It’s Not You…It’s Me.
No it’s not you. Cullect has been having some significant difficulties as of late.
(But, you knew that).
Culminating in massive outage last week.
At this point – Cullect is still unavailable – and I’m planning for a tiered, re-architecting of the entire system.
Feature, by feature. Step by step.
Considering the re-launch date is still TDB, you’re welcome to discontinue your subscriptions if you so desire.
Thank you for your support and my apologies on the blackout.
Wow, I miss RSS.
Cullect Unavailable – Major Overhaul Pending
This past week, Cullect was cycling between overwhelmed and unresponsive. This weekend, after a brief period of stability, it settled on unresponsive.
Over the coming days and weeks and months, I’ll be doing a significant overhaul of Cullect in to regain stability and performance.
During this time, I’ll be taking down some aspects of Cullect, re-working them, and slowly bringing them back. I’ll be posting the progress here.
Culld.us Close to the Sun
Thanks to Brian Solis and Jess3 for including Culld.us in their Twitterverse diagram.
Cullect’s URL Shortening Mentioned in the PiPress
Hi Dare, My Name is Cullect.
Dare – you’re right. There’s lots of room for innovation in the feed reader space. For that innovation (and profit) to occur – previous assumptions and models need to be completely ignored. In fact, to build Cullect, I needed to stop using a feed reader all together.
Check out some of the things people have said about Cullect.
In Beta: Comment via Cullect
Last night, at Ignite Minneapolis, Tom Elko demo-ed a new feature of Cullect that we’ve dubbed ‘Comment via Cullect’.
‘Comment via Cullect’ is a re-working of the Item Stats widget that’s driving the URL shortener.
Here’s the recorded video from the event, Tom’s presentation is about 50 minutes in.
Thanks again Tom – I’m excited to have this out in the wild.
Send to…In Transit
The native ‘Send to…’ within the Cullect.com reading lists has been disabled while it’s completely re-worked.
If you want a sneak peak of where it’s going, check out Tom Elko’s presentation at Ignite Minneapolis on Wednesday April 22.
Down for Update 8pm CDT, March 18, 2009
I’ll be taking Cullect down for approximately 1 hour tonight while I push an update.
Shortened URL services – minnpo.st, grv.me, etc – will be impacted by this outage (more on this later).
The Insecurity of Short URLs
I just got an email from the awesome folks at Joyent alerting me that someone was using Culld.us to redirect to their phishing scam site.
I promptly blocked their IP, wiped the offending URLs from the system and reset the cache.
This experience brings to mind an after hours conversation I had with a couple U of MN network security guys about inherent security risks of short URL services.
Cullect currently recognizes 83 URL shortening services.
EIGHTY-THREE
I’m hard pressed to think of 83 providers of anything (outside of entertainment services). That’s a measure of demand if anything. Even more reason publishers should – as Dave Winer recommends – pull this capability under their own umbrella.
Read, Write, Repeat
- The principle of reader-is-also-publisher is the basis for Cullect.
- From what I’ve seen, it take 20 years to build a successful company. I think it’d be fantastic if Cullect could have 2 decades behind it.
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- Culld.us URLs Recently Shared at Twitter
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