Archive for April, 2009
Take JapanSoc on the go! J-web Community toolbar upgrade
On April 17, 2009 in Announcements, Japanese Toolbar
Hi all,
As part of my commitment to make the community japanese language toolbar a force for enhancing collaboration on the Japan-related web I’ve just added a cool new feature:
Floating JapanSoc Widgets! (see screenshot below)
JapanSoc floating widget
“Why should I care?” you say?
Well, if you are a Jsoc’er you can use this handy tool to keep up with the latest Top and Upcoming stories on JapanSoc, without being on JapanSoc.
So let’s say you are “busy” watching Youtube videos but you also want to see if there is anything new on JapanSoc - now you can!
“Give me the widget already!”
First you have to have the japanese language toolbar. Once you have that, on the toolbar go to “japan links” and find the new “JapanSoc” section. In that section click on either “top stories popup” or “upcoming stories popup”
The popup can be resized using the resize thingy (what do you call those?) on the bottom right.
I hope it will be of use to you.
As always, let me know what you think! I’m all ears.
Have a great day,
DailyJ
Reluctantly switching to Google
On April 07, 2009 in Announcements
I gave Nipponster a little makeover and made the changes live today.
This included turning my back on Swicki and using Google instead.
I really did not want to do that but I had to bite the bullet…
It’s not that I don’t love Google, I do. But I saw something unique in Swicki and their “social search.” I still believe that voting and searching ought to be together, especially in vertical search (like Japan-related search) where there can be a community built around searching.
The Swicki people were always very helpful and friendly but unfortunately the platform let me down too many times.
I’ll probably post more about possibilities for nipponster in the future. But for now that is all. Any thoughts you want to share are VERY welcome.
Thanks all
