Hi Chris and readers, I'm Ed Sussman and was behind the new launch. Thanks for the nice comments about the site. Sorry about the server errors this morning. We were down for a bit because we had to double our server capacity today to accomodate all the new users. Wheee.. All seems OK and snappy now.
We are monitoring these suggestins carefully. I asked for two of them to be implemented this morning. We are rolling out new waves of changes and bug fixes about every 48 hours.
And say, Chris, we are also offering our software as a white label solution for other media sites or big groups -- provided they will open up people and group search across our the whole network of sites we'll be building, and support OpenID to make it wasy for members to jump from network to network without re-registering.
Maximillian Kaizen
· 1 year ago
:-D I joined a few days ago, as a loooong standing fan of FC. I started up one of the Fast Company Company of Friends groups/cells here in South Africa back when the acceleration started in '98 I think. Genius fellow Heath Row was pioneering some cool social connections way ahead of the curve.
Thanks for the reminder Chris, going to go plump up the profile >>
Valeria Maltoni
· 1 year ago
Well, I've been there all along. Thank you for highlighting this, Chris. I will be posting my take tomorrow.
michelle lamar
· 1 year ago
I found the new site by accident this AM trying to email a client the article on Mike Rowe from the print edition. WOW. It's a social media geek's dream.
Mark Dykeman
· 1 year ago
Must go check out; hopefully it is working OK now.
Kara C
· 1 year ago
I LOVE fast company, i started adding myself to the small community message boards, but that is so old school! very glad to see an innovative magazine is stepping it up!
Heath Row
· 1 year ago
For the record, Chris didn't actually stalk me. But he was a relatively member of the Company of Friends, Fast Company's readers network, and I had the good luck to meet him -- and other members of the Boston CoF group -- several times while I worked there.
As the founder of the CoF and a long-time member of the Fast Company Web team, I'm quite pleased with this new iteration of the community tools. When the CoF launched in 1997, we built it with email mailing lists, online discussion forums, and other Web tools -- but nothing like the tools we have available today. This stuff is a major improvement.
All Comments
Happy Saturday, FC tech team. Good luck.
I've provided Fast Company with some analysis on their site
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/02/09/a...
We have a group called Site Advisors and Testers that I'd like to invite you and your readers to join: http://www.fastcompany.com/group/beta-testers
We are monitoring these suggestins carefully. I asked for two of them to be implemented this morning. We are rolling out new waves of changes and bug fixes about every 48 hours.
And say, Chris, we are also offering our software as a white label solution for other media sites or big groups -- provided they will open up people and group search across our the whole network of sites we'll be building, and support OpenID to make it wasy for members to jump from network to network without re-registering.
Genius fellow Heath Row was pioneering some cool social connections way ahead of the curve.
Thanks for the reminder Chris, going to go plump up the profile >>
As the founder of the CoF and a long-time member of the Fast Company Web team, I'm quite pleased with this new iteration of the community tools. When the CoF launched in 1997, we built it with email mailing lists, online discussion forums, and other Web tools -- but nothing like the tools we have available today. This stuff is a major improvement.
Kudos to all involved!