Neil Neil Cauldwell
Jaikus from Neil
Monday, 14 September 2009
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Thursday, 15 January 2009
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@BUGabundo, If you're looking for threaded micro-blogging with a clean interface, I have been quietly slaving away on http://SoIndustry.com on my own for yonks. It's more like Jaiku meets LinkedIn, but if you're looking for threaded microblogging and Plurk is a bit too crazy, perhaps SoI is worth a look. It's private beta but I'm activating people pretty quickly.
Either way, I'm looking forward to checking out the Jaiku codebase, presuming it makes in on to GitHub, glorious GitHub. We'll be able to fix the feed addition features on our own! Awesome. My Jaiku timeline is going to look very different without 'FEEDS ARE BROKEN' on every single page view...
Sunday, 7 December 2008
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Call it 'Mentions Notification' (or 'Reference Notification'), add a boolean to the Jaiku user model (default it to 'true' - otherwise, the majority of people won't know about it or adopt it), and provide a check box in user profile settings for switching it on/off. Only a few people (the highly popular, a small percentage) will be annoyed by this; include a link to the user's notification preferences in the email template and these people can quite easily switch it off after the first notification (at which point, they know the feature exists).
The only complication for Jaiku dev team is that, when someone comments on a jaiku, they join a notification list for follow-up comments; people could end up receiving a notification for both when they are 'mentioned', and when a comment is left on a Jaiku.
I'm just planning the same thing in my own app.
Thursday, 4 December 2008
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@adewale, I'm betting you have some favorite programming blogs, then; I recently discovered a Ruby on Rails blog which publishes a list of the top few links for Rails in the last 24 hours - 90% of the time I'll click through from one of the links. The industry blogger is a great filter.
@teemu, yes, Stack Overflow is more for Q&A. 'RailsForum', 'Twitter', and 'YCom' are some of my most used bookmarks. Despite Railsforum being a Q&A site, I still find it contributes in some way to keeping on top of the news around Rails - or at least as a view to how people are trying to use the technology.
Regarding start-up founder and VC blogs, these are two new favorites of mine; http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/ http://charlie-federman.blogspot.com/2008/11/vc-landscape.html
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Thanks guys. Teemu, I use YC too, it's one of my bookmarks. Do either of you use Stack Overflow?
Saturday, 29 November 2008
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That's awesome. @dantheman, if I was you, I would have custom bed linen made up with the letter printed all over it in a tiled pattern - including the pillows.
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My friend just replied with this; http://www.igvita.com/2007/01/15/svd-recommendation-system-in-ruby/
It's only 50 LOC but it's far from basic web app CRUD. I should have thought of igvita - it's a great blog, worth subscribing to even if you don't do Ruby.
Friday, 28 November 2008
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Have you seen Linus' talk on Git @ Google? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
http://www.rubyinside.com/ would be a good place to start. Some parts of ActiveRecord (the Rails database wrapper) are said to be 'fiendishly clever', but I don't know if it could be justified as "algorithmically sophisticated".
Would a Ruby recommendation system fit the bill? If so, I can ask my friend who writes recommendation systems in Ruby - he's finishing a PhD in Maths and spent the summer doing Wakoopas recommendation algorithm (in Ruby!).
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@waveydavey001, yes sorry it's private beta (only been up a week and it's my first Rails app), but if you register, I'll activate you asap. Any criticism would be great to hear.
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Not that I know of - but everyone using Ruby for Web apps (Rails, Merb, etc) uses Git & GitHub.com. I just finished a Skype chat with a Ruby dev on the other side of the world (he's in Oz, I'm in the UK) and we both agreed that there's nothing to compare to GitHub.
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@WaveyDavey001, yes I've tried Rejaw. I didn't like the interface (too much brown) or think it was a service I could grow in to. Do you use the desktop client?
@jsaarikko, they make it harder to follow conversations from start to finish, but then they also make it very easy to see the latest updates (because everything is always pushed to the top, rather than threaded, and potentially hidden away). There's no hierarchy when you have @replies, everything goes in at the top of the timeline. But it is a pain when someone tweets 'can someone recommend a...' and you never know what everyone else has replied with.
When you say tracing @replies, do you mean receiving notifications when mentions @your_name ?
I hate to be an absolute crumb, and it isn't my intention to go spamming round, but if we're mentioning other services, I have been 'working on' a micro-blogging app which has just gone in to private beta, http://SoIndustry.com. It's very early days, but it would be great to have a few more micro-blogging experts/critics in there. One of my developer friends told me it was the best looking app he had seen, so maybe the landing page is worth a peek, at least.
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Thanks
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@WaveyDavey001, 'micro-blogging' applications can easily become an interface nightmare, I've working-on/studying them for yonks now, and yes, the simpler and more immediate they are, the better.
@adewale, have you seen how people are creating pseudo channels in twitter using #someword combined with search? And have you seen BrightKite 'Walls'? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/anewbackchannelforliveeventsbrightkitewall.php
Thursday, 27 November 2008
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ymb, you're probably right. It does seem that a lot of people are sticking with Jaiku because their favorite micro-blogging contacts are sticking with Jaiku, or because they feel there's just too much noise on Twitter, i.e. people could be here because of the community, rather than functionality. In which case, my backwards phrasing could still be appropriate.
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Davey, thanks, that's what I've found. Plus I've noticed that I'm more inclined to respond to jaikus because I don't feel as though I'm cluttering up everyone's twitter home page by throwing my @replies to the top (well, depending on settings).
How would you feel about the comments being limited to 140 chars, too?
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