Nordaaker http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/ Nordaaker is the company where Arne and Marcus collect all their activities. The name originates from Arne's grandparents' place, close to where Marcus grew up. This blog will contain information related to our web apps, as well as other stuff we find interesting. en Copyright 2008 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:46:31 +0100 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Some recent updates on iusethis We are still on a steady pace towards a 1.0 release of iusethis, and I figured this would be a good time to update you about what we've added lately.

Going backwards from now, I've just updated production with a new facility for managing your app tags. On the add and edit screens, you can now find lists of the most poupular tags on iusethis, and you can choose them for your app by clicking them. This should solve the problem of not knowing what tags to use.

Yesterday we released the first version of the iusethis Icon Extractor, and also updated our default icon with a new one. I personally like this one much better. Thanks Adam Betts!

During the weekend, we also fixed some minor markup issues, as well as working a little on our titles and meta descriptions, to make things more user and search engine friendly. :) Another feature I think works very well is the 'Similar apps', which now show up on the sidebar of each app.

We're also happy to see that great apps like feeder, Choco Flop and Notae has adopted our 'blog this' include, which shows the app count with a link to the application page.

We're working on making a similar include that can be used to put on your blog to show what apps you are using, and we would love to hear from you on how you would want that to work. Do you want javascript includes like the blog this include, JSON, flash, generated image bitmap? Also what sort of includes are you interested in? Please leave us comments at this post.

]]> http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2006/08/some-recent-updates-on-iusethis.html http://www.nordaaker.com/blog/2006/08/some-recent-updates-on-iusethis.html Features iusethis.com Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:46:31 +0100 Describe yourself! You can now write your own description on the right in your profile. So go on and satisfy others' curiosity.

Additionally you can now stop using apps from any listing.

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If you have any feature requests or ideas on how to improve the site, please don't hesitate to post them.

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