Why would I use this? Who is this useful for?

Braintapper Exchange is a social network site designed for business intelligence professionals. It's designed to be an alternative to other technical sites that don't let you see any content without paying or blitzing through obnoxious advertising overlays. We have advertising here, and we do require membership to ask and answer questions, but we make every attempt to make the content…

Can I be a competitor of Braintapper? Can I be a headhunter or agent?

While we are loose with restrictions on job postings, here are the nuts and bolts. Anyone with a real business intelligence position opening can post an opening. You can be an agent, or even a competitor of Braintapper. As long as your job opening is real, we don't have a problem with it. Job postings are free. If this policy…

I like the functionality of Braintapper Exchange, but compared to --insert site here-- and --insert another site here--, why can't I do --insert functionality here--?

Keep in mind that this site is an evolving product. We wanted to release with the most important functionality, and build from there. As we develop further functionality, we'll announce it on the Braintapper Blog.

Compared to Firefox, Safari and Chrome, this site looks really bad in IE. Why is that?

The short answer is that IE sucks. The longer answer is that we've made every attempt to code this using W3C standard HTML and CSS. The problem is that IE is by far the least standards compliant browser out there. Having said that, considering that IE has 60% of the desktop browser market share out there, we had to make…

thisisindexed.com — Another winner from Jessica Hagy

37signals.com — In a nutshell, it ain't good to be surrounded by 'Yes' men.

chandoo.org — Pointy Haired Dilbert has a cool technique to help you get sparklines in Excel 2007 and earlier.

Because this site is targeted at business intelligence professionals, it was a design choice to use an editor that was less WYSIWYG and more powerful. Braintapper Exchange uses the WMD editor, which uses the Markdown markup language. Part of the reason why we chose this was that this editor is being used for other popular technical question and answer sites,…

An update to this question. The current version Braintapper Exchange, which is a LAMP application is probably going to be open sourced at some point in time. Any future incarnations of the Exchange will likely be on a different platform and remain closed source.