Over the last few months Crowd Favorite has had the opportunity to work with some great people at Yahoo! to create a rather unique WordPress plugin: Yahoo! Shortcuts. This is probably the most ambitious plugin I’ve helped build, and I think it will be really useful for a number of bloggers out there. Basically it…
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One thing you learn rather quickly when you release and support software is that the faster you answer questions the more questions you receive. Fast e-mail responses often lead to fast responses on the other end and you end up engaged in a psuedo real-time conversation. Being responsive to customers is important, but if you’re…
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Crowd Favorite has grown again, this time adding someone with the skills to help us keep up with all the fun stuff we’re working on. I’m very pleased to announce that Peter Gornell has joined us to take over our project management responsibilities. As we’ve been growing, communication and project management has become more and…
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I’m very pleased to announce that ShareThis 2.0 is now available! This new version has a ton of great features, including: A new WordPress plugin. WordPress users can download the new plugin here. Support for non-WordPress platforms. This was by far the #1 requested feature, and you can use the ShareThis widget for other blogging…
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I’ve been encouraging a couple of contractors we’ve been working with to go ahead and create a sole proprietorship or LLC business for themselves. Sole proprietorships are very simple to set up, but LLCs are pretty easy too. At least in Colorado, you can do everything online including paying the small processing fee. It’s worth…
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Crowd Favorite has had the opportunity to work with Answers.com this fall on AnswerLinks, a new WordPress plugin. Answerlinks talks to an API at Answers.com and auto-suggests links to definitions and more on Answers.com for terms in your blog post. Then you can choose to add the links you want; very simple and easy. After…
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Sara Smith interviewed me for a RandomBits Podcast. She asks some good questions, I hope my answers are interesting. The discussion includes a variety of things, including: WordPress Crowd Favorite ShareThis MyFreeBusy
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My Share This plugin for WordPress has proven to be very popular. It is being used on a number of high profile sites including Mashable.com, GigaOM, Web Worker Daily, AllThingsD.com and others. It’s a good example of a tool meeting a need. As you would expect, I wasn’t the only one trying to solve the…
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One of the challenges I’ve been facing over the last couple of months since we’ve brought on more staff and started accepting more custom development work at Crowd Favorite is how to avoid having the entire day eaten up by e-mail and phone calls with prospects and clients. I’ve never been a zealot about the…
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As evidenced by the recent quick growth of Crowd Favorite and lack of blog posts here due to busy-ness, things are going quite well for us. With the school year starting in another couple of weeks, we thought it would be a good time to create a couple of internship positions. I’ve posted specs for…
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Things have been going well at Crowd Favorite, in fact we’ve been busy enough (slight understatement) that I’ve had the opportunity to bring on another great local developer: Mike Hostetler. I met Mike a few years ago and we’ve kept in contact with semi-regular lunches ever since. I’m thrilled that we were both at a…
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I debugged a strange WordPress issue for a client today, one I hadn’t seen or heard of before, so I thought I’d document it. The symptoms: IE7 would try to download the wp-login.php page instead of loading it. Mobile devices (using my mobile plugin would complain that they could not view the site due to…
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I had a great last day down at the Hive. Had lunch with Brian, Sean, Elliot and Mike and thoroughly enjoying hanging out and talking about the iPhone. The Hive is a great concept and I’m very pleased to see it doing well, and see great people working in it. I’m sure Andrew is thrilled…
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In the transition from the King Design web site to the Crowd Favorite web site, it seems that the tiniest of typos broke the e-mail forms on the Crowd Favorite web site. Very sorry about this. If by chance you tried to contact us through one of those forms over the last 10 days, your…
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I launched the Crowd Favorite site with a somewhat boring “CF” favicon1. I’m not terribly keen on it, so I put up a more fun icon using a hand from the crowd lower down on the page. I think I like the hand better, but it has some drawbacks too. What do you think? Have…