Summary: Episode 169 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week the panel is made up of 3 of our 4 our regular hosts, Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict), Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy) and Kevin Dees (@kevindees). Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #169: Web Intents (MP3, 41:27, 39.8MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary The panel discuss topics such as the statistic that around 50% of popular websites link to Facebook, an online retailer introduces an Internet Explorer 7 tax and more. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Here are the main topics covered in this episode: jQuery Blog » jQuery 1.8 Beta 1: See What’s Coming (and Going!) The US hosts 43% of the world’s top 1 million websites via TheNextWeb – Pingdom: The US Leads Worldwide Website Hosting Web Intents – webintents.org example Web Intents support at AddThis Twitter Should ‘Memorialize’ Our Accounts when We Die – The Next Web Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/169. Host Spotlights Louis: GeekyLucas – Some thoughts on the recent AWS outage (and outages in general) Kevin: Swatch Book with CSS3 and jQuery Patrick: Chester French / She Loves Everybody EP / Available Now Interview Transcript Louis: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Sitepoint podcast. We’re back with a little news and commentary show this week. With me on the panel are Patrick O’Keefe and Kevin Dees . Hi, guys. Patrick: Howdy, howdy. Kevin: Hey, Louis. Louis: What’s been up? I haven’t spoken with you guys in a while. I missed last week’s show. Patrick: Kevin, you were away last week too. What have you been up to? Kevin: OK. I was helping out at a youth camp, where kids go into the community and do repair work on homes and go into nursing homes and do little drama skits and stuff. That was really cool, so I volunteered to do that and helped journal that experience for the campers, as they went throughout the week. Louis: Very nice. Patrick: Wow, that sounds great and makes me look like a selfish piece of crap. Because I just released a book. I didn’t do anything to help other people. Louis: Well in fairness, the book is free, so it somewhat selfless, right? Patrick: Right, it is a free book. It’s called “Monetizing Online Forums,” and it’s about monetizing online forums in the right way, in a way that respects the community and balances out the need for a great member experience, with the need to generate revenue. Though it is focused at forums, it’ll be for people who are looking to monetize website in general as well. There’s a lot you can pick up, and we cover all the methods in a detailed manner, with a lot of information based on real life experiences, and just a really detailed guide. I’ve been managing online forums for 12 years, and nothing out there that’s really like it, so I wrote it. Kevin: Very cool. Louis: Awesome. I had a quick look at the website. The whole design is really sleek, I like it. Patrick: Yeah, as you know, as you might guess, I can take no credit for that. Skim Links sponsored the project, and basically that’s why I’m able to offer it for free, because they paid me. I had full independence though, I had full editorial control over the work, and that’s how I made my money, was from them paying me. They get value from being associated with the work and from the resulting coverage. But the design was totally them. They have a [...]
