Tag: FORUM

Idea Informer is a widget that you put on your site, and it takes the form of one of those "feedback tabs" to the right of the page (you've seen them before, I'm sure). The thing that's a bit different about Idea Informer is that any comments left by visitors become public, and other visitors can vote them up. You can think of it as a public wish list. One problem with the implementation is that ...

Don't you just hate it when you sign up on a forum or blog comment system and everyone has cool avatars, but you don't? If you aren't too picky about it, why not just punch your name into Turn Your Name Into a Face, and let it come up with something for you out of 100,000 possible faces. Now, granted, the options may leave a bit to be desired; they're all black pixel art on a random pale ...

YouTube, the mayor of New Orleans, and the governor of Louisiana have publicly invited the presidential candidates to participate in a presidential forum this September. Since this is not an official debate, it is unknown if any of the candidates will actually show up. Either way, the event should prove successful -- here's why. It's been quite some time since New Orleans was hit by Hurricane ...

The internet: How can a medium so conceptually full of potential win attract so many people full of utter lose and fail? Wired reports that "griefers" (which is a polite euphemism, I suppose, for a term Weblogs Inc really wouldn't want me to use) lodged an attack on the non-profit Epilepsy Foundation last weekend. Epilepsy is one of those really fun conditions that can vary wildly in seizure type ...

Twing is a new search engine that indexes almost 5,000 online forums, on subjects ranging from the very general (arts and entertainment) to the extremely specific (Scottish Snooker). On top of its search features, it also has a 1990's-Yahoo!-style directory organized by topic, and a collection of trends and toplists called the Community Buzz Directory. Does Twing actually have a finger on the ...

Tangler is a web service that lets anyone create a pretty nifty discussion forum. It takes just a few seconds to sign up and create a forum which you can then invite your friends to participate in. But the word forum doesn't really do justice to Tangler. Sure, you can create topics and respond to comments left by other users in each topic in the forum. But unlike old fashioned forums or ...

Computer geek superstore Newegg launched a new user forum this month called the EggXpert Community. The forum caters to Newegg's core audience of hardcore computer users who: Open their computer cases more than their manual Upgrades their PC every six months because they can Need perfect lighting in every family photo And so on. Basically, this is probably just a tactic to get users to ...

ForumMatrix is a handy comparison matrix to check if you are thinking about running a public forum and aren't sure what forum software to use, or if you already do run a forum and want to switch to a different package. You can select different packages from their list and compare the details (license, features, cost, etc.) side-by-side in a easy to follow table. If you aren't sure where to start ...

A forum member named Lorfoul over at the Revision3 forums posted a list of his preferred free Windows downloads that are less than 2MB in size. Many of them have been covered here before at Download Squad, and we've definitely covered longer lists. I like this one in particular though, specifically for its brevity. It's a nice short list of useful Windows programs all in one place. It won't take ...

Vanilla advertises itself as "an open-source, standards compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web," and on Saturday it saw its 1.0 release.  Vanilla will run on any web server equipped with PHP 4.1+ and MySQL 3.23+ and its Ajaxy bits work equally well in any major browser. To see Vanilla in action, head over to the official forums, or head straight to the ...