Isn't it, you guys? The Sweetcron room is actually ROCKIN. Everyone's giving each other support and posting their sites :) @Benjamin: your comments are disabled! - Mona N.
question: i have a wp self-hosted blog and i was thinking this sweetcron page would be nice as a page added onto that blog. is that possible? just set up the sweetcron page and connect it to my wp blog with a link? - Anika Malone
Vince: everything you need to know, is here :) http://friendfeed.com/rooms/sw... The creator of Disqus and um, the creator of the um, source code is there, too... :( - Mona N.
- how does this differ from something like Swurl (aside from self-hosting & themes)? - JA Castillo
this is just a link farm.. we can do the same thing uinsg RSS | EMAIL|BLOGGER|GROUPS. Whats the hue and cry about this service? Tell me what is new here underlying a UI ?? - Peter Dawson
Peter: Do you see the difference of the UIs? Just asking. - and it's not a service. it's a software, since it's FREE and OPEN SOURCE - Mona N.
yes its s/w .. but not on the cloud . and UI is just UI. I really dont see whats the big deal.. thats all. I dont mean to bust any1 ballon, but thats the fact. - Peter Dawson
Peter: it's clean, simple to use, and any non tech savvy person can jump on and click around. the embeddable media is pulled in and displayed / organized. one of the most intuitive templates i've ever seen. plus it's open source and free. why WOULDN'T you jump on it? - Mona N.
I'm going to have to partially agree with Peter. I don't see the big deal either. Sure, it's free and open source but using any aggregator or, creating your own (like Rob does for TGM) is just the same. Creating your own still makes it free. I can't say I like the UI at all. Open source and free doesn't always mean a great product. - Candace Holly
So what about people like me, Candace, who can't create my own? I'm stuck with default templates I have to find around the web. Open Source excites me, because of the possibility of people creating various templates - for free -. I've already showed the site to a few of my non tech friends, and they've all told me it's simple and easy to navigate. - Mona N.
I'd like to see this turn into a Wordpress theme/plugin instead. After installing the auto updater, I don't feel like going through another install process again. - Rodfather
There's plenty of places to get free templates and sites. Wordpress is one. Not a regular WP blog but installing the software in your site itself. There's 50,000 plug ins and ways to customize it (and aggregators too). I think there's more out there with better options. - Candace Holly
Candace, I specifically don't have my own domain because there are way too many choices, too many plug-ins, I don't know how and where to start. I envy you for knowing where to look, because frankly? It's a headache for me. That's the exact reason I haven't registered my own domain. I love the SweetCron UI, it's Tumblr-like look, and the archival system. To each their own :) - Mona N.
Mon, I agree each to their own. I am trying to close out my other thread and flod it back again to this one here. Meanwhile ..all my blogs are archieved in Groups. Did you check the link that I posted ? I created one recusive loop as a poc. albiet its manually, and not a cron. :)- howwever, I can cron the same thing in the fwd manner just using an RSS -2-email | filter | Blogger | groups. thats the core events. Zap up a blogger /CSS tempate and voila I can sweetcron without any download at all. - Peter Dawson
I cheat..I'm still not off WordPress itself . I just mask the name. Getting a domain is easy...godaddy.com! (p.s. Pixelbits.me is available I searched ~_^ ) ..For the record, I have no idea what Peter just said. I need Rob to translate that. - Candace Holly
@Candace, mea culpa. its easy. Get an RSS2email service (R|mail.org). Add RSS feeds to rss2email account,. Each time a new pos is created, it will get email to you. Create a filter rule < all emails tha come from rss2email, fwd to blogger account. This will create a blog entry. Set up your blogger profile to email all BLOGS posts to specific group e,g googlegroups. I one for myself for all my blogs. so its < RSS -2-email | filter | Blogger | groups> . Did that make sense ? - Peter Dawson
Candace: It's deciding on the domain name! LOL @Peter: Aside from the technicalities - I mean good for you for knowing all that -, is your site user friendly? - Mona N.
Ya know, with a tweak or two I could use this as an enterprise dashboard for different topics and existing internal feeds. Then when/if it becomes multi user I could use it as a behind the firewall version of friendfeed for workstreams. Of course workstreams doesn't sound all that fun so i'll have to change that. - Shawn McCollum
@mona, pls take a look at the what I posted.< http://lifestreampeter.blogspo...> The site I created was a POC, just for the convo . It took less then 15 minutes to completed. Is the UI heck sweet ? NO WAY 1. Does it have the underly principle of cron, very much so !! So all this sweetness in sweetcron really does not rock my boat. Been , there, seen that done that long long time ago. If you into UI only,. then it rocks your boat. - Peter Dawson
Peter: I already did look at your site, Peter. And that is why I stated what I stated. If all of your visitors are people who do not care about UI, then great! You just built a site in under 15 minutes. You're totally awesome :) However, if you read my blog, I explain -- in detail -- WHY SweetCron is right for me :) - Mona N.
