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!
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.
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.