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Vanilla Forums Gets Investment, Releases New Version

By Curt Hopkins / July 22, 2010 7:06 PM / View Comments
vanilla_logo.pngVanilla has been described as the Wordpress of forums. Vanilla created an easy-to-use, sleek forum-builder and has seen 350,000 users employ it.

Today, according to Vanilla Blog, the company has launched Vanilla 2.

Cause-Based Funding: Startl and Philanthropic Startup Investment

By Dana Oshiro / February 11, 2010 2:37 PM / View Comments

startl_funding_feb10.jpgRaising funding is hard any way you slice it, but the emergence of cause-base resources is helping pave the way for ethical startups that might have otherwise gone unseen. A few years ago we featured 13 seed funding options for entrepreneurs. Since then a few investment groups have come forward with a different approach. One such funder is the education-focused incubator Startl.

StackOverflow Shares its Mojo: White Label Q&A for All

By Dana Oshiro / October 12, 2009 1:00 PM / View Comments

stackexchange_stackoverflow_oct09.jpgAt this point, most programmers have already heard about StackOverflow. First started last year by celebrity coders Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, coding Q&A site StackOverflow crowdsources programming solutions for all to see. The site is popular for its Digg-like voting interface, clean design and, of course, its useful information. The duo has since begun licensing the software behind StackOverflow to provide companies with customizable Q&A forums on a number of topics.

New Google Search Feature Highlights Forums & Discussions

By Jolie O'Dell / September 30, 2009 8:11 PM / View Comments

A new feature introduced today by Google lets users quickly preview forum discussions within search results.

The new feature will apply to sites that have a large number of relevant posts for a user's search query. Users will see the topic of the thread, the number of posts, and the date the thread was posted.

Why We Love UserVoice

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 5, 2008 2:44 PM

UserVoicelogo150.jpgUserVoice is a little startup that offers a customer support service for any website and allows users to give votes to their favorite suggestions. At first glance it looks like Digg for customer feedback. Spend a little time on the site, though, and you'll see there's a whole lot more going on.

UserVoice is one of the most exciting things we've seen on the web for some time - the User Experience is fabulous. We keep getting excited about it, so we decided to write a post about why we love it so much. Maybe you'll fall in love with it too, or maybe the things we love about UserVoice will help you make other applications more lovable in some of the same ways.

Google Revamping Forums, Changes Look Good

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 6, 2008 3:58 PM

googlelogo150.jpgGoogle just announced that it is relaunching its Google Help Forums and we believe the changes are likely to be extended to all Google Groups forums in the future. The new forums include some great new features and utilize the new Google Profiles extensively.

Highlighted changes include reputation, designation of "top contributors," standards-based profiles that extend across Google products and the web, and the ability for Google staff and top contributors to mark some questions as answered.

Microsoft Taps Multiply.com as New Home for MSN Groups

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 15, 2008 5:25 PM

In a world dominated by Facebook and MySpace, one of the best kept secrets in social networking is Multiply.com. This fast growing little social network is about to make a whole lot of new friends.

Microsoft announced today that it will soon close down its 13 year old forum site MSN Groups and it's encouraging its users to export their conversations over to its new official partner, Multiply. It's a big win for one of the most solid social networks online.

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