The Fluther Blog

Over the last few months, many of you have “noticed” a strange “quality” of our “search” function: it “sucked.” Well, we finally got a chance to partner with a lesser-known startup to provide you with a much better search. We hope it helps everyone more easily access the bountiful knowledge stored in the collective. Enjoy–and […]

As a little side project to distract myself while I’m beefing up the IM server, I decided to implement a feature we’ve been thinking about for a long time: institutionalizing the @user convention. Now, while you’re writing your response, you’ll see a pop-up list of users within the discussion when you start typing ‘@’, and […]

You may have noticed some extra goodies during the last few days, namely: The FlutherSearch Firefox plugin: If you use Firefox, you should try it out–it’s specially made by our friends at WebMynd so when you search Google you also search Fluther. Plus, it can record your search history in a nifty way. An Amazon […]

Some of you may have noticed the hour that Fluther was down this afternoon. I thought I’d give you a little insight into what we’ve been I’ve been up to while Bacio fiddles the bits on the server. Not wanting anyone to accuse us of not running with the cool kids, I decided to implement […]

Twenty-five years after the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS and twenty years after the initial commemoration of World AIDS day, we are fortunate that the scientific community has rallied to discover much about the lifestyle of HIV, and in doing so, develop a host of effective medicines against HIV. […]

We’ve just put up our last project — part of our multi-faceted join-flow redesign — with Mark before he was hired away by some unknown startup. Mark was key to our redesign back in March 2007, and he helped translate the ideas and brand we had bouncing around in our collective heads into a coherent message and design. We […]

Well, today I learned that I’m finally featured in the Apple ad: Now I’ll forever be “working out”. And lest we think this is only about me, check out our very own richardhenry’s NSFW site, cursebird. A brilliant idea, if you ask me.

Gailcalled is a well known and loved Flutherer, and for a good reason. She’s always on-hand to offer her years of experience and fine linguistic skills. We talk about her connection to Fluther while she also reveals the lessons she learned over time that have made her the influential woman she is today.

WebMynd is a cool new Firefox plugin which lets you customize your Google searches and also store a visual history of pages you’ve visited. It’s pretty slick. We’re really excited because they’ve added a Fluther integration module, which we think will make searching Fluther a snap: Cool, right? Try it out and let us know […]

It’s stupid how little time this took, but I’ve thrown on permalinks to quips. Hover over the “action bar” on the quips to get a little permalink — which you can copy-paste when you want to refer to someone’s quip. Consider this a rough draft… the implementation may change a little bit.