Shizzow

I wanted to make sure that everyone knows about this weekend’s mapping party activities brought to you by the OpenStreetMap project. Here’s the cliff notes version: Mapping party at Multnomah Central Library from 11am - 4pm on Saturday. Forest park trail mapping from 9am - 2pm on Sunday...

I’m a huge fan of xkcd, and today’s comic does a great job of illustrating why we designed Shizzow to require that you shout your location rather than automating the process. Brady also has an interesting take on this issue over on the O’Reilly Radar blog...

For the week ending April 19th, here are the top Shizzow community members across a variety of categories. For comparison, you can take a look at previous community in review posts...

For the week ending April 12th, here are the top Shizzow community members across a variety of categories. We’ve even added a couple of new categories to recognize people who are doing nice things (like remembering to tag places)...

We made a few enhancements and fixes that we think you will like. As always, this is how we prove that we really do read all of the stuff you send us through Get Satisfaction...

For the week ending April 5th, here are the top shouters and the most frequently visited places. For comparison, you can take a look at last week’s Community in Review. Top Shouters maestrojed: Jed Herzog - Livin in Portland OR...

Reid Beels had the first Shizzow application prior to the release of our API using some CSS / Javascript wizardry to create a Fluid application, but it was never packaged up and released for the rest of us to use … until now...

I thought it would be fun to do a weekly feature of the Shizzow community in review. For the week ending on March 29th, here are the top shouters and the most popular locations...

Shizzow was lucky enough to sneak into the private beta for Twitter oAuth, and we’ve held back on releasing Twitter oAuth integration for all Shizzow users until Twitter gave the green light. Yesterday, Twitter announced that it has changed its oAuth status from closed beta to public beta...

The Shizzow team is will be in Austin for SxSW! If you happen to be at SxSW, make sure you say hi to Dawn, Mark and myself (Ryan). We’d love to hear about how you use Shizzow and to tell you a little more about ourselves...

We were honored to sit on the Strange Love Live couch again to talk about Shizzow and SXSW on Friday. Many of you watched it live and left snarky comments in the chat room. Don’t worry, we still love you...

We are really happy with the launch of Shizzow this week, and we had a great time last night talking at Beer and Blog and on Strange Love Live. I wanted to also take a minute to thank all of the people who wrote articles about us and talked about Shizzow with their friends...

Today we are announcing the public launch of Shizzow, a location-based friend finder where you can declare your location, and it will notify all of your friends so that they may come join you for a drink or a cup of coffee...

While most of our efforts recently have been focused on back end improvements and the API, we did find time for a few enhancements and fixes that we think you will like. As always, this is how we prove that we really do read all of the stuff you send us through Get Satisfaction...

The Shizzow crew will be out in full force on March 6 to talk about SXSW! We’ll even have a few announcements to talk about (shhhh, they’re still a secret)...

We’ll be doing a little bit of maintenance tonight where we need to bring the database down to make a few changes. We plan to take it down around 6:30pm, make the changes, do some final testing, and have everything up and running before 7:30pm...

In case you missed Ignite Portland last week or attended without noticing the video featuring Shizzow, we thought it would be fun to share it again here.

We’ve been working on quite a few back end improvements and have been working on the API, so we’ve been making Shizzow better (trust me, even though you can’t see the changes). However, we did sneak in a few improvements over the past couple of weeks that you might enjoy...

We noticed a few excited Tweets and other messages from those who noticed that your Shizzow IM shout notifications started mysteriously working again yesterday...

I’ve been seeing more and more articles about location applications and interesting uses of GPS technologies lately, and I really think that 2009 will be the year that many of these applications move into the mainstream...

It’s been a long time since our last Tweaks of the ‘Week’ post. With all of the refactoring happening in preparation for the Shizzow API, we held off on deploying anything new on the old code...

In our last post, we talked about the big update today. The good news is that almost everything seems to be working. The bad news is that we’re having some issues with SMS. Currently SMS commands and notifications are offline. We’ll post another update here when we get SMS back in working order...

Most of you already know that we have been working hard on getting the API ready for people to use. Unfortunately, this also resulted in rewriting and refactoring big chunks of the existing Shizzow code to get it ready for the API...

Michael Calore talked about how location-based information is becoming a requirement for web applications in a recent Wired article: In 2008, location-based information ceased being a fancy add-on and instead became a requirement of any serious, successful web service...

Those of us here in Portland probably already know the mysterious and elusive Rick Turoczy who hides within the Silicon Florist. Last night he was on the KGW Hot Box where he managed to mention just about every cool project in Portland in just over 5 minutes...

We’ve realized that not everyone knows the full power of the amazing Shizzow shouts search. We have a customized search that can be used to find people with certain characteristics, and we’ve focused on making it easy to find shouts from people who are similar to you (yes, you)...

We made some improvements and fixed a few bugs recently. As always, these enhancements are proof that we really do read all of the suggestions you send us through Get Satisfaction...

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