Buzzflikr Blogs: Dan’s Pollen Count

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It has been a tough week for buzzflikr.com … problems have arisen (some of which are publicly viewable on the website) and i’m deep in the trenches trying to work this all out.

Over the course of the weekend I’ll be fixing the big issues and update as I can.

Thank you.

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5/12/09 - after a long weekend and lots of troubleshooting, it came down to a web server misconfiguration. Issues resolved as of now. Thanks for your patience.

hi all,

A few odd issues have arisen in the hive today. One affecting the load times of certain pages, specifically the homepage. I was able to find out part of the problem was the way RSS feeds were being pulled in. So for the time being a few things are disabled as I work out why it happened in the first place.

There is also a few other issues to attend to, but nothing critical.

If you see anything, it would be very helpful to shoot me an email - Thanks!

On a lighter note, its cinco de mayo! Celebracion! I missed blogging all through April, sorry about that! More tech updates coming…

Hi everybody! Apologies for the silence but don’t worry, that is all over now! As I’m getting back into high gear blogging… starting with deleting wayyyy too many spam comments I thought I’d let you know about a couple other ways to be a part of the ever expanding Buzzflikr colony.

We have setup a Facebook Page to keep you informed about everything Buzzflikr… including trends, our newsletters and even special FB exclusive content! I also just started up our Buzzflikr Twitter! Now you can follow us and get up to the minute updates in less than 140 characters. If you aren’t on Facebook or Twitter yet, why not join now?

Thanks!

Become a Fan of Buzzflikr on Facebook! http://fb.buzzflikr.com

Follow Buzzflikr on Twitter - http://tweet.buzzflikr.com

We’ve been working on the next version of our site since… well pretty much since I launched the first version. Thats just the way it goes in these extremely fast times. We are definately at the point of needing a fresh face to the website.

We are looking for graphic designers who would like to provide mockups of a new version of Buzzflikr.com. Specifically we would like a layered Photoshop file that can be turned over to a coder. [If you code templates for CMS's then by all means there is a bonus for that]

We are prepared to work with you on any method of ‘payment,’ whether it be monetary or otherwise. We are a team of professionals in the fashion, PR, and technical industries and have alot to offer if you are looking for something other than cash.

If you are interested please contact me, Daniel Scally at daniel AT buzzflikr.com

Thanks!

As the day we all fill ourselves with delicious food approaches I’ve been working on buzzflikr with a drool…

I wanted to bring a few things to your attention.

• The Stingers menu at the top has been modified so you can view Style Stingers (our public monthly newsletter) and Bee Stings (our weekly Colonist newsletter) separately.
• It is no easier to sign up for Style Stingers - sign up here - http://www.buzzflikr.com/subscribe
• Some links that were broken are now fixed
• Added the initial version of our Frequently Asked Questions, which I will be updating more later.
• Check out some of our feedback in the Buzzflikr Praise section in Our Buzz

More to come… and I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

If you’ve dropped by buzzflikr.com recently and noticed something weird going on… well I apologize. I’ve been working on the backend functionality of the site the past week. I have been trying to optimize as much as possible to make the experience for you all alot faster and easy.

Any suggestions and comments are welcome!

As of today our stylish blogger, CC has now launched seebycc.com. “See by CC” is dubbed ‘the chic fix for savvy editors,’ and we aim to do just that.

On the technical side of things, I would like to improve in a variety of areas, yet this is a great start. We’re running Wordpress to keep everything easy and in order. There are many tools out there to utilize in the blogosphere, and I’ll get us on board as soon as possible. The most valuable part of a weblog is always its content, and CC will be blogging like mad now that she’s all setup.

Make sure to head over to SeeByCC.com to check it out.

The email migration project I announced on this post has been completed.

Buzzflikr email is now back up and running.

Thank you for your patience.

MAINTENANCE ANNOUCEMENT:

I am performing maintenance on out Buzzflikr email system in order to upgrade to a better system.

I anticipate no more downtime than 24 - 36 hours.

All emails sent to any @buzzflikr.com email address may not reach its intended recipient. We apologize for the inconvenience, yet this had to be done in order accomplish our plans for the future.

I will post an update when the migration has been completed.

I updated the last blog post that Profiles were back online but I thought I’d let you all know what’s going on. One of the components that controls certain aspects of our profile/user system was acting up… real bad. Over the past weeks I’ve been wrestling with it non stop and have finally found some solutions. I’ve already worked in some things behind the scenes yet more will be happening over this weekend and I’ll be sending out some announcements next week.

Major Moving:

Since I did find some solutions for one of our major problems, we’ve also found some solutions to other problems we’ve been having… for one: website SLOOOOWNESSS. We apologize, nobody wants to wait around for websites to load nowadays, and believe me what I say I’m obsessed with fast loading websites. I have decided to move us over to a different webhosting company… Media Temple. I (as well as many other BIG companies like Nike, Starbucks, Deisel) have trusted (mt) for years and I’m looking forward to our new home.

I’ll be performing this work over this weekend (Aug 8 - 10) and some may spill into next week yet I’ll make sure to keep updating the blog.

More later!

- Dan