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.
]]>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…
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A few stories broke this week concerning the rapid growth of both Twitter and Facebook. The latest figures put Twitter growing at over 1,300 %… can you believe that!? Facebook has been growing steadily as well and continues to reporting 149% growth in February alone. (as compared to Feb. 2008)
Now, how does this affect you - the brand, marketer, or whatever you may be? GO TO WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE! It make sense right? You want to gain or keep more customers, and social networking reaches out to an active audience that has a higher chance of seeing you than other traditional methods. Creating a Facebook Page [such as fb.buzzflikr.com] taps into the huge audience (175 million active users) that you can constantly reach out to. On the other side, Twitter [tweet.buzzflikr.com] is the micro-blogging revolution that allows ‘followers’ to subscribe to your updates… which turns into X amount of viewers instantaneously.
What I’m trying to say here in so few words is that social networking is a huge new resource to tap into. Twitter and Facebook are just two examples with incredible growth and opportunity right now, but there is a plethora of ways to ‘connect’ in this exciting ‘web 2.0.’ I’ll go over more in future posts.
Don’t know what’s going on here? Contact Buzzflikr and we can help take your PR efforts to the next level. Or just dive right in and get started! Here’s some info on the incredibly helpful Wikipedia: Facebook, Twitter.
]]>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
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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!
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- Google - “buzzflikr”
Results: 1,430
(up 719 from 711) - Google Page Rank
PR Results: 3/10
(no change) - Alexa Ranking - buzzflikr.com
Results: 2,967,590
(up 1,536,916 from 3,666,956) - November Buzzflikr.com stats
Unique Visitors: 959 Page Views: 4,311
(up from 284 unique visitors, 1,263 page views)
As you can see we have some growth and action under our heels. We have seen exciting growth all across the board - a doubling in google search results, our Alexa ranking up over 1.5 million, and triple the amount of unique visitors!
November was a great month with Siana on board and we’re still picking up the pace! I will be making a dedicated effort to more blog posting because there is lots always going on in the background.
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving holiday… now on to Christmas and New Year!
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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!
]]>- Google - 711 Results (up 207)
- Google Page Rank -3/10 (up 1)
- Alexa Ranking - 3,666,956 details (down 850,744 from Sept: 4,517,700)
- October Buzzflikr.com stats - 284 unique visitors 1,263 page views (we’re working on getting out there!)
These numbers should be changing hopefully very soon as we are now aggresively in business. We welcomed our new Director of Public Relation and Marketing - Siana Brennick last week and we are thrilled to have her.
]]> 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!
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