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We're excited to announce that we'll be launching our flagship electrical engineering community next week called "EEWeb". The focus of this community is to cre

by proee 16y ago

We're excited to announce that we'll be launching our flagship electrical engineering community next week called "EEWeb". The focus of this community is to create a place for hardware design engineers to call home. Our site includes an online toolbox, daily featured sections, community driven articles and projects, and custom engineer profiles where you can follow other engineers based on your interest tags. You can see a screenshot of our homepage here. http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb.png http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb.png Example Engineer Profile. http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb2.png http://www.eeweb.com/pics/site/eeweb2.png

anamax 16y ago
> Our site includes an online toolbox, daily featured sections, community driven articles and projects, and custom engineer profiles where you can follow other engineers based on your interest tags. Do many people in other disciplines do something like this? Serious question - where are some examples?
- reemrevnivek 16y ago
  Computer Engineers and Programmers use http://Stackoverflow.com/ http://Stackoverflow.com/ for questions and answers. It's not as comprehensive as this site is, but there are other toolboxes, blogs, and profile sites which are perfectly accessible, even though they're not on one page. Electronics and Robotics - http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ - is a question and answer site for electronic engineers. It already has over a thousand users and questions, and it's all up for viewing right now - No invites required. It is in beta, but that doesn't mean a lot - It's been running in some form for about a year, and it's due for launch just before New Years Day). It doesn't look as polished as this site, because the content is created in users' spare time for immediate use, not in preparation for screen captures. If you're reluctant to sign up for EEWeb, enjoy using Stackoverflow, or want another source for getting answers to your electronic engineering questions (or all of the above), you should check it out.
  - anamax 16y ago
    I'm aware that there are other community sites for various kinds of techies. My question is whether those other sites have the kinds of services that you think are valuable. For example, do any of these other sites have a "follow" feature? (Second question - I can imaging the benefits of following someone, but what is the benefit of being followed?) Same for "custom engineer profiles"? Heck - why wouldn't I just use a link to my LinkedIn profile? (Maintaining multiple profiles is a pain....)

by proee 16y ago

anamax 16y ago

> Our site includes an online toolbox, daily featured sections, community driven articles and projects, and custom engineer profiles where you can follow other engineers based on your interest tags. Do many people in other disciplines do something like this? Serious question - where are some examples?

reemrevnivek 16y ago
Computer Engineers and Programmers use http://Stackoverflow.com/ http://Stackoverflow.com/ for questions and answers. It's not as comprehensive as this site is, but there are other toolboxes, blogs, and profile sites which are perfectly accessible, even though they're not on one page. Electronics and Robotics - http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ http://electronics.stackexchange.com/ - is a question and answer site for electronic engineers. It already has over a thousand users and questions, and it's all up for viewing right now - No invites required. It is in beta, but that doesn't mean a lot - It's been running in some form for about a year, and it's due for launch just before New Years Day). It doesn't look as polished as this site, because the content is created in users' spare time for immediate use, not in preparation for screen captures. If you're reluctant to sign up for EEWeb, enjoy using Stackoverflow, or want another source for getting answers to your electronic engineering questions (or all of the above), you should check it out.
- anamax 16y ago
  I'm aware that there are other community sites for various kinds of techies. My question is whether those other sites have the kinds of services that you think are valuable. For example, do any of these other sites have a "follow" feature? (Second question - I can imaging the benefits of following someone, but what is the benefit of being followed?) Same for "custom engineer profiles"? Heck - why wouldn't I just use a link to my LinkedIn profile? (Maintaining multiple profiles is a pain....)