Emily Chang – Designer

eHub and EmilyChang.com Join the Corante Network Web Hub, “your starting point for keeping abreast of the best writing and thinking on the forces and factors impacting the Web and where it’s headed.  Here you’ll find the field’s most insightful observers and commentators tracking and reporting on its latest developments as well as weighing in on its future.” Read the blog post.

I’m happy to announce that both eHub and emilychang.com have been invited to join the Web 2.0 Workgroup, a network created last month by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Richard MacManus of Read/WriteWeb, and Frederico Oliveira of WeBreakstuff.

The Web 2.0 Workgroup is a network of premium weblogs that write content exclusively about the new generation of the Web. Combined, these sites reach a large readership of influential technology and media professionals.

The Web 2.0 Workgroup currently includes over eighteen weblogs that cover developments in next generation web from a variety of perspectives, including analysis and trends, companies and products, design and usability, VC and business, podcasting, tech and development, and commentary.  I’m proud to be a part of this network and look forward to the conversations ahead.

Visit Web 2.0 Workgroup to browse.  I encourage you to subscribe to all of these blogs by downloading and importing the OPML file into your RSS reader.

In his article today at Forbes.com, Matt Rand discusses Microsoft’s Live.com portal and cites eHub.  Read Rand’s full article, Microsoft’s Model Turns Left.

Launched only two months ago, EmilyChang.com, which includes the popular eHub resource, is now ranked in the Technorati Top 1000 blogs, an authority calculation based on number of inbound sites and links.  Technorati is “a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the world of weblogs,” and is currently tracking 20.7 million sites and 1.7 billion links.  Read Emily’s blog post.

SuprGlu “gathers your content from popular web services and publishes them in one convenient place.” My first thought was that it sounded like another simple feed aggregator. I gave SuprGlu a spin tonight and was pleasantly surprised by both the ease of use and the sense of personal discovery.

Upon sign-up, you’re given a user-friendly URL (emilychang.suprglu.com). It’s simple to select from available sources – add your username from 43 Places, 43 Things, All consuming, Blogger, del.icio.us, flickr, last.fm, LiveJournal, or Xanga – and pull in your latest posts, data or activity. Or, you can opt to add the URL of your RSS feeds. I can see many uses for SuprGlu, but for now, I chose to pull in content and feeds from several of my own sites and online personas, including:

emilychang.com blog feed
eHub feed
artcodes blog feed
del.icio.us bookmarks
flickr photos for artcodes
flickr photos for ideacodes

In a few minutes, I was looking at my SuprGlu page/site. I customized the CSS from one of the themes and soon enough, I was browsing an aggregate of my own activity for the last couple of months. Because SuprGlu displays all of your content sources in a blog format, it gives you an immediate glance at your own “web timeline” – whether that’s bookmarks (grouped nicely as a bulleted list and titled “Links for the day”), blog posts or photos. SuprGlu provides user commenting per “post” and archive links are automatically placed in the side bar. There’s also room for a description and some hard-coded HTML for links.

Rather than acting as a web-based RSS reader or as a personal launch page, SuprGlu acts as a meta-blog of your selected network – in my case, of my own blogs, writing, commenting, bookmarking, media sharing, and general web activity.

For one of the first times, I was able to see many of the disparate parts of my web universe in reverse chronological order. As someone who writes and maintains multiple sites, as well as using multiple web services, SuprGlu’s aggregated site revealed some patterns and connections in my activity that I wouldn’t have otherwise noticed. For example, for any given day, I could read the blog post I wrote at emilychang.com, see the photos I posted to Flickr, click the links I had bookmarked in del.icio.us, and see the apps that I had posted in eHub. A birds-eye view into my own head.

This is an idea that Max and I have been working on for internal use, and it’s great to see SuprGlu already offering a hosted version of a similar concept with good execution.

Have a look at my SuprGlu page – emilychang.suprglu.com and visit SuprGlu to sign-up.
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I’m pleased to announce a new set of eHub Interviews (Netvibes, Codase, goowy, ColorBlender, Last.fm) has been translated into Japanese by the exceptional Ryutaro Kamitsu.

Please visit the links below for the Japanese versions, and as always, stay tuned for more!

eHub Interviews Netvibes

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/brazil/20051018/1129614139

eHub Interviews Codase

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/brazil/20051019/1129652023

eHub Interviews goowy

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/brazil/20051031/1130736366

eHub Interviews ColorBlender

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/brazil/20051101/1130840600

eHub Interviews Last.fm

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/brazil/20051102/113090100

On November 1, after two weeks without updates (to inbound links and sites in the Technorati statistics), I logged into Technorati to find my site had jumped in rank from 1,616 (801 links from 423 sites) to 1,047 (1,096 links from 552 sites). At one point during the day, emilychang.com came in at number 999.

Nov 1

Technorati Rank for emilychang.com:
Sept 6 – 771,696 (0 links from 0 sites)
Sept 11 – 229,177 (12 links from 8 sites)
Sept 13 – 175,258 (28 links from 11 sites)
Sept 14 – 151,172 (30 links from 13 sites)
Sept 15 – 78,642 (44 links from 25 sites)
Sept 17 – 30,782 (82 links from 56 sites)
Sept 18 – 27,656 (92 links from 61 sites)
Sept 23 – 21,638 (112 links from 74 sites)

Oct 2 – 5,276 (356 links from 194 sites)
Oct 3 – 4,277 (409 links from 224 sites)
Oct 5 – 3,028 (511 links from 279 sites)
Oct 8 – 2,436 (589 links from 323 sites)
Oct 10 – 2,093 (633 links from 355 sites)
Oct 13 – 1,801 (735 links from 395 sites)
Oct 15 – 1,616 (801 links from 423 sites)

Nov 1 – 1,047 (1,096 links from 552 sites)
Nov 1 – 999 (1,096 links from 552 sites)
Nov 2 – 1,046 (1,096 links from 552 sites)

See live results at the Technorati search for emilychang.com.
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