http://blog.cullect.com The Blog of Cullect.com - The Collaborative Feed Aggregator. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:59:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/its-not-youits-me 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 ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/cullect-unavailable-major-overhaul-pending Thanks to Brian Solis and Jess3 for including Culld.us in their Twitterverse diagram. http://blog.cullect.com/archive/culldus-close-to-the-sun "TinyURL is not the only local URL-trimming option. Garrick Van Buren of St. Anthony Village provides a URL shortener as part of his Web-based Cullect RSS-feed reader at cullect.com." - Julio Ojeda-Zapata http://blog.cullect.com/archive/cullects-url-shortening-mentioned-in-the-pipress "Presenting information as a news feed where the user isn’t pressured to read every item or feel like a failure is one way to move the needle on the user experience here..." - Dare Obasanjo Dare - you're right. There's lots of room for innovation in the feed reader space. For ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/hi-dare-my-name-is-cullect Last night, at Ignite Minneapolis, Tom Elko demo-ed a new feature of Cullect that we've dubbed 'Comment via Cullect'. "Since comments are published through the reader’s social networks or blog, your content gains greater exposure. But wait, there’s more. This method of commenting also serves to repel trolls and comment ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/in-beta-comment-via-cullect 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. http://blog.cullect.com/archive/send-toin-transit 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). http://blog.cullect.com/archive/down-for-update-8pm-cdt-march-18-2009 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 ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/the-insecurity-of-short-urls "Actually I can't imagine they view the reader as, in any way, a publisher. Of course I think of everyone as a publisher, even if all they publish are a stream of articles they've read. Ultimately I think in 20 years there will be no such thing as someone who ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/read-write-repeat