Gizmoojo is CSSRebooted and many great things to come.
November 1, 2006 at 12:49 pm | In Sponsorship, Web 2.0, cssreboot, gizmoojo, web2.0 | 1 Comment
If you ‘ve been to the site, you should have noticed that we had a major makeover for Gizmoojo! And yes, we love our new design and we can’t wait to relaunch Gizmoojo with some really cool stuff that I ‘ve been thinking about. Nevertheless, the current version of Gizmoojo has some bug fixes but overall, there are no new features that went in.
We would like to thank our sponsors – Railsplayground for provding the best ever Rails hosting for our users and also Dave Zentgraf from Kunststube for the redesign of Gizmoojo!
To allow us to keep you informed of our upcoming relaunch, I would encourage you to create a new user account and I promise, we will relaunch with some really cool features to come!
The rumored Google Rs
October 5, 2006 at 8:03 pm | In Web 2.0, gizmoojo, google rs, web .0, web2.0 | 1 CommentThis morning, some mysterious Google screenshots – including what appears to be a mock-up for a Google Web Office product, called Google RS were posted on Google groups for Google reader. The screenshots were at this location, but have since been taken down.
So I managed to save them just before they were taken down. So from these screenshots, Google Rs actually looked very cool. If it was materialized, we can see some stir-ups to the web 2.0 startups over might just be overshadow by Google. Take Kiko for example. Google integration of calender into Gmail practically took their growth out. So if Google Rs is really released, we should see quite a few smaller web 2.0 startups dropping into the dead bucket. (Digg it)
Gizmoojo…. whats up
September 7, 2006 at 10:37 am | In Web 2.0, gizmoojo, railsplayground, widgetbox | 1 CommentIf anyone of you asked “What’s going on guys… its been a while since Gizmoojo had any updates or news.. so whats up?”… We’re sorry. We are buzy … buzy making Gizmoojo better and greater. We will have several good news to break lose to the community once we feel its approprate.
One thing for sure .. its all good. Here a great piece of news to share for now….
We are ditching our host provider – Dreamhost.. Yes… Bye Dreamhost..Thanks for all the nightmares… we are moving on. Your servers are for kids and we have grown. We like to tell everyone about our new host provide. – Railsplayground. Kudos to Railsplayground!!!! Great people, wonderful plans…Apache+Mongrels 
Best support in its class. We would highly recommend them if you are looking specifically for Rails hosting.
Second piece of news that we are sharing – we are widgetized. Gizmoojo adgent is now on widgetbox and you can easily integrate widgetbox into your blog and site. You can find Gizmoojo adgent under the money makers category, and hey..not bad for being the most subscribed under the money makers category. widgetbox is now open to public.. so go get your widgets…
We are moving towards version 0.6 and hopefully we can start 0.6 with a bang on our new host provider!!!!
Digg goes down and so what the rest of the world do…
July 21, 2006 at 6:59 pm | In Web 2.0, digg down | 1 CommentFired up my firefox this morning and wow… Digg is down… for maintenance… (“some changes”) to be specifics…but this is rare for me, because this is the first time that I saw this “We are down” page.
But its cool that they have a list of sites for the lost diggers to visit while they are doing their thing… But its funny that they did not have a link to their founder, Kevin Rose’s blog…. .. Corrections there… they did have a link to diggblog.
Digg will be down for a brief period, while we make some changes. While not digging, the digg crew recommends:
- Amar: Planet Earth
- Brian: Rocketboom
- Dan: Oasis
- Daniel: Top Left Pixel
- Eli: HubbleSite
- Kevin: Ask a Ninja
- Jay: Onion
- Owen: Dealbreaker
- Steve: A List Apart
- Timeless: Wikipedia
- All: digg the blog
Wonder why they had to “make some changes” all the sudden…. so I headed out to the Diggblog and sure enough there is some details there. Apparently, Owen did some updates last nite and it ended up breaking Digg… in a bad way.. Nahhhhh…. nothing there.. that was from 02/2006…. sorry for the confusion there..
Gizmoojo.com Beta 0.5 released
July 19, 2006 at 6:33 pm | In Startups, Web 2.0, beta test, gizmoojo, startup, web2.0 | Leave a Comment
With all the server issues behind my back, I decided to spice up Gizmoojo.com with a little small update. If anyone is curious why we had this release as 0.5, its because this is ver0.5 of Gizmoojo software. You see, I have tagging my development code with release version so that I can easily know what version of code is where and what is fix and what is added to the version of software Gizmoojo runs on, and when we had our first public beta, it was release 0.3. So I thought, why not include the release version on the mainpage and shortly also a link to the release notes (software engineering stuff – basically a table of what is fix, new features,etc)
With this release, I’ve changed the site mainpage a little to just always show the Portable Audio Players + a random selected department. Bare in mind this is no way how the mainpage will be, I’m sure it will be evolving as we move along and feedbacks from users. So get out there and write your very own Gizmoojo page now.
