http://www.scriptoviablog.com Effective Learning Through Collaboration Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:59:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A couple days ago we implemented a slightly different look and feel for Scriptovia.com. We decided to make things a bit lighter and cleaner than the old design. Now it's time for you to tell us what you think. Do you like the new look and feel or should we ... http://www.scriptoviablog.com/what-do-you-think-of-the-recent-design-changes/ Calling all hackers and passionate people. Scriptovia is currently looking for a web developer who can make a long term commitment to help Scriptovia become the number one online education portal out there. Since we are still a small team, you will play a key role in the development ... http://www.scriptoviablog.com/scriptovia-is-hiring/ Ok this is totally unrelated to Scriptovia but I had to comment. It seems that The Times is reporting that Yahoo and News Corp may agree to a deal in which News Corp receives 25% of Yahoo in exchange for MySpace. As of right now, Yahoo's market cap. is 37.13 ... http://www.scriptoviablog.com/trade-myspace-for-25-of-yahoo/ It looks like we just got a review on KillerStartups.com. You can check it out here. Make sure to vote for us and leave a comment about how you think we will do. I have also added their widget to the sidebar of this blog so you can stay updated ... http://www.scriptoviablog.com/review-on-killerstartupscom/ We have fixed the rendering problems that the site was having when viewing in Internet Explorer 6. As of yesterday the site has been thoroughly tested specifically in IE6 and there should be any major rendering problems specific to IE6, if there is let me know. My apologies for ... http://www.scriptoviablog.com/ie6-bug-fixed/ It has been a very busy week! On Tuesday we made our official BETA launch announcement. We got some good press coverage in the Seattle Post Intelligencer (thanks to John Cook for the great article!), the University of Washington Daily, and some other smaller outlets. We have also been working ... http://www.scriptoviablog.com/status-on-the-beta-launch/ As of a couple hours ago, the limited BETA of Scriptovia has been released. The reason I say “limited” BETA is because all of the BETA features are not yet available. These features including document viewing within the browser, rankings and awards, and badges will be available within the next ... http://www.scriptoviablog.com/limited-beta-released/ Sorry for the lack of blog posts lately, we have been hard at work trying to get the site out the door. FYI: we have changed the blog URL from blog.scriptovia.com to www.scriptoviablog.com; please change your RSS feeds and bookmarks. So when can you expect to see the site? Well I can’t ... http://www.scriptoviablog.com/quick-update/ ThinkEssay.com is basically the proof-of-concept for Scriptovia. Developed in early 2005, it aims to allow students to learn from each other’s essays in an online community atmosphere. The idea was to create a feature limited website with no marketing budget to see how users would interact with the concept. What ... http://www.scriptoviablog.com/how-thinkessay-fits-into-all-of-this/ Sorry for the delay in getting a post up on the blog. My computer decided to die on Tuesday morning and I just got things up and running. Thanks to Computer Stop and Computer & Applications in Bellevue for your help in getting my computer running in a timely matter ... http://www.scriptoviablog.com/use-case-finding-motivation/