AllYourTech.com - Site News

Calling all talented and inspired writers

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:13:17 -0500

Like what you've seen of AllYourTech.com so far? If you'd like to get involved, we're looking for new additions to our team!

Specifically, we're looking for some talented and inspired writers with a healthy dose of tech-enthusiasm to contribute content. Yes, we have several writers already, but one of the drawbacks of having writers working in the field is that they can get bogged-down by their day (and night, and weekend...) job.

There are a number of areas where you may be able to help out.

Articles - feature-length content including everything from editorials to tutorials
News - medium-length content dealing with current events
Tips - short computing tips
Downloads - sharing useful software resources (preferably free and open source) with the rest of us

We have other forms of content around the corner, but these are and will always be our bread and butter.

Here are some of the benefits available to contributors

You own your content - Want to post your articles on your personal site as well? Great! As long as we get to post the whole thing here you can publish it anywhere else you want, too.
Get noticed - We recieve millions of page views per month.
Advertising space - If you have an AdSense account, you'll be able to generate revenue from everything you write that we publish! Additional ads will be allowed within longer articles, too.
Your own @AllYourTech.com email address - Regular contributors can have one upon request. Show everyone you are a part of the team!
Web hosting - Contributors to AllYourTech.com are eligible for cheap or free hosting on our server (depending on how much they contribute, of course).
Networking opportunities - Our contributors aren't full-time writers; they are people working in all areas of the tech industry. There are a lot of rising stars in our midst!
Become part of a great community - Many life-long friendships have been forged among the AYT family!

Interested in joining the team? Send me an email at rollie@allyourtech.com and introduce yourself! Be sure to include some information about your tech and writing experience, educational background, and links to some writing samples.

Weekend Downtime

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 06:34:23 -0500

This site and the others on this server have been down most of the weekend. It seems that Sagonet, which holds our web host Nexcess's co-located servers in Florida, had some router upgrades that went very, very badly. Details are available on the Nexcess forums.

Invision 2.1.3

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:20:00 -0500

Invision (our forum software) has been updated from 2.1.1 to 2.1.3. Hopefully, this will fix a few minor bugs.

RSS imports to the forums

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:44:41 -0500

The forums will now begin importing AllYourTech.com content automatically. This is where comments to articles and such will go from now on.

New home page

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:42:17 -0500

I've finished coding the new AllYourTech.com home page. It should be more attractive to the eye than the older one. It also arranges the information more sensibly than before.

New site sponsors

Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:26:33 -0500

AllYourTech.com has a number of new advertising sponsors. Although some of them are very new, I'm glad to see Google's AdSense program finally getting some competition. Here's a little information on each one:

Google AdSense - still the leader in pay-per-click, context-based advertising (their referral program began today)

AdBright - similar to AdSense but is topic-based rather than context-based to avoid AdSense conflicts and allows you to customize the look of the ads more than any program I've seen

Chitika - inventors of the eMiniMall which allows you to search without leaving the page

Yahoo! Publisher Network - Looks to be very similar to AdSense both in terms of context-based ads and search-based ads but with some interesting new features.

AllYourTech.com goes live!

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:05:00 -0500

After months of hard work behind the scenes, AllYourTech.com has finally gone live!

Those who have been a part of the Lineman.net/Techdiscussions.com community for a while already knew this was coming. Our goal is to turn what has already been a successful set of community sites into a massive website featuring content contributed by industry experts and insiders, published authors, accomplished speakers, and popular online personalities as well as featuring work developed by the active members of our community.

Keep checking back here for more updates and special announcements in the coming weeks.

Downtime

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:50:28 -0500

There will be some downtime between 10/30/2005 and 10/31/2005 for the entire domain. This is to work out some back-end and templating issues before the public debut on 11/01/2005.

TSEP seems to be working

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:48:41 -0500

It looks like our installation of TSEP (The Search Engine Project) is working now. There was a problem with the automated indexing procedure but that seems to have been fixed.