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This is an early draft of Zimbio's membership guidelines, as of March 28th.  General Membership Guidelines Respect other members.   Be nice.  Please.... no personal attacks, no threats, try not to be rude.  Treat others as you would have them treat you. Make positive contributions.   Add, edit, rate, and delete content in order to ease the burden of your fellow travelers.  Help us make Zimbio a valuable and interesting website. Be accountable.   Take credit.  Be who... Read Full Story

For those of you new to Zimbio, welcome!   Our network of public portals is designed to help people quickly get down the learning curve on any topic of interest by seeing what other people are reading, saying, and recommending.   You can browse through some of the existing portals, add content, or start a new portal altogether. Many thanks to those of you who helped with our private beta - your feedback has been incredibly useful.   You’ll see that we developed a number of new... Read Full Story

Lately we’ve received a few different feature requests regarding OPML pages/files for public portals, and so we thought we’d open it up to the community for debate.   How should Zimbio support OPML?   Should we offer an OPML file or OPML page for each portal?   Should we nest our outlines so each portal’s Feedroll has its own category, or should we just keep our outlines simple and flat (which is less cool, but may be more broadly supported)?   Should we include all links and photos... Read Full Story

Each portal on Zimbio now has a tool that allows members to pick and choose the types of content they'd like to receive in their OPML feed (links, photos, RSS feeds, notes, etc.).  You can test the “customizable OPML” tool by visiting any of our portals and choosing "Tools" in the top navigation bar.  Here are a few examples:   Aviation OPML Energy Conservation OPML Africa Travel OPML Many thanks to James , Scott , and Adam for taking a test drive of the new feature and for... Read Full Story

We’re very happy to announce a new partnership with Sphere.com today.   Gurus can now choose Sphere to power Blog Trackers on their favorite Zimbio portals.   Sphere is a brand new engine that returns some great results and we hope you find the service as useful as we do. Our Blog Tracker feature allows members to suggest and share their favorite blog searches with the Zimbio community.   If you’re building a portal about “Bird Flu”, you might suggest blog searches such as “H5N1... Read Full Story

We just launched a new OPML feature that allows you to subscribe to specific search results on Zimbio.  Just do a search for your favorite subject and click on the "Search OPML" link in the upper right-hand corner of the results page.  Here are a couple of examples of Zimbio OPML feeds on various OPML apps: "Tamara Hoover" on Grazr "Election 2006" on Bitty Browser "Education Blogs" on OptimalBrowser Cheers, Tony... Read Full Story

Many thanks to all of you who have been building and contributing to new portals.  Fantastic! It would be cool to choose a few new portals to feature on our homepage, perhaps on a rotating basis.  We'd like to feature portals that have a number of members contributing to them - to highlight the collaborative nature of Zimbio.  So here is the big question....Which portals should we feature? Please leave comments to this blog entry if you'd like to nominate specific portals... Read Full Story

We've been toying around with the idea of holding some "office hours" in our live AIM chat room, so we can all have a real-time, group discussion.  We could center it either on online support (people asking help-related questions and hopefully getting answers) or have it be more of a feedback forum to discuss what is and isn't working on Zimbio. What do you think?  At a minimum, could be an interesting experiment. Read Full Story