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api December 27, 2011

Stack Exchange API V2.0 Public Beta

More than a year and a half ago we unveiled the first version of the Stack Exchange API to the wider world.  Since then we’ve had a minor point release, improved app and script listing, and shared some statistics about the consumers of our API. I’ve been pretty pleased with version 1.1, stackexchange.com and our chat…
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Team Lead, Data - Former
beta August 5, 2010

Chat Now In Public Beta

Our “third place”, after a successful three day beta preview, is now on the final path to launch. What is this mythical third place I speak of? Chat. money.stackexchange.com meta.money.stackexchange.com <font color="maroon">chat.money.stackexchange.com</font> Because you not only need a place to have intelligent Q&A; about managing your finances, you need a place to talk about the…
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Co-Founder (Former)
beta July 14, 2010

Third Place Chat Beta Preview

Remember that third place concept I brought up a few months ago? We’re ready to give community insiders a chance to check out what Stack Overflow Valued Associates #00006 and #00007 have been working so hard on. For the next 3 days, we’ll be running a public beta sneak preview of our proposed “third place”…
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Co-Founder (Former)
api May 20, 2010

Stack Exchange API Public Beta Starts

Our API private beta is coming to an end, which means it’s time for the API public beta to start. We’ve set up a dedicated site to support the public beta at … stackapps.com It’s called Stack Apps because, well, that’s what it is — a place for applications that run on our “Stack”. You…
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Co-Founder (Former)
api March 31, 2010

Stack Overflow API Private Beta Starts

If there’s some kind of award for longest running user request, it has to be this one: When will you guys have an API? One of our new year goals for 2010 is to build and release a great API — for all the trilogy sites. Over the last month, API work has been our…
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Co-Founder (Former)
beta November 19, 2009

Careers Employer Beta Underway

The CV side of careers.stackoverflow.com has been reasonably complete, ever since we added free public CVs. Well, I’m proud to announce that we’ve begun serious beta testing of the other half of the equation — the part of careers.stackoverflow.com for employers and hiring managers. We’ve been trickling in “friends of Stack Overflow” who happen to…
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Co-Founder (Former)
beta October 7, 2009

Introducing Stack Overflow Careers

When we integrated jobs.stackoverflow.com, I dropped a little hint: That said, this is just a start on the careers front. We have some more innovative things we are working on in this area that we hope to roll out in the next 6 to 8 weeks. Like, say, wouldn’t it be cool if your CV…
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Co-Founder (Former)
beta July 15, 2009

Super User Semi-Private Beta Begins

The semi-private beta for Super User has begun. That’s right, it is officially Ewok Time. At any rate, if you wanted a community where (almost) anything goes, you’re about to get exactly what you asked for in the form of superuser.com. If your question has to do with computers, it will be allowed there. But…
Avatar for Jeff Atwood
Co-Founder (Former)
beta July 2, 2009

Logo Contest Winner for superuser.com

The logo design contest for superuser.com is now complete. The voting results helped inform our final decision: At the time that screenshot was taken, we had 2,303 votes — but the relative percentages were remarkably stable over time. Two clear leaders. The final winner we decided on was Mogeek, with entry #425 (a late entry!).…
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Co-Founder (Former)
beta May 27, 2009

Server Fault Public Beta Launches

Q: How do geeks know it’s a holiday? A: Because the Google logo changed. Yes, I said we’d launch Server Fault on the 25th, completely missing the fact that the 25th happens to be Memorial Day, a major holiday that most businesses observe, at least here in the United States. Hopefully everyone had a very…
Avatar for Jeff Atwood
Co-Founder (Former)
beta April 30, 2009

Google’s OpenIDs are Unique Per-Domain

If you’ve been trying to log in to the serverfault.com private beta and haven’t been able to, here’s probably why: You use Google’s (otherwise excellent) OpenID support on Stack Overflow. As we just discovered, Google’s OpenIDs are unique per-domain. Thus, the OpenID string key “fingerprint” that we use to identify you on Stack Overflow is…
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Co-Founder (Former)