I’ve made good use of Meebo in the past working for silly places that block external IM but I’ve avoided putting the MeeboMe widget on our blogs for one simple reason; I’d have to have to be logged into Meebo in a browser window to get the messages rather than receiving them in my IM [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2007
New look and improved functionality
February 27, 2007 – 10:25 am
We deployed Beta2 of the site last Monday but a few problems have held us up. Most of the big clangers are now fixed and I’m going to start issuing more invites today. Even if you are not a Beta Tester, head on over to loudervoice.com to check out the very slick new look.
In terms [...]
Beta2 Out the Door
February 21, 2007 – 10:13 am
Only a couple of days late, we deployed Beta2 to www.loudervoice.com (moving from beta.loudervoice.com). There are a few teething problems in there but the overall behaviour and look of the site is far far superior to Beta1.
I’ll be back from FoWA tomorrow and will start sending out lots more Beta Test invites.
I’d like to encourage [...]
Another Review silo launches
February 15, 2007 – 10:36 pm
Yawn. This time it’s AT&T on their Yellow Pages site. It’ll be interesting to see if it does affect Yelp and similar sites. I’m not sure it will.
Will Bob and Marge from Akron Ohio really look up the Yellow Pages and think “ya know what hun, now that I’ve found the telephone number of a [...]
Not long now
February 15, 2007 – 9:34 pm
Get over to the Irish Blog Awards now and give your votes to a lot of great Irish Bloggers. Nominations close at 65pm Friday.
See you at FoWA
February 15, 2007 – 10:52 am
I’m attending the Future of Web Apps conference in London next week. I arrive Monday night and leave on Thursday morning. They really have a great line up of speakers and I’m looking forward to it immensely. I’ve also signed up for the Geek Dinner with Chris Messina and Tara Hunt on the Wednesday night.
I [...]
Lots of interruptions
February 15, 2007 – 10:42 am
We’re doing a ton of changes over the next few days in preparation for the Beta2 launch. You’ll see all of the current sites appear and disappear at random. Please be patient with us. The main tasks are to move from a shared host to a VPS and to start using www for everything instead [...]
Understanding your competition
February 14, 2007 – 11:57 pm
Andy Sack recently wrote a superb blog post (and follow-up) on what Yelp did better than Judy’s Book. I not only admire his honesty and openness but also the clarity of his analysis. Yelp’s focus on a younger demographic and restaurant reviews proved far more fruitful than the wider net and older target audience of [...]
Good stuff on structure in blogs
February 14, 2007 – 11:20 pm
John Breslin has done two fine posts on structure in blogs over at the IIA Blog. The first is basically about Structured Blogging (SB) and the second about semantic blogging. As many people know, the SB plug-ins for Wordpress and MT were released to a mainly positive response way back in Dec 2005. I made [...]
Important for all Review Sites
February 12, 2007 – 1:28 pm
E-consultancy has an article about the Times Online story on a new EU directive which may result in criminal prosecution for those who post false reviews about themselves, their products or services using false identities.
False reviews are a problem for any review site and are impossible to prevent. However the effect of it can be [...]
