My sports blog has been a part of 9rules since July of 2006. For those who aren’t familiar with 9rules, they started out as a content network whose goal was to provide a single site for users find quality content on a wide array of topics. To do that, they allowed independent blog owners to submit their sites to 9rules, and if the folks over at 9rules thought it was quality content that would add to the 9rules community, they were invited.
9rules has gone through a lot of changes since I became a member. There have been 2 major releases, those releases saw 9rules venture into the social networking area of the web. They introduced a feature called “Notes” which basically gave users the ability to write and comment on notes written on the site. It was a sort of bulletin board that spanned a lot of different topics. They built upon that release by extending the functionality of the social features as they introduced my.9rules which allowed users to bring together a lot of their online activities into their 9rules account. Also in one of those releases was “Clips” which allowed users to post content from elsewhere that they thought was interesting.
Don’t worry if you’re lost… a lot of people were… so the folks behind 9rules (Scrivs, Mike and Tyme) are scrapping the whole thing. Well not really. But they are going back to the basics with 9rules. They’re in the process of migrating everything except member content off of 9rules and onto their new social side, it’s called Chawlk. From what I’ve seen so far it’s exactly the same as the old my.9rules it’s just separated out from the 9rules member content. I know that the guys are working tirelessly over there to get this all straight so I’ll stay tuned to see how it goes from here.
Personally, I’m glad for this change. It seemed to me that 9rules was creeping away from what they did best, and what drew me to want to become a member in the first place. I really appreciate Scrivs, Mike and Tyme’s consistent attention to 9rules and it’s members. Even when I don’t have a lot of time to be engrossed in the community, it’s still beneficial to know that there is a group out there that I’m a part of. I’ve seen that group rally behind other members that they didn’t even know, but they reached out to them, just because they were 9rules members.
I guess that would be me. Yesterday I launched my first Facebook application. It’s called Senior Most. The idea behind is that seniors in high school can vote for their classmates (or themselves) for Senior Most awards. This is the project I spoke of in my post about the competition. There is a similar application that caters to the general population. My idea was to cater specifically to seniors in high school. All Facebook users can use the app (except if you haven’t been a senior in high school yet).