Difference between revisions of "DailyBuzz"

Tuesday, 26th February 2008

SeattleTech is Done Done! Mehrunnisa

Monday, 25th February 2008

• We are mentioned in this MYYMI.com Chinese post and at Ypshin.com post ~~ MarkDilley
• We are reverting to a previous practice of opening up an new window for external links soon. This is a test, so please let us know what your thoughts are on that. Best, MarkDilley
• WebSiteBabble.com forum post telling people to check out AboutUs.org: AboutUs.org - TedErnst (talk)
• genexbs.com blog highlights some tips to increase your website traffic and speaks highly of AboutUs.org to Generate Third Party Authenticated Landing Pages. --Sa'ad ^{: msg me : email :}

Saturday, 23rd February 2008

• 4 February 2008 JasonBoom.com posts: 100 Why Not Activities for Bloggers (AboutUs.org is #49)
• Struck me just now how the Portland Start-up Inde (see entries below) would make a good post for blog.AboutUs.org, so I did. :-) TedErnst (talk)

Friday, 22nd February 2008

• Just found this post dated 22 January 2008 from pc4media.net: Sites to Get Free Links: Aboutus.org (very positive review and even sales pitch for AboutUs from an SEO angle) TedErnst (talk)
• I just noticed that TheBellman.blogspot.com (which was just created so it's bare) has both AboutUs.org and MarkDilley in the blogroll. Here's the link TedErnst (talk)
• Interesting site RottenNeighbor.com, as it relates to NegativeReviews. ~~ MarkDilley

Thursday, 21st February 2008

• Playing with the Intersect tool and Categories and the merging of the two - Category:Amateur Astronomy as an example. How can these help AboutUs grow? ~~ MarkDilley
• Weblog post in Korean ~~ MarkDilley

Wednesday, 20 February 2008

• Just found that MyNameIsKate.ca finds us interesting! ~~ MarkDilley
• WhatRedirectsHere is now live. To check the functionality, Follow the link 'What redirects here' in the site navigation bar.
  • Very nice feature addition! - Ray | talk

Tuesday, 19 February 2008

• The FeatureMe process now has a new page, listing all those FeatureMePotentials that any community member says are ReadyForFeaturing. We would love to see more participation in the process of choosing which pages will be featured next. Join us! TedErnst (talk)

Monday, 18 February 2008

• A California court has shut down WikiLeaks.org in what many are saying is an unconstitutional action. Luckily, they have many domain names around the world. They were prepared for censorship by China or other repressive regimes. They didn't anticipate being censored in the United States. -- TedErnst (talk)
• OregonStartups.com reposts Portland Startups Ranked by Web Traffic ~~ MarkDilley
  • Also SiliconFlorist.com [1] and the source TechVibes.com Portland Start-up Index - February 2008
• BlackHatWorld.com schools people re: Whatz a Fricken Backlink? ~~ MarkDilley

Saturday, 16 February 2008

• via SiliconFlorist.com Portland Start-up Index: February 2008

Friday, 15 February 2008

• AboutUsPromoted client WindPath.com is complete. Kasey
• Noticed that LahoreWeeklySummaryArchive updated. ~~ MarkDilley

Thursday, 14 February 2008

• Updated Portland's What's Up
• MalayalaSangeetham.info asks its readers to participate using AboutUs weblog post ~~ MarkDilley
• TedErnst and I made a bunch of changes to names of standard MediaWiki conventions. Check them out at CommunityStaff WikiBox ~~ MarkDilley
• InfluenceUs II has now been launched which allows people to respond to the comments of other users so that they can reply on the same page. Check out TestInfluenceUs2.com! As usual, we welcome comments/suggestions for further improvements. Arif Iqbal

