Using twitter for some time it took us months to realize the unique value of this small communication feature we launched on YiGG today: the ‘@username’-feature. From now on YiGGers get personal messages after being addressed with @username in a comment. A small feature, a big effect on communications: now, YiGGers know that they had ben addressed or mentioned in comments without rechecking news entries with own comments or using our spy-called
„User, herzlich willkommen — aber nur die, die sich an die Mindestregeln von Communities halten. Bislang gelingt es uns ganz gut, die Meinungsrandalierer im Griff zu behalten.“ Frank Thomsen, Chefredakteur von stern.de „Es gibt Kommentare, die will ich auch nicht für eine Minute unter meinen Artikeln stehen haben. Das ist auch ein Zeichen der Wertschätzung unseren Usern gegenüber, dass wir nicht jeden Unsinn freischalten.“ Jochen Wegner, Chefredakteur focus.de Zwei Zitate,
It is a very good match: YiGG will coöperate with politik.de, the biggest political platform in Germany. Users of both sites will experience numerous benefits surfing either the user generated news site YiGG.de consuming daily long-tail news or looking for the newest political event, interview or analysis on politik.de edited by political journalists. We’ll try hard to offer a the best combination of Web 2.0 and editorial analysis of worldwide politics seen
Today we launched the new geotargeting feature mapNews on YiGG. Every news can be enriched with its location code, a city or even a combination of a city and a streetname, like ‘München, Lindwurmstrasse’. On the detail view of every news users can see where all those YiGGers interested in this news come from, by opening the google map via the ‘Karte’-link. Then there are two tabs ‘Aktuell’ and ‘Beliebt’. ‘Aktuell’ shows the latest
YiGG user @kartmann uses YiGG to create a User Generated Diploma Thesis. He asks the community to vote on six different proposals or to suggest another one. Cool.
Today we spent a few hours in our datacenter in Frankfurt. What does a datacenter loook like? In my younger years I imagined a datacenter a huge cool and clean area with the size of a soccer field. Today, or with the eyes of a 38 year-old, a datacenter more looks like an overheated room full of noise and narrow corridors, where some sloppy sysadmins left their remains of servers packaging. Our datacenter is situated in the heart