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eGether.com Launched – multi-dimensional social platform for consumers, reporters, analysts and PR practitioners

Ewdison Then
8th December 2009
Business
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For the past 6 months I’ve been working on a new project outside R3 Media LLC with my business partner Vincent Nguyen and a great developer Daniel Lim. The project is called eGether; a multi-dimensional social portal for consumers, reporters, analysts and PR practitioners. Curious? Then head over to eGether now!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Come together with eGether a collaborative multi-dimensional service combining the best functionality from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and LinkedIn.

Scottsdale, AZ, and Dallas, TX — December 8, 2009 — Addressing consumer demand to have one site that links to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and LinkedIn, eGether is launching today in public beta (http://egether.com/). A collaborative multi-dimensional social portal for consumers, reporters, analysts and PR practitioners, eGether is centered around an Activity Pitching Engine (APE) that combines 255 character status updates and 999 character pitches, using familiar @ status messaging for inter-user communication. Status updates can include one image, while pitches can include image and video content (including embedded YouTube), documents such as DOC, PDF and ZIP, and hyperlinks.

eGether was founded by Vincent Nguyen and Ewdison Then after they had grown frustrated using a combination of existing networking tools to collaborate. They developed eGether to bring the best of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and LinkedIn functionality and features into one easy-to-manage social networking service structured around Activities and Connections. Activities originate from user status updates and pitches, combined with user-defined contact information, online galleries that can be tagged with people and products. Connections include private and public circles — groups of other eGether users with whom they collaborate, or topics about which they are interested.

eGether also allows consumers to obtain product and service information direct from the source, rather than second-hand. Consumers can use global search for the latest company news and reviews, and PR firms can freely pitch their clients’ products and services, rather than sending out individual alerts.

eGether offers a single information point with a custom URL for users that can be shared via email, Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere. Visitors can then engage in discussions with everyone from consumers, to people in the media, to analysts, or even engineers involved in the company. eGether also empowers users to connect and share what’s on their mind, or even just to share their thoughts on the shiny new gadget they received over the holidays.

To start taking advantage of eGether’s powerful social networking tools, sign up at http://egether.com/signup.

eGether is supported by an advisory board including Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, Inc. (www.creativestrategies.com); Michael Gartenberg, vice president of strategy and analysis at Interpret, LLC (www.gartenblog.net); Seth Combs, interactive brand strategist(www.sethcombs.com); and Judie Lipsett, tech blogger and founder of GearDiary (www.geardiary.com).

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For more information, contact

Vincent Nguyen
vincent [at] r3media.com
+1 (917) 477-7911

http://eGether.com/Vincent

Ewdison Then
ethen [at] r3media.com
+1 (917) 720-8281

http://eGether.com/Ewdi

All marks are the property of their respective owners.

Android Community – Are you ready to evolve?

Building an active community is a daunting task and many times we scratch our head to figure out what made a community successful. Android Community is our fastest growing community site; and credit goes to the team of droids for making it happen.

With the big push of first Android device from T-Mobile and HTC (The G1), we gain at between 150-300 droids (that’s what we call our members) and 2000+ posts daily. Android Community is not only a forum, but also a social medium for Android platform users; hence conversations on the community go beyond Android itself.

According to Quantcast, AC served roughly 3.6 million pageviews each month and that is some serious number for a site that has been running less than four months. With only the first Android device out, we are expecting rapid growth in coming months following the extensive flow of new devices to the market.

With the additions of Android Community to R3 Media Network, we are dishing out almost 8 million pageviews monthly and it’s a very good growth rates for us in this coming quarter.

So if you have not visited Android Community, you might want to hop over there for a visit; once you become a droid, you will stay a droid. Are you ready to evolve?

miniBB Integration with WordPress 2.5.x without reverting to MD5 password hashes

If you have not heard of miniBB, it’s a very lightweight forum web application – we use it on SlashGear discussion forums. Prior to WordPress 2.5, miniBB integration to WordPress was fairly straightforward and easy. WordPress 2.5 introduces new password hashes, phpass and it breaks many 3rd party application integration, including miniBB. While you can revert back to MD5 Password hashes, it seems futile as the new password hashes was in place to keep WordPress more secure.

Optimize your WordPress blog with PHP opcode cacher

I’m a guy who will throw in more hardware to keep up with server load and traffic demand, but from time to time, being able to squeeze every little bit of performance worth the hassle of mingling into applications and server configuration.

WordPress is quite MySQL resources intensive when you are not using file-based cache like WP-CACHE. I agree with what Matt Mullenweg said, WordPress was made to be dynamic – using WP-CACHE beats that purpose. So how do we stand against Digg and SlashDot incoming traffic? Configure and optimize your server (or throw in more hardware if you could), but mostly, a decent server with good optimization should be capable of handling those traffic.

2000GB Server bandwidth – seems a lot yet so little

When I moved R3 Network to SoftLayer, we received 2000GB bandwidth allocation each server. We don’t use much of our public bandwidth on MySQL server as we connect to it using internal private IP, however I can’t say the same for our web server.

Based on last month usage (May), our web server has used up 1694.14GB of bandwidth. I never thought running seven blog sites would consume so much bandwidth. SlashGear.com alone uses average of 880GB of bandwidth monthly.

We reach around 1.6 million unique visitors monthly and that’s an increase of 45% from last year for the same month. Bandwidth usage from May last year was only 220GB that means the 45% visitor increase in traffic resulted in 770% in bandwidth usage increase (hope my math is right).

2000GB bandwidth/month used to mean a lot to me, but after seeing the usage number for this May, it looks fairly little. . Soon it will be time to get unmetered bandwidth servers, but I hate moving sites to different servers – it takes time to reconfigure the server the way I want it. I might look into moving our static files to Amazon S3 like we did with our videos.

Introducing Simply Craving – All about food

We’ve recently launch a new site on our network. No, it’s not another tech related site on R3 Network – this time it’s a food site. Simply Craving is our latest blog that focuses on food from different culture and places. So fire up your browser and type simplycraving.com.