Jeromakay

Happy new year, yes!!!! We’re in the next decade now

Hope you’ve got your new year’s resolution sorted, I’ve got lots of energy to spend wisely in this new year and I can see many good things ahead. Many of the things I’m focusing are around growing Loopthing and hopefully by summer there will be massive focus on the network we’re building here.

May all your wishes come true in 2010!

Vladimir

Horrrraaaaay!

A quick video on Loopthing, the business networking website, where Joseph Kelly talks about what is Loopthing and how it can help your business.

The action happens in The Hub, in London, from what I’ve heard.

I’m busy today migrating files and settings from one machine to another plus sorting out some things which suppose to help Loopthing grow easier.

So far, we’re ON for finding the right investor to provide us with seed capital while code development is moving forward at a faster pace than last week. (there will be an update on this, soon)

These are the updates for now, keep an eye on my Twitter page for faster updates.

I’m happy to announce this. We’ve put great energy into this, and now the OpenScore it’s live for every of the 24k businesses on the site.

What is the OpenScore?

The OpenScore is a social media alalysis result that we provide, after analyzing different elements of a business, based on the feedback we have about it. In other words, we can tell how involved is a business in the online environment, from Twitter to YouTube and lots of other services in between.

For more information on this launch please read this blog post on the official site.

Join the live web presentation

If you’re around today (28th of October) at 2 PM GMT time, just drop by to see a quick presentation and ask questions.

The URL to join is: http://www.present.ie/loopthing1. We’d love to have you there.

Cheers!
Vladimir

I’m happy to announce that Loopthing is ready to take first round of funding, no matter the size of the investment.

Loopthing came a long way from where it was when we started, and we’re close to releasing the first business application next month.

If you’re interested into this, please have a look over the Loopthing official blog.

Finding information should be easy for people. It must be accessible, fast, and flexible.Flexible, thanks to filtering.

I’m happy to say Loopthing’s search got a new dimension, it’s a lot more relevant, and it is crazy fast.

The way it works is simple: one enters the search string into the search form, selects the type of results to return (businesses or individuals) and hits the “Search” button.

The results are extracted from the database and the less relevant ones don’t show up initially, unless the user is willing to expand that list.

Here’s a sample search for the keyword branding. If you have any ideas and questions, please send them over, I’m more than happy to adjust or comment.

This summer is being a blessing for Loopthing, the business networking platform. We just finished integrating the Twitter functionality for business profiles, and there’s few more other features integrated as well.

A sample page where twitter is the news feed page of the Loopthing company profile.

Besides the Twitter integration, we also added RSS feeds news feeds reader which also adds content to the profile page of any company joining Loopthing.

Two more other features were also integrated into the networking functionality of the site. The networks members can now upload media files (audios, videos and images), and they can also store files into the repository of each network.

I’m going to keep you posted on updates related to Loopthing, but for now, this is it! Here’s the official blog post announcing the Twitter integration feature.

Party time for 14.7 seconds

Good news for the social media community out there. Loopthing will integrate Twitter in the following days and this was a feature which we kind of pushed and prioritized it into the plan.

This is because social media is the most important aspect of promoting a business online nowadays, and here it is. It will take few days until it’s complete, but it will be there. The good news is confirmed by a blog entry posted on the official blog of Loopthing.

Basically businesses will have their tweets flow available on their profile, and as an extension to this, I can tell you there’s more stuff to help businesses promote themselves coming soon.

So…

Loopthing + Twitter = LOVE

Now it’s possible! You can browse all the individuals who joined Loopthing until this moment. The feature has been added later today at 19:00.

The feature has been requested a long time ago, and it was on the TODO list for a while. You’ll see more features coming soon. In case you haven’t joined Loopthing yet, I highly recommend you to become a member.

Hope I’ll see more people joining the site, not only businesses. This thing is growing slowly but surely so sooner you get on board, easier for you is to watch it grow.

Just been wondering lately if Odesk or RentACoder are still good places to find talented professionals and my conclusion is that none of are what RentACoder used to be four-five years ago. There is no enthusiasm about these sites from my side.

I’m still trying to figure out the reasons why this happens but obviously there’s a big shortage of affordable, talented developers where you can outsource programming.

I’ve been browsing some other new or already existing sites as well, and problem is the same however, I’ve found that recruiting developers through other medias produces better results.

So far I’ve been using mainly social networking sites to find talented people and this proved to be a big success.

If you’d ask me, I wouldn’t outsource via these sites anymore. In the future I hope that Loopthing will be a good source for talented people as well (thinking in progress here…), however my advice is to pay attention to the social networking sites: they do have talented people, and talented people are proud of their work and they’ll tag themselves using the right keywords so you’ll find them easier.

Let the social networks headhunting start now!