This year, for the first time, I went to PAX. It was actually a surprise gift from my wife, for our 1 year wedding anniversary. As I whiled away the days that led up to PAX, I grew more excited. The last (and actually, first) conference I went to was SXSW Interactive, so I wasn’t completely sure how it was going to play out.
I quickly revisit a few under-the-radar social apps such as Shyftr and Spokeo.
I wrap up project RSS Reset and draw some conclusions. Plus: Shout-Outs!
Utilizing the friendfeed API and his brand of Django programming wizardry, Benjamin Golub has taught his shared-story app to leverage even more services to get a better buzz count on current articles. Essentially, RSSmeme will now look at all the social bookmarking services that friendfeed supports and allow those shares to contribute to an article’s popularity!
Good Morning scribkin readership!
If you operate a blog, and that blog supports sending a trackback, I have a simple request for you. I have adjusted the trackback URL on this article to point to (what I think) the Disqus service will use.
Next time you post, please include a link to this article (no need to [...]
I was re-reading yesterday’s post about RSS Reset and, since I included the live FeedBurner counters in my post, I noticed that many of them seemed slightly higher. I decided to drop them in to FeedCompare and see the trending.
About a week ago, Corvida and I kicked off a plan that is now known as RSS Reset. In my original post, I said I would check back periodically and let you know how I was doing. And here we are!
In the first followup post, I listed the 40-odd subscriptions I felt could survive [...]
Yesterday afternoon, I sat down with the goal of creating my first FeedBurner FeedFlare. I wasn’t sure just how hard it would be, so I was ready for a grind. As it turns out, creating a working FeedFlare was not that difficult.
I already have news about the little RSS reset project that I kicked off earlier today!
Corvida
Corvida has made her move over at ReadWriteWeb. Hopefully we will get some more enterprising souls to give the project a go.
Caleb
Caleb Elston, the creator of Toluu, has been a strong supporter of this move. He has decided to join [...]
Earlier this week in my FriendFeed article, I mentioned an aspiring developer or and statistician named Yuvi Panda, or The StatBot. In the last couple of days, he has been playing with the FriendFeed API and has come up with an interesting stat: the FriendFeed Compatibility Index.
Louis Gray has a great write-up on different A-list blogger’s takes on the thorny issue of comment systems that work in tandem with RSS feeds to allow commenting outside of the blogs the articles were originally written on.
A good review of Flock 1.1 on this site, including some functionality that I overlooked:
Version 1.1 really shines in its enhancements to the MyWorld page, including the Friend Activity Feed. Once you’ve logged into all your social networking services, you can drag and drop messages from one friend to another. For example, if Sally makes [...]
FeedBurner, FeedFlare, Disqus, and gReader.. what do all these things have in common? Awesomeness.
I found this video on YouTube when doing a Google search for (ok, I admit it) my own social bookmarking article. Enjoy!
In fact, I just discovered that the group that did the video above has a whole bunch of useful videos, which you can find at their site, The CommonCraft Show.
As usual, I was messing around with a new WordPress plugin from Sphere (you can see the new link at the bottom of each post) and I decided to test it on my Twitter post. It did what it was designed to do and found a bunch of Twitter-related blog links, which, on a [...]