Wednesday, 13 February 2008

• WardCunningham speaking at the Meetup Internet Series: Wiki Technology & Your Business ~~ MarkDilley
• LaserMouse.com touts his AboutUs wiki page ~~ MarkDilley
  • umm, and this is a pretty cool product for presentations!
• ComInvent.com: Aboutus.org spamming search results -- TedErnst (talk) (I submitted a comment that's in moderation currrently)

Tuesday, 12 February 2008

• AboutUsPromoted client HPHProducts.com is complete. Kasey
• I have posted some ideas about how the Feature process could be different. Participation encouraged! TedErnst (talk)

Monday, 11 February 2008

• Congratulations to Evan and Maj at Wikitravel.org for their awe inspiring WikitravelPress.com! ~~ MarkDilley
• via PaulFWalsh.com - More noise being added by the BWDMA ~~ MarkDilley (via TedErnst)
• At Edge.org, Kevin Kelly says some great stuff: It's the Wiki's embedded code-based governance, versus manager-based governance that is the real news. Yet the greatest surprise brought by the (Wiki) is that we still don't know how far this power can go. We haven't seen the limits of wiki-ized intelligence.
• LahoreTech is DoneDone!! ~~ Mehr
  • Nice work!!

Saturday, 09 February 2008

• Lunch 2.0 announces Portland Chapter Launches at AboutUs.org ~~ MarkDilley
• InformationWeek.com posts about the 70,000 Web Pages Hacked By Database Attack and look at the comment! (thanks Vartan) ~~ MarkDilley

Thursday, 07 February 2008

• 06Feb08 - orcmid.com: Who Wants ODMA.com Anyhow? talking about using AboutUs.org to find information about ODMA.com and ODMA.org -- TedErnst (talk)
• Has aboutus lost its soul and gone Old School or just wising up to the ways of business? -- MartinPfahler
• Interesting service Clipmarks.com Ardgarry Crew Memorial turntable ~~ MarkDilley
• Next version of What's Up! for Portland Staff ~~ MarkDilley
• Tired of manually adding pages to portals. Thanks to 'Add This Here' Tool for Portals, you can now add pages to a portal with ease. You can also tag pages with categories through this tool. Try out this new tool by following the link: ExamplePage. We will appreciate your feedback/suggestions.--Ali Aslam
  • I made a note on 'Add This Here' Tool for Portals#Badge template order. Tool is looking pretty good otherwise. Can't wait to get it on the various portal pages once it's ready. We've been putting notes on 'Add This Here' Tool for Portals#Discussion as this seems like the best place for comments/feedback/suggestions. -- TakKendrick | talk 14:51, 7 February 2008 (PST)

Wednesday, 06 February 2008

• AboutUsPromoted client WhyPark.com is DoneDone. Steven | talk to me

Monday, 04 February 2008

• JasonBoom.com comes up wtih a list of 100 Why Not Activities for Bloggers
• Updated Portland What's Up! ~~ MarkDilley
• We created a new tool, a WikiBox to share real estate wiki happenings and as an industry specific RecentVisitors. Kasey
• The AboutUs.org Facebook page has 27 fans so far, since Friday! If anyone knows how we can use the page better to encourage more engagement, please let me know. TedErnst (talk)
• Find out what's up on Monday. Asad | *~talk~*
• Help save the blushes of our over worked adult flagging software. Logged in users can now flag pages as okay for all Audiences. You can try this by clicking the flag link on all domain pages. Arif Iqbal

Sunday, 03 February 2008

• Friday's AboutUs What's Up is up!
• By KateMilberry Marc Laporte: The Wiki Way applied to software development ~~ MarkDilley
• Based at TikiWiki.org is this excellent page on Why Wiki Syntax Is Important. ~~ MarkDilley
  • The evils of WYSIWYG - nice :-) ~~ MarkDilley
• Weblog posts
  • Spanish weblog Incubaweb.com wrote this: AboutUs - Wiki to appear translated
  • Carsten Knoch, regarding AboutUs - Interesting idea. Good complement to Wikipedia.
  • RevenueSource.com mentions AboutUs - Social Network Marketing - What do you use?
  • Keith Teare writes about the end of an era, start of another: "4. I am working with a bunch of startups - Spotplex; Real Time Matrix; Snipperoo; AboutUs.org. It is great to work with entrepreneurs on early stage products."
  • Business Intelligence Resources linking to AboutUs.org.
  • RevenueRobot.com writes in interesting blogger info found about ShoeMoney.com, questioning AboutUs.org as a resource.

