Posts Tagged ‘Social Networking’

An Excellent Website for Those of Us Who Wish to Lose Weight (And Get Buff)

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Traineo.com offers a really powerful method of tracking your progress as well as networking with like minded individuals. I really like how easy they make it to log workouts, as well as how you can log anything you want. The social aspect is pretty nice too, though I’ll confess I haven’t really networked with anyone on it yet. Maybe Facebook integration should be on their list?

If you want, checkout my profile. Maybe even do something crazy and be a motivator for me.

OhLoh.net - Online Smorgasboard of Open Source Projects

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Ohloh.net is a directory of Open Source Projects.

“Learn what people are using and contributing to. See what’s going on inside an open source project. Follow what your friends are coding”

It’s essentially a social network for Open Source programmers. Check out my profile.

Arguably the most interesting part of the site is their project and language comparison graphs. It really helps you see which projects are gaining ground, and which are starting to die off. When you compare Subversion, Git, and CVS you based upon contributors you see a huge upswing in the people developing for Git, while Subversion is still growing and CVS is dropping developers like flies. (more…)