O:9:"MagpieRSS":19:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:10:{i:0;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:22:"Locked out of BBPress?";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/18/locked-out-of-bbpress/";s:8:"comments";s:66:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/18/locked-out-of-bbpress/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:06:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:27:"Blogbbpresshackphpwordpress";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=317";s:11:"description";s:346:"So I just spent the last fifteen minutes trying to hack my way back into my BBpress forums at code.appfrica.net.  The problem was that BBPress doesn&#8217;t consider admins the &#8217;super users&#8217; of the account.  The &#8216;administrator&#8217; rank just allows you to moderate the forum, not it&#8217;s look or anything else.  To do [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2206:"<p>So I just spent the last fifteen minutes trying to hack my way back into my BBpress forums at code.appfrica.net.  The problem was that BBPress doesn&#8217;t consider admins the &#8217;super users&#8217; of the account.  The &#8216;administrator&#8217; rank just allows you to moderate the forum, not it&#8217;s look or anything else.  To do that you need to be what&#8217;s called a &#8216;keymaster&#8217;.  Keymasters can do anything while Administrators can do &#8216;almost&#8217; anything but that almost is pretty useless when you want to change the look of your forum!  </p>
<p>For the sake of others out there who might run into the same problem, here&#8217;s how I did it.  It&#8217;s pretty simple but no one has published anything as straight forward as this, yet (or at least I didn&#8217;t find one in my Google searches).</p>
<ol>
<li>Log into your MySQL database via PHP Admin</li>
<li>Find the &#8216;xx_usermeta&#8217; area.</li>
<li>Find the username of the account you want want to make the &#8216;keymaster&#8217;.</li>
<li>Look for the area that looks like this <code>a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}</code> and replace it with <code>a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}</code>. </li>
<li>Log-In to the account to make sure everything worked.</li>
<li>Pat yourself on the back buckaroo, you&#8217;re done!</li>
</ol>
<p>If you know hacking, you know that having an account with the username &#8216;Admin&#8217; can be a security risk.  I got locked out of my account after changing my name from &#8216;Admin&#8217; to something else to make it harder for potential hackers to get into my forums.  Then I deleted the account called &#8216;Admin&#8217; because I thought it was enough that I promoted my new username to <em>administration</em> status.  The BBPress manual doesn&#8217;t mention the fact if you delete the Admin account, you&#8217;re deleting the sole <em>keymaster</em> effectively locking you out of the real administration of the back end of your site!</p>
<p>This technique should fix everything&#8230;at least for BBPress 0.9.0.2, the version that I used this on.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:62:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/18/locked-out-of-bbpress/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:346:"So I just spent the last fifteen minutes trying to hack my way back into my BBpress forums at code.appfrica.net.  The problem was that BBPress doesn&#8217;t consider admins the &#8217;super users&#8217; of the account.  The &#8216;administrator&#8217; rank just allows you to moderate the forum, not it&#8217;s look or anything else.  To do [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2206:"<p>So I just spent the last fifteen minutes trying to hack my way back into my BBpress forums at code.appfrica.net.  The problem was that BBPress doesn&#8217;t consider admins the &#8217;super users&#8217; of the account.  The &#8216;administrator&#8217; rank just allows you to moderate the forum, not it&#8217;s look or anything else.  To do that you need to be what&#8217;s called a &#8216;keymaster&#8217;.  Keymasters can do anything while Administrators can do &#8216;almost&#8217; anything but that almost is pretty useless when you want to change the look of your forum!  </p>
<p>For the sake of others out there who might run into the same problem, here&#8217;s how I did it.  It&#8217;s pretty simple but no one has published anything as straight forward as this, yet (or at least I didn&#8217;t find one in my Google searches).</p>
<ol>
<li>Log into your MySQL database via PHP Admin</li>
<li>Find the &#8216;xx_usermeta&#8217; area.</li>
<li>Find the username of the account you want want to make the &#8216;keymaster&#8217;.</li>
<li>Look for the area that looks like this <code>a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}</code> and replace it with <code>a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}</code>. </li>
<li>Log-In to the account to make sure everything worked.</li>
<li>Pat yourself on the back buckaroo, you&#8217;re done!</li>
</ol>
<p>If you know hacking, you know that having an account with the username &#8216;Admin&#8217; can be a security risk.  I got locked out of my account after changing my name from &#8216;Admin&#8217; to something else to make it harder for potential hackers to get into my forums.  Then I deleted the account called &#8216;Admin&#8217; because I thought it was enough that I promoted my new username to <em>administration</em> status.  The BBPress manual doesn&#8217;t mention the fact if you delete the Admin account, you&#8217;re deleting the sole <em>keymaster</em> effectively locking you out of the real administration of the back end of your site!</p>
<p>This technique should fix everything&#8230;at least for BBPress 0.9.0.2, the version that I used this on.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:1;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:50:"Hahlo or Twitterific To Follow Summize Acquisition";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/16/hahlo-or-twitterific-to-follow-summize-acquisition/";s:8:"comments";s:95:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/16/hahlo-or-twitterific-to-follow-summize-acquisition/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:24:32 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:32:"Blogweb-2.0micromessagingtwitter";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=316";s:11:"description";s:332:"

