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SiteHoppin Re-Launched as Domain Search Engine!

max — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:40:01 +0000

One of my greatest websites I ever made (and hard-coded all myself) using MediaWiki open-source as base platform is SiteHoppin.com.

SiteHoppin has been re-launched as a domain search engine. Basically, it’s like Digg but we only store your URL infomation, no content whatsoever other than previews under iFrames.

You can also submit your blog/website URLs as they will get indexed by Google and other search engines much quicker.

Due to time constraints and the fact that SiteHoppin wasn’t generating any revenue, I had to put the project on hold while I took the time to rejuvenate all the blogs in our Zedomax Blog Network.

Anyways, SiteHoppin was launched on January 1st, 2008. It’s getting to its anniversary soon so I’ve been spending more time fixing stuff. Plus, I think this SiteHoppin site is a hidden jem on the internet. It’s a site that lets you check out random sites in the domain search engine database too.

You will notice the SiteHoppin button on this blog on the upper-right corner. If you press it, it will basically let you “site hop” Zedomax.com and other sites I have visited in the past. (I intend to sell this randomizing technology for large companies in the near future so randomizing can be outsourced to SiteHoppin instead of taking up MySQL processing power on your server. This is really great for large sites where randomizing can be very costly.)

I have just started developing SiteHoppin again as of couple days ago so there’s a LOT of fixing/bugs/upgrades that need to be done.

While that’s being done, don’t hesistate to press that “SiteHoppin” button to find out what it’s all about.

I’ve been giving out free Beer Credits, so if you want some, all you have to do is sign up and we will hook you up. =)

Cheer~

Your Web 2.0+ Consultant, Max

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SiteHoppin Re-Launched as Domain Search Engine!

Stumbleupon launches its Toolbar-less Browsing Feature!

max — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:28:19 +0000

Stumbleupon launches its Toolbar-less browsing feature, of course, it seems that they have picked on our ideas from SiteHoppin, which is originally based on Toolbar-less browsing.

You can test both out yourself and judge which one is better, I still think my SiteHoppin rocks over SU’s new toolbar-lessness.

Test out SU Web Version

Test out SH Web Version

Another great news that I should be telling the world is that SiteHoppin will become the first “open-source” platform. (that will be released under GNU license as a MediaWiki extension. You can stay updated on that on my MediaWiki page)

The reason I am going open-source is to open the development of SiteHoppin to the world, just like Google Android, Google Chrome, etc…etc…

Besides that, I don’t have whole lotta time to develop SiteHoppin anymore, it takes me all day to code the site. It would be great if I can share my knowledge to the world and also have other developers contribute to the “knowledge”.

But first, we will be going through an “image” change from beers to something more appropriate. We have been messing around too much and partying it up but we should be back in full-force with some open-source code and official “launch” as we are still in beta for last 10 months.

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Stumbleupon launches its Toolbar-less Browsing Feature!

ThoughtFarmer provides awesome Intranet platform!

max — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:58:32 +0000

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I ran into this nice gentleman, Chris, a co-founder of ThoughtFarmer.com. They provide IntraNet solutions to your company using easy to use web interfaces where your employees and employers can interact within the company w/o using traditional methods of communication such as e-mail and documents.

It’s sorta like a those Enterprise Wikis but the first thing I noticed about their Intranet platform is the quality graphics and simple design as shown here:

The funny thing that happened during the meeting was not the company itself but how they were marketing using some guerilla tactics. Chris showed me how they made this “fake company” all with employee badges and a welcome letter, sent to about 50 well known bloggers. I guess a lot of bloggers founded very creative and funny so they posted it about it such as ReadWriteWeb.

Anyways, you can check out how they did it all at their blog post over here. Next time you use this type of pyro marketing, you can thank me and Chris for it. They actually even paid $5,500 bucks to a marketing firm so get some free marketing tips over at their blog!

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ThoughtFarmer provides awesome Intranet platform!

Web 2.0 Expo 2008 – Jeffrey Walker on Enterprise Wikis!

max — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:50:20 +0000

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Jeffrey Walker, President of Atlassian.com, explains the benefits and some bullet-points about running Enterprise Wikis over at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Atlassian, is btw, a company that specializes in Enterprise Wikis built for organizing large companies.

What is interesting to me is that these “wikis” have been replacing e-mails, documents, and all sorts of other technology of large companies.

Although it will still takes years before consumers can benefit from this technology, it’s good to learn from the guy behind one of the largest Enterprise Wiki companies.

I believe the technology is out there but we need more folks like Jeffrey who can integrate that into companies and also individuals.

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Web 2.0 Expo 2008 – Jeffrey Walker on Enterprise Wikis!

Recap of Web 2.0 Expo – What is Web 3.0 and Semantic Web?

max — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:59:50 +0000

Here’s a recap of great stuff I learned through attending the Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in San Francisco this week.

All these companies are building new mass collaboration “online” web apps that are basically easy to use and built on wiki platforms.

Semantic Web is an idea that’s often talked by Web 2.0 junkies. It’s basically the idea of mass collaboration and “human” powered technologies. A lot of companies have already built this type of technology using wikis. (Basically it’s wikis becoming as easy to use as blogs. Don’t get too confused, it’s a simple idea.)

