Archive for January, 2008

If you didn’t notice the subtle change, we’ve switched from “We’re Hiring Writers” to “We Need Writers” on our infrequent nags for writers.
PhoneNews.com is growing, but unfortunately, we don’t have the staff to keep up with the increases in viewership. I’m personally doing everything I can to increase this. Money is important, but it’s not [...]

We’re deploying the final major revision to the new PhoneNews.com interface right now. We’ll be putting it up on the news first, and then the blog after that.
This will occur over the next three days mostly. Once we’re done with that, we’ve already started lining up design teams to replicate this interface on the Forums [...]

If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, and add PhoneNews.com to your home screen as a WebClip, you’ll now get this nice icon below:

This will replace your standard icon (which is a glossy-version of the page you were looking at).
And, in case you haven’t read about WebClips 50,000 times by now, you can also [...]

On a roll from Macworld, we’ve upgraded the forums to IP.Board version 2.3.4, bringing it up-to-date. The patch was mostly a bug fix release, but also had some performance improvements.
But, we have something much bigger planned for tonight and tomorrow. The first PhoneNews.com Newsletter will be emailed out to the almost 9,000 registered members on [...]

We are indeed starting to roll out full page ads on PhoneNews.com. But, our goal is to make sure you don’t usually see them.
The ads are being deployed in two places: One, on the forums when you aren’t logged in. Register for free, and you’ll never see a full page ad on the Forums.  The [...]

We’ve integrated the Phone Encyclopedia right onto the front page of PhoneNews.com. Yes, the phones are a little stale right now on there, but moving forward, they’re going to be updated in real-time, alongside unreleased phones (which will run right next to the New Releases that you’re seeing right now).
This is what we’ve been aiming [...]

Once again, we continue our perfect streak of not having a single server issue during a Macworld Expo keynote. While others had trouble loading, we stayed online and responsive to you the viewer.
Thanks to RapidVPS for the dual-core support, we completely saturated a single Pentium D core, with another running a full blast to keep [...]

Sending this in from my iPod touched (meshed with a Samsung i760, thanks to WMWifiRouter).
So far, my Sprint Mobile Broadband Card, Sony camera charger, and Memory Stick card reader have gone missing… And that’s just in the past 24 hours.
But fear not, this is somewhat to be expected with last-minute travel… I have on me [...]

Here’s a quick update on shipping out giveaway prizes: we’re almost done. Almost all the prizes have been shipped, we only have a few left to send out. Those last ones will go out when Macworld is done and over with.
And, once that is through, we’ll be starting a whole new wave of relaunch giveaways. [...]

One problem I’ve found in managing a design team, is textual communication. It’s difficult at times to explain changes you want to visuals over email.
An example of this is with our new look and feel (which isn’t on the blog yet, we’re going to wait for it to go final… but is on the News [...]