Saturday, 02 February 2008

• AboutUs.org is hiring! Inside Sales Job Posting
• I have started adding the {{PortlandTechWhat'sHappening}} box to the PortlandTech/People pages. Let me know what you think! TedErnst (talk)
• Simon gets a good post on TechVibes.com ScribbleWiki: Homegrown Wiki Software ~~ MarkDilley

• Thanks Mark! --Simon | talk

• A Call for Participation in Wikimania 2008 (July 17-19, 2008 in Alexandria, Egypt) goes out. Presentations, workshops, panels, posters and artistic works are all welcome, so participation isn't limited to those attending the actual event. Steven | talk to me

Friday, 01 February 2008

• Visit the AboutUs page on Facebook: [2] TedErnst (talk)
• The Spanish weblog Marketeador.com points to us - How have two links to your site quick and easy - translated ~~ MarkDilley
• To drive engagement, we've tweaked the watchlist and email preferences for new folks as per community suggestions. Anyone who creates an account with AboutUs will now inherit the preferences listed in AlertsOnByDefault. Rest assured that this will not mess with existing peoples preferences. Any feedback will be much appreciated. Ali Aslam

Thursday, 31 January 2008

• User:Anonymous makes edit just before midnight.
• Starting a different kind of communication thingy: AboutUs What's Happening ~~ MarkDilley
  • Great idea! I moved the page to AboutUs What's Up. Asad | *~talk~*
• I just built a template that may or may not be useful for others. {{History}} allows you to list any WikiPage and it will show a link to both the page and the associative history for that page. For example, {{History|DailyFun}} will show a link like this: DailyFun (history). Could be useful for a couple of applications, especially if you're wanting to show someone what you've done on a page with only one link, or for teaching and transparency uses. -- TakKendrick | talk
• Ashworth University article on WebWire.com with a nod to AboutUs. --Saad Saeed
  • And from the Ashworth University blog as well [3] TedErnst

Wednesday, 30 January 2008

• Check out the new InfluenceUs feature. It shows up as a little eye icon by the watch, lock, and get page alerts links on Domain Pages. It provides a very simple wizard to help people make constructive "influential" comments on pages about organizations. Please play with it a bit and leave your comments on the InfluenceUs page. You'll also want to check out the InfluenceUs Log to see all the comments folks have made so far. Brandon
  • I just got a fantastic walk through of the new feature from Brandon on InstituteofMosaicArt.com. Check out the bottom of the page. Fun! Julia
• Check out to see it in action for the InstituteofMosaicArt.com page. Brandon

Tuesday, 29 January 2008

• I just added the RecentVisitors WikiBox to the Mediawiki:InitialPersonalPage so from now on, newly registered folks have a place to introduce themselves. You are also welcome to introduce yourself here. TedErnst (talk)
• a Japanese SocialMedia.jp post AboutUs ~~ MarkDilley
• Check out our new and improved Email Alerts features. All newly subscribed people will now get an email on page move, delete and restore. Arif Iqbal
• Check out the recently nominated pages on FeatureMePotentials page to give suggestions and comments. All new candidates are eager for your valuable feedback, so don't keep them waiting. Obed Suhail

Monday, 28 January 2008

• We are hosting Portland Lunch 2.0 @ AboutUs - via Upcoming.org ~~ MarkDilley
  • SiliconFlorist.com announces too! Lunch 2.0 comes to Portland MarkDilley
• Wangtam.com links to us ~~ MarkDilley
• Nieuwe trends: catalogie - not sure what language this is. ~~ MarkDilley
  • The language is Dutch. --Eohippus 11:24, 29 January 2008 (PST)
• Acado.com provides an interesting use of weblogs ~~ MarkDilley

Sunday, 27 January 2008

• I added a couple of Vinh's great images to my welcoming... like this. Kristina ..talk.. ..chat..

