November 2009
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magntize
A friend of mine has started another venture with some cats from around the Dallas / Fort Worth area…
Magnt is their general theme, with magntize being their first product.
magntize is a hosted, pre-designed (and beautifully designed if I might add), customizable personal profile thingy-ma-bopper. It includes all kinds of juicy information about you: name, websites, profiles on social...
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Rails Routes
WARNING: Geek Post
In the Rails world, you have these things called resource routes…
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Resources.html
You can define how the url gets translated into which controller and action, based on REST principles, thin controllers, and fat data models.
Image, if you will, you see this in your routes file:
This already describes a lot about...
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Conversationlist
So I briefly talked about Twitter lists a few days ago… and already there are some interesting things happening with them:
Listorious.com - the first obvious implementation after someone gives you data is a directory that is taggable and searchable.
Of course the huge thing is discovery… I created a DFW list that has 14 people following it and has over 135 people on it.
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Twitter Lists
Recently, Twitter released Lists… a capability that people have been asking for, for a while.
For example, I created a list of all the cool DFW people I follow:
http://twitter.com/gooberdlx/dallas-fort-worth
You can then follow that list.. or follow other people’s lists.
This begs for 2 questions:
How will this change Follow Friday? I could easily see some Follow Friday...