Archive for September, 2008

Non-Hacker News and Moderators

Monday, September 29th, 2008

We’re happy to acknowledge Non-Hacker News, a newly created site by Matt Maroon.

Matt explains why he created the site in his blog. Non-Hacker News is already seeing some really interesting content. We’re excited enough that we’ve been participating in this one quite a bit ourselves.
In slightly related news (it’s something we were working on and [...]

Design Shizen takes slinkset “Green”

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Environmental awareness is finally making headway thanks to the efforts of many people pushing the “go Green” idea.  Jetson Green is one of the places helping this effort.  They have an online magazine based around the “Green Building Revolution”.  Here you can find articles based on “green building, sustainable architecture, good design, clean technology in [...]

Anonymous Participation!

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

We’re excited to announce the release of another feature that we’ve heard a lot of requests for: anonymous participation. Turn it on and users no longer have to create a slinkset account to vote, comment and post on your site. Unregistered users get a field to leave their name for posts and comments just like [...]

Google Analytics Tracking

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Our #1 feature request right now is traffic stats so we made it happen. We’ve been hesitant to do this because we didn’t want to introduce a security issue by allowing users to add arbitrary javascript, but because all the request have been for Google Analytics specifically, we realized that arbitrary javascript isn’t necessary. Just [...]

Odd behavior due to DNS outage

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

We’re sorry to report that we’ve had a small lapse in service from our DNS provider. Worse is that even though things seem to be working again, because DNS is heavily cache you may still be experiencing issues. This could mean you cannot get to slinkset.com (or a site created with slinkset), or that if [...]

Infosec Update has launched!

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

So our friends over in the UK have created a site for people to post and comment on Infosec related news.  For those of you who don’t know “Infosec” refers to Information Security.  The site is appropriately titled Infosec Update, please go check it out.
The creators of this site are a UK-based Infosec consultancy named [...]

Silicon Alley Insider goes Slinkset.

Monday, September 8th, 2008

That’s right.  Silicon Alley Insider has just launched The 2008 Silicon Alley 100, their annual list of the 100 most influential and important folks in New York’s digital-business community.  They wanted to make the process more interactive and available to everyone, so SAI decided to work with us to create the Silicon Alley 100 Voting [...]

Some new links in the footer

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

It’s been another hectic month, but we’re both now back in San Francisco and aching to get new features out the door.
We’re working hard on getting unregistered user participation live in a week or so, as mentioned in the Industry Standard. Thanks to Ian for the writeup.
In the meantime we’ve exposed a couple hidden pages [...]