I don't quite understand why feed fetching was eliminated from the JE. As @adewale showed, there are things like appscale to run GAE apps on your own, much as I know you love to run things on your own @arjw. Anyway, playing around with Sweetcron I noticed that to comment on items fetched, you need an external commenting system. This presents a great opportunity for Google Friend Connect and the Jaiku engine. If you can manage to merge Google account with Jaiku accounts, and enabled federation of these accounts across the federation for JaikuEngine, you could embed jaiku commenting into Sweetcron, in a way similar to what @WaveyDavey001 described to the folks of Quaiku.@bergie mentioned that one of the main quaiku devs was planning an embeddable widget for your blog that would display comments from a Qaiku thread about the post. Essentially, we can have our cake, and eat it too. Enable a similar widget for the Jaiku Engine, allow us to use any centralized identity manager we want (GFC, FBConnect, OpenID) and you got a decentralized Jaiku!
Hmm, I haven't done anything wrt sharing my news feeds. I never saw the point. I hate when @bvlad spams a ton of news stories, so I eventually dropped him. I will post a news story maybe once a week to something (either ping.fm like an hour ago, or through a 'share' tag on the story page) if I think it is really interesting. But I can't see using Google reader as my social networking tool.
I liked the RSS feeds. I never used Jaiku as a news reader, but I liked seeing what contacts were listening to (last.fm rss), what they had reviewed (yelp rss), and their pics (flickr rss)
I like where @edy is going with this. I've -obviously- always thought Jaiku was the best, but it's time for some real innovation here, and not just a FOSS twitter clone like identi.ca
Identi.ca's one standout feature (so far) is groups, which is basically a publicly subscribe-able hashtag :-/ I'm willing to do my fair share of alpha/beta testing and evangelizing if someone can get working on what I described up there xD I'm still nowhere near good enough to tackle such a large project myself, which is part of why i want to look through the Jaiku source code. I learn best from watching other people do stuff ;)
@edy: you present exactly how my mind has been working thru all of this. However, I'm not a developer, I'm a UI/UX guy who tends to dream and ask way too many questions XD
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Only if anything with comments is a valid Jaiku replacement.
8 months, 3 weeks ago by adewale
Google reader only allows those whom you share feeds with to comment, so in that respect, it is a valid replacement.
8 months, 3 weeks ago by arjw
And you can post notes..
8 months, 3 weeks ago by edythemighty
I don't quite understand why feed fetching was eliminated from the JE. As @adewale showed, there are things like appscale to run GAE apps on your own, much as I know you love to run things on your own @arjw. Anyway, playing around with Sweetcron I noticed that to comment on items fetched, you need an external commenting system. This presents a great opportunity for Google Friend Connect and the Jaiku engine. If you can manage to merge Google account with Jaiku accounts, and enabled federation of these accounts across the federation for JaikuEngine, you could embed jaiku commenting into Sweetcron, in a way similar to what @WaveyDavey001 described to the folks of Quaiku. @bergie mentioned that one of the main quaiku devs was planning an embeddable widget for your blog that would display comments from a Qaiku thread about the post. Essentially, we can have our cake, and eat it too. Enable a similar widget for the Jaiku Engine, allow us to use any centralized identity manager we want (GFC, FBConnect, OpenID) and you got a decentralized Jaiku!
8 months, 3 weeks ago by edythemighty
Hmm, I haven't done anything wrt sharing my news feeds. I never saw the point. I hate when @bvlad spams a ton of news stories, so I eventually dropped him. I will post a news story maybe once a week to something (either ping.fm like an hour ago, or through a 'share' tag on the story page) if I think it is really interesting. But I can't see using Google reader as my social networking tool.
I liked the RSS feeds. I never used Jaiku as a news reader, but I liked seeing what contacts were listening to (last.fm rss), what they had reviewed (yelp rss), and their pics (flickr rss)
I like where @edy is going with this. I've -obviously- always thought Jaiku was the best, but it's time for some real innovation here, and not just a FOSS twitter clone like identi.ca
8 months, 3 weeks ago by bogart
Identi.ca's one standout feature (so far) is groups, which is basically a publicly subscribe-able hashtag :-/ I'm willing to do my fair share of alpha/beta testing and evangelizing if someone can get working on what I described up there xD I'm still nowhere near good enough to tackle such a large project myself, which is part of why i want to look through the Jaiku source code. I learn best from watching other people do stuff ;)
8 months, 3 weeks ago by edythemighty
@edy: you present exactly how my mind has been working thru all of this. However, I'm not a developer, I'm a UI/UX guy who tends to dream and ask way too many questions XD
Things are really getting interesting.
8 months, 3 weeks ago by arjw
/me bows
8 months, 3 weeks ago by edythemighty
I hope something comes of all of this, I can't make my mind up if these are troubling times for micro-blogging etc or exciting times.
8 months, 3 weeks ago by WaveyDavey001