Now that Twitter has purchased Summize and corrected some seriously boneheaded moves, their next major moves need to be in the mobile space.  VentureBeat makes some interesting points on this very subject. If I were the powers that be at Twitter I would be looking to snatch up all of the best thirdparty applications using [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1784:"<p><img src="http://iconfactory.com/assets/software/twitterrific/masthead.png" alt="twitterific" /></p>
<p><img src="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/themes/zipper/hahlo/hahlo_logo.png" alt="hahlo" /></p>
<p>Now that Twitter has purchased Summize and corrected some seriously boneheaded moves, their next major moves need to be in the <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/15/twitter-has-its-search-now-its-time-to-embrace-mobile/" target="_blank">mobile space</a>.  <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/15/twitter-has-its-search-now-its-time-to-embrace-mobile/" target="_blank">VentureBeat</a> makes some interesting points on this very subject. If I were the powers that be at Twitter I would be looking to snatch up all of the best thirdparty applications using the API.  This would Include <a title="hahlo" href="hahlo.com/ ">Hahlo</a> and <a title="tweetdeck" href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/">Tweetdeck</a>, or possibly <a href="http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific" target="_blank">Twitterific</a> (which has the feature-set of both).  Rather than spend more money and time trying to compete with these existing products, why not bring them into the fold? In addition, they need to take a hard look at the functionality provided by TwitterFeeder.  I use TwitterFeeder to announce that I&#8217;ve updated my blogs.  Without it, I have to do this manually.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not suggesting TwitterFeeder in and of itself is worthy of acquisition (the staff at Twitter could write this code in a heartbeat) but the functionality would be useful to Twitter users.  It would also allow them to compete more directly with FriendFeed and Tumblr.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:91:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/16/hahlo-or-twitterific-to-follow-summize-acquisition/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:332:"

Now that Twitter has purchased Summize and corrected some seriously boneheaded moves, their next major moves need to be in the mobile space.  VentureBeat makes some interesting points on this very subject. If I were the powers that be at Twitter I would be looking to snatch up all of the best thirdparty applications using [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1784:"<p><img src="http://iconfactory.com/assets/software/twitterrific/masthead.png" alt="twitterific" /></p>
<p><img src="http://deanjrobinson.com/wp-content/themes/zipper/hahlo/hahlo_logo.png" alt="hahlo" /></p>
<p>Now that Twitter has purchased Summize and corrected some seriously boneheaded moves, their next major moves need to be in the <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/15/twitter-has-its-search-now-its-time-to-embrace-mobile/" target="_blank">mobile space</a>.  <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/07/15/twitter-has-its-search-now-its-time-to-embrace-mobile/" target="_blank">VentureBeat</a> makes some interesting points on this very subject. If I were the powers that be at Twitter I would be looking to snatch up all of the best thirdparty applications using the API.  This would Include <a title="hahlo" href="hahlo.com/ ">Hahlo</a> and <a title="tweetdeck" href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/">Tweetdeck</a>, or possibly <a href="http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific" target="_blank">Twitterific</a> (which has the feature-set of both).  Rather than spend more money and time trying to compete with these existing products, why not bring them into the fold? In addition, they need to take a hard look at the functionality provided by TwitterFeeder.  I use TwitterFeeder to announce that I&#8217;ve updated my blogs.  Without it, I have to do this manually.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not suggesting TwitterFeeder in and of itself is worthy of acquisition (the staff at Twitter could write this code in a heartbeat) but the functionality would be useful to Twitter users.  It would also allow them to compete more directly with FriendFeed and Tumblr.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:2;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:31:"T-Mobile/USA Hijacks Open Ports";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/05/t-mobileusa-hijacks-open-ports/";s:8:"comments";s:75:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/05/t-mobileusa-hijacks-open-ports/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:45:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:36:"Blogcodedevelopmentlinuxterminalunix";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=315";s:11:"description";s:317:"If you&#8217;re a developer who likes to go to coffeeshops work with people around, stay away from some places that offer Wifi on T-Mobile.  This is pretty silly because T-Mobile is one of those wifi providers that you still have to pay for.  Yet, I&#8217;ve got less functionality than most free alternatives.  [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1915:"<p>If you&#8217;re a developer who likes to go to coffeeshops work with people around, stay away from some places that offer Wifi on T-Mobile.  This is pretty silly because T-Mobile is one of those wifi providers that you still have to pay for.  Yet, I&#8217;ve got less functionality than most free alternatives.  I didn&#8217;t realize this until today when I was trying to connect to my django host using Terminal.</p>
