In honor of Digg implementing their image section I added Facebook Share preview support to my Cool Pictures site. Now anyone digging or sharing images on facebook will get a handy thumbnail preview. I’m also working on more robust user features so that more people can add, save and rate their favorite images to the site.

Its been about 10 days since I started my cool pictures project. I’ve added a lot of new features like an RSS Feed, sitemap, stats and easy navigation. I still want to give people the ability to upload and create their own niche communities. I have a few other ideas that I’ll keep under wraps for now.

In the last 3 days over 9,000 unique IPs have been to the site and viewed 66,000 images and consumed 10 gigabytes of bandwidth. The majority have come from Stumble Upon which is a really great tool bar. I’ve been using it for about a month already and I usually read things before they ever appear on the other big social bookmarking sites. Personally, I think SU is what Digg should have become.

My first proof of concept project, cool pictures has been added to the sub domain of this website. The site is fairly simple and most of the magic comes from behind the scenes to easily post images in a single click. I used the CakePHP framework to complete it in about two days.

There is still a few changes I want to make and features I want to implement. I’m planning on releasing 3-4 more small projects of similar scope before I move on to the three main ideas I plan on implementing.

I’m hoping to have one of my other projects out next week.

I’ve spent 3 months trying to come up with a name for my newest website. Today I finally thought of a few decent ones that have unclaimed domain names. It’s taken so long that I’ve resorted to writing down my ideas on note cards even if they are stupid. The worst roadblock is the name of a website. I can develop a site in hours but a good name takes months.

Anyway, I might register the domain. I like the way the name works as a verb.