Giddy up! Our Feeding Google Video has the front page of digg! Our logs show the video has been viewed 3000 times in the last hour.

Here’s what some of the diggers are saying:

‘Google was unaware while being distracted by a 1000 free pizzas Cambrianhouse.com had ninjas enter the google building to steal valuable information and servers.’

Wow. Ok back to work. Only three days left till launch.

We love you for digging us MaxS.

The CH Team

By now you should have seen the preview for Feeding Google – the much anticipated documentary about the quest to give props to our favourite search engine using pizza. (If you haven’t seen the preview, check it out now!) It’s got everything: action (in the form of tasers and rubber bullets), comedy, and drama (damn you sous-chefs!) It even has the happiest girl to ever eat pizza.

After much anticipation, and for your viewing pleasure, we’re proud to present this summer’s biggest blockbuster, Feeding Google.

Prepare…to…be…full.

The cover story of Business2.0 Magazine touts a list of the 50 people who matter now. Listed above tech and communication giants like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Sergey Brin and Larry Page, is YOU. In their words,

“Why You Matter: They’ve long said the customer is always right. But they never really meant it. Now they have no choice. You — or rather, the collaborative intelligence of tens of millions of people, the networked you — continually create and filter new forms of content, anointing the useful, the relevant, and the amusing and rejecting the rest. You do it on websites like Amazon, Flickr, and YouTube, via podcasts and SMS polling, and on millions of self-published blogs. In every case, you’ve become an integral part of the action as a member of the aggregated, interactive, self-organizing, auto-entertaining audience… You constructed open-source and are its customer and its caretaker. None of this should be a surprise, since it was you — your crazy passions and hobbies and obsessions — that built out the Web in the first place.”

Every time we read something like this, we get the warm and fuzzies. Our business model is structured around the fact that you, the community of users, matter. You will always be #1 to us.

-Leaderboard now paginated
-Avatars enabled
-FAQ updated
-Added more comment options and sorted comment options on ideas
-Limit credit for Link Promotes in IdeaWarz (ideas are now only credited for 25)

We’re also playing nice with Macs and Safari. Yay!

Today’s National Post had a feature article on crowdsourcing (unfortunately you need a subscription to read ). Still it’s super cool to see the term coined by Jeff Howe in Wired catch with old school media. I have seen better researched articles (they don’t mention iStockPhoto and they seem to think crowdsourcing is only about getting feedback from customers) but at least they are talking about it.

Hey all,

Thank you for your amazing contributions to the IdeaWarz over the last couple weeks. There are now over 1000 of your wacky, brilliant, crazy, and borderless thoughts duking it out as we speak.

I love scanning the web every night and seeing all your link promotes. I click on them. I read them. I feel I already know many of you through your ideas and blogs. Some of you are truly creative and talented.

In at least one case so far, we have had someone demonstrate how the link promote could be abused in the ranking algorithm. That’s cool. We always knew the opportunity was there for people to artificially sweeten their idea, but were curious to see how many actually would. I am proud to say very few have.

In one case of idea rank gaming, the inventor was kind enough to volunteer the removal of their idea, after they proved it could be done. We didn’t really need the proof, but we appreciated this member’s gesture of volunteering to remove his idea from the board.

The response by many of you so far has re-enforced our feeling that people are inherently trustworthy. People didn’t suddenly start pumping their stat’s through fake link promotes. People left comments on ideas when they saw inappropriate behavior. Some (Julius) even reminded us of the importance of not prematurely jumping to conclusions when we see an idea with a high link promote.

Know that we spend a lot of time looking at how ideas are ranking, and don’t limit ourselves to just the top ten. IdeaWarz is a tool– but we don’t follow it blindly or systematically.

When considering ideas for upcoming market tests we look at all ideas. We look for trends (up and down). And it’s pretty easy to separate those ideas that are rising on their own merit from those that are not.

Our very own MJ was interviewed by the CBC’s Maureen Taylor last week as part of The Current radio show. The interview covered crowdsourcing, included a great segment with Wired’s Jeff Howe, and also a description of the Cambrian House business model with MJ.

To hear the soothing sound of Jeff and MJ’s voices, check out the audio and video podcast links below.

Listen Now:

 CBC Crowdsourcing [9:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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-Strange character bug fixed
-Legitimate email validation problem fixed

Website:
-Typos fixed
-Error 53: object expected error fixed
-Blog now viewable in IE
-Comments enabled for ideas

To our many friends who are on Macs using Safari: While we hope to one day support all browsers under the sun, our website doesn’t seem to be getting along with Safari. As far as getting by now, do check out Mozilla FireFox – it should solve most of your issues. (Don’t forget to load Macromedia Flash!)

Thanks to Craig, David, Jeremy, Ryan, Nigel, Chris, Ben, Tony, Rick, Cristian, Dan, James, and MadEs02 for the heads up on bugs and errors.

Some people don’t believe in karma. We do.

When you give back to the universe, with no expectation of favor, you receive the same in return. The universe reflects what we project.

If you project love, you will receive love.
If you do favors for others, you will receive them.

Believing karma exists isn’t good solely for altruistic reasons – it’s also good for business. Taking care of customers and doing right for the community rewards your business in infinite ways. A strong community leads to a strong business.

Whether you believe in karma or not is a personal choice.
We hope our actions and intentions reflect that we do.

People aren’t just noticing our unique business model, they also like our site design. The good folks at CSSRemix.com were kind enough to award CambrianHouse.Com with an Editor’s Choice for our look and feel. Seems that we’re not the only ones who enjoy making the Queen cross-eyed, playing shoot’em up in our Link Farm, or shooting arrows into the My Account banner (you have to sign up to check that one out).

Props to the web design team who spent many a sleepless night making our site fun to visit over and over again.

Check us out on CSSRemix.com and tell them what you think about our site design!