May 5, 2009

Introducing Hive Minds Gaming – a gaming news aggregator.

Filed under: Innovadix News,Services — 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 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 5, 2009

DRI – good to go.

Filed under: Domain Record Info — Tags: , , , , , , — Domain Record Info @ 11:51 PM

We have completed the initial setup and design of DomainRecord.Info. Basic layout, functioning search and results, as well as various site information and policies are now available on the website. There is a long list of other features, like IP trace, ranking and domain appraisal, to be implemented, but at this time further development of this project will be placed on hold. There are more urgent ones that must be completed. The gaming news aggregator site is almost complete, and the planing stage of the domaining web sites is done. It is time to start development process.

February 20, 2009

DRI – layout update.

Filed under: Domain Record Info — Tags: , , , — Domain Record Info @ 11:59 PM

Although DomainRecord.Info has been available to the public since 2007, a layout for the website was never implemented. The whois script was simply installed and provided for everyone to use.

Today this was changed. A short description/disclaimer was added to the home page, explaining what the web site is about and what it does and does not. The search form size was adjusted so was the page displaying results. Most important of all a “ShareThis” button was added, allowing users to easily share any domain or IP record information on their blog, social network of choice or email it to someone. As far as usability, the web site is very easy to navigate with a simple design.

After this small update, the DomainRecord.Info project will be placed again on the back burner due to some nearly completed upcoming projects. One involves gaming news and the other is DomainVentory, which will offer domain monetization. Once these web services have gone live and are stable, DomainRecord.Info will be revisited so we can determine what new features could be added to the web site, making it more feature rich and useful to its users.

July 27, 2007

Morpheed.com Acquired.

Filed under: Innovadix News,Products — Tags: , , , , , , — admin @ 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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