Opensource Obscure

Nice image, I wish it were real... - Rodrigo

This is how Socialthing! is doing it right now, and how FriendFeed should pick it up. When the comment box drops, it should also have the option if you want to reply on which service as well. - Andrew Trinh

so glad Kevin and Paul liked this.. make it happen! ;) - Tim Hoeck

also, FIRST - Eric Rice

Another fine product of yongfook.com - Bill Sodeman

installing - nouhad

:: grabs the popcorn :: - sean percival

um, i forgot to register my domain... suggestions, guys? :| - Mona N.

pretty sure its xmas, cuz im one getty fool right now - sean percival

Downloading and uploading... This is one awesome day! - Anthony K. Valley ©

sean, are you gonna be first? - Mona N.

You guys, I need help choosing a domain :| - Mona N.

its uploading now via FTP :) spin race me - sean percival

Dammit: I was just posting this. Beat me to it. ;-) - Chris Baskind

SweetBacon.com - Outsanity

monaftw.com - Morgan

spin, sean, don't forget screen caps! ...i'm holding off until i come up with a domain :) - Mona N.

there are a lot of files in this bad boy! - sean percival

Mona, we need a sweetcron room here.... - Baard Overgaard Hansen

mushimushi.com is taken :( - Josh Haley

http://friendfeed.com/rooms/sw... - Mona N.

Sean: Whee! No kidding. Lots. - Chris Baskind

sweetkron.com - Cee Bee

MonaCron.com - Outsanity

WONT LOAD, OH THE HEARTBREAK - sean percival

KornOnTheCron.com - Josh Haley

LOL @ JOSH - Mona N.

"The configuration file config.php does not exist." - Josh Haley

Same as Josh :( *frowns at Mona's virtual BF* - Mo Kargas

Josh, I don't have a registered domain yet... I just imported the Google Groups docs in the sweetcron room :) - Mona N.

checking read/write rights - Josh Haley

Josh: try this http://code.google.com/p/sweet... - Mona N.

this its an issue with this server, trying backup - sean percival

k, can't wait to see the hotness on your site, sean! - Mona N.

thnx! - Josh Haley

This is sweet! I have temp version up and running. It took me less than 10 minutes to create a database, change the config files and install the application. I have NO idea how to change the randomly generated admin password, though.... Set it unskinned at http://anthonykvalley.com/swee... I'll move it to a real directory later. I just wanted to see it. - Anthony K. Valley ©

http://sweetcron.svenbilt.com/ is where mine is at :) - Bjorn Stromberg

We can all be Sweetcronies now :) http://brandonpartridge.com weeee! - Brandon

http://prod.325i.org/sweetcron... - Michael J. Cohen (mjc) via twhirl

This is srsly one of the coolest things :D - Brandon

memymona.com - Brandon

brandon, did you get it up? post a link in the room, omg! - Mona N.

i'm getting errors =( anyone care to help me out? thanks - nouhad

@mona yes i got it up :) http://brandonpartridge.com -- will post in room now :) - Brandon

@mona ... did you decide on a domain yet? - Brandon

very sweet I've been on the market for this :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

when i see sweet cron i want some sweet corn :) - (jeff)isageek

link?! - shane

link! - Morgan

I'm really pissed. It broke on me. Not sure why. - ♫ Rahsheen™

http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/0... - ♫ Rahsheen™

here's the second one: http://friendfeed.com/e/b291ed... - Vincent van Wylick

This one has separate 'likes,' the second one being Scoble's bookmark. The way I see it, comments from del.ico.us et al should be treated like a type of trackback. It works pretty well in a blog, why not here. These duplicates are the biggest cause of pollution on FriendFeed and it gets worse the more people you follow. - Vincent van Wylick

Here's the scope of the issue http://friendfeed.com/search?q... There are about 60 posts already on FriendFeed. Main one is Hutch Carpenter's (41 likes, 25 comments) http://friendfeed.com/e/bf9199... but 5 other posts with comments. Combining other comments into this main post with 25 comments would be a mess. - Mitchell Tsai

The situation is much improved with the release of FF's "Show best of:" feature. Before that conversations sometimes fragmented into 4-10 places, and I would run around trying to follow. Now it usually sticks to the top 1-2 places, with a few tiny 1-3 liners in other spots. --- Unless something big like "Cuil" hits the fan. - Mitchell Tsai

With Cuil, http://friendfeed.com/search?q... We've already got over 400 posts in the last 24 hours, and I can't even see all of them due to the "page 11 & item #0-399" limitation. Merging those would be a nightmare. - Mitchell Tsai

