Ditto Blog

  1. Tell the world about your Ditto selections

    Bit late to the Widget party but you can now embed your Ditto selections into your website, blog or MySpace pages.
    Here is my selection of great COIN-OP machines

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    For those that care we used Flex 3.0 (boo no Silverlight) talking to our .NET 3.5 service layer. I [...]

    Posted at 4:56 pm on 30/09/08 by Pat under Technical

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  2. Tracks’n’samples’n’snakes

    Yes, finally, after promising it for f’in ages, we’re getting about 5 million songs on to the site! W00t, etc. Don’t hold your breath, but we’re reasonably confident they’ll be there from the beginning of next week.
    There’ll be a load of song-based topics going up over the next couple of weeks - if you’ve got [...]

    Posted at 4:04 pm on 30/09/08 by John under Announcements

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  3. What we’ve done… and why

    OK. So we’ve moved the focus of the site away from voting hundreds of things up and down on huge public lists to crafting much more personal lists of favourites - which then go on to create huge public lists!
    So instead of ‘voting’ you now ‘add your list’ to an existing topic. So if you [...]

    Posted at 3:54 pm on 30/09/08 by John under Announcements

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  4. Create a list, RIP…

    Ok, one of the major, and we’re guessing more controversial changes we’re making is to remove the ability for users to create their own topics. 
    I’ll take some time to explain why… 
    Frankly, the vast majority of the topics people were creating were one of two things - either duplicates of topics we already had, or ‘my [...]

    Posted at 3:53 pm on 30/09/08 by John under Announcements, Community

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  5. Big changes are afoot…

    OK, as promised, here are some of the big changes we’re going to be introducing to Ditto… 

     Negative votes are going. 
     Member’s profile pages will be simplified and integrated with the rest of the site better.
     We’ll be launching some smaller, more focussed sites using the new look Ditto technology

    Today, we’ll talk about negative votes… I know a [...]

    Posted at 3:01 pm on 23/09/08 by John under Announcements

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