<p>Normally the opening Terminal results in a default window that looks like this:<br />
<code><br />
username_macbook:~ username$<br />
</code></p>
<p>Now let&#8217;s get a list of all our open communications ports by typing ls <strong>/dev/tty.*</strong>  This command normally returns something that looks like:<br />
<code>dev/tty.BTRS232                        /dev/tty.Tigoe6630-AppleAgent-1<br />
/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem                /dev/tty.Tigoe6630-Dial-UpNetwor-2<br />
/dev/tty.KeySerial1                     /dev/tty.modem<br />
</code></p>
<p>When I was at borders today I opened this and noticed something odd&#8230;<br />
<code><br />
250:~ username$<br />
</code></p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure exactly what that 250 means but I assume it&#8217;s got something to do with taking over my open ports and filtering them through whatever T-Mobile device is used in-store.  To confirm this I typed <strong>/dev/tty.*</strong> again which returned:</p>
<p><code>/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem	/dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync</code></p>
<p>This essentially means I have no open ports except these two Bluetooth ports.  </p>
<p>Now, we know T-Mobile does this because they don&#8217;t want to be held liable for hackers attacking users of their networks.  Unfortunately that means from now on when I need to do real work I&#8217;ll just stay home instead of spending money with them.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:71:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/07/05/t-mobileusa-hijacks-open-ports/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:317:"If you&#8217;re a developer who likes to go to coffeeshops work with people around, stay away from some places that offer Wifi on T-Mobile.  This is pretty silly because T-Mobile is one of those wifi providers that you still have to pay for.  Yet, I&#8217;ve got less functionality than most free alternatives.  [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1915:"<p>If you&#8217;re a developer who likes to go to coffeeshops work with people around, stay away from some places that offer Wifi on T-Mobile.  This is pretty silly because T-Mobile is one of those wifi providers that you still have to pay for.  Yet, I&#8217;ve got less functionality than most free alternatives.  I didn&#8217;t realize this until today when I was trying to connect to my django host using Terminal.</p>
<p>Normally the opening Terminal results in a default window that looks like this:<br />
<code><br />
username_macbook:~ username$<br />
</code></p>
<p>Now let&#8217;s get a list of all our open communications ports by typing ls <strong>/dev/tty.*</strong>  This command normally returns something that looks like:<br />
<code>dev/tty.BTRS232                        /dev/tty.Tigoe6630-AppleAgent-1<br />
/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem                /dev/tty.Tigoe6630-Dial-UpNetwor-2<br />
/dev/tty.KeySerial1                     /dev/tty.modem<br />
</code></p>
<p>When I was at borders today I opened this and noticed something odd&#8230;<br />
<code><br />
250:~ username$<br />
</code></p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure exactly what that 250 means but I assume it&#8217;s got something to do with taking over my open ports and filtering them through whatever T-Mobile device is used in-store.  To confirm this I typed <strong>/dev/tty.*</strong> again which returned:</p>
<p><code>/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem	/dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync</code></p>
<p>This essentially means I have no open ports except these two Bluetooth ports.  </p>
<p>Now, we know T-Mobile does this because they don&#8217;t want to be held liable for hackers attacking users of their networks.  Unfortunately that means from now on when I need to do real work I&#8217;ll just stay home instead of spending money with them.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:3;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:25:"Testing Out Blog Networks";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/30/testing-out-blog-networks/";s:8:"comments";s:70:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/30/testing-out-blog-networks/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:05:45 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:17:"Blogfacebookyahoo";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=314";s:11:"description";s:313:"
Blog Networks is a social networking application that esentially turns Facebook into a massive database of blogs not unsimilar to Yahoo&#8217;s MyBlogLog.  The idea is to encourage reading by the casual reader.  I just signed up GosDot and Appfrica which you can check out by clicking the links.

        [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:822:"<p><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/blognetworks_logo.gif" alt="Blog Networks" width="150" height="133" /></p>
<p>Blog Networks is a social networking application that esentially turns Facebook into a massive database of blogs not unsimilar to Yahoo&#8217;s <a href="http://mybloglog.com">MyBlogLog</a>.  The idea is to encourage reading by the casual reader.  I just signed up <a title="FaceBook Blog Networks" href="http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blogpage.php?blogid=8481" target="_blank">GosDot</a> and <a title="Appfrica at Blog Newtworks" href="http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blogpage.php?blogid=8480" target="_blank">Appfrica</a> which you can check out by clicking the links.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:66:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/30/testing-out-blog-networks/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:313:"
Blog Networks is a social networking application that esentially turns Facebook into a massive database of blogs not unsimilar to Yahoo&#8217;s MyBlogLog.  The idea is to encourage reading by the casual reader.  I just signed up GosDot and Appfrica which you can check out by clicking the links.

