15 May
Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Blogging, Commentary, Content, Social Media, Web Applications
Introducing Technorati’s WTF aka Where’s The Fire
I don’t think it has quite caught on yet, but Technorati has built it’s own answer to Digg, Reddit and the rest of the social news and bookmarking sites. It’s called Where’s The Fire or WTF and covers “What’s Hot, and Why.” Considering the popularity and resources of […]
20 Apr
Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Social Media, Technology, Web Applications
Looks like MySpace wants to go back to its roots and launch another crappy product without style or functionality. The recently launched their MySpace News Beta (of course they had to include the uber-lame BETA tag - more about BETAs in another post), which looks like a really poorly modified Pligg clone. You […]
09 Apr
Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Web Applications, eCommerce
Introducing Shopify, A Hosted eCommerce Solution
I just found out about a cool new ecommerce solution called Shopify. The site is a beautifully designed web 2.0, Ruby on Rails hosted ecommerce site. According to the few reviews that I found about the site, setup was extremely quick and easy.
The site is free to […]
19 Dec
Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Forums, Web Applications
I found a great mod for phpBB forum administrators. This particular mod will ban any user who registers for your forum from a particular time zone. I’m not sure if many newbies to phpBB are aware, but most SPAM registrations come from GMT-12 Timezone. If you can prevent users from registering from […]
08 Dec
Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Blogging, Mac, Web Applications
I’ve been suffering a bit here with my new iMac. Everything is perfect, except I’m lacking an adequate feed reader / aggregator. I’m currently using an aggregator called Vienna, a RSS reader for Mac OS X, but it does not compare to FeedReader (the PC reader I’ve been using).
Vienna lacks the ability to […]
I’ve been trying to find a new look for my real estate wiki, but have had no luck while searching for templates. I realized I’d have to look for “wiki skins.” After some searching, I found a great resource with a bunch of great ones.
If you’re looking to change your wiki’s […]
13 Nov
Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Web Applications, Website Tools, eCommerce
Building a Wiki Site
Last month I mentioned that I was looking into setting up a Wiki and that I had chosen MediaWiki to do so. Since then, I’ve set up my first wiki (it is a work in progress), a real estate wiki. The set up was really easy - like most scripts, […]