Using gravatar might be a good idea

Using Gravatar might be a good idea, since we don't need to bother uploading avatar everytime we sign up for new forum, a new web2.0 service that pops up next day, or even our email. Only if each of these services support gravatar. Or else we will end up users asking: Why I should signup for another service just to display my avatar (Profile Icon).

So the ultimate solution is: We support both! you can upload your own or let gravatar handles your avatar.

Change your profile picture now. When the default is a little wonderful black and white piece of 4-Leaf Clovers (Shamrocks), you can freely upload yours.

 

Default Profile Icon

Shakk.Us currently supports threemost famous types of image format used widely on the internet – .gif, .jpg and .png.

Just go to profile->modify->look for the area with three images with different size (large, medium and small).

Profile View

Browse and upload

Click browse and choose your image. It will be uploaded and resized automatically to three standard size used on Shakk.Us (Profile page – 80×80, submission – 30×30, and comment area – 48×48). Click 'Save' if you are satisfy with your profile image.

Have fun with this new feature.

tagged: gravatar, icons, avatar, ajax upload, shakk.us, pligg mod 

Mother of all social bookmarking services icons

Nowadays, if you ever think of satisfying each and every single reader of you to put an social bookmarking icon for their convenient of bookmarking your post, it will be a huge line of icon-set.

One example which has not includes all of them would be:

Screen-shot courtesy from spot, spot, spot

And it doesn't end here. There is almost 1 new social bookmark/digg like service appears one daily basis.

So I'm here to introduce the mother of all social bookmarking services icons, make sure you bring it along next time you blog.

All icons used to generate the above mosaic were taken from 3spots. They did a great job in collecting those services' link.

*update*: Shakk.Us is providing dozens of social bookmarking services to our users! Please suggest yours if it is not already listed there.

tagged: Development, web2.0, digg, icon, Shakk.Us, social bookmark

How Shakk.Us Works

Many of you might already know Digg, Shakk.Us, which started off with the open source version (Pligg +) of the similar system, was initially works like Digg.

Digg model is work perfectly as it is; it is meant for technology news where each and every entry is only matters in that particular time. So the published items will never going to be pushed up to the front again regardless how many votes it received afterwards.

Shakk.Us Vs. Digg Model

Shakk.Us is started for a different purpose; its primary function is to aggregate entertainment media, which means timing is not critical here, hence a different mechanism is applied when consider what to be published, how entries are arranged and consider every votes equally important even after the entry is published.

Positive Vs. Negative Voting

With positive and negative voting, it is possible to bury an entry if the community thinks that is a spam post. Only when an entry receiving enough positive votes, it will be published, and every subsequent vote it receive later, will pushed it up to the top. (As long as members continue voting for it, it stays on top). This continues up to one month since the date it was published, and it will be moved to archive (ToDo ^^).

Publish Vs. Discard

Found out it is spam after you’ve voted? It is also possible to un-vote an entry, click on the voted arrow again, the previous vote will be deducted.

Current threshold for an entry be published is 1 vote only during this promotion period, after that will be adjust according to our member base. Threshold for an item be discarded is -10 (10 negative votes).

Moderator Vs. Community

Shakk.Us is fully community controlled, so we can assure you that we will never put sticky post to gain site popularity, censor member’s submission or comments (the community will decide what’s for them and what’s not, there is no moderator here.).

As our community is rather small right now, please allow our own massive submission for the moment until our member’s submission gets stable. Please take this opportunity to invite your friends to join and grow with this wonderful community now.

technology, promotion, digg, community