        [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:822:"<p><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/blognetworks_logo.gif" alt="Blog Networks" width="150" height="133" /></p>
<p>Blog Networks is a social networking application that esentially turns Facebook into a massive database of blogs not unsimilar to Yahoo&#8217;s <a href="http://mybloglog.com">MyBlogLog</a>.  The idea is to encourage reading by the casual reader.  I just signed up <a title="FaceBook Blog Networks" href="http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blogpage.php?blogid=8481" target="_blank">GosDot</a> and <a title="Appfrica at Blog Newtworks" href="http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blogpage.php?blogid=8480" target="_blank">Appfrica</a> which you can check out by clicking the links.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:4;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Push Button Publisher";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/28/push-button-publisher/";s:8:"comments";s:66:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/28/push-button-publisher/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:51:14 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:29:"Blogbloggingpublishingupdates";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=313";s:11:"description";s:319:"I promise there will be some regular updates to this space soon.  Due to my increased level of work with Appfrica I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog but don&#8217;t worry updates are coming soon.  I recently started blogging/writing for a pretty big magazine out of the UK so I expect to focus the direction of [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1301:"<p>I promise there will be some regular updates to this space soon.  Due to my increased level of work with <a href="http://appfrica.org">Appfrica</a> I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog but don&#8217;t worry updates are coming soon.  I recently started blogging/writing for a pretty big magazine out of the UK so I expect to focus the direction of this site on two areas: Graphic Design and Web Development/Design</p>
<p>All my social media discussion can be found at the <a href="http://appfrica.net">Appfrica blog</a> as it relates to work there..</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re confused, where can you find <a title="jongos" href="http://claimid.com/jongos" target="_blank">Jon Gos</a> on the WWW these days?  </p>
<p><a href="http://appfrica.org">Appfrica.org</a><br />
<a href="http://smashingmagazine.com">Smashing Magazine</a><br />
<a href="http://imaginepublishing.co.uk/">Imaginepublishing.co.uk</a><br />
<a href="http://developertutorials.com/blog/">Developertutorials.com</a><br />
<a href="http://weworkforfree.net">weworkforfree.net</a></p>
<p>I never expected to be a professional blogger but with the increasing amount of gigs I&#8217;m getting, that might just be possible.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:62:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/28/push-button-publisher/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:319:"I promise there will be some regular updates to this space soon.  Due to my increased level of work with Appfrica I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog but don&#8217;t worry updates are coming soon.  I recently started blogging/writing for a pretty big magazine out of the UK so I expect to focus the direction of [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1301:"<p>I promise there will be some regular updates to this space soon.  Due to my increased level of work with <a href="http://appfrica.org">Appfrica</a> I&#8217;ve been neglecting this blog but don&#8217;t worry updates are coming soon.  I recently started blogging/writing for a pretty big magazine out of the UK so I expect to focus the direction of this site on two areas: Graphic Design and Web Development/Design</p>
<p>All my social media discussion can be found at the <a href="http://appfrica.net">Appfrica blog</a> as it relates to work there..</p>
<p>So if you&#8217;re confused, where can you find <a title="jongos" href="http://claimid.com/jongos" target="_blank">Jon Gos</a> on the WWW these days?  </p>
<p><a href="http://appfrica.org">Appfrica.org</a><br />
<a href="http://smashingmagazine.com">Smashing Magazine</a><br />
<a href="http://imaginepublishing.co.uk/">Imaginepublishing.co.uk</a><br />
<a href="http://developertutorials.com/blog/">Developertutorials.com</a><br />
<a href="http://weworkforfree.net">weworkforfree.net</a></p>
<p>I never expected to be a professional blogger but with the increasing amount of gigs I&#8217;m getting, that might just be possible.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:5;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:21:"This Week in Web News";s:4:"link";s:57:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/19/this-week-in-web-news/";s:8:"comments";s:66:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/19/this-week-in-web-news/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:47:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:23:"Blognewssocial mediaweb";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=312";s:11:"description";s:360:"I&#8217;ve been very much preoccupied with my web conference, Appfrica, so I haven&#8217;t blogged much lately but there&#8217;s been some really big shakeups this week in the Web sector.
The biggest is the announcement that Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have decided to leave the company they sold to Yahoo! in 2005!  This is [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2783:"<p>I&#8217;ve been very much preoccupied with my web conference, <a href="http://appfrica.pbwiki.com/">Appfrica</a>, so I haven&#8217;t blogged much lately but there&#8217;s been some really big shakeups this week in the Web sector.</p>
<p>The biggest is the announcement that <a title="Flickr Founders Leaving" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/learning_from_flickrs_cofounde.php" target="_blank">Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have decided to leave</a> the company they sold to Yahoo! in 2005!  This is big, not only because they&#8217;ve been pretty adamant about staying involved with their pet project but because Yahoo! is in the middle of formulating new strategies to appease angry shareholers after that much publicized Microsoft acquisition failed.  They&#8217;re also under increased pressure to breathe life back into their stock which has also suffered in the wake of that same deal.</p>
<p>Technorati announced some new funding, no doubt related to <a title="technorati gets 10 million" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/long_tail_ad_network_technorati_media.php" target="_blank">the longtail business model they just unveiled</a>.  Technorati essentially plans to allow bloggers and publishers of all levels of popularity to sell ads.</p>
<p>The Huffington Post is also making a major step towards becoming an even bigger news media outlet.  <a title="Huffington Post Localized News" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/huffington_post_going_local.php" target="_blank">They intend to compete in localized news markets</a> initially offering a Chicago, Illinois portal and eventually expanding to include other regions of the country. This is apparently part of a larger strategy to move beyond solely political blogging, which has obviously been critical in this election year.</p>
<blockquote cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/huffington_post_going_local.php"><p>&#8220;We are aspiring to be a newspaper in that we want to covering all news [sic], not just the political blogging the way we began,&#8221; Huffington said.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m almost certain this will either lead to acquisition offers by the major media news outlets who are (or should be) afraid of Huffington&#8217;s growing dominance on the web.</p>
<p>Lastly, Facebook surpassed Myspace to become <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/19/facebook-opens-up-worldwide-lead-in-may/"> the most popular social network worldwide</a>.  Considering it was valued by analysts at over a billion dollars only a few months ago, this adds more validity to speculation that Facebook will file for an IPO and go public soon.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:62:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/19/this-week-in-web-news/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:360:"I&#8217;ve been very much preoccupied with my web conference, Appfrica, so I haven&#8217;t blogged much lately but there&#8217;s been some really big shakeups this week in the Web sector.
