Gaia: Think Tank - Site Suggestions

Re: Do tanks really think?

http://ladybear.gaia.com — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:25:18 GMT

Welcome to Gaia, Tyler!

You already fit in here with your deep caring and sense of humor.
We're happy to have you within our network.

Peace ON...
Ladybear

Re: Do tanks really think?

http://ShadowFlame.gaia.com — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:11:33 GMT

Hahaha! Oh that's priceless, thank you for gifting me with this laugh. I will never again personify a think tank from a military perspective anymore, thank you so much for this :) I just got out of the Army a couple months back, guess I'm still operating in that crazy mindset, but I appreciate the reprogramming.

Re: Do tanks really think?

http://anuradha.gaia.com — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:16:21 GMT

this thread made me smile!

Re: Do tanks really think?

http://fastdarter.gaia.com — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:39:00 GMT

I knew you would bite on this one...lol
Urban Dictionary: think tank

Re: Do tanks really think?

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:49:09 GMT

LOL ! I always thought of a thinktank as like a fishtank! Put a bunch of fish together in a closed environment and see what they can think up together!

Blessings, OM Bastet

Do tanks really think?

http://ShadowFlame.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:07:47 GMT

I suggest we change the name from 'think tank' to something more peaceful. What about 'think apparatus' or 'think collective'?

Any other suggestions on another vessel for our thoughts?

Re: Gaia chat - IRC?

http://ShadowFlame.gaia.com — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:05:59 GMT

I second this motion!

:)

Gaia chat - IRC?

http://rainzen.gaia.com — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:13:22 GMT

I think it would be a really wonderful idea to create an IRC chat for Gaia.
I absolutely love chatting casually to people and I think it would be a great way to really help to build connections as well as get new people interested in the website.
I could set up the IRC chat and help run it as well. We could put a java version on the site and let everyone know how to access it via mIRC or other IRC applications.

I reallly think we need a chat here. :)

Re: Editing older blogs - should not change page

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:09:53 GMT

I do hope it'll stay on yr 'To Do One Day When...' list, ~Mathew. I'll try to let it go from mine, so that I don't go all grumbly on this one.

Thanks for coming--and maybe our other savvy gais will hone the idea.

Re: Editing older blogs - should not change page

http://fastdarter.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:21:52 GMT

Ooh, baby, thank you for my tea!
Baby, thank you for my tea!
It's so sweet of you to be so nice to me.
~Bob Dylan

Re: Editing older blogs - should not change page

http://matthew.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:41:19 GMT

Hey gais, this is a great suggestion! Both of our developers have their hands a bit tied at the moment. So, we'll probably have to post-pone functional code changes for a bit. But feel free to keep honing the idea here.

~M

Re: Editing older blogs - should not change page

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:30:01 GMT

Well, that's a workaround, and thank you for bringing a laugh to my face, ~lars [can you just imagine a new member going --why did FastDart call Meenakshi Meerkat; and why did she call him ~lars !!!]

ANyway back to the question - hope ~Mathew comes by

Re: Editing older blogs - should not change page

http://fastdarter.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:08:08 GMT

Meerkat, I do know what you mean...I was editing (patching a video that was no longer available) and found myself back at the default first page of by blog..grrrrr, Ooops :-)

Opening two browsers on the blog being edited is the only way i've found to keep my place.

Editing older blogs - should not change page

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:21:06 GMT

When I edit an older blog, the page refreshes to the default, which is the current blog page. We need it to stay at the blog being worked on, so we know if more changes are needed and so on.

[This may be related to Updating Settings - should not change page ]

Updating Settings - should not change page

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:19:13 GMT

~Mathew I was all grumbly but thank Gaia for this Think Tank, where we can turn our grumblies into rumblies ideas in Gaia's tummy immense brain [sorry- having a Pooh moment here]

So here goes:

When I try to update the Settings on "My Locations[which I guess is a new feature?] it keeps coming back to the main profile page so to see if the changes 'took', I've to scroll down again- click settings -c lick my locations and ...

Can the page refresh when we click Save AND stay?

[similar hassle with
Editing older blogs - should not change page

]

Re: New to Community - Techie Stuff

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:49:50 GMT

thanks for your response, Tony!!

Blessings, OM Bastet

Re: New to Community - Techie Stuff

http://fastdarter.gaia.com — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:23:30 GMT

Tony,

It's a the bottom of your settings page:

API Key

Use your API key along with your email address to access personalized RSS feeds, data portability and other advanced features on Gaia. If you don't know what those things are, you probably won't need this key. But here it is in case you do!

Now to learn what that means ;-)

Re: New to Community - Techie Stuff

http://siona.gaia.com — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:09:06 GMT

Tony! I'm sorry for the delay; let me try and answer these. :)

1) No, unfortunately we don't have the ability to link up external feeds to Gaia blogs. (It's partially intentional, as Gaia really is meant to be a community of engagement and connection, and entries that originate outside the site don't foster that as easily. That said, it's definitely something we've considered, so thank you for the nudge.)

2) No, and although some people do add in images or links, we're a little more facebook-y than MySpace. We're hoping to have drag and drop widgets at some point, though, just so people can arrange their profiles to their liking.

3) Gaia is built on Gaia software. The whole site was hand-coded by our own small (and wonderful!) team of Ruby-on-Rails developers, so there's nothing else like it in the world. Your best bet for effective use is exploration, asking questions here, and taking advantage of the FAQ and support areas.

4) No API key (yet?)

5) I don't think it's normal, but I'm not sure quite what you're asking. Do you have an example? It's true that some of our links have 'inpage' options--they'll expand a form or act more as #anchors. Does that help?

Please let me know if I can answer more questions. I'm glad you've joined us and I'm hoping you'll stick around to help us improve. :)

Re: New to Community - Techie Stuff

http://starpeople.gaia.com — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:56:33 GMT

I have heard that you can't optimize a blogger side, but I don't believe anything I hear. The way to test how your templates are cached by google is to test with a new template, minimal content. It's really quite simple. Add a tiny bit of content in your profile, a tiny bit of content in the side bar, get it into the search engines as quick as possible by posting the links into some sites the google rates highly such as Wordpress Blogs, (make sure you TAG your Wordpress properly), Digg, Stumble etc
When it is spidered by google, check what it is reading by looking at what the search results. Google this "acoustic guitar blog", I've updated it only a couple of times in a year and it still maintains its presence.

As for the Blogcatalog thing, ... exactly as I've already said. Up until recently, google would spider the shoutboxes (message boxes). I don't want to start a fashion, I have a good relationship with Blogcatalog, they are the absolute best social network on the web for general stuff.

Re: New to Community - Techie Stuff

http://ADLIAC.gaia.com — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:53:29 GMT

it has been spidered by google. Or here's a cool idea, optimizing the side bar in a blogger blog

Would you be willing to explain both those verbs??

Learning curve junkie,
OM Bastet