Archive for June, 2009

Seems like these days I barely have time to absorb, blog about, and Twitter my excitement over the latest StepRep update before it's shouldered aside by yet another StepRep update. Every two weeks or so they push out a new version. The changes are usually pretty small, but they make ...

It's a bit risky to give your promotional cartoon a title like "Goin' Viral" when it might not, in fact, go anywhere. But seeing as the cartoon is meant as a kind of meta-commentary on the concept of "viralness", ...

The worst thing about the new "Asks" feature in StepRep is the torrent of bad puns it has unleashed around the office. I'll leave it to your imagination. The good thing is, these Asks seem to really be taking off. If you take a look at your StepRep homepage (which I ...

If you've recently logged into your account, you may have had a "What the heck's going on?" moment. Instead of being popped right into the Reputation Monitor, as usual, you found yourself on a screen that looked sort of like this:

Robert Scoble, Vanessa Fox, Alice Myerhoff (of Inman News) and Jennifer Pahlka (of Web 2.0 Expo) answer the question, "What have you done to make your house a home?"

Sometime over the last few days, while my back was turned, the developer guys pushed out a new version of StepRep. It's hard to keep up with 'em. As usual, a lot of the changes will be invisible to slobs like you and me. But there are two big changes that ...

Over on the newish MyFrontSteps Blog I talk about our shiny new Facebook application, Homebook. As I've previously described, Homebook is: • A place to blab about your home with your friends. • A more efficient way to find local services, by hooking into a network of service providers that you ...