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Live Web edit

Not only is AboutUs an introduction to The Live Web for you, we help you promote yourself on the web. Like a Saturday market with 7 million people attending each month, by setting up a booth (a wiki page), you have something to offer them. Think of it as access to a top 1000 site that you have collaborative constructive control to build.

What legitimate industry calls people Users? edit

Weblog/PotentialPosts/Users

Wikis are big edit

via ReadWriteWeb.com [1]

[2]

respond to seomoz post: edit

[3]

Organizing without organizations edit

[4]

How to link edit

WikiLinking
SurfWise - CamelCase
Surf Wise - FreeLinks
url Foo

Future Linking edit

FutureLink: link to movie domain weblog post:

CamelCase is easier to read edit

Domain Names i.e. public wiki words edit

as explified here by Movie domain names: While watching movie trailers on my mac, with Front Row - I started to look at the patterns and here is a list of the movies for preview on mac and their domain names:

Not proper English, well domain names aren't proper english, we are in the internet age...

CamelCased Domains Are Easier To Read edit

Talk about seeing CameCased domain names

Domain Identity edit

Introduce the AboutUsBot and find his praises also talk about AboutUsBotGoneBad

different conventions edit

name and camel case

DrillbitTaylor.com
88MinutesToLive.com
SonOfRambow.com
SpiderwickChronicles.com (small uppercase)
TropicThunder.com

www and camel case and movie

www.PrideAndGloryMovie.com

camel case and not name

ANightToDieFor.com (Prom Night)

camel case and movie

RuinsMovie.com
ForbiddenKingdomMovie.com
StopLossMovie.com
WhatHappensInVegasMovie.com

camel case and movie and A issue

ShineALightMovie.com

camel case distributor

FoxMovies.com

www and camel case and Movie

www.RunFatBoyRunMovie.com

camel case and dash and movie

21-Movie.com
Deception-Movie.com

camel case small uppercase com and A issue

CanYouHearAWho.COM

subdomain and spacing and camel case

Disney.com/College Road Trip

wow, confused, sorta camel case and dash and movie with lowercase I must admit, I was to the M's and getting tired, but then ran into this mess:

MadeofHonor-movie.com

www and upper case

WWW.THETRACEYFRAGMENTS.COM

pre and www and lowercase and the movie

www.mgm.com
www.dealthemovie.com

uppercase and movie and not name

WWW.BLUEBERRYNIGHTSMOVIE.COM

www and upper case and pre and post and movie

WWW.TAKEPART.COM/SOP
WWW.STANDARDOPERATINGPROCEDUREMOVIE.COM
WWW.SONYPICTURECLASSICS.COM

no domain

Flawless
The Life Before Her Eyes (chick flick)
Miss Pettegrew Lives For A Day (chick flick)
My Brother is an Only Child (Italian)
SurfWise - Documentary
Then She Found Me

www and uppercase and a following

WWW.THECOUNTERFEITERS.COM
WWW.SONYCLASSICS,COM
WWW.MISTERFOE.COM
www.misterfoe.com

www and upercase and movie and dash and a following

WWW.REDBELT-MOVIE.COM
WWW.SONYCLASSICS.COM

screaming at me (moved from category uppercase)

NARNIA.COM
INDIANAJONES.COM
IRONMANMOVIE.COM
STARTREK.COM

www and lowercase

www.forgettingsarahmarshall.com

www dash movie styilzed

WWW.SUPERHERO-MOVIE.COM

producer / releaser camel case and lowercase

www.FoxSearchlight.com
www.foxsearchlight.com

lowercase and an acronym

www.whereisobl.com

www and dash and lowercase and the movie

www.funnygames-themovie.com (same music as chaos theory)
www.smartpeople-themovie.com

www and lowercase and .net

www.thestrangers.net

www and lowercase and cononical name

www.haroldandkumar.com

www and uppercase and partial sentence

WWW.DOOMSDAYISCOMING.COM

www and movie and lowercase

www.10000bcmovie.com
www.chaostheorymovie.com (same music as funny games)
www.hellboymovie.com
www.leatherheadsmovie.com

www and lower case and the movie

www.speedracerthemovie.com

www and movie and net and lowercase

www.babymamamovie.net

www and subdomain and lowercase

www.lionsgate.com/thebankjob
www.lionsgate.com/meetthebrowns
www.sonypictures.com/zombiestrippers

uppercase and movie and dash

BLINDNESS-THEMOVIE.COM

www and uppercase and film and a following lowercase

WWW.BOARDINGGATEFILM.COM
www.magpictures.com

and I noticed that all the green screen saying it is rated ok for all audiences. we should use that shot as the organizing theme for movie domains

www.filmratings.com | www.mpaa.org

Come on film industry get out of the 20th century. Your audience is in the 21st century.

but BlahBlahBlah-movie.com shows you don't have the one you need, but it is a bludgeon. You have to bludgeon your way through if you don't have the skills or tools to get you idea off the ground.

