[osol-mktg] digg these ideas...

[Dan Price]

Happy New Year!

I've been collecting some ideas for web-2.0-ish improvements to the
website which might also help our marketing efforts.  Here they are:

- Integrate the announcements and news postings with digg.com.

  Does digg matter?  Some thing so:
  http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006081.html

  And some folks like Simon Phipps are adding digg to their
  blogs.  Also to consider: reddit.com

  The user experience would be similar to "digg story" on:
          http://www.webmink.net/minkblog.htm

- Re-imagine the "events" part of the app as a cool calendar.
  And/or have a top level calendar page.  Chandan is, as usual,
  ahead of the curve-- copying his visual design would be nice:

  http://blogs.sun.com/chandan?anchor=opensolaris_2006_calendars

- Integrate with google video-- put up a video gallery using
  http://video.google.com and the "Put On Site" feature.

(and similarly)

- Integrate with flickr (?)

  That is to say, have top level "video gallery" and "photo
  gallery" sections.

- Add (or switch to) support for Google analytics.  Google
  analytics (analytics.google.com) is free, and it looks easy to
  share analytics beyond the walls of Sun-- this means for
  example that community leaders could look at stats for their
  community.

Thanks!

        -dp

-- 
Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp at eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp
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