They called for entries and we followed that call. We are taking part in our first competition:
“StartUp 2.0 is a competition of European web 2.0 sites whose objectives are to promote and reward the European startups (either created or willing to do so in the future) that work in the field of 2.0 technologies.”
In case you want to check out our entry: http://promote.startup2.eu/story.php?title=iliketotallyloveit.com+-+Germany
well, we uploaded a new “release” yesterday, in case you didn’t notice. Most notably we introduced iliketotallyloveit.com sidebars/widgets and buttons. This, by itself, might not be worth blogging about, but I want to draw the readers attention to the fact that we are not using JavaScript to get our sidebar included, but the plain old iframe tag (which we might replace by an object tag in the future to be compliant with XHTML 1.0 Strict). For the rationale behind this move see “TechCrunch Down. I’m Pissed.” and “JavaScript Badges and Widgets Considered Harmful“. Basically, the idea is: If we screw up, our badge/sidebar goes down, not your site.
Actually, we didn’t implement Jeremy Zawodny’s suggestion yet: “For every badge/widget/gadget out there, I’d like to see a discoverable API that allows me to get the same data via a simple REST based API that emits RSS (with extensions where it makes sense). The link to get that data should be rendered on the badge. Think of it as a ‘View Source’ for badges.” If there is real demand for this, let us know.
Also, bug reports are very welcome, we had to change quite a bit of internals for this one, so things might be broken.
Our host http://www.one.com just “suspended” our site because they claim we caused too much load for the database server. Please note, that there was never a single warning from them and that their action violates their end of the contract. They do not face technical difficulties but deliberately decided to take us offline without even a single warning.
Right now, there is nothing we can do, as we cannot really reach them, it is night in Europe.
