Mar31
Woot’s web 2.0 style deal site, Deals.woot.com, hit a major milestone this month, reaching 100,000 posted deals.
Check out the celebration post and get some stats here.
Wondering what the big deal was?
Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth for $14.46 – A recently published book about the future of our planet by Carl Stager
Congratulations to the Deals.Woot team on hitting this milestone and congrats to Deals.Woot superuser heymo for posting that very appropriate deal!
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Feb27
Born from the boredom and creativity of the deals.woot community combined with my love of made up holidays and a need to create an unforgivably long domain name, Friday March 4th marks the first annual Do Something Unexpectedly Nice For Someone Just Because Day.
The name speaks for itself so the website doesn’t have to, freeing me up to have a little extra fun. I hope you will enjoy it and I hope you will try to do something unexpectedly nice on Friday well!
http://www.dosomethingunexpectedlyniceforsomeonejustbecauseday.info
March forth on March fourth and do good things!
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Feb7
Image via Wikipedia
Maybe you’re like me and didn’t see the Superbowl this year but still would like to be part of the conversations tomorrow? Well, everyone knows that the post Superbowl conversation breaks down into 3 major categories:
10% – The Game
15% – The half-time show
75% – The commercials
Want to join in on the conversation? You can surf on over to USA today’s site and catch up on all 60 of the Superbowl ads on your smartphone or tablet and see what everyone is talking about. The ads are listed in popularity order by default so you can even be sure that you see the best ads first if you have limited time, use the two finger scroll method to move down the list.
If you ever wonder why Superbowl advertising is so expensive, look no further – I just actively sought out something that i normally go to great pains to avoid. Happy watching!
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Jan28
Activity on Woot‘s deal aggregation site Deals.woot.com has exploded over the past week, what lit the fuse? A new reputation system that is clear, easy to understand, and gives users hints on actions that they can take to increase their reputation.
Deals.Woot Top Reputation Leaderboard
This was a much needed to boost to traffic and user activity, more than making up for the brutal attack on the site’s most active users a few months ago. Segregation of the site’s more social area and excessive, at times stalking and shockingly personal, moderation of users caused many of the sites most active users to fade into the shadows or abandon the site altogether.
These changes to the reputation system have been in the works for quite a while, but the deals.woot programming team used the time well and the enhancements have been well received.
Deals.Woot Reputation Dashboard
The new dashboard is the center-piece of the changes, it details how the users rank in all the categories of activities that earn reputation. It also provides useful hints that inform users what they can do if they want to increase their reputation.
Some activity is bound to drop off after some of the novelty wears off, but this change has made a real difference in getting the users more involved and has given the site a much needed shot of energy.
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Jan21
I suppose that someone knows because I saw one today and it was the first time I’ve really noticed one and thought about it. So for today’s Wednesday Whim I decided to add one for the Knetwork. All you need is an animated gif, scaled down to the recommended 16×16 pixel size, uploaded to your existing favicon location. Then add a html line to your header. Just copy your current favicon code, paste it below itself, and alter the file name to your animated gif.
FYI – mine is a little knight hacking away at something…. it’s probably dead by now. I’ll probably replace it or remove it but lemme know what you think!
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