FeedSeeder was deployed on its first publicly visible server this morning. While it took much longer than I expected (better part of my non-client time for a week) much of that time was setting up the infrastructure; prepping the box, loading the project into Subversion, setting up the deployment recipes, etc. While it’s not rock …
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Rule 1: Be Useful Without an Account
Software as She’s Developed bring reminds us about lazy registration, i.e. a system that’s useful to people just kicking the tires, or just don’t want to set up another name/pass combination. I’ve baked this into the FeedSeeder project (see the 2nd screencast). I’m working on the deployment recipe right now, so I should be able …
Second FeedSeeder Dev Screencast Up
Check it out at FeedSeeder.com, 10 minutes, 65mb.
More FeedSeeder Demos – Organized and Otherwise
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ll be at Portable Media Expo a this coming weekend. If you see me, feel free to introduce yourself and ask for a FeedSeeder Demo. I’m looking for comments and suggestions. Also, as soon as I get back from PME, I’ll be doing a more formal presentation as part of the …
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Tags Less For Me and You, More For Us
In working with FeedSeeder, and interesting transformation has happened. I actually see value in tagging text. For video, audio, and pictues – text tagging is a no- brainer. There’s really no better way to get the media categorized than by asking the community to do it. Text for me was a much tougher sell. I …
Wanted: More Publishers and Better Filters
David Newberger and I were talking about information filtering models and much of the thinking behind Feedseeder came though as did a couple much larger issues. The conversation was so good, I thought you’d enjoy it as well. David: I was talking with a few people today and each one mentioned Information Overload in the …
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Demo FeedSeeder – Check
(image thanks to PFHyper) The FeedSeeder demo went pretty well tonight at MinneDemo. I’m pleased. Thanks to everyone there for letting me share it with you. Thanks to Luke & Dan pulling us together. If you weren’t able to catch it, I’ve added the most recent Quicktime screencast to Feedseeder.com (~60mb, ~7min). If you’ve already …
I Don’t Care What Everyone Thinks
“…when it comes to choosing what I read and what is relevant to me, I’m only interested in opinions from people i know and trust.” – Shel Israel A while back, I re-grouped all the feeds in my aggregator – notably the ‘Everyone’ group contains authors that said something interesting once…but that I neither know …
More Hay Makes Better Needles
I’m starting to load my 320 feeds and various groupings into FeedSeeder, the development version. Even with a good chunk of that to go, I can see how it’s changing my reading habits for the better. The interesting bits are unhiding themselves. This, before it’s even ready for public release and just nearly in time …
The Benefits of Screencasting in Software Development
Yes, I’ve been too busy working on the FeedSeeder project to write up too much about it. That said, I’ve been privately documenting it’s development with screencasts. At the end of each development day, I start at the beginning of the app, load up iShowU and walk through all the functionality as if I’m presenting …
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