It has it's uses, infact it's saved me building a very similar app. Most importantly, it's open source. If it were a hosted pay/month service, it would be useless. - Cains
I started using Jungle Disk a couple of weeks ago to both backup all of my photos and to make them accessible to all of my PCs. It works great! Win/Mac/*Nix compatible, and you can install it on as many systems as you'd like under your one license ($20). They have a few added features for $1 a month, but the basic more than fits my needs. - cmiper
I'm thinking about JungleDisk, but I should add that I'm a heavy command line interface user -- not so into GUIs. I don't even think X works on my Linux display; I'm always SSH'd into the box. - Tamar Weinberg
Okay, I take my comment back: "A command-line-only version of the application is also included, see the INSTALL file included with the download for more information." ;) - Tamar Weinberg
...except that it still suggests that you use a GUI to start. Oh well. - Tamar Weinberg
I use JungleDisk on all my systems and family computers as well. This allows us to backup and share files over the internet without too much configurations. - Chris W
It is, Lindsay - which is exactly why I'm seeking out some newer alternatives. ;) - Tamar Weinberg
Unfortunately there aren't many new options. I use Super Flexible File Synchronizer to post to my S3 account. I was looking for more options a couple of months ago myself. - Lindsay Donaghe
don't think you can go wrong with JungleDisk. it's flexible enough to do what i need, plus my wife can access it as if it was a local disk. - Trent Olson
I'll have to give JungleDisk a real try. Hopefully I'll get it up and running before my move on 9/2 (and before the possibility of data loss increases! Should I trust the movers with my Linux server, or should I move it on my own?) - Tamar Weinberg
Loving this post. My difficulty is that my communities are completely different. I have one "real" friend on Twitter - the rest of my followers and the people I follow are related to work somehow or are people I don't know. Facebook by contrast is solely people I physically have met at some point. I like the conversations on Twitter and FriendFeed with this broader network, but I also have less to say to them. - Lorita (Ba) Vannah
more often than not i do subscribe, look around a bit and then post "i do not work here, I do not use this, go away." or sth similar. ;) - Nicole Simon
identi.ca is different, if the development continuous in the same speed we could really have federated and decentralized micro blogging services in future. - Benjamin Kohler
I too agree, too many clones and they are all fun to play with... what keeps me primarily using Twitter is all the accessories out there, twitterfeed, twitpic, etc... but on the topic of managing them all, I like SocialThing, you can post to almost any service it can access and since it has access to Ping, you can post to the rest at the same time. - nick carrasco
Little bit late, Lufthansa has it since 3 years. But no idea why this is not standard? Just ditch all the in flight entertainment stuff (incl. shitty food) and give use power sockets and wifi. - Benjamin Kohler
Mobile information is where it's at. Parking, weather, shopping, news, transportation (flights, buses, taxis) tracking, all are lagging services right now. - Loren Heiny
I wonder how you'd build a wifi mesh and a detector that could tell if a spot is open or not. Does such a thing exist? If it does, how do we monetize it? I'd pay $20 for such an app if it had decent coverage in San Francisco, but you'd need to have a pretty good coverage to be viable. - Robert Scoble
Scoble- it already exists, they were testing wi-fi, networked parking space meters in north Beach as some kind of pilot project, so you can check on your parked car's extra minutes. Using that logic, you could find out if an area was free. As usual city pilots go- we have to wait 3 years to get it :( - anna awesomesauce
@Karim: Super cool! I didn't kow Dust was on this project. I'm waiting for the iPhone app. And surprised there's not a Dash Nav version yet. - Rafe Needleman
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I've seen private garages that have parking space "counts" of how many available per level....I wonder if you could leverage something like that? (Microsoft's new Bldg 99 garage has it). If they could all provide data into a central source, i'd pay a monthly fee to subscribe to that data. And not even free parking, if i could look at available pay parking spots (and price compare!) for a busy downtown area, that would be fantastic! - Jeff Douglass
Sounds nice, but as usual there will be no code, no open standard and only available for windows users with a hotmail account. Good idea, but done the Microsoft way. - Benjamin Kohler
The linked article suggests that the mesh is built entirely using open standards. I think that needs to be fact checked. The applications on Windows are apparently seeds. Time to dig around for more detail and confirm extent of standards usage. - Dennis E. Hamilton
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Ben: wrong. Client libraries in python, ruby etc. and you dont need a hotmail account - Nik Cubrilovic
