Joind.in

What? What's that you say? You think the Joind.in project is losing steam because there haven't been many updates announced recently? Well, that's just because there's things afoot you don't know about. We've been diligently at work on a rewrite on ... [More] a chunk of code (thanks to a certain intern from Ibuildings) that will make a dramatic change in how things will work around here. This one's for you speakers and conference managers - here's the scoop: First, for the speakers: there is going to be a new "Speaker Profile" feature of the site that will provide a central resource for any conference to grab your details from. No more having to copy and paste the same information over and over. All you'll need to do is specify what information you want to share and hand them the code. The API will do the heavy lifting and use the code to had out only the information you've selected. Speakers, you'll also be happy that we're adding in "instance" support for the talks. For example, you have this one talk - you know the one - that you really like but you feel it could use some tweaking. You made adjustments and change it a bit for the next event. With the new system, the talk comments will follow the instance of the talk, not just the single talk. That way you'll be able to relate comments directly to which conference you gave it at. Now, for those putting on the conferences, not only will the API give you remote access to the conferences you're an admin for, but it will also allow you to grab the information about a speaker (with their permission/code of course) but also information about them - what talks they've given, what events they've been at. Things are afoot, my good friend...stick with us just a bit longer and you'll get to see the fruits of our labor. You'll love it - we promise. [Less]

Just in time for PHP Italia 2009 a few new features have been added to the site. They're nothing fancy, but they are things we feel will help to make using the site a better experience. Here's the list: The first is a simple little something, but I ... [More] felt that it added some value for those attending - showing speakers in the "attending" list. Now you can easily see which of the people in the "I'm attending!" list are going to be on deck and speaking. Next up is something that was mentioned back when we first added hashtag support - Twitter integration. Thanks to a quick and easy interface to their search API, there is now a new sidebar area to show tweets with the event's hashtag in them (see PHP Italia for a good example). If no one's talking about it yet, no tweets will be shown Finally, an most importantly, I've gotten this request from a number of speakers - a place to link to their slide. Now if you edit your claimed talk (you did claim your talk, right?) you'll notice a field for a slides link. Just drop your link in there and it'll be added to the summary information for your session. Its just a simple link for now with better integration with services like slideshare coming down the line. So there we go...a few more new features to a site that's quickly growing to be one of the more popular direct event feedback sites out there. As always, if you have any suggestions on what we can do better around here, please don't hesitate to let us know and we'll get back to you. [Less]

Just in time for PHP Italia 2009 a few new features have been added to the site. They're nothing fancy, but they are things we feel will help to make using the site a better experience. Here's the list: The first is a simple little something, but I ... [More] felt that it added some value for those attending - showing speakers in the "attending" list. Now you can easily see which of the people in the "I'm attending!" list are going to be on deck and speaking. Next up is something that was mentioned back when we first added hashtag support - Twitter integration. Thanks to a quick and easy interface to their search API, there is now a new sidebar area to show tweets with the event's hashtag in them (see PHP Italia for a good example). If no one's talking about it yet, no tweets will be shown Finally, an most importantly, I've gotten this request from a number of speakers - a place to link to their slide. Now if you edit your claimed talk (you did claim your talk, right?) you'll notice a field for a slides link. Just drop your link in there and it'll be added to the summary information for your session. Its just a simple link for now with better integration with services like slideshare coming down the line. So there we go...a few more new features to a site that's quickly growing to be one of the more popular direct event feedback sites out there. As always, if you have any suggestions on what we can do better around here, please don't hesitate to let us know and we'll get back to you. [Less]

Just like any good Web 2.0-ish site these days, I submitted this site over on Digg in their "Industry News" category (yeah, I know it's not a good fit, but it was as close as I could get - the post is about the launch of the site). So, without ... [More] further ado, here's the button to add a digg of your own for it. If you're so inclined, we'd definitely appreciate a little Digg-click love to help us get the word out! [Less]

Just like any good Web 2.0-ish site these days, I submitted this site over on Digg in their "Industry News" category (yeah, I know it's not a good fit, but it was as close as I could get - the post is about the launch of the site). So, without ... [More] further ado, here's the button to add a digg of your own for it. If you're so inclined, we'd definitely appreciate a little Digg-click love to help us get the word out! [Less]

