Brandon Corbins Head Indianapolis Product & Technology Evangelist

Just testing the Pickylist widget feature. Caaaa Chooowwwww!

I have been on a coding and tweaking marathon this weekend in order to squash some remaining bugs before we open PickyList for our  beta testers (signup to be a beta tester here).  Hopefully Oct 1st.

Crazy props to  Wish TV Channel 8 for utilizing Twitter http://twitter.com/WISH_News. This micro-news format is absolutely brilliant - especially since Twitters 140 character limit doesn’t leave much room for bias or b.s. Instead we are presented with simple straight-to-the-point Indianapolis news, that is continually being updated. I never thought I would say it, but Thanks WISH-TV!

What in the &*$# is PickyList? While I wait for Pickylists new servers to be setup, I suppose I will fill you in a little about our newest Indianapolis business venture.

At its core, Pickylist is like Craigslist - only better (or as @appendmark) says “LIKE 10 times better”).

So here are 10 interesting facts about PickyList.

1. Pickylist  is an online marketplace for people selling items, looking for a job or trying to promote themselves.
2. Pickylist  was originally called Recruital - a product that supported advertising campaigns by offering personalized landing pages.
3. Pickylist will start off with the following categories “For Sale, Indy People and Indy Jobs”
4. Pickylist is looking for local partners and sponsors - advertise@pickylist.com
5. Pickylist offers custom themes for a posting - if you are a designer/developer,  you will be able to monazite your Creative.
6. Pickylist was built to avoid scams and spams.
7. Pickylist will have Editors who have the right to turn off a posting and ask you to rewrite it (if it does not meet our standards).
8. Pickylist is looking for Editors - contact@pickylist.com
9. Pickylist would love for you to follow us on Twitter - http://twitter.com/pickylist
10. Pickylist loves Indianapolis.

We are hoping to open the Beta by the end of Next (Sept 25th?) Lets keep our fingers crossed!

Dear Duke Energy,

I would like to activate my account online, as I very much cherish the wonderful utilities that you bring to me in my daily life. However, in your quest to make your website “Web 2.0″ cool, with Wizbang Ajax, you have managed to make me and every other Firefox and Safari user, unable to achieve our goal of SIGNING UP FOR YOUR SERVICE!  Look, I understand that you’re a Microsoft shop, and making Microsoft powered websites look and act  “Simple” is a really really hard - but for the sake of everyone, at least make your registration work on non Microsoft browsers.

Dear Duke Energy Web Guys,

Please don’t try to resize my browser window, I understand that it might be for some really really important reason (to you) - but just stop. You do not have permission to get my properties of my Window.resizeFrame, so stop trying. While we are on the topic, it’s also breaking your dynamically loaded County selector.

But lucky for you, you left the old way in the code, so it will be easy to go back. (while you’re at it, get rid of those tables, it’s a simple form! Oh yea, I forgot - Microsoft shop… Sorry

Line 227: http://imcltebizt.duke-energy.com/Content/SAS/new_service_location.asp

	<div id="CountyLabel" style="visibility: hidden;">
		Please select your County:
	</div>
	....
	<div id="CountyList" style="visibility: hidden;">
		<select name='cboCounty' onchange='inputChanged()' size='1'><OPTION value=''> </OPTION><OPTION value='Bartholomew'>Bartholomew</OPTION><OPTION value='Benton'>Benton</OPTION><OPTION value='Boone'>Boone</OPTION>....</select>
	</div>

Sincerely,
Brandon Corbin

I am happy to say that my daughter officially launched her own blog using Wordpress.com http://maddyc.wordpress.com  Good job Maddy!