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Re: How Google got left behind (Scripting News)

VictusFate — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:53:19 -0000

I think we need something smarter in search. A tool we can customize to our needs with a slider for features like relevancy by link, by author/influence, and certainly by time.

How do you knowledgeable gents see search in a decentralized real time system. I mentioned in a post a while back search like status (you'd propagate searches like real time status/feedupdates so they'd be on the same footing).

My long term dream are virtual assistants that keep track of all my favorite topics/streams, monitoring them with a novelty filter crafted by my usage and manual interaction. Novelty filters intersecting with relevancy features is a fun problem :).

Re: How Google got left behind (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:41:47 -0000

Twitter search spoiled me with it's recency. For months i've performed several extra steps on almost every Google search:

a) submit the search term via my browser toolbar
b) click "Advanced Search"
c) click "Date, usage rights, numeric search and more"
d) choose "past 24 hours" from the date popup
e) click "Advanced Search" submit button.

It was getting tiresome but recently a new 3-step option appeared and I can

a) submit the search term via my browser toolbar
b) click "Show options"
c) click "past 24 hours"

I'm ready for the 1-step version, I will Like it.

Re: Cli.gs URL Shortener To Shut Down

brianjesse — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:43:00 -0000

Sean O said "it's easy to setup a URL shortener" but setting up a self-hosted Web app and SQL database is too difficult for most.

There is an alternative: http://rp.ly lets you easily make short URLs on your own domain name: s.yourdomain.com or you.ly -- that way you're not advertising someone else's service, and your shortening-data is exportable as an RSS feed, so you're never again dependent on some service with a shaky business model.

brian@rp.ly

Re: HowTo: Sharing links in the River2 community

brianjesse — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:00:15 -0000

this is really neat and everything worked smoothly when I tried it out. now pondering how a long-poll and rssCloud callback could update my River2.

Re: Sharing links in the River2 community (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:40:46 -0000

that's what you get for telling everyone our secret! :-)

Re: DNS for RSS feeds (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:23:01 -0000

that's how I designed my rssCloud Rest/DNS server.. when you make a new zone like supercloud.org, it puts an A record there at the top level and then starts pumping out new TXT records for the subdomains

Re: I need a Domain Name Server with a REST interface (Scripting News)

twitter-6959952 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:16:12 -0000

Using TXT is wrong for this. You should use NAPTR records.
You can rig it with TXT, but it doesn't make sense as NAPTR is specifically engineered for this.

Re: I need a Domain Name Server with a REST interface (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:48:24 -0000

This is working pretty well, send me an e-mail if you'd like to try it out. brian@megapump.com

The source code is published on github:
http://github.com/voitto/rsscloud_dns_server

####################
## creating a zone record
####################

POST vars
---------------
name = "george"
record = "TXT"
feedname = "george.loose.ly"
key = md5( subdomain.record.value.pass ) where period concatenates values of these post vars and "pass" contains password value

API endpoint
------------------------------
http://cloud.twitteronia.com/api/

New zone record
------------------------------
| 14 | 9 | george | TXT | | 0 | 86400 | george.loose.ly |

####################
## updating the feedname
####################

POST vars
---------------
name = "george"
record = "TXT"
feedname = "george.twitteronia.com"
key = md5( subdomain.record.value.pass ) where period concatenates values of these post vars and "pass" contains password value

API endpoint
------------------------------
http://cloud.twitteronia.com/api/

Updated zone record
------------------------------
| 14 | 9 | george | TXT | | 0 | 86400 | george.twitteronia.com |

######################
## updating the record data
######################

POST vars
---------------
name = "george"
record = "TXT"
feedname = "george.twitteronia.com"
feedurl = "http://george.blogspot.com/posts.rss"
key = md5( subdomain.record.value.pass ) where period concatenates values of these post vars and "pass" contains password value

API endpoint
------------------------------
http://cloud.twitteronia.com/api/

Updated zone record
------------------------------
| 14 | 9 | george | TXT | http://george.blogspot.com/posts.rss | 0 | 86400 | george.twitteronia.com |

#############################
## REST feed lookup from feedname
#############################

(you can try this one yourself without authentication)

POST vars
---------------
name = "george"
record = "TXT"
feedname = "george.loose.ly"

API endpoint
------------------------------
http://cloud.twitteronia.com/api/

(server performs a DNS lookup for TXT record at george.loose.ly)

Output
------------------------------
http://george.blogspot.com/posts.rss

Re: I need a Domain Name Server with a REST interface (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:05:44 -0000

I made a REST API like this, you can find the documentation at http://cloud.twitteronia.com - would love to have feedback here on whether it works. Thanks! -- Brian

Re: HowTo: Adding permalinks to prefs pages, 8/3/08

andysylvester — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:21:01 -0000

Brian,

I tried to reply to your post directly but mistyped, see http://howto.opml.org/dave/programming.html?suc... for my reply.

Re: The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog

dlsspy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:37:22 -0000

I've used the twisted enterprise stuff in some apps for non-blocking RDBMS action. twitterspy supports both the twisted async interface to sqlite and a couchdb interface (I use the latter). twitterspy as I run it == async couchdb + async memcached + async http streaming + async xmpp interface (and a bit more).

I also saw that someone filed an issue against tornado about running async system commands and displaying their output. If you go about three minutes into this video: http://www.vimeo.com/5998733 you'll see Matt Ingenthron demonstrating a twisted-based web server I wrote that runs system commands and streams replicates of the output (processed through a python filter) to whomever happens to be looking.

This is why Tornado is both interesting and mildly frustrating. I've got a handful of little frameworks like the above that are doing useful realtime web stuff that could all use an easy to use web framework that doesn't block. Hopefully by porting tornado to twisted, I can get some more web attention directed at these projects.

