.com comes this cartoon on editing your own entry in Wikipedia - not an issue at AboutUs ~~ MarkDilley
- Brianna Laugher notices that we are working with screencasts, look forward to what that possible collaboration brings. ~~ MarkDilley
Tuesday, 18 March 2008
- The P2PVINE.com gets it!! The Ultimate In File Sharing Website List’s ~~ MarkDilley
- NickBouton.com mentions: From Wikipedia to AboutUs.org, there are a variety of wikis out there where you can get yourself listed. - although Wikipedia has several vetting philosophies: you must be notable, i.e. referenced from various sources and you shouldn't add info about your self or organization. ~~ MarkDilley
Monday, 17 March 2008
- We've been logging companies in the real estate industry, in Category:RealEstatePortal; today we added number 200. :: Kasey
- On the web;
- SiliconFlorist.com reposts the Techvibes.com listing: Portland Start-up Index for March 2008: AboutUs retains top spot,
- Simb.net mentions Portland Web Innovators March Meeting
- A question about the information at PowerTeamNetwork.com why do they have us at 20,133 Alexa ranking?] and
- We are mentioned in the Greek weblog: GreekLIS.org Ποια και πόσα Wikis τελικά υπάρχουν? ~~ MarkDilley
- Featured wikipage DiaperCakewalk.com was Influenced by a client of theirs to which the site owner LaneyJane responded handsomely. Need tips on handing client feedback? See What if you have been Influenced. ~~ Saad
Saturday, 15 March 2008
- Had a little fun building this out- Category:By Decade. I am kinda intrigued about StructuredCategories as a way to give people a way to travel through the site, got interested at Wikipedia, what category traveling tools would work here? Does the By decade work? ~~ MarkDilley
Friday, 14 March 2008
- An essay on using templates ~~ MarkDilley
- On the web last month: WebDesignSEO.com - how can you use a Wiki as part of your marketing effort? ~~ MarkDilley
- Via AxcessNews.com - Can't find it on the Web? Try AboutUs.org ~~ MarkDilley
- Via TechCrunch - Freebase alpha launches ~~ MarkDilley
- Welcome Teresa Dabbelt, Rockie Mitchell, NewsomeTeamRealEstate.com and Mike Kelly Jr. the newest members of the Real Estate Portal. -- Kasey
- ConversationsNetwork.org Interviews with Innovators: Creating Wiki Cultures Ward Cunningham ~~ MarkDilley
- Category: Vancouver Tech is Done Done! Mehrunnisa
Thursday, 13 March 2008
- MyWOT.com is an interesting site, kind of doing what we do in a certain way...? ~~ MarkDilley
- ChrisWaterGuy of Appropedia.org loves our use of WikiBoxes and incorporates one into his own wiki. --Sa'ad talk|email|chat 06:31, 13 March 2008 (PDT)
- Finally - we're going for a new badge for the RealEstate portal. Check out RealEstateBadge if you want to vote! --VartanSimonian
- Awesome work! Obed Suhail
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
- JanetLeeJohnson.com and not live blogging: SEMpdx Not Live Blogging ~~ MarkDilley
- Great post on Blogschmog.net -TweetSpeak and a mention at Xnations.com About YOU Xnations! ~~ MarkDilley
- Via FeedFlare.ca from last month: Building relevant back links using Wiki pages. ~~ MarkDilley
- Version 2.02 of the Preview and Save screencast is up. Hope you like it. TedErnst (talk)
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
- Finding AboutUs through Genexbs.com, Zeeshan Hasan of ZeeshanHasan Design Studio today wrote i got listed on aboutUs.org.
Monday, 10 March 2008
- via PortlandTribune.com is this piece: Startup mines for riches in collaboration software ~~ MarkDilley
Friday, 07 March 2008
- An excellent Genexbs.com post About AboutUs.org ~~ MarkDilley
- New screencast today: How to use RecentChanges -- TedErnst (talk)
Thursday, 06 March 2008
- The Open Source Church .org lists AboutUs in their Web 2.0 Apps ~~ MarkDilley
- New screencast is up: How to use History -- TedErnst (talk)
- support for multiple addresses to be shown on both the domain page, as well as the address intersect tool has been provided! Please check out the following pages: greatixample.com, greatixample2.com, and OnePlaceToShowThemAll. Arif Iqbal and Umar Sheikh
Wednesday, 05 March 2008
- BattelleMedia.com has this post: A Brief Interview with Michael Wesch (The Creator of That Wonderful Video...) ~~ MarkDilley
- Lots of Real Estate industry edits this week. See: here Kasey
- Another new screencast today: How to Search -- TedErnst (talk)
- I'm sure many of you have noticed the ad for new AboutUs Sponsor Name.com recently. Please check out their wiki page and their website, and feel free to make some edits! Steven | talk to me
- They also have a wiki. ~~ MarkDilley
- New screencast today: Preview and Save. TedErnst (talk)
Tuesday, 04 March 2008
- In a Google search for DailyBuzz - SourceWatch.org is number three and they have a couple of ConnectedWiki within their wiki - TobaccoWiki. Interesting. ~~ MarkDilley
- A weblog post - Google to Earth: Site is the word du jour. ~~ MarkDilley
- Jon Udell, who did the famous Heavy Metal Umlaüt, writes a post regarding: Ward Cunningham’s Visible Workings ~~ MarkDilley
- Sweet, 11BravoTech.com mentions AboutUs - Ray | talk
Monday, 03 March 2008
Sunday, 02 March 2008
- New in the {{VideoWikiBox}} today is the move page screencast. Check it out! TedErnst (talk)
- Note the new {{VideoWikiBox}}. This way we can post videos in the DailyBuzz without breaking the DailyBuzzWikiBox. Feel free to add it to your own personal page. TedErnst (talk)
Saturday, 01 March 2008
- 7 ways to research a company or brand online - AboutUs.org is one of 8 in #5. TedErnst (talk)
- With all the screencasting we've been doing lately and plan on doing in the near future, Kaltura sure seems like a great option. Here's a BoingBoing post from January about the Kaltura / Wikimedia collaboration. - TedErnst (talk)
