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Preview added to MemeStreams!

More on the recent search update from the man who implemented it..

Tom posted some quick enhancements I made to Memestreams today. If you are running IE 7 or Firefox 2+ you you might notice your search bar is glowing while browsing Memestreams. You can install MemeStreams as a search provider with one click now in both those browsers as shown below:
Firefox

Internet Explorer

Of course, those of you who regularly search MemeStreams may have a complaint or two about the performance. We're fixing that soon. Its entirely a disk I/O problem and we'll be buying a new server with better storage performance when the new machine comes online in February.

Memestreams supports Firefox/IE's Search bar

I've posted two updates to the site tonight that Acidus wrote a few weeks ago. I'm sorry they didn't make it out sooner but I've been busy with the Christmas holidays and the like.

The first is an updated set of MemeStreams Bookmarklets. You do not have to upgrade to these if you don't want to, but good testers who report problems are always valuable to us. They should work a bit better than the old ones, particularly when selecting text on a page with a bunch of iframes, and we're now back to one peice of cross browser javascript code, which is nice.

The second is that if you're running IE or Safari you might notice your search bar is glowing. You can install MemeStreams as a search provider with one click now in both those browsers.

Of course, those of you who regularly search MemeStreams may have a complaint or two about the performance. We're fixing that soon. Its entirely a disk I/O problem and we'll be buying a new server with better storage performance in a few weeks. Unfortunately I am going out of the country for two weeks so I won't be able to get that done until I return, but the new machine should be online sometime in February.

Thanks Acidus for the nice bits of code!

Yeah! Thanks Billy!

MemeStreams Update: Acidus Badassness

In some circumstance, dates were being broken into multiple lines when viewed with Safari. This problem has been fixed.

The Industrial Memetics crew has settled in at our Blogworld Expo booth. If you are at the conference, be sure to come by and say 'hi' to us!

Industrial Memetics @ Blog World Expo

We posted a significant update to MemeStreams today. There are two primary aspects. The first is that posting is now much more free reigned. You can reply to your own posts. You can reply multiple times. You can post the same url to your blog multiple times. If you do the later, it will not result in the repeated promotion of that url on the main page.

The other aspect is anti-spam. New user registration is now open again. New users will not show up on the main page or in the "recent posters" section of the weblogs page. They are relegated to the "new users" section of the weblogs page until one of the admins blesses them, or someone who already has a good reputation recommends a link from them. So, those of you who can, please watch the new users for interesting people who you might want to bring into the fold.

This is a big update so please, as always, let us know if anything is not working properly.

Tom worked very hard to get this update done in time for Blogworld. Over the course of the next two days, we are all heading out to Vegas. It should be an interesting week.

MemeStreams Update

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Industrial Memetics will have a booth at BlogWorldExpo next week in Las Vegas. If you are near the area come by and pay us a visit!

Blog World Expo

MemeStreams is an early social networking website, online community, and blog host that was established in 2001 by Industrial Memetics,[1] and particularly prominent among computer professionals.[2][3] It was cowritten by Tom Cross and Nick Levay.[3][4] The site employs a reputation system.[5]

Someone finally made a Wikipedia article about MemeStreams. If you're bored, give it an edit...

MemeStreams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A bug has been fixed in the Inbox that was preventing users from deleting private messages.

The search engine problem has been fixed.