The biggest is the announcement that Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have decided to leave the company they sold to Yahoo! in 2005!  This is [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2783:"<p>I&#8217;ve been very much preoccupied with my web conference, <a href="http://appfrica.pbwiki.com/">Appfrica</a>, so I haven&#8217;t blogged much lately but there&#8217;s been some really big shakeups this week in the Web sector.</p>
<p>The biggest is the announcement that <a title="Flickr Founders Leaving" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/learning_from_flickrs_cofounde.php" target="_blank">Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield have decided to leave</a> the company they sold to Yahoo! in 2005!  This is big, not only because they&#8217;ve been pretty adamant about staying involved with their pet project but because Yahoo! is in the middle of formulating new strategies to appease angry shareholers after that much publicized Microsoft acquisition failed.  They&#8217;re also under increased pressure to breathe life back into their stock which has also suffered in the wake of that same deal.</p>
<p>Technorati announced some new funding, no doubt related to <a title="technorati gets 10 million" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/long_tail_ad_network_technorati_media.php" target="_blank">the longtail business model they just unveiled</a>.  Technorati essentially plans to allow bloggers and publishers of all levels of popularity to sell ads.</p>
<p>The Huffington Post is also making a major step towards becoming an even bigger news media outlet.  <a title="Huffington Post Localized News" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/huffington_post_going_local.php" target="_blank">They intend to compete in localized news markets</a> initially offering a Chicago, Illinois portal and eventually expanding to include other regions of the country. This is apparently part of a larger strategy to move beyond solely political blogging, which has obviously been critical in this election year.</p>
<blockquote cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/huffington_post_going_local.php"><p>&#8220;We are aspiring to be a newspaper in that we want to covering all news [sic], not just the political blogging the way we began,&#8221; Huffington said.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m almost certain this will either lead to acquisition offers by the major media news outlets who are (or should be) afraid of Huffington&#8217;s growing dominance on the web.</p>
<p>Lastly, Facebook surpassed Myspace to become <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/06/19/facebook-opens-up-worldwide-lead-in-may/"> the most popular social network worldwide</a>.  Considering it was valued by analysts at over a billion dollars only a few months ago, this adds more validity to speculation that Facebook will file for an IPO and go public soon.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:6;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Google Revamps Jaiku";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/16/google-just-bought-jaiku/";s:8:"comments";s:69:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/16/google-just-bought-jaiku/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:02:02 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:13:"Blogwordpress";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=311";s:11:"description";s:336:"The waters ahead just got a little more Turbulent for Twitter, Google may be prepping the retun of Jaiku&#8230;

Jaiku is joining Google. While it&#8217;s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you&#8217;ll find interesting [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2096:"<p>The waters ahead just got a little more Turbulent for Twitter, Google may be prepping the retun of Jaiku&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>
Jaiku is joining Google. While it&#8217;s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you&#8217;ll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together. In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now.</p>
<p>But fear not, all our Jaiku services will stay running the way you are used to and you will be able to invite your friends to Jaiku. We have put together a quick Q&#038;A about the acquisition.</p>
<p>Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen, Jaiku Founders
</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/can_twitter_be_saved.php">In the past few weeks</a> Twitter has faced confusion and what some might call a mass exodus of users because of the fact that it was unprepared for such heavy traffic from users.  The combination of high traffic, too many calls to the API and the strain of Instant mesaging has brought the Twitter servers to their knees more than once.  <strike>Now it appears Google is kicking the service while it&#8217;s down <a href="http://jaiku.com/help/google">by purchasing Jaiku</a>, Twitter&#8217;s nearest competitor.</strike>  Now it appears Google may be prepping a big relaunch of the service it purchased last year, Jaiku. Meanwhile new competitor Plurk and FreindFeed continue to experience rapid booms in growth from former Twitter users who seem to be debating on weather or not they want to stick with the ailing service.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> This post has been corrected due to an error on my part.  I left the original erroneous text but <strike>struck it out</strike> to avoid confusion.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:65:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/16/google-just-bought-jaiku/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:336:"The waters ahead just got a little more Turbulent for Twitter, Google may be prepping the retun of Jaiku&#8230;

Jaiku is joining Google. While it&#8217;s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you&#8217;ll find interesting [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2096:"<p>The waters ahead just got a little more Turbulent for Twitter, Google may be prepping the retun of Jaiku&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>
Jaiku is joining Google. While it&#8217;s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you&#8217;ll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together. In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now.</p>
<p>But fear not, all our Jaiku services will stay running the way you are used to and you will be able to invite your friends to Jaiku. We have put together a quick Q&#038;A about the acquisition.</p>
<p>Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen, Jaiku Founders
</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/can_twitter_be_saved.php">In the past few weeks</a> Twitter has faced confusion and what some might call a mass exodus of users because of the fact that it was unprepared for such heavy traffic from users.  The combination of high traffic, too many calls to the API and the strain of Instant mesaging has brought the Twitter servers to their knees more than once.  <strike>Now it appears Google is kicking the service while it&#8217;s down <a href="http://jaiku.com/help/google">by purchasing Jaiku</a>, Twitter&#8217;s nearest competitor.</strike>  Now it appears Google may be prepping a big relaunch of the service it purchased last year, Jaiku. Meanwhile new competitor Plurk and FreindFeed continue to experience rapid booms in growth from former Twitter users who seem to be debating on weather or not they want to stick with the ailing service.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> This post has been corrected due to an error on my part.  I left the original erroneous text but <strike>struck it out</strike> to avoid confusion.</p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:7;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:17:"Google Goes Gonzo";s:4:"link";s:53:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/06/google-goes-gonzo/";s:8:"comments";s:62:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/06/google-goes-gonzo/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:02:51 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:36:"Blogdevelopmentefailemailgmailgoogle";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=309";s:11:"description";s:342:"From what I&#8217;ve heard, working at Google as a programmer is all about exploring exploring your unrequited love for web applications and new ideas.  It&#8217;s no surprise, then, that the Gmail team is rolling out a javascript applet that allows customers to try out these new features.
