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Updates on TechCube + ThinkQuest Victory!

Saturday, June 6th, 2009 by Peter Zhang

Yes, I know, we are doing it again. But what exactly is keeping us busy? (Prepare for a bunch of excuses)

  1. Schoolwork – Jonathan is working on a GCE A-Levels Project, while I am preparing for my finals, which are coming in 2 weeks.
  2. More schoolwork
  3. And of course, schoolwork…
  4. Did I mention schoolwork?

But wait, don’t close the window so fast yet. In the midst of this insane schoolwork business, our interest to develop this site are not gone! (and will never be!)! We are actually planning some updates that will be implemented in the near future:

Feedburner RSS Feeds

We have recently switched from the default RSS to the ones powered by Feedburner. We believe that by using Feedburner’s feeds analysis tool, we can better serve you guys with some more updates! So, subscribe now!

New design

Have you gotten bored of this design yet? We have. Considering that, we are planning on a completely new design just to refresh the looks of TechCube. Any suggestions or things you would really want to see in the new design? Feel free to comment!

Twitter Account

In response to the recently REALLY popular micro-blogging service Twitter, we have launched our Twitter account too. Eh, you know what, I don’t feel like announcing it right now. How about this, the first person to guess the account and follows it gets a prize?

Surprises will come as we officially announce the account, so stay tuned!

Okay fine, we admit, we need help

These works are really heavy on us… especially when we are only two teenagers. We are now going to officially call for help in writing content for TechCube. If you think you can do it, please do email us, and we will tell you about all the details!

In addition, if you own a blog and wish to partner with us, please do not hesitate to let us know and affiliate with us!

What about CubePoints?

Like I just mentioned, we are pretty busy with the schoolwork up recently. However, I can ensure you that once we are out of this mess (which for me, in 2 weeks), we will continue developing CubePoints. We have really been reading all your feature requests in the CubePoints page, and we are trying our very best to squeeze time. But you know, it’s hard.

I can almost guarantee you, a new release will be made before June ends.

And oh, we won ThinkQuest!

Remember there were a time during March when we went absolutely silent? Yup, we were participating in the ThinkQuest Competition, and it turns out that we won the first place in the Age 19 and under division! Thanks to all who have supported us!

I have been searching for ThinkQuest-related blogposts recently, and I have found one that is absolutely inspiring. Thanks to this wonderful review, Ben! It is one of the best (as in, depth of analysis) reviews I have ever read on any one of my sites.

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2 Responses to “Updates on TechCube + ThinkQuest Victory!”

  1. Joseph

    June 12th, 2009 at 10:50 am

    Just want to say congratulations Peter and Jonathan on your ThinkQuest project. Really great work! Just curious, how long it took to build the site from ground up? Its quite amazing work and I am impressed you managed to do it so well with such a distributed team.


  2. June 12th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    Thanks. We started on the content part + research quite long ago. But we took only about a month to complete the design and coding of the entire site and most of the video interviews + activities etc. We worked real hard for that one month before the deadline :P

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