The James Bonds of Social Media Web Application Development
The Community Exchange is now re-christened Streetbank.com. We like it better and its also now a dot com which gives us broader appeal. You can still do all the location based lending, borrowing, giving away and skills and there is now a community wall and messaging system.
I think it’s a great way to bring communities together.
I’m proud to announce that the Community Exchange has just gone to alpha! There are still a few bugs in it to be worked out but it’s up and running under the CommunityExchange.co.uk domain.
The Community Exchange is a very simple idea. You sign up for an account with your name and email and also give your postal address. You then get to add 3 or more things you would be prepared to lend, give away or help with. It then shows you all the people within 500 yards and all the things they have added. You can message them and ask to borrow their stuff.
It’s beautifully simple and I think it could be a big success. Check it out and sign up for an account!
Heavenly Media is changeing it’s name to Wild Invention! There are a number of reasons for this. I’ve been thinking about the name for a while and it seemed like a good time to move on. The impetus came when I got a letter from lawyers acting on behalf of Heavenly Marketing (far from heavenly behaviour) demanding money with menaces, but that’s all in the past now and I’m sure they’re very nice people.
Wild Invention build Wildliy Creative little bits of stuff such as: Games, Microsites, Innovative Social Media apps, Flash, Actionscript and various other lovely and fun things.
Dear Celebrity, a CMS microsite for a forthcoming Capstone book by the same name went live on Friday. It’s built in Rails using Heavenly Media’s CheeseMouse platform. The build took 3 days with a total cost to the client of £900+VAT. There’s a video, a competition and a Facebook game coming soon.
Compliance with Web Standards can make your site more accessible to a wider range of users. It’s also a legal requirement. This article contains a brief overview of everything you need to know, the questions you should be asking how Heavenly Media can help you.
The latest new tool I’m playing with today is dust me selectors from Sitepoint.com. This tool lets me find all the unused CSS selectors on my page in one click, but more than that, it can also spider an entire site keeping track of user selectors so it can tell you which are not being used anywhere. This has always been an arduous manual job in the past, keeping track of a CSS file which gets edited by multiple users is hard. Using Dust Me I was able to shave 20% off one CSS file and make the whole thing much neater, cleaner and more legible.
Apollo’s pad, the social media site we’ve been working on with Qube for the past few months has been featured on Brand Republic! We’re very proud!
After much fussing around I’ve finally got the 3d barcode reader on my phone to work. Horray for the technology of the future!
On a slightly different note I’ve just read that the Vietnamese authorities have announced a ban on Hamsters. Anyone caught in possession of a hamster will now face a 30 Million Dong fine, around £940.
Hamsters have recently become popular in Vietnam due to a combination of factors including rising incomes and the Chinese year of the Rat. Illegal hamsters have been flooding into Vietnam from nearby China and the government is worried that many of them may harbour Rabies.
30 Million Dong is roughly double the average Vietnamese annual income.
I’ve just bought a licence key for SFTP Drive. This remarkably lovely bit of stuff lets me map remote drives on my server to a local drive letter. It just show up as a drive and I can open and edit files as though they were on my local machine, no more drag and drop or monkeying around with vi, not that I have anything agains vi.
Download SFTP Drive from here. You get a six week free trial and the licence is $40, around £20.
