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problems creating items with Internet Explorer
Monday, 28th December, 2009 | support | No Comments
Hi Scoodiers,
People have been reporting problems creating items in internet explorer. It seems to cause the most trouble uploading photo’s, where the upload status never changes.
To fix it, you should try (from the internet explorer menu), Tools -> Internet Options, then under the general tab click “delete”. From the options you can then try deleting “Temporary internet files”, if that does not work then also delete cookies.
I managed to reproduce the problem here, and this process fixed it up and it seems to be working now.
Hope this help anyone that is having problems.
Cheers
Pete
Help making the term “re-use” popular.
Monday, 19th October, 2009 | news | No Comments
Good Friends, and like minded Techie/Greenies Adam and David got Neightborrow.com onto Fox news. Neighborrow is a website designed to allow people in New York City to borrow items from people near by. The site has many aspects, and particularly ethical objectives very similar to Scoodi.
Check out the Fox news report;
A while ago Brisbane Extra were kind enough to do a short story on Scoodi, and it did a great job of increasing awareness of Scoodi in Queensland.
I wonder what other opportunities exist out there to let people know ways in which they can re-use, reduce and recycle. If you have any ideas, mail me at ideas@scoodi.com, I would love to hear them.
Cheers
Pete
Naughty Scoodi Server
Wednesday, 7th October, 2009 | news | No Comments
We discovered, somewhat by accident today that the Date had gone quite mad on the Scoodi server. We would like to think that Scoodi was a little ahead of its time, but the 7th of January 2254 is probably going a little too far.
Interesting, the 1700’s don’t seem that long ago, only a couple of hundred years. Since then we (humans) have made great progress, the industrial revolution, planes, cars, computers, oh, and deforestation, landfill, pollution, poverty… hmm.
I wonder what the world will be like on the 7th of January 2254. Will humans be gone? Will the be just a few hiding in the hills, or will we have a civilisation like on star trek? Will we be living on Mars, or the Moon (will we be nice to them?) Will we have peace? Will the consumer society still exist? Will my car last for 30 years, and then just need a lick of paint?
Anyway, back to our little website. We spent a load of time in the database, setting all the bad dates back to something that made reasonable sense (thanks for your help Monza), which is two days ago - hopefully it should all be working correctly now.
By the way - thanks to all those people that let us know, we got some really super nice emails (they only came through once we had fixed the date on the computer though so sorry that we have not replied yet), we will get busy and reply to everyone
Hope your are all having a nice day, we even got a little rain
Cheers
Pete 
Story of Stuff makes the New York Times
Wednesday, 13th May, 2009 | Stuff, spread the word | No Comments
The first blog we ever posted to the Scoodi blog, was a link to the Story of Stuff Site. Story of Stuff does a great job of identifying and explaining the issues around Stuff, and why we have to change the way we manage it. Story of Stuff recently got the first page of the New York Times - how fantastic is that!
In that time, Scoodi members have made positive contributions to limit the impact of stuff on their lives. The Scoodi community has grown to 5000 members, 17000 items have been listed, and Scoodi has served 1.5Million pages to people looking for stuff in a new, sustainable way. Together, the Scoodi community is making a difference that will directly benefit us and all future generations.
In a recent email from Annie Leonard at Story of stuff,
If you agree, help us continue to build this [ed: story of stuff] community and the momentum of the last 24 hours by forwarding this email to five of your friends.
Now unless your received the same email, you obviously can’t forward it, but you can write your own quick email and let your friends know what you are doing to help make a difference.
So go for it, post story of stuff to your facebook page, email it to friends, tweet it, and help get the word out that we have to change the way we handle our stuff.
Cheers
Pete
Down time
Monday, 30th March, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Hi all, sorry about the glitch today - Scoodi was down for a little while, but it should all be back up and working as expected again now.
Many thanks to those that let us know!
Cheers
Pete
Scoodi Tutorial and Ads
Thursday, 26th February, 2009 | support, usage | No Comments
We just posted a tutorial to help people get the most out of the search features on Scoodi, and while we were at it we posted some little ads, feel free to email them around
Cheers
Pete
Planet Ark’s Green Resolutions campaign
Tuesday, 17th February, 2009 | news, spread the word | No Comments
Planet Ark have started a great Green Resolutions campaign. Scoodi would like to encourage everyone to take a look and do their bit to help make a difference.
Each week, you will receive one Green Resolution with information, tips and links for achieving the specific resolution.
Resolutions throughout the year will focus on how you can save energy and money in the home; how best to dispose of electronic and other waste; where to find environmental goods and services and how to choose the ones that suit your needs, and much more.
Green Resolutions can also help you become a sustainability champion in your school, family, community or workplace.
Australians need and want to live cleaner, greener lifestyles. Recent research shows that we are concerned about climate change and want to do more to help the environment, and need guidance on how to do so.
Show your support for Planet Ark, and take some action
Cheers
Pete
Better community support
Thursday, 8th January, 2009 | support | No Comments
One thing Scoodi would like to do better is to connect its users in a way that creates an environment to provide community support. We want to engage the members of the community in an open discussion about whats good, whats bad, common issues, and frequently asked questions.
We took a look at Get Satisfaction, and it seems to provide a nice way to build community support for Scoodi. Come on over and take a look, throw in your 2p.
Cheers
Pete
Re-using Australia post express bags
Thursday, 8th January, 2009 | usage | No Comments
We heard from one of the community, that they had been asked to post an item. As you know, Scoodi is against the idea of posting things around becuase transport places a burden on the environment, and posting places a burden on the seller to actually organise the postage. The thing that really struck us about the users comment was that they were sent a pre-paid Australia Post Express Bag, but it had been used before. That’s really not on, when you by an Australia Post Express Bag it for one time use. Scoodi is very pro re-use, but not in this case - this is wrong.
So, if someone asks you to post something, you are perfectly within your rights to say no, infact we would encourage you to say no. If someone sends you an Australia post express bag that has been used before then simple decline to post the item in it, and throw the bag away. I suspect if the bag is used, its the person sending the bag that is legally in the wrong, not the person that provided the bag.
-Pete
Go Greener, Australia
Monday, 10th November, 2008 | spread the word | No Comments
Check out this really excellent blog called “Go Greener, Australia”.
Julie has started collecting lots of good information that we can all use to make our environment greener. Take some time to read the about page, Julie makes the point that we are all personally responsible for making change happen.
I managed to find the blog, because Julie mentioned Scoodi in one of her posts on saving money, timely information given the current financial climate.
Thanks for your hard work Julie
Cheers
Pete