It&#8217;s the new beta test model, where the [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2075:"<p>From what I&#8217;ve heard, working at Google as a programmer is all about exploring exploring your unrequited love for web applications and new ideas.  It&#8217;s no surprise, then, that the Gmail team is rolling out a javascript applet that allows customers to try out these new features.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the new beta test model, where the actual testing and bug reporting is essential crowd sourced, allowing those diehard, bleeding edge, early-adopter users to feel more nerdy while helping Google work out the kinks. They&#8217;ve also opened up channels for sending feed back directly to engineers.  Here&#8217;s somewhat of a <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/introducing-gmail-labs.html" title="gmail beta tester">GLabs manifesto</a> from Product Manager Kieth Coleman.</p>
<blockquote cite="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/introducing-gmail-labs.html"><p>
People often ask how we decide what to build next. It&#8217;s usually a mix of factors, like how many users are asking for it (think delete button, vacation responder, and IMAP, among others), how useful we think it will be (think chat, conversation view, etc.) or how much fun it will be to work on (this is actually really important). We have all sorts of debates about each option, we weigh the pros and cons, and then some of the time we probably make the wrong decision.</p>
<p>Gmail Labs is a way for us to take lots of the ideas we wouldn&#8217;t normally pick and let you all (who use Gmail) decide whether they&#8217;re good or not. When you sign in, you&#8217;ll see a new page in Settings called Labs. It has a list of experimental new features, and you can enable or disable each one. Some of the popular ones will become core parts of the product, and we&#8217;ll eventually retire the ones that don&#8217;t get much use. We&#8217;ve put feedback links in there, too, so you can discuss a feature with other users and the engineer(s) who wrote it.
</p></blockquote>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:58:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/06/google-goes-gonzo/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:342:"From what I&#8217;ve heard, working at Google as a programmer is all about exploring exploring your unrequited love for web applications and new ideas.  It&#8217;s no surprise, then, that the Gmail team is rolling out a javascript applet that allows customers to try out these new features.
It&#8217;s the new beta test model, where the [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2075:"<p>From what I&#8217;ve heard, working at Google as a programmer is all about exploring exploring your unrequited love for web applications and new ideas.  It&#8217;s no surprise, then, that the Gmail team is rolling out a javascript applet that allows customers to try out these new features.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the new beta test model, where the actual testing and bug reporting is essential crowd sourced, allowing those diehard, bleeding edge, early-adopter users to feel more nerdy while helping Google work out the kinks. They&#8217;ve also opened up channels for sending feed back directly to engineers.  Here&#8217;s somewhat of a <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/introducing-gmail-labs.html" title="gmail beta tester">GLabs manifesto</a> from Product Manager Kieth Coleman.</p>
<blockquote cite="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/introducing-gmail-labs.html"><p>
People often ask how we decide what to build next. It&#8217;s usually a mix of factors, like how many users are asking for it (think delete button, vacation responder, and IMAP, among others), how useful we think it will be (think chat, conversation view, etc.) or how much fun it will be to work on (this is actually really important). We have all sorts of debates about each option, we weigh the pros and cons, and then some of the time we probably make the wrong decision.</p>
<p>Gmail Labs is a way for us to take lots of the ideas we wouldn&#8217;t normally pick and let you all (who use Gmail) decide whether they&#8217;re good or not. When you sign in, you&#8217;ll see a new page in Settings called Labs. It has a list of experimental new features, and you can enable or disable each one. Some of the popular ones will become core parts of the product, and we&#8217;ll eventually retire the ones that don&#8217;t get much use. We&#8217;ve put feedback links in there, too, so you can discuss a feature with other users and the engineer(s) who wrote it.
