http://blog.cullect.com The Blog of Cullect.com - The Collaborative Feed Aggregator. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:54:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I mentioned, I asked Ed Kohler's Mechanical Turk project - 3rdPartyFeedback.com (feedback from 10 people for $25) - about Cullect. Here's what they said. What Does This Website Do? This helps people find and share the relevant, important stories from our news and blog feeds. This website helps you find and share ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/there-is-absolutely-nothing-good-about-the-page I'm investigating the issue now. I'll post what I find out here. (At this point, I'm suspecting some kind of network outage - cause a bunch of my other sites are down as well.) According to Joyent Support, at this point - I'm correct. Yep, Joyent resolved the issue at their ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/unexpected-downtime-19-fri-2008 Conceptually, short URLs are kind of like little, wrapped, gifts. You don't really know what's there until clicked...er, um....opened. So, just in time for a your revised holiday shopping, IWouldHaveBoughtYouThis.com is the latest site to using Cullect's URL shortening API. Enter the link to Apple's iPhone, a ride-on triceratops, or a ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/iwouldhaveboughtyouthiscom-wraps-gift-urls-with-cullect As I mentioned over at my blog I've added Culwiki - the wiki engine behind wiki.cullect.com to the collaborative source-code site github. You can get it here: http://github.com/garrickvanburen/culwiki/tree/master http://blog.cullect.com/archive/culwiki-now-in-github I'm very pleased to announce MinnPo.st - the branded URL shortener for Minnesota's nonprofit journalism enterprise - MinnPost.com. MinnPo.st is the first private-label URL shortener powered by Cullect.com's API. For the writers and reporters at MinnPost.com, MinnPo.st has the exact same features as Cullect's own Culld.us URL shortener - like ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/minnpostcoms-branded-url-shortener-powered-by-cullect There was a time when the tools to publish online weren't as plentiful as they are today. When everyone didn't have a Weblog, Twitter, Facebook, etc. It was this strange, dark time when commenting first appeared. Projects like Disqus and CoComment are trying to improve commenting - but I feel they're ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/rethinking-blog-comments First, pick up a domain you'd like to use for your short urls - i.e. mine.url - and turn on a webserver. To Receive a Shortened URL for your domain from Cullect: Add the Cullect Item Stats javascript widget to an HTML page, passing it a long URL and your domain: <script ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/how-to-build-your-own-url-shortener-in-2-steps I'm taking Cullect down for a bit to deploy an update - and improve performance. Here we goooooooo. Update 23:00 CST Things aren't working as smoothly as I expected. So you may experience some instability as I investigate. Thank you for your patience. Update 00:30 CST Still plugging away, still not seeing the progress I'd ... http://blog.cullect.com/archive/get-down-21cst-11-nov-2008 I'm going to be running maintenance on Cullect's database tonight - in preparation for a new deploy tomorrow. As always, watch this space for updates. http://blog.cullect.com/archive/down-for-maintenance-2300-cst-nov-10-2008 Edwin over at Feedly asks for comments about relabeling Feedly's 'recommend' feature as 'share'. In Cullect, I've settled on 'Recommend' because - unlike other feed aggregators/readers/thingys - all reading lists in Cullect are public by default. So, here, everything is automatically, 'shared' (even 'hidden' items) and 'recommend' makes the most sense. http://blog.cullect.com/archive/feedly-asks-recommend-or-share