New DNK Features: Kick Spy & Shoutbox
This week there have been over 100 commits to the DotNetKicks open source trunk. Some fantastic new features are now available on DotNetKicks.com and many others are in progress.
Kick Spy
The Spy displays each action a user takes on the site including submitting stories, kicking, tagging, commenting and shouting.
This is a work-in-progress and will soon become a self updating filterable control using Ajax.NET professional and jQuery. There are plans to extend Kick Spy to user profiles and stories too.
View it in action here >>
If you would like to shape how this feature end up, please let us know your thoughts : issue 86 on Google Code
Shoutbox
The Shoutbox allows users to have little conversations in various places in the site.
There currently is one on the Who's Online page and on every members profile. 
Feel free to drop me a note on my profile.
Issue 87 on Google Code
Other Improvements
Since joining the project a few weeks ago, James Welch has become a regular contributor to DotNetKicks.
One of the many features that he has added is the ability to view stories both kicked and submitted by friends.
Here are the latest stories that have been submitted by friends of mine on DotNetKicks:
http://www.dotnetkicks.com/users/gavinjoyce/friends/submitted
He also improved the paging control which now looks like:
Community News
I asked Scott Guthrie if he would consider placing a 'kick it' button on his blog and he agreed. His posts are some of the most popular on DotNetKicks as you can see from the ScottGuthrie tag. This is a nice boost to the community, I'm sure that we will gain new fans from his blog. Thanks Scott.
Jon Galloway's JavaScript technique is used to inject the 'kick it' link and image into the page automatically.
Coming Soon
A number of new features are in the pipeline:
DotNetKicks Zeitgeist
DotNetKicks Chats
