Pick-Me Development – Feedback Required

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Chris

We’re busy at Pick-Me Towers working on a brand new look for the website, but we would appreciate your feedback on this!

We’re currently stuck at the moment on the way that our hosts & hostee listings are displayed, we’ve seen less and less people signing up with the likes of AIM, ICQ, and GTALK.

With this in mind, we know that most people now have facebook and Twitter accounts, and we think it’s time to alter the listings to include these methods of contacts.

But that’s not all – we want to know what YOU want to see on the listings. Maybe you’re not bothered about if someone knows about FTP, or whenever you can offer CGI scripts as more and more scripts are becoming available as PHP these days!

Pick-Me.net is becoming outdated as the signup options has been pretty much the same since the original site came out all those years ago – NOW IS THE TIME TO HAVE YOUR SAY AND BE PART OF THE PICK-ME DEVELOPMENT.

It’s never been easier to contact us with your suggestions:-

Thanks all for now folks, we hope to hear from you soon.
Chris Brooke & the Pick-Me Team.

 

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Amazing Social Media Facts…

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Chris

Social Media is something that can blow your mind! But when you read these facts – you will need to pick your jaw of the floor…. Remember, we warned you.

  • Social networks and blogs are the 4th most popular online activities online, including beating personal email. 67% of global users visit member communities and 10% of all time spent on the internet is on social media sites.
  • If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth most populated place in the world. This means it easily beats the likes of Brazil, Russia and Japan in terms of size.*
  • 80% of companies use, (or are planning to use), LinkedIn as their primary tool to find employees during the course of this year. The site has just celebrated reaching its 45-millionth membership.
  • Around 64% of marketers are using social media for 5 hours or more each week during campaigns, with 39% using it for 10 or more hours per week.
  • It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million listeners. Terrestrial TV took 13 years to reach 50 million users. The internet took four years to reach 50 million people… In less than nine months, Facebook added 100 million users.
  • Wikipedia currently has more than 13 million articles in more than 260 different languages. The site attracts over 60 million unique users a month and it’s often hotly debated that the information it contains is more reliable than any printed Encyclopaedia.
  • The most recent figure of blogs being indexed by Technorati currently stands at 133 million. The same report into the Blogosphere also revealed that on average, 900,000 blog posts are created within a single 24-hour period.
  • It’s been suggested that YouTube is likely to serve over 75 billion video streams to around 375 million unique visitors during this year.
  • The top three people on Twitter (Ashton Kutcher, Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears) have more combined followers than the entire population of Austria.*
  • According to Socialnomics, if you were paid $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia, you would earn $156.23 per hour.
  • The online bookmarking service, Delicious, has more than five million users and over 150 million unique bookmarked URLs.
  • Since April this year, Twitter has been receiving around 20 million unique visitors to the site each month,according to some analytical sources.
  • Formed in 2004, Flickr now hosts more than 3.6 billion user images.
  • Universal McCann reports that 77% of all active internet users regularly read blogs.
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Database Purging Completed!

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Chris


Sorry that it took so long to sort out, but we had problems with some new coding!!

We Just wanted to let you all know, that the database purging has now been completed and our hosts and hostee database has been cleaned out!

We were going to add the ability to add your facebook and twitter usernames to your listings as a point of contact, but sadly this didn’t go too well as planned.  Because of the length of time it took to try and sort this out, we have reverted Pick-Me to the old site coding so that we could open the listings once again for you to signup.  We will still be working on modifying our coding offsite.

We’ve also made some changes to the way that you update your listing.  As before, we e-mail you a unique password which you use with the e-mail address that you have signed up with to login to the change listing page.  This page now has a DELETE button at the bottom of the edit listing page which will delete our listing from the database.  We urge you to take advantage of this delete button when you have found a host or hostee.  This has been added to help us keep Pick-Me.net up to date as possible by enabling our users to delete their listing without any fuss.

We hope that we’ll be seeing you once again on Pick-Me and we look forward to seeing your listing pop up on our database.

DISCUSS THIS ON OUR MESSAGE BOARDS AT:
http://mb.pick-me.net/showthread.php?p=399#post399

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