Not long ago the On Language column of The New York Times published a piece against CamelCase, something we use widely on AboutUs.org.
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If you’ve spent any length of time at the AboutUs Portland office, such as for WikiWednesday, WaveWednesday, Lunch 2.0, or PDXScala (our most recent addition to the events queue), you know about the trains.
We love our Portland office, with its open floor plan and view of the city. But sometimes the trains next to our building are loud enough to hinder conversation for a few seconds. To use what would be lost time for something productive, we decided that train breaks were unofficial stretch breaks at AboutUs.
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Last week the Web was abuzz with the news of the iPad. But among all the comments about the features of the device, Josh Bernoff (coauthor of Groundswell and a Forrester analyst) wrote a deep-thinking post about Apple’s Tablet and the New Splintered Web.
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Since very early on in our history, AboutUs has had a public help chat using a tool called IRC. Now it seems that other companies with a flair for collaboration are catching on to the idea of public IRC channels.
In particular, this week we noticed Atlassian, a software company that makes software for developers, including a pretty superb wiki, has started up their own IRC channel as well.
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A renewed focus on usability was one of the top ten things we celebrated at the end of 2009. We’ve continued that focus in 2010, and the latest result of that focus is the new look for our search experience.
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It’s been a couple weeks since we acquired Jyte. So far we’ve tried to find ways we can simultaneously learn from and improve Jyte. Today we want to take a few minutes and give Jyters an introduction to AboutUs.org and how it compares to their community.
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We don’t need to tell you that the people of Haiti need help, the situation there is truly unspeakable. As a part of the Portland technology community, we want to lay out two options for how you can lend a hand.
Donate
In the days since the earthquake, many individuals and organizations have stepped up, and AboutUs wants to do what we can too. To that end, AboutUs developer Stephen Judkins set up an AboutUs giving page though MercyCorps where you can donate.
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