</p></blockquote>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:8;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:26:"Adobe Launches Acrobat.com";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/02/adobe-launches-acrobatcom/";s:8:"comments";s:70:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/02/adobe-launches-acrobatcom/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:02:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:16:"Blogacrobatadobe";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=307";s:11:"description";s:322:"In my post &#8220;Adobe Realizes it Gaffed&#8221;, I talked about some of the ways in which Adobe missed opportunities to capitalize with web based ventures.  Well it looks like that argument was correct and the Adobe team is actively trying to catch up.  On the heels of the announcement of Photoshop Express, Adobe [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:3512:"<p>In my post <a href="http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/design/photoshop-design/adobe-realizes-it-gaffed-210/" title="adobe online empire">&#8220;Adobe Realizes it Gaffed&#8221;</a>, I talked about some of the ways in which Adobe missed opportunities to capitalize with web based ventures.  Well it looks like that argument was correct and the Adobe team is actively trying to catch up.  On the heels of the announcement of Photoshop Express, Adobe just launched a web-based office suite of collaborative software at Acrobat.com.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2544545570_50f49877fc.jpg" alt="adobe acrobat 9"></p>
<p>If you think this is just direct competition for Google Docs and 37Signals you&#8217;re wrong.  Acrobat trumps them both in spades!</p>
<p>The Highlights at a Glance:</p>
<ul>
<li>Flash-based</li>
<li>Uses Adobe ConnectNow</li>
<li>Uses your pre-existing Adobe ID to log-in</li>
<li>Allows for online storage</li>
<li>Sharing of Files</li>
<li>Works with the downloadable version of Acrobat 9</li>
<li>Edit and Creates PDFs online</li>
<li>Each user is given a space called a Meeting Room</li>
<li>Allows for Screen Sharing via Web </li>
<li>Can access your web cam from the browser! </li>
<li>Can share your microphone from browser</li>
<li>Appears to allow VOIP conference calls</li>
<li>Advanced Bandwidth Allocation Preferences</li>
<li>Shows all connected users</li>
<li>Shared Whiteboard for taking notes and quick sketches</li>
<li>Native chatting</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>PICS</strong><br />
Click pics to see more.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww4f/sets/72157605384379292/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2014/2544545914_a47ff2da25_m.jpg" alt="acrobat.com"></a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww4f/sets/72157605384379292/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/2544545814_5fdbc1d025_m.jpg" alt="acrobat.com"></a><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww4f/sets/72157605384379292/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2544545962_66b1d08798_m.jpg" alt="acrobat.9"></a><br />
<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww4f/sets/72157605384379292/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2544545656_f3becab86d_m.jpg"></a></p>
<p>I tested it briefly for this article and a few things I can tell you is that it&#8217;s fast and dead simple to use.  While the fact that it&#8217;s Flash-based worries me, it makes perfect sense.   They invented Flash and I&#8217;m sure are dedicated to proving it&#8217;s scalability and usefulness for building web applications.  It would be admitting a weakness if they used Ruby for something like this, not to mention with the recent problems <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/20/twitter-downtime-on-the-upswing/">Twitter&#8217;s been having</a> that doesn&#8217;t sound like the best idea these days anyways.</p>
<p>The verdict?  Acrobat.com aims to be the new place people do business online.  It&#8217;s Skype, 37Singals&#8217; Campfire and Google Docs all rolled into one!   After Beta testing this once, I&#8217;ll never use at least two of those applications ever again!  ReadWriteWeb has an even more <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adobe_launches_online_office_suite.php">in-depth review</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://acrobat.com"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3027/2543776349_4e796a6323.jpg"></a></p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:66:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/06/02/adobe-launches-acrobatcom/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:322:"In my post &#8220;Adobe Realizes it Gaffed&#8221;, I talked about some of the ways in which Adobe missed opportunities to capitalize with web based ventures.  Well it looks like that argument was correct and the Adobe team is actively trying to catch up.  On the heels of the announcement of Photoshop Express, Adobe [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:3512:"<p>In my post <a href="http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/design/photoshop-design/adobe-realizes-it-gaffed-210/" title="adobe online empire">&#8220;Adobe Realizes it Gaffed&#8221;</a>, I talked about some of the ways in which Adobe missed opportunities to capitalize with web based ventures.  Well it looks like that argument was correct and the Adobe team is actively trying to catch up.  On the heels of the announcement of Photoshop Express, Adobe just launched a web-based office suite of collaborative software at Acrobat.com.</p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2544545570_50f49877fc.jpg" alt="adobe acrobat 9"></p>
<p>If you think this is just direct competition for Google Docs and 37Signals you&#8217;re wrong.  Acrobat trumps them both in spades!</p>
<p>The Highlights at a Glance:</p>
<ul>
<li>Flash-based</li>
<li>Uses Adobe ConnectNow</li>
<li>Uses your pre-existing Adobe ID to log-in</li>
<li>Allows for online storage</li>
<li>Sharing of Files</li>
<li>Works with the downloadable version of Acrobat 9</li>
<li>Edit and Creates PDFs online</li>
<li>Each user is given a space called a Meeting Room</li>
<li>Allows for Screen Sharing via Web </li>
<li>Can access your web cam from the browser! </li>
<li>Can share your microphone from browser</li>
<li>Appears to allow VOIP conference calls</li>
<li>Advanced Bandwidth Allocation Preferences</li>
<li>Shows all connected users</li>
<li>Shared Whiteboard for taking notes and quick sketches</li>
<li>Native chatting</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>PICS</strong><br />
