Planet V12n is expanding
Planet V12n, our collection of the world's best virtualization bloggers, is expanding to include 12 new sites . Check out the list below.
We're also planning a redesign of the blog pages here, including a better way to find VMware blogs (a blog and feed directory) and an update to the planet aggregators.
If you have any suggestions, let me know. Here a few questions that have been on my mind.
- Is the current 300 character summary ok?
- Do you need better filtering (keywords/tags, search, etc)?
- Is it enough of a fire hose that we need to display just titles only like Planet Lotus?
- Should we display fewer entries like blogs.sun.com?
- Would you like a separate planet with just virtualization news (as opposed to blog commentary and tech talk)?
Without further ado, here are new inhabitants of the planet. See sample posts from each at last week's entry: Bloggers to watch out for. So to all the bloggers and potential bloggers out there: remember to blog what you know; remember to link to each other (giving credit gives good karma); and go forth and virtualize!
- Desktop Virtualization (Gleb Reys)
- InformationWeek's Virtualization Blog (Joe Hernick)
- vinf.net (Simon Gallagher)
- vinternals (Stuart Radnidge)*
- Virtual Enthusiasm (Clint Eschberger)
- virtualization stuff (Mark Mac Auley)
- Virtualization Pro (SearchVMware.com)
- VM-Aware (Paul Shannon)
- VMHero (Ryan)
- VMware Videos (David Davis)
- VMware World(Jack)
- x86 Virtualization (vmguru)
*Stu still has some opinions about the direction VC should go (which he should post), but he has also weighed in again: VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1 Upgrade Process - Not So Sucky After All!
Would be cool if the News Blogs could be seperated from the tech / engineer blogs. Cause the engineer blogs are hard to pick up, and most news blogs feature the same articles.
I think the format is okay, not to long, not to short just right.
Posted by: Duncan | April 19, 2008 at 05:11 AM
I have to agree with Duncan; I would find it much more useful if the news sites were separated from the engineer sites.
Some searching/filtering/tagging functionality would be nice, but aren't a necessity.
Otherwise, the format is good, and I think the summary/excerpt length is appropriate.
Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Scott Lowe | April 19, 2008 at 06:59 AM
I third that - if you can split the news/repeater blogs out it makes it much easier to filter and focus on what you are really interested in
Posted by: Simon Gallagher | April 19, 2008 at 01:14 PM
What about vBlogging in Spanish?
Posted by: J. L. Medina | April 20, 2008 at 11:33 AM
"IN A CLASSIC CASE OF CHICKEN AND EGG... prospects trying to download the free virtualisation software vmware player from VMWare are greeted by a Microsoft Active Server Page site error when trying to fill out the mandatory registration form!
Apparently non-windows users are expected to be running Internet Explorer before they download the player.
Users in the Firefox fifth of the browser market-share are repulsed from eloqua's own site with:
Browser Not Supported
The web browser you are using is not supported by Eloqua. Please download the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer in order to access the Eloqua application.
Download Internet Explorer
One would have thought that VMWare's partner would be a little more sensitive to the limitations of users yet to avail of the product. Even the most primitive sites these days don't debar all standards-compliant browsers completely.
Curiously it isn't mentioned which version of Internet Explorer they would find acceptable...
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Sorry this is going in my column and I can't be bothered to type it out twice.
Posted by: Hertz VanRentl | April 20, 2008 at 02:10 PM