Watch the video and learn what people are talking about the future of Web 2.0 and beyond:

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Other online resources:

Web 3.0 on Wikipedia

Web 3.0 is coming by Colbert Low (One of Zedomax Network bloggers)

via SiteHoppin

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Recap of Web 2.0 Expo – What is Web 3.0 and Semantic Web?

Web2.0 Expo – Stewart Mader from Wikipatterns Interviewed!

max — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:14:42 +0000

If you don’t know wikis, it might be a good time for you to get familiar as wikis have not been fully utilized as blogs have been. (Before you know it, the world will become a “wiki wiki” world…)

As a wiki fanatic myself as I have built the world’s first-ever MediaWiki based social networking site, I am a collector of any new books related with wikis in general.

One of the books that I haven’t gotten a hold of was, wikipatterns by Stewart Mader, creator of wikipatterns.com. I am a big fan of anyone who’s creating new sites with wikis so…

What intrigued me about his creation Wikipatterns.com, is the idea itself, not really the software built on it. I am still dumbfounded about what wikipatterns exactly is but Stewart was nice enough to explain it to me in plain English at Web2.0 Expo today:

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(Thanks Stewart, and thank you for the book! I love wiki books, make sure to check out my wiki creation too, SiteHoppin.com!)

Stewart also runs Grow Your Wiki blog, check it out as it has lots of interesting stuff for all you wiki lovers.

I will probably do another write-up after I finish the book so hold on while I get all that wiki stuff in my head and spit it back out to you readers in plain English.

Wikipatterns, btw, is based on Wiki software by Atlassian, a company who specialized in Enterprise Wikis.

We will have a short video re-cap by Atlassian’s president, Jeffrey Walker in a little bit, explaining further the advantages of using wikis to replace e-mails and documents.

What do you think, will Wikis be the future of mass collaboration? (If it isn’t already?)

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Web2.0 Expo – Stewart Mader from Wikipatterns Interviewed!

Web2.0 Expo 2008 – SpringNote – Wiki-based Online Notes

max — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:02:08 +0000

HeeKyong Yoon from SpringNote.com, was nice enough to chat with me on their cool “wiki” product, SpringNote:

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FYI, SpringNote.com is a subsidiary of NcSoft.com, the creators of legendary online game, Lineage.

Well, I tried out SpringNote, here’s a screenshot:

It’s very simple to use, just like a real notebook except you have unlimited number of pages plus you get bunch of already-made templates like Bookshelf, Monthly Plan, Recipe, and etc…etc…

What I found most interesting was that it is a “wiki” site but you don’t need to know any wiki markup language and start editing your online notes right away. You also have the option to share your notes or keep them private.

As far as technology goes, I love the fact that SpringNote has incorporated a LOT of AJAX. (probably mostly AJAX)

I might start using it more real soon. The only downside I saw was that SpringNote’s servers are hosted in Korea. Although the site does fairly fast, I measured, 168ms ping times from my PC in San Francisco.

FYI, Zedomax.com get 41ms ping times, 4 times faster as servers are hosted in San Diego, California.

Although they could keep running servers from Korea, I think they can grab much larger audience in the U.S. by simply serving their pages from servers in the U.S. (Besides, it’s probably much cheaper to host it here.)

Other than that, I find SpringNote as the next generation online note web app. I will have to dump my MS Outlook all together and start using SpringNotes, way simpler and easier for mass collaboration.

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Web2.0 Expo 2008 – SpringNote – Wiki-based Online Notes

Beer Stock Market – Internet User Venture Capital!

max — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:44:14 +0000

Hi all,I’ve been busy building this “online stock” market over at SiteHoppin.com.

Go check it out as we just launched it…and I need some rest from 5 straight days of ridiculous coding…

SiteHoppin Beer Stocks are “internet stocks”, we call IUVC (Internet User Venture Capital), that allow you to buy into our new company without having to invest millions, unlike Venture Capital.

Basically, when you buy Beer Stocks, you become co-owners of SiteHoppin.com. We probably won’t let you run the site, but we are giving every internet user an opportunity to invest in one of the fastest growing web sites on the internet.

You can read more about it on our Beer Stocks FAQ.

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Beer Stock Market – Internet User Venture Capital!

WikiLeaks – Wiki for leaked documents

max — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:27:17 +0000

I just found out that WikiLeaks, a Wiki site that collects thousands of leaked documents, had been suspended in the U.S., but the judge just overturned and they are back on.

Anyways, it’s an interesting Wiki site and you should check it out.

The site resumed U.S. operations shortly after 5 p.m. Pacific Coast time. Its overseas servers were not affected by the litigation. Hours after the decision, WikiLeaks said it “shall not be cowed by those who would silence the truth. It will continue to be a forum for the citizens of the world to disclose issues of social, moral and ethical concern.”

The judge heard arguments from the bank, which said no First Amendment rights were being implicated, WikiLeaks’ domain name owner and a host of media and civil rights organizations that derided the judge’s initial order as an unconstitutional “prior restraint” on speech.

The judge seemed to agree with the media and rights groups. About 30 minutes into the hearing, White said the case concerned “very important issues” and “the court does not want to be a part of any order that is not constitutional.”

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