Re: The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog

brianjesse — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:18:37 -0000

dustin, wow. I see that twisted has a "non-blocking interface to the standardized DB-API 2.0 API" http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/document... -- is that a good way to back tornado with a rdbms?

Re: HowTo: Adding permalinks to prefs pages, 8/3/08

brianjesse — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:45:34 -0000

Andy those are some incredible Developing OPML Editor Tools articles, I ended up downloading the Frontier html docs and found a "lightning guide to getting comfortable with outlines". It's an amazing system, was looking for the OPML Editor source code, is there a repo?

Re: Happy baby is happy! (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:13:38 -0000

cute :-)

Re: Rep.ly: TweetMeme Comments Get Their Own Awesome Short URL

brianjesse — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:47:40 -0000

rp.ly was born on Marshall Kirkpatrick and Dave Winer's "Bad Hair Day" podcast in the wake of the tr.im and FriendFeed announcements. It's open source and the URL is RP.LY

REP.LY and RE.P.LY are two more recent uses of the same name.

The idea with rp.ly is to own and "brand" your short URLs the same way you brand your own links with your own domain name.

http://rp.ly is testing a WordPress plugin which lets you set up your own "vanity url shortener" for your WordPress blog tweets, check it out. :-)

Brian Hendrickson
brian@rp.ly

Re: Add RSS Cloud Element

brianjesse — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:11:37 -0000

this is cool, czeching it out

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners, part II (Scripting News)

joemorenoscripting — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:07:28 -0000

You can do it with a root-domain. See option 4 under How to do it:
http://blog.adjix.com/2009/08/own-your-links-wi...

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners, part II (Scripting News)

dave — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:14:02 -0000

Correct.

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners, part II (Scripting News)

sull — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:31:04 -0000

this is true - A records dont work because s3 does not have a static IP address to point to.
also, it has been noted that the best and proper way to handle redirects is with a 301, not a meta-refresh.

i think this adjix experiment is fine but it is not how i personally would choose to do this.
its a solution and its one that dave chose to try. nothing wrong with that.

though i still do not grok why running your own software to do redirects and click tracking etc is not taking precedence over using adjix, tr.im or any other service. i'd like clarification on that. maybe i a missing something. but an ec2 server running your own code seems to be the holy grail here. in previous article, i pointed to some options - http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/08/19/how...

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners, part II (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:59:40 -0000

An actual text file on the web server named "5" works well for this use case, but was trying to figure out if the S3 bucket could be used as well.

http://bh.ly/5

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners, part II (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:58:26 -0000

Dave, thanks for sharing how you've worked out your vanity url shortening.

I'm curious about the Amazon bucket solution, it doesn't look like it's possible to use it with a root-domain such as oy.ly because a CNAME won't work for that. True?

Thanks again

- Brian

Re: louisgray.com: OpenMicroBlogger Shows Steady Growth in First Month

exador23 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:10:21 -0000

true. I was just initially shocked to see that graph, and the text of the post, until I figured out these were fresh comments on an old post. :) I think it's great that there are some OMB alternatives to laconica. the real prize is some sort of open microblogging protocol adopted among all services including twitter.

Re: louisgray.com: OpenMicroBlogger Shows Steady Growth in First Month

brianjesse — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:24:44 -0000

identi.ca competes by being easy to install, it's a lot different from social networks that compete on monthly uniques. apples and oranges.

Re: louisgray.com: OpenMicroBlogger Shows Steady Growth in First Month

brianjesse — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:35:09 -0000

Jesse thanks again for your great coverage of self-hosted microblogging, you'll always be the #1 blogger to me :-)

Vladimir, thanks for your kind words about OpenMicroBlogger :-) It still needs a lot of work but we have fixed more than 100 bugs in the past few months so i'm pretty happy about the way it's going.

If you click on the Admin tab and change your theme to "Prologue" then you will see some of the features Jesse was reporting on. There is a box for pasting a link, and also a box for tags/categories.

You will also find controls in the Admin area to turn Categories/Tags on/off, turn Uploads on/off, etc. These will add some of these features to the more modern "P2" theme.

I hope i've answered your questions, feel free to come by our forum at http://openmicroblogger.org/discuss/ or send me an e-mail brian@megapump.com

Cheers

-- Brian

Re: My #blogpostfriday post (Scripting News)

brianjesse — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:08:46 -0000

Hi Dave, just wanted to drop back into this discussion, as I've been working pretty hard on rp.ly

I've developed an open source platform that's not just a URL shortener, but it can host a URL shortener for any other domain on the Web.

Each of these shorteners has an RSS feed of its URLs.

Also, because you use your own domain name to host these short URLs, they are permanent and portable as long as you capture a copy of the links from the RSS feed or otherwise keep a back up of the data from rp.ly

Because the platform is open source, this can introduce competition to the URL shortening scene, people can export their data from rp.ly and go over to shorten.er and log in and import their existing URL data. Then they just redirect their short-url-hosted (sub)domain at that other company/institution's shortening/redirect service.

I registered rsn.ly and wnr.ly for you and Jay. Here's a couple of sample links:

http://rsn.ly/0

http://wnr.ly/0

You can log into rp.ly itself to manage these shorteners, all of this is running on a single, restful open source Web services application that I developed. I'm already building a high performance Erlang version of the back-end, which mimics the tr.im API.

Jay is welcome to log into rp.ly and use the shorteners, as well.

I'll be contacting everyone who e-mailed me to ask about rp.ly - if anyone else has a domain or sub-domain they want to turn into a URL shortener, just shoot me an e-mail at info@rp.ly or follow/dm http://twitter.com/rply_urls and we can work something out :-)

Cheers

-- Brian