• I like! =]. --Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ] 08:14, 28 January 2008 (PST)

• GetSatisfaction.com looks like an amazing website that is doing something along the lines of InfluenceUs - lots to learn there, they are doing many things that are of interest. (Including a tip to use real names) ~~ MarkDilley

• Wow! -- Brandon

Saturday, 26 January 2008

• Vartan sets a new high bar for AboutUsVideos!!! his video) ~~ MarkDilley

Friday, 25 January 2008

• Want Twitter.com to use your Mac OS X speakers to talk with you? See TweetSpeak.
• Check out any page in the Portland Tech Portal to see the very first portal specific customized skin! - Ray | talk
• Wikimedia Commons, the wiki respository of freely-licensed pictures associated with Wikipedia, has chosen their Picture of the Year for 2007. Steven | talk
• Category:PortlandTech is DONE DONE!!It is ready to be handed to the community. Celebrations here in the Lahore Content Team Room..\ , , /yay!Mehrunnisa
  • Nice work! - Ray | talk

Thursday, 24 January 2008

• The "Welcome to AboutUs" ScreenCast improved a lot today! It feels "done" to me now. What do you think?

• It looks good. We can use more of step by step video tutorials for the general public. Maybe create a video FAQ article. Igorberger 23:26, 24 January 2008 (PST)

• Great idea! We're using ScreenCast to organize this work. TedErnst (talk)
• Really Great, let's do more and put these up in places that are easy to find! Also, is there a way to "zoom in" when doing some things like editing? - Ray | talk

• Wanted to share some thoughts on the initial launch of the PromoteMe service and recent and coming changes to that offering. Thoughts are more than welcome. - Ray | talk
• Would love some feedback on how we might identify and handle adult pages, link farms and the like - Ray | talk
  • I refactored PageRank a bit. It still needs work. It seems relevant to this "thoughts on" page. TedErnst (talk)
    • Good job, keep moving the ball and keep the game going. Igorberger

