Dumping Technorati
Remember back when I announced that we were going with Technorati as our source for finding link backs? Well thats over.
Hell Yeah Bitch! .com is following in the steps of Kottke and the Weblogs Inc group with ditching Technorati. I, however, will not be nearly as mean as the aforementioned were:
From Kottke:
Pretty much everyone I talk to in the industry thinks the site sucks and we’ve just been waiting for it to get better because, well, it would have to at some point, wouldn’t it? Well, I’m tired of waiting. Goodbye, Technorati…your url will darken the door of my browser no longer.
I know the guys over at Technorati are trying their best, but right now IceRocket is kicking your ass. Its nothing personal. Dave Sifry , the “man” at Technorati, was nice enough to post here when I made my initial announcement welcoming Technorati. Dave, its nothing personal, but we are going with IceRocket for the time being. I know you guys are working on speed issues and quality results, but untill I see some actual and major increased in speed and quality of results we are sticking with IceRocket…I would imagine that, besides our kick-ass name, we aren’t much different from many of the other sites out there.
Remember “It’s not you, its me!” (Actually its you) and if you get it going again, your only a rebuild away from being BFFs with Hell Yeah Bitch! .com again.
Changes Changes Changes: Hell Yeah Bitch! .com v 3.5
It looks a little different around here…familiar, but different.
I decided a somewhat minor change was needed to Hell Yeah Bitch! .com so I’ve brought some color into the site with the help of phaticon, the fantastic artist that did the new background image for us.
I also changed the header. To keep the header from getting stale, there are two major changes. Its now two different pictures instead of the one easy big image, each side being random pictures. The second change is that anyone is welcome to submit a picture to the header. Just go to the Change Our Header page, and upload a picture. Easy. Now noone can say that our header sucks…just change it.
You want more changes? Ok. You know that “About” this site has always needed? Well we have one.
Ok, one more change for the guy in the back…we have dumped Technorati. I’ll get into this in a later post, but we are now doing link tracking via IceRocket’s search.
If something is broken, or just ugly or any other problems / comments you might see, please let me know about it via the comments for this post. I realize that most likely noone will comment, because noone ever comments on the posts I have about site changes, but I feel like I have to say that anyway.
GigPosters.com Is A Good Idea
GigPosters.com is your source for posters from, well, gigs. You know those crazy posters you see on walls or sides of building around the city that you look at and think: “Maybe I should go to that concert…Nah, better play it safe and just stay at home, play with my cats and think of more people to add to my I’m Going To Kill You list.” Now you can download pictures of the posters submitted by people from around the world or buy the actual posters from other users that are big music geeks and keep those kind of things laying around. Either way, its a hell of a way to spend a Thurday night!
This really is a good idea for a site though…makes me wish my website had a point.