Click pics to see more.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww4f/sets/72157605384379292/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2014/2544545914_a47ff2da25_m.jpg" alt="acrobat.com"></a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww4f/sets/72157605384379292/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3045/2544545814_5fdbc1d025_m.jpg" alt="acrobat.com"></a><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww4f/sets/72157605384379292/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2544545962_66b1d08798_m.jpg" alt="acrobat.9"></a><br />
<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww4f/sets/72157605384379292/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2544545656_f3becab86d_m.jpg"></a></p>
<p>I tested it briefly for this article and a few things I can tell you is that it&#8217;s fast and dead simple to use.  While the fact that it&#8217;s Flash-based worries me, it makes perfect sense.   They invented Flash and I&#8217;m sure are dedicated to proving it&#8217;s scalability and usefulness for building web applications.  It would be admitting a weakness if they used Ruby for something like this, not to mention with the recent problems <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/20/twitter-downtime-on-the-upswing/">Twitter&#8217;s been having</a> that doesn&#8217;t sound like the best idea these days anyways.</p>
<p>The verdict?  Acrobat.com aims to be the new place people do business online.  It&#8217;s Skype, 37Singals&#8217; Campfire and Google Docs all rolled into one!   After Beta testing this once, I&#8217;ll never use at least two of those applications ever again!  ReadWriteWeb has an even more <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adobe_launches_online_office_suite.php">in-depth review</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://acrobat.com"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3027/2543776349_4e796a6323.jpg"></a></p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}i:9;a:12:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Share Your Art, Save the World";s:4:"link";s:65:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/05/27/share-your-art-save-the-world/";s:8:"comments";s:74:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/05/27/share-your-art-save-the-world/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 27 May 2008 08:27:11 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:3:"jon";}s:8:"category";s:16:"Blogartngosocial";s:4:"guid";s:30:"http://gosdot.com/unity/?p=283";s:11:"description";s:335:"
WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it&#8217;s members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations.  
They do this by hosting contests sponsored by donors that need a job completed, but who are also willing to donate money to a good cause.  [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1655:"<p><a href="http://weworkforfree.net"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2418/2526781151_9f8269b9ec.jpg"></a></p>
<p>WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it&#8217;s members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations.  </p>
<p>They do this by hosting contests sponsored by donors that need a job completed, but who are also willing to donate money to a good cause.  The programs are target small communities in places like Kenya, Uganda and India.  Examples of some of these programs include goals like raising money to donate OLPC laptops to classrooms, raising money to send food to Tsunami victims or donating funds to a clinic that shelters refugees from Kenya.</p>
<p>One of the most interesting elements is that artist can apply for scholarships to actually go volunteer for a few weeks in some of the countries where WW4F are established!  The idea is to help designers, photographers, illustrators, and other artists get involved in using their talents to benefit the world at large.  </p>
<p>The UI of the site will be quite familiar to those of you using services like DeviantArt, CarbonMade and ConceptArt.org with the added benefit of raising money for the people in areas of the world that desperately need it.</p>
<p>We Work For Free is currently in private beta.  Click the image below to visit.</p>
<p><a href="http://ww4free.org"><img src="http://www.weworkforfree.net/blog/wp-content/theme/modicus-remix/images/header/logo.png"></a></p>

        <p><center>&copy; jon - visit the <a href="">author</a> for more great content.</center></p>      ";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:70:"http://gosdot.com/unity/2008/05/27/share-your-art-save-the-world/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:335:"
WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it&#8217;s members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations.  
They do this by hosting contests sponsored by donors that need a job completed, but who are also willing to donate money to a good cause.  [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:1655:"<p><a href="http://weworkforfree.net"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2418/2526781151_9f8269b9ec.jpg"></a></p>
<p>WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it&#8217;s members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations.  </p>
<p>They do this by hosting contests sponsored by donors that need a job completed, but who are also willing to donate money to a good cause.  The programs are target small communities in places like Kenya, Uganda and India.  Examples of some of these programs include goals like raising money to donate OLPC laptops to classrooms, raising money to send food to Tsunami victims or donating funds to a clinic that shelters refugees from Kenya.</p>
<p>One of the most interesting elements is that artist can apply for scholarships to actually go volunteer for a few weeks in some of the countries where WW4F are established!  The idea is to help designers, photographers, illustrators, and other artists get involved in using their talents to benefit the world at large.  </p>
<p>The UI of the site will be quite familiar to those of you using services like DeviantArt, CarbonMade and ConceptArt.org with the added benefit of raising money for the people in areas of the world that desperately need it.</p>
<p>We Work For Free is currently in private beta.  Click the image below to visit.</p>
<p><a href="http://ww4free.org"><img src="http://www.weworkforfree.net/blog/wp-content/theme/modicus-remix/images/header/logo.png"></a></p>

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