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Geek.com Relaunched

For the past couple months I’ve been devoting a lot of my time to the re-release of http://www.geek.com – the online technology resource and community for technology enthusiasts and professionals. We’ve added a lot of social networking tools, and also done a general wordpress/bbpress upgrade which will allow us to easily take the latest releases in the future.

This is important on a couple of levels, first off, this is a site that has over 10 million unique users a month. That ought to put to rest the “WordPress doesn’t scale” talk I hear around the net. Wordpress scales just fine for large sites if you set your server up properly:

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Tags: geek.com, Social Networking, technology enthusiasts, technology news site, technology resource, Wordpress

24 Sep 08 | Blogging, Community Building, Content Management, Publishing Technology, Social Networking, Technology, Web 2.0, Web Design | Comments (0)

Another Post on the NameMedia Launches

Tom Willmot of EdgeDesigns, one of our team lead developers posts on the launches of www.hotcars.com and www.dreamwheels.com last week. He succinctly sums up the niche social networks for those not familiar:

A niche social network is simply a social network aimed squarely at a niche interest, be it wine or geeks. You take the classic social network components: user profiles, friends lists, user messaging, forums and groups; and then you tailor the experience towards your intended niche. Throw in expert articles, regularly updated content and a strong multimedia element and there you have it.

Read it all here.

(Note: I am a senior developer with NameMedia, and worked on these projects)

Tags: dreamwheels.com, edgedesigns.com, geek.com, hotcars.com, niche social network, social media, tom willmot, Web 2.0