Thats really cool and quick followup!
s
On Mar 3, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Philip Ashlock wrote:
If any of you are interested in this sort of application of melkjug
it sounds like the Activity Streams folks would love to collaborate
(see below)
I'd also suggest signing up for the activity streams mailing list -
http://groups.google.com/group/activity-streams/
-phil
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: melkjug for activity streams
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:28:55 -0800
From: Chris Messina <[email protected]>
To: Philip Ashlock <[email protected]>
CC: Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]
> <[email protected]>
Hmm, totally interesting!
You've kind of hit the use case for Activity Streams on the head!
Melkjug is open source and python?
I'm CC'ing Michael Richardson, since he started implementing support
for publishing activity streams on madstreams.com. Maybe to
jumpstart this project with AS, he could ramp up his work on
publishing ATOM-AS and you could add support for parsing?
That'd be wicked!
Chris
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Philip Ashlock <[email protected]>
wrote:
Sorry, I just thought to CC you, but the the other recipients were
people who actively use and develop it so I didn't think to provide
context.
Melkjug is an open source RSS reader web app which uses individual
as well as collaborative filtering functions. Just like the Facebook
fader controls for the news feed, Melkjug provides fader controls
for a variety of metrics like feed source, author, tags, digg count,
published date, etc. You can then save all these faders as a preset
and then allow others to subscribe to that "jug" (which is just
another RSS feed that they can then tune up or down in concert with
their other personalized filters). Oh, and it supports OpenID signup/
login and probably some oauth features soonish. The current version
was released a few days ago and fixed a number of performance
issues, so now we're trying to be a little more proactive about
promoting it. I hope to do some real design polish on it in the near
future too.
I should mention that the original intent of this app was as an RSS
reader and the idea of using it for activity streams is something
that I just thought of today.
You may be wondering why a non profit that develops software for
civic engagement is making an rss reader. There's no simple answer
to that, but I think we're getting there.
Let me know what you think.
-Phil
Chris Messina wrote:
Melkjug?
Also, are you on the AS mailing list?
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Philip Ashlock <[email protected]>
wrote:
I've been thinking a lot about activity streams lately and realized
how powerful melkjug is for managing such things. I would think a
melkjug powered friendfeed would trump the full fire hose model
that friendfeed currently uses. Consider the following proof of
concept:
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An open standard for activity streams is currently under
development (http://activitystrea.ms/) as part of the emerging
"Open Stack" and I believe parts of it are already being adopted by
major players like Myspace. Internally at TOPP we are beginning to
put much more focus on promoting activity streams as an effort to
build co-motivational features for civic engagement. After talking
about this just a moment ago, Nick BS is setting up a TOPP Labs jug
for us to aggregate activity to display on the upcoming TOPP Labs
website. We'll then have a good filtering system to showcase
current twitter feeds, svn commits, wiki edits, blog comments,
planet posts, etc, etc.. This is something we should seriously
think about as we readdress our approach with the OpenPlans stack.
I'm just thinking of ways to bring melkjug's features into other
contexts.
The new melkjug release feels pretty awesome. Do you think we could
do another round of design polish to accompany our promotion of it?
Phil
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