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Re: carlo.log → escaloop.com is go!

Carlo — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:45:42 -0000

Jem, mail me at carlo at zottmann.org.

Re: carlo.log → escaloop.com is go!

Jem — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:28:33 -0000

Hmmm....how to contact you about BetterSearch...?? Thanks.

Re: carlo.log → escaloop.com is go!

Carlo — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:54:06 -0000

Thanks for the kind words and suggestions, Kent! I appreciate it. :)

Yeah, an one-line JS include -- I've started working on it and made great progress. The one big stumbling block I've found is Safari ignoring the added CSS link tag. Awesomes. :/ But yes, it's definitely on my list. I've just tried to go with the "release early, release often" idea.

Same thing w/ feed discovery. Pipes is a slight PITA when it comes to reliably getting feed metadata like feed title, feed generator etc. So I do this on escaloop, not with Pipes. So I'll probably end up adding it "here" instead of "there". Soon... :)

bq. Whoops, messed up the link to Case-Hardened JavaScript. Please edit my original reply and delete this one?

What link?

Re: carlo.log → escaloop.com is go!

http-kentbrewster.com- — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:37:48 -0000

Whoops, messed up the link to Case-Hardened JavaScript. Please edit my original reply and delete this one?

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http-kentbrewster.com- — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:36:06 -0000

Hey, this is pretty neat, Carlo. About a year ago I wrote a badge-any-feed-with-Pipes page, here:

http://kentbrewster.com/badger/

... and learned a lot about how non-technical users interact with services like this. Two things:

You ought to consider case-hardening it and offering it as a single-line JS include ... much of your target audience won't want to deal with putting a DIV in the body and some SCRIPT tags elsewhere.

Also: have you thought about using the Pipes Fetch Feed module to automatically discover a user's feeds? Many will stumble over the difference between their profile page:

http://twitter.com/kentbrew

... and the feed from their profile page:

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/26227...

Congratulations; it's great to see services like this popping up!

Re: carlo.log → escaloop.com is go!

rbelknap — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:59:36 -0000

so THIS is what you were hinting at. I'll have to find some time to mess with it soon...