Vincent: I guess by second one you meant Hutch's http://friendfeed.com/e/bf9199.... Your 2nd one was the 1st one again. - Mitchell Tsai

You make a good point with the Cuil situation, Mitchell. I guess a better system would be a Techmeme-style presentation, with the main/first/most popular link on top, and underneath the links to all the other secondary discussions & likes. Would still be nice to consolidate the likes though. That would make FF one powerful voting-machine. - Vincent van Wylick

And maybe if duplicates were merged from the get-go, the conversation wouldn't be such a mess… - Vincent van Wylick

I'm not sure that I really want to have just one conversation on any given topic. That seems like a recipe to generate noise. Being able to have conversations with subsets of the FF userbase is one of the more valuable things about the site. - Adewale Oshineye

I've got the PHP code to do this if you want a more custom version. See: http://paulreynolds.me ! - Paul Reynolds

Oh, awesome, Paul! Are you using the FF API? Where can I get that code? - Hao Chen

Yep. Very easy to use. I didn't code it for re-use, really. But it's pretty clean I think http://www.blastoffgames.net/c... - Paul Reynolds

Thanks, man! - Hao Chen

One challenge is building a scalable street address system for an MMO. Think Liberty City and all of its streets. How can you 'live' there, and 'move' into other locations based on personal preference or performance. Rules of a society as it were. - Eric Rice

All of the blogging, podcasting, and vlogging before this was simply training in how to create multiple forms of media. They are meta in and of themselves to any kind of life. - Eric Rice

Like the FriendFeed version of gaming? - Clay Newton

Are you describing virtual real estate? How is this idea different from SL? - Jason Wehmhoener

Ok, repeat all this slowly please... I understand fast when people explain slowly :) - directeur

check out the carfree city refernce design for a possible addressing and transport system. - Trevor F. Smith

Okay, so repeating s l o w l y. ;) And yes, Trevor, part of this is why Og is interesting. - Eric Rice

Ah! Thank you :) - directeur

Meta-guilds or meta-clans are basically a group that exists in many places. Guilds and Clans are familiar to many gamers. It's essentially a group. I want my group to be able to exist across all realms that enable me to make a guild or group. - Eric Rice

Re: street addresses that scale. (It really helps to understand things like SL, Kaneva, WoW, Halo, GTA, etc all at the same time). If you created a city/world and enabled people to live in it, how do you make an infinite supply of streets and addresses (just like in real life), that can scale conceptually and VISIBLY. It's kinda rough to design a visual place like Azeroth and keep adding on and on and on to the land mass. It's a teeny bit like SL except no one has built a world there. LL just dumped dirt :) - Eric Rice

So, is it SL with the addition of governance and urban planning? and Steven K said in chatterous that it's cross-world, ie: addressable space regardless whether the "dirt" is in Kaneva, SL, GTA, etc. is that right? and which is more important, urban planning (which would seem to disqualify some worlds as appropriate "dirt") or cross-world (which would seem to be so meta that I don't see how it could ever be visible)? - Jason Wehmhoener

No, not SL-like at all. The key difference in worlds (and I include games in the same breath as non-game worlds) is the policy on user created content. - Eric Rice

So, what you're describing is a set of policies that could be applied anywhere? - Jason Wehmhoener

Not so much a policy but a different approach to grouping. If you roll in Spinclan (lol at that) then that includes a shared set of activities, relationships, events that exist in various places. The other issue is just code. How to make an addressing system for an infinitely growing city (within reason). It's like QUICK, add 1,000,000 new residents to SF Right Now, then show me the map. :) - Eric Rice

Addresses don't scale? What's the problem here? Have you looked at urban planning schemes? - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy

You go high-rise, obviously. :-) The map would look something like this http://www.nytimes.com/imagepa... and addresses are at least three dimensional. You can also add layers to increase the numbers of dimensions beyond three. Navigation involves panning and zooming. I'm picturing something very google earth like, at least for the external views. - Jason Wehmhoener

Reminds me of Rupture - cross gaming presence and performance reporting. DataPortability for virtual worlds. - Phil Wolff

Steve: Addresses scale, and they certainly do in a generic database, but there's a 'world' component to it. How do you 'visually' represent that infinite scalability? - Eric Rice

Jason: GREAT illustration. Yeah I've toyed with a skyscraper model with various levels and various 'grades' of units. Corner units have more weight than simple hall units. Clusters of buildings can exist around a core (or topic or faction, etc). - Eric Rice