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Interview
This is an interview from IRCReport.
Q. What in your words, is the best way to describe QuoteBucket?
QuoteBucket enables you to browse through a collection of user submitted quotes from IRC and other IM
services around the Internet, Similar to that of bash.org and qdb.us.
Q. Is QuoteBucket new? And why and when did it start?
We're fairly new, we started in September 2008, However, we used a sub domain from FreeDNS. This was
quotebucket.info.tm, which is still active. In May 2009, quotebucket.org was registered. We started
QuoteBucket because (no disrespect intended) one of the oldest Quote databases, Bash, was getting
clogged, spammed, and well. ruined. We also aimed for a "sleeker" design which would bring us out of
our shell even more.
Q. What, in your 100% honesty, makes QuoteBucket stand out?
In all honesty, I'm hoping it's because of our unique design, fast reviews on all submitted quotes,
and respect for all of our users. There is unlimited support available and we're never short of management
to control the reviews.
Q. Don't you think the design is a bit too much?
Not at all, It's been verified as a Web 2.0 website, and it still doesn't need alot of bandwidth for the user
browsing it. Because the only image it has is in the header, And even that is under 5.0 kilo bytes.
There are no tables what-so-ever thus it works on all browsers we've tested it on. (Internet Explorer,
Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome [...], and even terminal based browsers such as Lynx). The design
was started from scratch and thought through carefully, There are "blueprints" to prove it.
Q. Has QuoteBucket grown?
I would think so, Our Google rank is 3 and our Alexa rank is 1,843,799 (As of 2/Aug/2009)
Q. There is a lot of social networking involved, Why?
Well, That is the whole point in it. It's a quote database, not just for IRC but for other IM services too.
But, I suppose there is Digg, AddThis and Twitter involved. On quotes you'll notice two small links
next to the ratings. (QDigg and QShare). Clicking on QDigg submits the quote to Digg, and clicking
on QShare opens up the AddThis box, where you can browse through a list of other social bookmarking sites
and submit the quote to.. We have two Twitter accounts. QuoteBucket and qbRSS,
The QuoteBucket account is used for updates etc, and the qbRSS is an automatic account used for the RSS feed
for latest quotes...
Us: Wow steady on, this is turning out to be an essay.
Q. We're almost at the end, Is there anything else you would like to say?
Yes, Firstly. I would like to thank you for asking me to do an Interview, I would also like to thank QB's users
for keeping it stable and running, I would like to thank all of our Twitter followers, and I would also like
to thank Jobe for keeping the development of QdbS running smoothly..
Remember, if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. just email us (find our email on the site)
or follow us on Twitter.
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