Starting August 29th Telligent will host a monthly breakfast at our office in Dallas as an interest group for Social Networking and Communities. What is it? It’s not going to be technical. Visual Studio won’t get opened. What it will be is a fun conversation … Continue reading “Announcing: Social Networking and Communities Group”
I just attended a breakfast here in Dallas where we talked about social networking and communities as they apply to businesses. The attendance for a non-technical conversation was pretty impressive. The talk focused primarily on the big mega-communities (Facebook, MySpace, Youtube, the list goes on…) … Continue reading “How many more big communities will there be?”
Shane sent me this earlier today some details from Google about how they will now support underscores as word separators (I took this to mean in addition to dashes).
We’ve been working on re-organizing the Control Panel for Community Server blogs and I thought I’d share some screen shots: Dashboard We’re updating the dashboard (main landing page) for bloggers to show more of what people have told us they are interested in. To being … Continue reading “Reorganizing the Community Server blogs control panel”
As I mentioned this weekend our interns have been working on a reporting framework for Community Server. The reporting application requires a separate database as it reads from an existing CS database (incrementally) and then re-organizes the data into a data structure designed for reporting. … Continue reading “Community Server Reporting”
Posting these links because they are ones I use often (and always end up hunting down in my browser history): Color Match 10k: http://www.nickherman.com/colormatch/ Color Blender: http://colorblender.com/
http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/07/memcached This might be worth looking into — and yes there is even a Win32 port. For the ASP.NET developer it’s essentially a middle tier caching layer replacement for the built-in Cache object.
By my standards we spend an exorbitant amount of money with Google on advertising between Community Server, CodeSmith, and JobBurner.com. To put this in perspective we’ll spend more in a day with Google than we spend in a month for Live.com and Yahoo.com combined!. The … Continue reading “Google’s content network smells fishy”
Our interns have been hard at work on the Enterprise Reporting tools for Community Server. I hope that in the next 6-8 weeks we can possibly roll the reports out on weblogs.asp.net. More details to come… Most interesting stat so far? Scott Guthrie’s blog received … Continue reading “Reporting tools for Community Server”
Blogs are great, but following a conversation through comments sucks. Email is one way to solve this problem and cocomment.com is another option. Right now the best solution that I’ve found seems to be Google Alerts — hoping that it stumbles across keywords you care … Continue reading “Keeping up with blog discussions”
