May 5, 2009

Introducing Hive Minds Gaming – a gaming news aggregator.

Filed under: Hive Minds Gaming, Innovadix News — Tags: , , , , , — Hive Minds Gaming @ 12:21 PM

We would like to officially introduce Hive Minds Gaming, a gaming news syndication website.

Although it has been around since 2006, Hive Minds Gaming has seen some changes in the last few years. The content on the website and its sources have changed. What started as a simple Digg relay web site, showing the lasted and most popular gaming related diggs, has evolved to a web site which is able to aggregate its own news articles.

We decided to announce the web site, because we are nearing the end of a new design of the web site. The over all content layout on the page is cleaner. Articles and article images are also presented in a more pleasing manner. View the Hive Minds Gaming beta site.

Hive Minds Gaming currently parses over 28 separate feeds. If you have a gaming web site, and you would like it syndicated by Hive Minds Gaming, please let us know so we can review it.

April 22, 2009

Become an Innovadix fan on Facebook.

Filed under: Innovadix News — Tags: , , , — Innovadix @ 11:42 AM

Innovadix now has a Facebook fan page. There isn’t mush going on on it at this time, but we are looking to add more content to it. We would like to use our Facebook fan page as one of the way we can connect to You, our clients and services users. Please treat this fan page as one of the many way to contact Innovadix and have an open dialog with us.

Become an Innovadix fan on Facebook.

April 17, 2009

DRI – bookmark friendly page titles

Filed under: Domain Record Info — Tags: , , , , , — Domain Record Info @ 1:26 PM

Bookmark friendly page titles are here. That’s right. You sent us your feedback and we listened.

When bookmarking search results Domain Record Info (DRI) pages it became difficult to determine, at a quick glans, which domain record a bookmark points to. Prior to the changes our page titles displayed the web site name – Domain Record Info – before the domain name, thus when a user has more than one DRI bookmarks in their favorites he or she had to expend their bookmarks navigation window to view the complete title of the bookmark. As all of these extra actions consume the user’s time and detract from the usability of the web site, changes had to be made. And changes were made, resulting in positive usability improvements. Now, after a successful search, the domain name is the first thing displayed in the the page title, making it easier for You, our loyal service users, to navigate your bookmarks and Domain Record Info.

Please, keep sending us your feedback and ideas. You can also leave them as a comment below.

March 9, 2009

DRI – first service abuse block.

Filed under: Domain Record Info — Tags: , , , , , — Domain Record Info @ 10:18 PM

Last night we had to block our first service abuser. Over 21000 automated queries in just few days! The persons who had set up the automated script have been consuming over 90% of the bandwidth used by the site every month. The script always checked .fr domains. Usually three to four letters long.

Looking over the site logs, this has been happening for a very long time. Something we were aware of, but until few weeks ago, when we decided to further develop DomainRecord.Info we didn’t really found this to be a problem. It was simply a nuisance, which we saw as unethical due to the way the queries were executed and the data retrieved.

Hopefully it will be a while before we have to block someone again.

February 24, 2009

DRI – domain discussions

Filed under: Domain Record Info — Tags: , , , , , — Domain Record Info @ 2:28 PM
DomainRecord.Info DNS record comments

DomainRecord.Info DNS record comments

Looks like DomainRecord.Info did not stay on the back burner for too long. We have implemented commenting/discussion software from Intense Debate. Now when a user performs a whois look up, on the DNS record page they have the ability to leave comments regarding the domain or IP they look up, or respond to others, who have already commented.

Implementing this allows us to establish a community, but most of all it help share information. For example domainners can conduct discussions about a domain, its value and traffic. Contact information can be exchange or business can be conducted off site, but only made posible by connecting the two parties via the DomainRecord.Info community. System and network administrators as well as members of anti-SPAM communities can comment on IPs. They can share background information, as well as type of SPAM they are receiving from the IP in question. Methods and strategies for blocking or filtering can be shared between administrators, who might have not met if not for the direct information sharing provided after each DNS record.

With this move we are striving to provide user with a centralized platform for sharing information. Having the community opinion and knowledge available to users in one place will help improve productivity by cutting out time spend searching the Internet to accumulate partially useful bits and pieces of information.

July 27, 2007

Morpheed.com Acquired.

Filed under: Innovadix News, Morpheed — Tags: , , , , , , — Innovadix @ 12:31 PM

Just about a week ago I acquired Morpheed.com. I came across Morpheed.com, again last week, as I was looking through some of my thousands of bookmarks. As I was browsing through the site I noticed that it was listed for sale. So, I decided to buy it and see what I can turn it into.

What is Morpheed.com?

Morpheed is a RSS aggregator. In addition to headlines aggregation, the site provides job opportunities for freelancers by aggregating listings from variety of job related feeds and sites, as well as CSS tutorials. Morphed’s backend is Wordpress, which I was surprised to find out, because I never looked at Wordpress as a RSS aggregator tool. But in the end, Wordpress has come a long way in its development and now can qualify as almost an accomplished CMS (Content Management System), especially with its extendibility through plug-ins. Currently Morpheed runs on three separate installations of Wordpress. In addition, the headline categories are somewhat concentrated on specific companies (Apple, Google and Microsoft), instead of general terms like travel or sports.

What is next for Morpheed.com?

The first thing I am going to do is bring the site from operating on three independent Wordpress installations to one. This will make easier managing the various sections of the site (headlines, jobs and css), as well as adding other sections in the future without having to install Wordpress once again. Following that, I will restructure the headlines’ categories. Articles need to be better calcified and thus easier to browse. A contact and “include my feed” forms will be added as well.

After the above are completed, I will look into adding more sections to the site and a possible redesign.

More to come for Morpheed.com in the future. In the mean time go on Morpheed and see what is happening in the world.

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