For the last couple of day, my email account has been erroring out. If you've sent me anything via my personal account (guesswho@rizzn.com), please re-send. I've fixed the server issue that was preventing the messages from getting through.
/rizzn
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Who Here Uses Kyte?
I've been tasked to look into Kyte over at Mashable in connection with one of our side projects. I used the product a long time ago, and I'm sure the service has changed radically since then. The last time I used it, it would crash my browser half the time, and the other half, it wouldn't really play anything resembling video.
None the less, it sounded like an interesting concept at the time. At this moment, though, I'm only nominally familiar with the product line over there. I'll likely be taking a close look at it during some point during the week, but I know a number of my readers have used it extensively (I'm looking at you Robert Scoble).
As I haven't gotten comments working using my FriendFeed engine yet, go ahead and head over to FriendFeed or Twitter or my email and respond with your thoughts on the topic.
Specifically: What is Kyte good for? What does it excel at? Where does it suck? Is it in the UStream space, the Utterz space, or some as of yet undefined space?
Thanks for all the response (how's that for optimism?).
Monday, May 19, 2008
FriendFeed Comments and Yahoo Pipes
In my rush to get something out over the weekend, I took a few programming mashup shortcuts.
Now, while I'm troubleshooting the fact that nothing is working today on Rizzn.com with the FriendFeed API how it worked on Saturday, I'm coming to regret a few of my decisions.
First of all, as I said before, Magpie RSS is great for a lot of things (it has been the backbone of a ton of neat little rapidly developed PHP apps that deal with RSS), the nested nature of the XML created by FriendFeed is just too much for it to handle, making it necessary for a ton of crazy work-arounds.
One of those work-arounds was another shortcut I took, Yahoo! Pipes. I created some Pipes to extract out comments for just my comment stream, and comments from just me on my comment stream. It would appear that there are some weird rate limitings going on, and I can't tell if it's the fault of Pipes or FriendFeed, given its black-box nature. Sometimes the RSS feed shows up, and sometimes it just disappears (if you hit reload on the Pipes RSS feed about 10 times, it'll show up half the time, and half the time it won't).
I've created some caching subroutines that wouldn't ordinarily be necessary to make sure it'll catch all the comments, but in the next iteration of this, I'm going to have to ditch (or heavily modify) Magpie to make it work for this application, as well as recode the Pipes functionality as actual PHP. This will take me a little longer than I'd like, but it will ultimately be a much more stable application.
That's the update as of now. Off to work with me.
By the way, on a separate note, pay attention to Mashable Conversations this week - a lot of really cool interviews coming up.
Now, while I'm troubleshooting the fact that nothing is working today on Rizzn.com with the FriendFeed API how it worked on Saturday, I'm coming to regret a few of my decisions.
First of all, as I said before, Magpie RSS is great for a lot of things (it has been the backbone of a ton of neat little rapidly developed PHP apps that deal with RSS), the nested nature of the XML created by FriendFeed is just too much for it to handle, making it necessary for a ton of crazy work-arounds.
One of those work-arounds was another shortcut I took, Yahoo! Pipes. I created some Pipes to extract out comments for just my comment stream, and comments from just me on my comment stream. It would appear that there are some weird rate limitings going on, and I can't tell if it's the fault of Pipes or FriendFeed, given its black-box nature. Sometimes the RSS feed shows up, and sometimes it just disappears (if you hit reload on the Pipes RSS feed about 10 times, it'll show up half the time, and half the time it won't).
I've created some caching subroutines that wouldn't ordinarily be necessary to make sure it'll catch all the comments, but in the next iteration of this, I'm going to have to ditch (or heavily modify) Magpie to make it work for this application, as well as recode the Pipes functionality as actual PHP. This will take me a little longer than I'd like, but it will ultimately be a much more stable application.
That's the update as of now. Off to work with me.
By the way, on a separate note, pay attention to Mashable Conversations this week - a lot of really cool interviews coming up.
Regarding FriendFeed Integration
I discussed a bit about what I was doing with the blog/site here in regards to FriendFeed on tonight's Elite Tech News broadcast.
Unfortunately, I'm looking through the entries on the front page now, and either due to caching errors or due to coding errors, a lot of conversations are showing up empty when they in fact are not. Sorry then, if you came to check out the wonder and beauty of a weekend's programming, and all you got was a bunch of nothing.
