I looked through my past posts and noticed the last Enter Venture update was May 12th. Here is the second Enter Venture update, as promised from the beginning. If the past two updates are to be any guide, it looks like I’ll be making modifications to the site at least monthly. Here’s what’s new this month

Web 2.0 Chicken Pox

In a previous post, I talked about how social networking buttons were popping up all over the place, but few people knew what they were. Well, I’ll consider this a bit a journalistic exploration. You can also find these links in the Enter Venture feed.

• StumbleUpon - I completely recommend StumbleUpon to anyone that hasn’t tried it. It recommends really interesting websites. For example, in two clicks from my StumbleUpon toolbar just now, I was taken to a site describing the anatomy of a black hole and a site listing the top censored stories of 2007.
• Facebook - Most of my incoming links have come from facebook. Hopefully someone will find this useful
• Digg This - I just can’t get over how cool ‘Digg This’ looks on the page. Ya dig?
• Email This - Because it doesn’t require you to have 30 different log ins with social networking sites

I came so close to calling this post “version 2.0,” but I couldn’t bear it. It’s probably best to avoid this term like the plague given the strong reactions it can induce.

Email Subscriptions

You can now have Enter Venture emailed to you each morning. This might be best for all of you struggling with RSS overload now that you’re using your feed reader. It’s so much easier to delete an email.

Moderated Sidebar: Humor, New People, Popular Posts

I updated the sidebar to better reflect who’s posting on here and the fact that I still haven’t defined early entrepreneurship. Hint: that’s intentional.

I finally showed Vik a little love by putting him in the sidebar. All kidding aside, it’s great having his posts on Enter Venture. He brings a different perspective with the potential to create new ideas and ensures this site remains interdisciplinary.

I installed WordPress Stats for my own administration, and one of the cool things I can do to leverage that information is report popular posts for Enter Venture. Unfortunately, this doesn’t account for activity prior to the Stats installation that was tracked with Google Analytics, but if you’re curious, here are the top three to date:

1. Columbia Venture Community
2. Dealing with Constraints
3. Back up, what the feed are you talking about?

The Trivial

I made a bunch more seemingly trivial upgrades, but that doesn’t always mean they’re trivial tasks. The modified archive pages that now mirror the main page gave me a few scrapes. There were a few bullet rendering updates, alt tag improvements, and alignment tweaks that were more modest.

I think the rule with all of this is that the less you notice, the better. Let’s hope so — except for those Web 2.0 doohickies. Notice those. Enjoy the new stuff.

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