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Community Moderation Podcast

I just came across the Community Admin Show podcast. Very cool - especially since I’ve been neck deep in moderation issues at work. Great stuff Patrick!


Delicious Daily Posting Setup

As part of wrapping up BlogFusion version 5.0, I’m finalizing new tech that allows me to use the Delicious Daily Posting functionality. This allows me to display  the links I’ve added to delicious each day on my blog. Pretty cool feature, and lets me show you what I’m paying attention to in the course of [...]


Great finds

I’ve come across a couple of great blogs lately that I’ve either just found or not paid due attention to in the past. Check them out, I’ll be here when you get back.

Customer Experience Strategy
Customers on Fire
Functioning Form
Blog Business World
Advertising ourselves to death


Amazon adds more new features

I know I tend to report most of Amazon’s new features, but there’s a reason I pay such close attention to them. When Amazon adds new features, many many e-commerce businesses follow.

This morning I discovered several impressive updates:

RSS Feeds on Wishlists
That’s right, now you can subscribe to your wife’s wishlist via RSS.
Shopping Lists
As Amazon puts [...]


For Community Managers

If you manage communities, you will get a kick out of these two sites. Be sure to dig through them, there’s some real content gems in there.

http://www.communityadmins.com

http://www.communitypromotion.com


coComment

The second time I posted a blog comment, I knew that the person who created a solution to easily keep track of all of the comments I wanted to actually follow would be a millionaire. I tried to work on some ideas as I created and expanded BlogFusion. But other than subscriptions  via email or [...]


Welcome, StikiPad

I’ve been playing around with the new hosted wiki service, StikiPad for a bit during their beta. They’ve recently launched and let me say - wow!

If you’ve ever used a wiki before, you know all too well how difficult and confusing they can be. They seem to have come out of the world of Linux, [...]


Cool TechCrunch Finds

One of my new favorite sites is TechCrunch. The sites tracks the coolest Web 2.0 tools, business, and sites.

Here’s a couple recent finds:

TailRank
FeedXS

It’s wonderful to see such huge flow of great ideas again after a bit of a post-dotcom bust downturn.


Blingo - a hit again

Blingo has once again proven to be a terrific project. The recently won, Blingo-delivered PSP was quite a hit when my brother opened it for his Christmas present.

They’ve also received some great press with this article in the Chicago Tribune. Great work to the Blingo folks!

I think my Blingo network is up to about [...]


IE - more confusion

This is an interesting look at the background on IE development… or lack thereof. You thought the open source geeks hated the Microsoft track record with IE… wait till you see what their developers have to say.