I can't promise exactly when it'll be all patched up, because the whole rat race at Mashable begins bright and early for me tomorrow morning, but in my spare moments this week, I'll be working on fixing things. My biggest problem is that I'm using MagpieRSS for my feed reading. While I love Magpie for most things, the FriendFeed feeds seem a bit too complex for it to handle, and I may need to graduate to a more complex RSS feed library.
If you have any suggestions - well, the comments aren't working here yet - so leave a message on the FeedBurner Feed that will inevitably be generated by this entry (or, alternatively, email me at guesswho@rizzn.com).
Unfortunately, I'm looking through the entries on the front page now, and either due to caching errors or due to coding errors, a lot of conversations are showing up empty when they in fact are not. Sorry then, if you came to check out the wonder and beauty of a weekend's programming, and all you got was a bunch of nothing.
I can't promise exactly when it'll be all patched up, because the whole rat race at Mashable begins bright and early for me tomorrow morning, but in my spare moments this week, I'll be working on fixing things. My biggest problem is that I'm using MagpieRSS for my feed reading. While I love Magpie for most things, the FriendFeed feeds seem a bit too complex for it to handle, and I may need to graduate to a more complex RSS feed library.
If you have any suggestions - well, the comments aren't working here yet - so leave a message on the FeedBurner Feed that will inevitably be generated by this entry (or, alternatively, email me at guesswho@rizzn.com).
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Excuse the Dust
My site (rizzn.com, for those of you viewing this somewhere else), is undergoing some major changes. Robert Scoble, a few days ago, was talking about his diminished influence via his blog somewhere (probably FriendFeed).
That got me to thinking of the value of my personal domain simply displaying only my blog content and a list of headlines of what I write at Mashable. My personal influence is distributed all over the place. Digg, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, Mashable, Google Reader, and FriendFeed, in no particular order.
I suppose I could throw up a bunch of widgets here on the site and be done with it, but what I'd rather have is an integrated experience.
What I'm trying to create here at Rizzn.com, essentially, is a showcase for what I do everywhere. FriendFeed's API is going to be a central piece to all of this, since it's where I think the conversation is moving to for my circle of friends, but also because it aggregates everything I do elsewhere.
You'll see my FriendFeed, er, feed, along with what I say on these various items very prominently listed on the front page.
Within the next few days, you'll also see FriendFeed become the way I power my comments system. Goodbye Disqus (not that I didn't like you, I just like FriendFeed better!), and definitely goodbye Blogger comments.
And yes, I'll be making this available as a service or product or something soon. Stay tuned here.
That got me to thinking of the value of my personal domain simply displaying only my blog content and a list of headlines of what I write at Mashable. My personal influence is distributed all over the place. Digg, Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, Mashable, Google Reader, and FriendFeed, in no particular order.
I suppose I could throw up a bunch of widgets here on the site and be done with it, but what I'd rather have is an integrated experience.
What I'm trying to create here at Rizzn.com, essentially, is a showcase for what I do everywhere. FriendFeed's API is going to be a central piece to all of this, since it's where I think the conversation is moving to for my circle of friends, but also because it aggregates everything I do elsewhere.
You'll see my FriendFeed, er, feed, along with what I say on these various items very prominently listed on the front page.
Within the next few days, you'll also see FriendFeed become the way I power my comments system. Goodbye Disqus (not that I didn't like you, I just like FriendFeed better!), and definitely goodbye Blogger comments.
And yes, I'll be making this available as a service or product or something soon. Stay tuned here.
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Incredibly Busy Boy
Just when I think things might slow down for me, I get a week where I'm completely slammed.
I've had four podcast interviews a day all week this week. Plus my full shift editing and writing on top of that. Plus 'special assignments.'
Life is just a barrel full of monkeys, sometimes.
I've had four podcast interviews a day all week this week. Plus my full shift editing and writing on top of that. Plus 'special assignments.'
Life is just a barrel full of monkeys, sometimes.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Attention Folks from FarCry
If you don't play FarCry with my wife, you can ignore this message.
The MySpace page you're looking for is here: http://www.myspace.com/aries0279.
For cryin' out loud...
/rizzn
The MySpace page you're looking for is here: http://www.myspace.com/aries0279.
For cryin' out loud...
/rizzn
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