Wednesday, 23 January 2008

• I would like to see editor reward points for non AboutUs employees. The more edits you do you will earn RewardPoints that you will be able to exchange for advertising curency on AboutUs. Igorberger
  • Good idea and if any regular editor would like to place an ad in advance of our having a system, just ask - Ray | talk
• Collaboration between organizations and their clients is surely a win-win for both. Check out Community Reviews Section on SimpleSend.com page. Asad | *~talk~*
• New {{DailyBuzzWikiBox}} Please try it out! Igorberger
  • This is great, Igor! It's better than the one we had before. See News for all the WikiBoxs. TedErnst (talk) 07:55, 24 January 2008 (PST)
  • I love it!!!! :-) MarkDilley
• User:VartanSimonian, Nick and I worked on get page alerts, EmailAlerts & my watchlist today. Edits and comments welcome. TedErnst (talk)
• Joe Cohen recently initiated HelpIndex and as a result Help has changed quite a bit as well. All help filling holes and finding duplication invited! TedErnst (talk)
  • I found the HelpIndex very useful and concise. Igorberger
    • I also encouraged Ray to work on Index a month or so ago. ~~ MarkDilley
• We are also trying to understand text link price calculators ~~ MarkDilley
  • We are not in a business selling TextLinks which is illegal under Google Quality of Serve agreement, but we are selling Advertisment or Sponsorship. Igorberger 16:31, 23 January 2008 (PST)
    • Text Links are not "illegal" under any means, yes Google frowns upon text links for link building purposes; but, if used for traffic gaining purposes I think this could be a great moneymaking for AboutUs if we could only move up our Pagerank. --Simon | talk
      • Google may deindex the whole AboutUs if they find out we are actively selling links for Website owners to gain PageRank. We can charge a fee for evaluating a Website to be included as a Feature Article or as an Article Sponsor. We cannot sell links! You can ask Matt Cutts if you like. We can charge for building a page and mantaining it in the directory but not selling links. Look at Yahoo dierectory they charge to be included based on work they do to evaluate a site not selling links. Igorberger
      • My understanding, perhaps wrongly, was that it was valuing text ads place on our side bar. MarkDilley
        • A. They only bring you pagerank to 0, they don't delist you for selling links. B. If you sell links with nofollow or through some other system like Google Adsense its fine. --Simon | talk 19:35, 23 January 2008 (PST)
          • Selling advertising is not a problem and it is good for our business model, but let's treat it as advertising. Igorberger 19:54, 23 January 2008 (PST)
            • Maybe it is better to refer to them as ad links not text links this way we do not confuse the issue. Igorberger 19:56, 23 January 2008 (PST)
              • What's the difference between selling text links and ad links? Even Matt Cutts calls them text links and they are good as long as they don't pass pagerank [4]--Simon | talk 20:25, 23 January 2008 (PST)
                • Sounds good! Igorberger 21:32, 23 January 2008 (PST)
• Some of us are trying to understand PageRank in the context of AboutUs. TedErnst (talk)
  • By following the recommendations on PageRank we will raise AboutUs Google PageRank. Igorberger 20:18, 23 January 2008 (PST)
• 200 SeattleTech Articles DoneDone:D Mehrunnisa
  • This is awesome Mehrunnisa! ~~ MarkDilley

Tuesday, 22 January 2008

• web bots post about AboutUs.org and Wikipedia TedErnst (talk)

Monday, 21 January 2008

• Please comment on our first Screencast. ~~ MarkDilley
• AboutUs on the web at this Russian site Vezunchick.biz [5]
• SpeakingBuddy.org [6] has put up a nice summary and a Badge! Check it out! ~~ MarkDilley
• KillerStartups on AboutUs - Ray | talk
• A century of articles for SeattleTech! Hip hip hurray:D Mehrunnisa
  • That is great Mehrunnisa!!! Nice work message to the whole ContentTeam. ~~ MarkDilley

Sunday, 20 January 2008

• Check out our new search feature that lets you search those categories that don't exist but have articles in it e.g. search for Chacha and you would just go to Category:Chacha. Didn't you see that now the search term stays in the search input :-) Arif Iqbal
  • Arif, that's pretty cool. A couple of "gotchas" to point out for folks (these will be fixed at some point). One is that it doesn't work for categories with spaces in them. For example, Category:Dog Collar will not be found searching for "Dog Collar" because we actually store it as "Dog_Collar" so you won't get it unless you know to put the underscore there. Also, a search for "ultimate" won't find Category:Ultimate because of the different case. TedErnst (talk) 22:26, 23 January 2008 (PST)

Saturday, 19 January 2008

• NoHeat.com post Find a blog author’s other sites by using a Aboutus wiki

Thursday, 17 January 2008

• Excellent weblog post from PersonalInfoCloud.com on The Elements in the Social Software Stack ~~ MarkDilley

Wednesday, 16 January 2008

• Good blog post by Somewhat Frank on AboutUs - Ray | talk
• The Wikimedia Signpost has a new wiki tutorial feature in every issue, and a new wiki, called HelpWiki, is created as an independent Wikipedia tutorial. Steven | talk 16:53, 16 January 2008 (PST)
• A Wikipedia talk page apparently leaked an early draft of Steve Jobs keynote address at MacWorld. Steven | talk 16:54, 16 January 2008 (PST)
• My new favorite editorial on Wikipedia as a reference, from Timesonline.co.uk. Steven | talk 16:56, 16 January 2008 (PST)

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