I’ve blogged many times in the past about what a wonderful set of products VMWare have and not just because EMC used to be a customer of Argolon way back. In the last year we have been avid users of VMWare Server. However it has recently been annoying the hell out of us as it required hacking around to get it running on Fedora Core 6. Bizzarely I could run FC6 inside VMWare on XP but could not get VMWare running on FC6 so I could run FC6 in it!
I’ve proposed having an OpenCoffee Club meeting next week in Cork City. Read the details over at Argolon.
We hit a hard-to-reproduce bug yesterday on the main site and we’re trying to get to the bottom of it. One thing we’ve done is turn on debug messages so if anything goes wrong you may find yourself facing a screen full of red text. If you do, it’d be a huge help if you could copy n paste it into a mail and send to beta1 at loudervoice dot com.
The most important feature of LouderVoice (in fact its whole point) is the ability to publish structured reviews to your blog and for us to collect them too. This has not been enabled during Beta test yet and I know many of you are dying to test it out. I hope we can turn it on very very soon and this is just to let you know where we are both in development and testing.
I’ve made good use of Meebo in the past working for silly places that block external IM but I’ve avoided putting the MeeboMe widget on our blogs for one simple reason; I’d have to have to be logged into Meebo in a browser window to get the messages rather than receiving them in my IM client where they belong. Well it looks like I was totally wrong and you can configure Gaim or any other Jabber client to receive the messages from those who try to contact you on your blog via the MeeboMe widget.
We deployed Beta2 of the site last Monday but a few problems have held us up. Most of the big clangers are now fixed and I’m going to start issuing more invites today. Even if you are not a Beta Tester, head on over to loudervoice.com to check out the very slick new look. In terms of functinality, the main focus was on usability and stability. There are not many visible new features there compared to Beta1.
Only a couple of days late, we deployed Beta2 to www.loudervoice.com (moving from beta.loudervoice.com). There are a few teething problems in there but the overall behaviour and look of the site is far far superior to Beta1. I’ll be back from FoWA tomorrow and will start sending out lots more Beta Test invites. I’d like to encourage all current beta testers to log on and give us their feedback on the changes and tell us what you’d really like to see for the Full Launch.
Yawn. This time it’s AT&T on their Yellow Pages site. It’ll be interesting to see if it does affect Yelp and similar sites. I’m not sure it will. Will Bob and Marge from Akron Ohio really look up the Yellow Pages and think “ya know what hun, now that I’ve found the telephone number of a plumber I must come back later and write a review of how he unblocked our loo”.
Get over to the Irish Blog Awards now and give your votes to a lot of great Irish Bloggers. Nominations close at 65pm Friday.
I’m attending the Future of Web Apps conference in London next week. I arrive Monday night and leave on Thursday morning. They really have a great line up of speakers and I’m looking forward to it immensely. I’ve also signed up for the Geek Dinner with Chris Messina and Tara Hunt on the Wednesday night. I hope to run into lots of you there. I should be on my super Roam4Free SIM card, in which case I’ll be at +372-531-66646.
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