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Building lists with the help of the community
On August 11, 2008 in Suggestions Please
I want to build two lists, but I need your help.
One of Japan-related forums
and the other for Japan-related job sites.
They will be for an upcoming Nipponster forum search and job search engine. (you can beta test them here: job search , forum search - at your own risk 
)
I have small lists that I’ve created on my own but I want to make lists that the Japan-related web community can add to, comment on, and rate.
So I created searches for them on Nipponster.
Here they are! You can add to the list, comment, and rate. I will use them to make the new search engines
What are the best Japan-related forums on the web?
What are the best Japan-related job sites on the web?
Let me know what you think.
And have a good day,
DailyJ
I found my second job in Japan at Gaijin Pot. I’ve heard Ohayo Sensei has helped quite a few people, but we’re talking only teaching-related jobs.
As for the Japan-related Forums, there are quite a few out there. You have to include the GaijinPot forum (loathesome as it is).
Thanks Billy for the heads up about Ohayo Sensei. I added it to the list of sites the search indexes.
Yeah, I’ve seen some stupid threads/replies on there before.
I like Jref the best out of the forums I’ve tried (despite the forum nazis)
The big question is whether or not you’re going to widgetize Nipponster? It might be possible with Widgetbox. I’m thinking of making a page of “Japan Web Widgets” and although I’ll put in the Nipponster toolbar, an embeddable widget would be sweet.
Thanks for the include and the feedback Nick.
I really REALLY want to make Nipponster search results into a widget. I just haven’t figured out a way yet.
As far as a search box widget goes, I have one
http://nipponster.com/n_promotion/beta/index.html
BUT, what would be great (revolutionary even?) would be if I could make a widget that let people put a little Nipponster search engine result page (s.e.r.p) on their blog post/etc.
That would be brilliant because then they could search for something like
“best fishing in Japan”
and click on a button that says “make this search result page a widget”, put the widget on their page.
And then their readers could vote and comment on which results are the best.
I get excited just thinking about it. But unfortunately I haven’t figured out how to make a widget that allows me to retain that level of functionality (the rating and commenting).
I will look at widgetbox though. Maybe there is a way…
Ah! There you go, I hadn’t seen seen that page before, cheers!
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