Difference between revisions of "DailyBuzz"

Friday, 29 February 2008

• New How to log in screencast. -- TedErnst (talk)
• John Broughton's book Wikipedia: the Missing Manual (published by O'Reilly) gets a mention in the very high-brow New York Review of Books. Worth a read. -- Llywrch 18:49, 29 February 2008 (PST)

Thursday, 28 February 2008

• Excellent! - every URL is a latent community - that is what we think here!
• New How to sign up for an account screencast: from Kasey and TedErnst (talk) 12:09, 28 February 2008 (PST)
  • I love both this screencast and the one about the benefits of logging in. One question on this one, it looks like the realname field was skipped? - Ray | talk
  • Yes, the RealName field has no effect on our site. I anticipate un re-doing this screencast once dev has fixed our signup screen. I felt it would simple confuse the issue to have a username and a RealName when we're asking people to sign in with their name. -- TedErnst (talk)
• Lunch 2.0 for Portland Launches at AboutUs offices! - Ray | talk
• Muhammad Bilal of Genexbs.com blogs about his featured domain page and is very pleased with AboutUs. --Sa'ad ^{: msg me : email :}
• Ross Mayfield's Jotspot Finally Revived as Google Sites ~~ MarkDilley
• More on Google Sites ~~ John Stanton
• Ross Mayfield's You Judge Wikileaks ~~ MarkDilley
• NooRanch.com MarketsAreConversations - It means that people value discussion in human voice and that this is the original attraction of the market. ~~ MarkDilley
• Furl.net post regarding updates in the Wikiseek.com search engine for Wikipedia. ~~ MarkDilley

Wednesday, 27 February 2008

• Lunch2.0 event was hosted by AboutUs office in Portland.
  • See SiliconFlorist.com blog post on the event. --Sa'ad ^{: msg me : email :}
  • AaronHockley blogs about it and adds Lunch 2.0 photos on Flickr ~~ MarkDilley
• Draft version of new screencast about Why to login? from MarkDilley and TedErnst (talk)

Lahore event

AboutUs Lahore staff at LUMS.edu.pk. L-R Mehru, Obed, Arif.

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Tuesday, 26th February 2008

• A nice piece from Wired.com - Freenomics ~~ MarkDilley
• SeattleTech is Done Done! Mehrunnisa
  • Awesome TedErnst (talk)

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

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