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Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

bryanwoods — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:56:28 -0000

This is great! Will definitely be a great help to me in the future both for this project and others.

Re: Announcing the bit.ly API Contest!

bryanwoods — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:54:39 -0000

http://gritly.com

Gritly shrinks a group of URLs into one bit.ly

Right now the Gritly shrink machine laser beam can take up to 5 long URLs and morph them into one single, shareable bit.ly.

We built and designed this over the weekend but are looking for feature suggestions and comments.

We're also designing a REST API for Gritly in hopes that the grouping ability will be added to more clients and utilities.

Re: Twitter API Lead Changes Priorities With New Book

bryanwoods — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:36:59 -0000

With all due respect, this is a matter for Twitter, the book's publisher, and Alex himself. Nobody works 24/7 on any job (this coming from a startup-employed guy leaving a blog comment at 2:30 AM), and if he wants to take the time he's not working on Twitter to give a book to the emerging Scala community, I don't see where the gripe is. You said he's a hard worker who answers your emails quickly no matter what time. Sounds like a guy who has no problems working hard. Everybody wants Twitter to be the best it can possibly be, but what Alex does in his non-Twitter time is really none of your business or mine.

Re: Twitter API Lead Changes Priorities With New Book

jessestay — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:30:10 -0000

Bryan, the problem is Alex is already up late hours of the night
working on Twitter API problems. The Twitter API is not anywhere
close to being in order. There's no way he can write a book now
without it hurting his work on the Twitter API. We need his focus on
the API.

Re: Twitter API Lead Changes Priorities With New Book

bryanwoods — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:27:15 -0000

I've heard nothing but amazing things about Scala and have been looking forward to a book about it for a long time. If Alex can handle the workload it's a win for developers. Best of luck to him.

Re: Axes To Grind

bryanwoods — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:36:45 -0000

I think we, the early adopters of free software, need to get together and write up some kind of agreement that keeps us as much as possible from grinding our axes on free software services.

Re: This must be stopped (Scripting News)

bryanwoods — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:58:28 -0000

I would hope journalists and politicians of all political slants would show up to every important political or news event.

Re: A brilliant idea at Harvard (Scripting News)

bryanwoods — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:01:58 -0000

I like the various ideas going on trying to solve this problem. Particularly Zed Shaw's Utu project: http://savingtheinternetwithhate.com I think these are definitely problems that need to be solved, but Shaw's ideas of reputation and repercussion stick with me a bit more, particularly for web-wide discussions.

Re: louisgray.com: The Hubris of the Twitterati and Twitterati Wannabes

bryanwoods — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:19:56 -0000

Word. Up. I'm glad I don't have to sit down and right this exact blog post now.

Re: Federating identi.ca? (Scripting News)

jrobertson — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:17:33 -0000

I agree. Have a look at http://microblog.weloveit.info/ for an alternative solution (it uses WordPress).

Re: Federating identi.ca? (Scripting News)

lmorchard — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:39:32 -0000

All software's shitty—so, better to start off with something, rather than nothing. This one seems like it's picking up some momentum, and it's got some promising underpinnings for federation in both code and intent. If it's too shitty, it should piss you off to show 'em how it's done from scratch. If it's shitty but workable, you should pitch in and fix it.

Otherwise, it's like complaining that you can't drive a Hummer across the first lame bit of rope they throw across a canyon to start the bridge.

And, you know, if it's just *too* shitty to live, no one will make it the definitive platform of anything

http://decafbad.com/blog/2008/07/03/why-im-play...

Re: Federating identi.ca? (Scripting News)

bryanwoods — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:24:17 -0000

If I'm coming off as bitchy or complaining I really don't mean to be. Maybe my only question is this: Is it better to start off with a shitty platform or with a blank slate? It might not be shitty, but we could have this kind of thing running in five minutes, so why aren't we more discriminatory on what we build from? Shouldn't we be a little choosy on the foundation of what we build?

Re: Federating identi.ca? (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:10:37 -0000

But all that stuff might be out next week. We have no idea how fast the project is moving. Shoudl he have waited until all that was working before showing us what he had? Software is a process. Let's see how this one moves before judging it. I wrote about this a long time ago in We Make Shitty Software. http://www.scripting.com/davenet/1995/09/03/wem...

Re: Federating identi.ca? (Scripting News)

bryanwoods — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:04:58 -0000

An open microblogging platform really is exactly what we need as a community. I'm never the type to bitch and moan about this kind of stuff, but I, from the bottom of my heart, don't think this platform is the beginning of our solution. Everything that people are complaining about Twitter taking down (limitations to calls on the API, tracking, search outsourced to Summize, etc) aren't even implemented here. Call me crazy, but I would hope that the rough beginnings of whatever platform we embrace for our "federated" or "decentralized" future would be something much more interesting.

Re: Federating identi.ca? (Scripting News)

michaeltwofish — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:33:29 -0000

One of the interesting things is that it doesn't have to be the definitive microblogging platform. To my knowledge it's the first significant roll out of software supporting the OpenMicroBlogging specification (http://openmicroblogging.org/). If that takes off, there could be clients in whatever language you like, and they could _all_ talk to each other.

Re: Federating identi.ca? (Scripting News)

dave — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:44:55 -0000

It's just a start. Such kvetching -- about a gift! Take a break.

Re: Federating identi.ca? (Scripting News)

bryanwoods — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:38:20 -0000

Laconica is a pretty horrible solution for all of my microblogging woes. I don't want to hack php, the only useful feature out of the box is the jabber hook, the list goes on. Really sad if this ends up being the definitive open microblogging platform imho.

Re: To Pay or Not to Pay for iPhone Apps?

frederic — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:51:04 -0000

I know - the more you think about that article, the dumber it gets....

Re: To Pay or Not to Pay for iPhone Apps?

bryanwoods — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:48:05 -0000

...And why would free apps automatically have to have an ad-based business model? And since when is Google the only provider of display advertisements?

Re: Looking for a few good feeds (Scripting News)

dave — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:53:57 -0000

Right -- there won't be any politics in it, no acquisitions, no fights, just products, features, maybe a hero or two (but always product related). And no original editorial, just links off-site. Also no advertising or sponsors.

Re: Looking for a few good feeds (Scripting News)

bryanwoods — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:40:47 -0000

Dave, thank you. Really. I've been putting off subscribing to NewsJunk because I'm frankly not that interested in politics, and of course would have to subscribe to another 500 or so feeds to balance out the flow. TechJunk is exactly what I'm looking for. I'm tired of the same blogs with the same gossip and same topics, but even with my current subscription load, the "others" don't bubble up often enough often due to smaller blogs not posting as frequently and so forth. I'm extremely excited about this. *Edit* Though this does reinvigorate my interest in a Share.opml clone...

Re: PETA Targets Computer Programmers With String Of Bizarre Protests

bryanwoods — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:48:45 -0000

Better than troll comments, I'd think.

Re: PETA Targets Computer Programmers With String Of Bizarre Protests

ericmoritz — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:59:50 -0000

I was quoting from this video:
http://www.cracked.com/video_16271_internet-par...

Re: PETA Targets Computer Programmers With String Of Bizarre Protests

bryanwoods — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:49:43 -0000

@ericmoritz - You must not have spent much time around this site if you think we have Photoshop skills of that calibur!

Re: Zed Shaw Rant Rant

bryanwoods — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:07:36 -0000

Well, I mean...maybe not _metal_ metal perhaps.