Gizmoojo down status
July 16, 2006 at 9:56 pm | In Web 2.0, dreamhost, gizmoojo, server issues | Leave a CommentSorry folks, if you had problems accessing the service at Gizmoojo.com yesterday and today, our web hosting provider had serious, really serious fileserver trouble. And since yesterday, the particular file server has been having ups and downs. We apologize if you had problem accessing Gizmoojo.com. Rest assure that I take this incident seriously and I hope to move Gizmoojo.com to a dedicate server in the future.
HOUSTON, WE ARE READY FOR LIFT-OFF
June 27, 2006 at 3:36 pm | In Amazon, Startups, Web 2.0, beta test, gizmoojo, web2.0 | 8 CommentsAfter 4 days of non-stop coding and cracking, and eating and jumping, the moment has arrived. We are going into beta launch for gizmoojo.com. HEAD ON OUT BETA.GIZMOOJO.COM and sign up now. I am hoping we will not get any DIGG effect, like what DIGG did to itself when it launch DIGG3.0. Basically, they have so much hype that it was causing some serious strain on their servers. From the Digg blog
Digg v3 Status
(5:00AM PST): Digg temporarily down while we switch over to Digg v3.0.
(6:10AM PST): Digg v3 is live.
(6:20AM PST): Demand is so high we’re adding more machines.
(7:50AM PST): We are making a run to bestbuy to pick up some more servers (kidding). Seriously though: We are seeing much higher activity than we normally do, so bear with us as we turn on additional machines and tweak the site throughout the day.
(3:30PM PST): All is running fine. Digg on!
Really funny…. Mr Rose.. Although, on the back of my mind, if we ever got Digg, that would be such an honor…… but then that would render our service unavailable to the beta testers and that is something I hope would not be a major issue. Well, we’ll just have to see. Couple of points that I want to highlight, as you know Gizmoojo.com is about reviews, tech reviews.. so why not make a site that would benefit the reviewer that really work hard to share their knowledge and experience. So that is why we have the Gizmoojo adgent.
The advertising adgents that runs the ADs on each Gizmoojo Page. What is cool about this is, if you signed up for an Amazon Associates Account, you can enter your Amazon Associate ID into your profile, and at the same time, enjoy some AJAX profile update…. Cool. ahh… and right now for the beta launch, you will get 100%, YES, 100% of the outward clicks to Amazon, so ALL the best.. since we will be revising that so we can earn some money to move on to bigger things for Gizmoojo.com. What I have in mind is a 50/50 split for outward clicks to Amazon once we are well away from Beta. So go ahead and gizmoojo away!
We have our front page all nailed up
June 18, 2006 at 9:17 pm | In Web 2.0, beta test, gizmoojo, startup | 1 CommentWe love our new front page, it's has all the web 2.0 elements that make a site web 2.0-ish – things like curve corners, beta logo, silk icons, cool gradients. So I thought, lets share it with the world, how about a sneak peak at what the beta launch front page will look like!
Hot from the oven, but not half-baked 
Failure to launch
May 15, 2006 at 8:16 pm | In Startups, Web 2.0, gizmoojo | 2 CommentsOh… yah.. if you have watched the movie "Failure to Launch" by Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey, this is not a post about the movie . Now things have been pretty hectic for the past 2 weeks that I thought that I was gonna be able to deliver the first and very first of the Gizmoojo.com for the beta release and things sort of happened and the delivery schedule sort of slipped.
For Web2.0 sites, it is important to move on quickly to the beta test stage so that you can gather feedbacks on what you are trying to do and as well as get users to use the site. More than often, its the determination of features that gets into the software releases that will likely cost you the slip or the failure to launch.
In the case of Gizmoojo.com, at the beginning, I had planned to write a module using Flickrs API that will allow users to easily upload the pictures that they had wanted to use for their gizmoojo pages. but it looks like to do that, the launch would have to be delayed. So the decision is made to have that available later on, and just have a page that would "advice" users to sign up for a flicker account and upload their pics there.
I hope to have the beta launch at the end of May and to make that happen, I would really have to put more hours into writing code and echo "GO GO GO………………………." in my head
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