We're a three-person startup based in Barcelona which provides self-updated profiles for software developers. The profiles are based on public information: open source projects at Sourceforge, Github, Google Code and Apache, for now.
We would very much appreciate your input about Masterbranch and the profiles we generate. You can see and claim yours here:
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On the other side, at Masterbranch there are companies doing the hard work of searching and pre-qualifying developers with skills based on real programming experience such as showcased in your profile. From time to time, you may receive job opportunities via email, but don't despair, you can control w[h]ether you'd like to receive these job offers.
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)I don't think I have real programming experience at all. As of the self-updated profiles, after I searched myself:
Look at those expertise. It proves my point I posted yesterday, those scarps, they generate cr... eww... inaccurate data. (At least, it didn't fake)
I did write a few WordPress/bbPress plugin which indeed PHP, but for others projects, I didn't touch a line of PHP code. Where did this "MPlayer" come from?
There are two listed in my username, I can understand that. They can really tell if that's same person, because it's machine. If it's done manually by real human, they will look into source code and see my real name in both FOSS hosting sites. The one on top should be Google Code, the one on bottom is Sourceforge.
One thing I don't understand, there is already an Ohloh. Why make another one? When I first clicked in, I felt a bit Github-like style, but I seemed to be wrong. But there was a notification bar at top, it's definitely like StackOverflow.
Anyway, this kind of sites is those I wouldn't use. They are not totally bad, they are just you know too similar in many ways.
If I was making a website like this, I wouldn't generate. I would rather email those potential developer, who might create awesome profile on their own, and give them some already existing great profiles for samples. Those auto-generated profile like stuffing beer cans in your wardrobe, they ruin the quality. But it's just me, some websites want to make them look big thing in the year at first.
Thanks for posting about Masterbranch, just a few comments...
ReplyDeleteRegarding to the information shown in the profiles, you're right, we've lots of things to do here. We're currently working on:
1- Improving the accuracy of the information shown
2- Technologies can be modified or deleted by users
3- Aggregate data (not profiles) from more forges/ sources
#1 is one of the reasons why unclaimed profiles can't be searched in the website (this has been recently changed).
Regarding to Ohloh... while Ohloh is about projects, Masterbranch is about people. We really think we add value on the existing information in the sense that a profile based on real experience- on the code-, is more reliable than others.
Thanks for the comment. (I was wondering when you guys would show up, I know (new) company will keep an eye on Internet)
ReplyDeleteI just read your blog and the changes you have made, I need to give you a big thumb-up!
Especially this one,
"Unclaimed profiles are now NOINDEX. We’ve also changed profile URLs so that indexed profiles by search engines will start being de-indexed."
I am glad that someone also cares about what's on search engine's index. Most people just want their content to be indexed, they don't care about the quality of search results. They only care about SEO or the revenue from after doing "optimization."
I have no comments on regarding to Ohloh in your comment. But I want to wish you to achieve the goal you want soon.