It's update time again and I have two new things to share - first up is a feature to help you keep track of the conferences/events you're seeing here on the site. We've added a little "Add to Calendar" link to each event's main page that feeds its ... [More] details right back into your local calendaring software. It's just a standard ical format, so its flexible to work with anything that supports it. The second thing I wanted to mention (this is the one I'm really excited about) is the amount of use this site is getting. It's easy to only think about your comments for the events you've gone to but there's lots more going on. Here's three events that have had some great talk comment turnouts: PHP Quebec 2009 has had almost 20 talk comments with more coming in all the time PHP UK 2009 saw 62 comments from its day-long series of talks And last, but definitely not least, PHP North West 2009 currently sits proudly on top with over 160 talk comments from its attendees Joind.in is exploding and we thank both those making the comments and the people putting the events on. We love that we've become a good tool to connect you guys and will definitely be here to help even more in the future! [Less]

It's update time again and I have two new things to share - first up is a feature to help you keep track of the conferences/events you're seeing here on the site. We've added a little "Add to Calendar" link to each event's main page that feeds its ... [More] details right back into your local calendaring software. It's just a standard ical format, so its flexible to work with anything that supports it. The second thing I wanted to mention (this is the one I'm really excited about) is the amount of use this site is getting. It's easy to only think about your comments for the events you've gone to but there's lots more going on. Here's three events that have had some great talk comment turnouts: PHP Quebec 2009 has had almost 20 talk comments with more coming in all the time PHP UK 2009 saw 62 comments from its day-long series of talks And last, but definitely not least, PHP North West 2009 currently sits proudly on top with over 160 talk comments from its attendees Joind.in is exploding and we thank both those making the comments and the people putting the events on. We love that we've become a good tool to connect you guys and will definitely be here to help even more in the future! [Less]

Alright guys and gals, it's time for a few new updates that have been made to the site. Here comes the list: We've added a new sidebar to the blogs page that links to some of the other popular posts we've made here. Hopefully this will help more ... [More] people find more of what they're looking for in their search for bloggy goodness. Next up, we've added feeds for individual users that have lists of their talks (if they're a speaker) and comments they've made on the site. You can get to the feed in one of two ways, either via the url or with their user ID. I'm going to pick on Derick Rethans a bit here because he was one person who wanted something like this. You can either use their username, like http://joind.in/feed/user/derick, or you can use their user ID: http://joind.in/feed/user/30 And, last, but definitely not least - the talks for the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2008 have been posted! That's right...the confernece where the idea for Joind.in was spawned has finally been added! So, if you were there, head over and rate some of the talks or just leave some general feedback. Stay tuned - we've got some really great stuff coming up including iCal integration, speaker "badges" they can put up on their site and expanded speaker profiles! [Less]

Alright guys and gals, it's time for a few new updates that have been made to the site. Here comes the list: We've added a new sidebar to the blogs page that links to some of the other popular posts we've made here. Hopefully this will help more ... [More] people find more of what they're looking for in their search for bloggy goodness. Next up, we've added feeds for individual users that have lists of their talks (if they're a speaker) and comments they've made on the site. You can get to the feed in one of two ways, either via the url or with their user ID. I'm going to pick on Derick Rethans a bit here because he was one person who wanted something like this. You can either use their username, like http://joind.in/feed/user/derick, or you can use their user ID: http://joind.in/feed/user/30 And, last, but definitely not least - the talks for the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2008 have been posted! That's right...the confernece where the idea for Joind.in was spawned has finally been added! So, if you were there, head over and rate some of the talks or just leave some general feedback. Stay tuned - we've got some really great stuff coming up including iCal integration, speaker "badges" they can put up on their site and expanded speaker profiles! [Less]

One thing that's been a bit of a sticking point since this site got going was speakers claiming their talks. Its been a bit of a difficult, manual process to send out the codes that the speakers needed to lay claim. That's a thing of the past now ... [More] , though - there's a new kid in town (and he looks a lot like a little orange button). You speakers out there, listen up - here's the new process: Step one: log in to the site if you're not already Step two: go to yout talk Step three: click the "Claim this Talk" button Step four: Wait for the approval email You have to agree, much simpler! The only reason your request needs approval is to prevent someone else from claiming your talk. We want to be sure you get all of the credit that's due to you and have everything all linked up. The code system is still in place for those that want to use it. If you're a conference organizer, you might still want to use the codes/claim links for your speakers in their acceptance email. If you want more info on how that works, send us a note and ask us how. [Less]