CollaborativeConversation edit

Turning notes, thoughts and conversation into weblog posts.


21 days of wiki adoption edit

Ikiw.org [5]

Wlog edit

From Estigmergia.net:

Interwiki linking edit

We've discussed this before and I'd really like to build out a good article on how to interwiki link and then start teaching people about it via weblog post and placing (or transcluding) a quick "how to" on the DomainPages for all of the wikis on the interwiki list.

Resources/places to start on these:

  • InterWiki -- a real convoluted series of notes on how to do the linking.
  • Special:Interwiki -- the table of who's in the list and where to add new wikis


Personal Pages (and how to improve them) edit

It's obvious that the Personal Pages scaffold we put up a couple of weeks ago with the portrait is going well. How about a series of weblog posts on improving these pages.

  • How is it obvious?
  • How to size and pick a portrait
  • Now that you've uploaded a portrait, what now?
  • Linking your Personal Page to the websites/domains and people you care about (and improving those pages as well).
  • etc.

Team weblog check-in post edit

Maybe have a task in each team (Dev, Content, Community, Admin) that's once an iteration help pair on a weblog post about what your team is working on, excited about, etc. (similar to the outlined "welcoming people" above).

RSS Feeds for Page History edit

HOLD ON TO THIS

Write a post about how to use RSS to get updates on page history changes (in addition to using the "Watch" function). There's probably a help article in this as well. -- TakKendrick and MarkDilley

ESRG edit

Ward is really interested in ESRG and would like to maybe blog about this in the upcoming week. We're also interested in maybe using this as a "test case" since Ward's already tracking ESRG on Google searches to see what putting it into a weblog post might do to the search results. Update: The guy who'd been building out the great ESRG pages will be in the office on Oct. 3, so we're planning on holding off on this weblog post for a couple weeks so we can do a sort of "interview" with him as part of the post.

Giving images to Creative Commons edit

JohnStanton and TakKendrick -- Post talking about this post: http://searchengineland.com/070911-083723.php on how uploading images onto Wikipedia (in our case AboutUs) can result in some great link love if the caption/licensing information is done correctly. We'd also like to do up a nice article for the wiki on this as well as the actual blog post.



Project Management via Wiki edit

Technical Details on how AboutUs works edit

  • servers, bandwidth, caching, squids, aka how does AboutUs.org serve millions of pageviews every month? --Simon | talk 14:22, 20 November 2007 (PST)
    • love this idea! TedErnst (talk) 05:58, 21 November 2007 (PST)


google maps edit

I've had a lot of fun (and some tears) creating a few of these maps and figuring them out. I'm contemplating a post about how I've sort of been using my Geography degree here at AboutUs and link people to the help page on how to do this, which I think needs some work before I do this post. Kristina (contact me) 16:28, 17 July 2008 (PDT)


Guide edit

Something about the whole "guide" thing. Perhaps explaining a bit about why we think this is what we are or are becoming, and asking for the community's feedback on this concept/word. Kristina (contact me) 17:26, 8 August 2008 (PDT)

Since the beginning of AboutUs we have been trying to find the best (and easiest to understand) way to describe what AboutUs is and what we are creating. At various times insiders and outsiders have referred to AboutUs as many things from a wiki of websites, an editable domain directory, ______, ______ and ______.
Currently we are working on our vision of what AboutUs is, and there is one word that we'd like you to try on for size: guide. The idea here is that AboutUs is a guide to websites, the web, the Internet, etc. How does that feel? And the real measure: Could you sum up AboutUs in that way for a computer/web illiterate relative and have them understand?
Let us know what you think by commenting below. How do you describe AboutUs? What is it to you?

How to _____ edit

Cool Blog Posts about AboutUs edit

When we get a cool new blog post about it perhaps we could blog about it in return and reference a few of the cool posts about us and what points they raise. Kristina (contact me) 17:34, 8 August 2008 (PDT)

About newsletter going out edit

Can we link them to a version of it on the wiki and is there a way they can make sure to get the next one via email if they didn't this one? Can we mention how many people it went out to? Kristina (contact me) 16:29, 20 August 2008 (PDT)

page rank case study edit

This is mostly from Corey, but Ted has the stuff in his email to copy here. TedErnst (talk) 23:06, 21 August 2008 (PDT)

PageRank edit

I think it might be helpful to post about our PageRank conundrum. This way I could link people to this post to explain what the deal is, and perhaps someone would be able to comment and point us in the right direction. Kristina (contact me) 19:00, 6 October 2008 (PDT)

I love it! Great idea. TedErnst (talk) 07:51, 8 October 2008 (PDT)