Here are my thoughts on how to make a twitter like system that won’t break all the time.
My idea is to take the XML-RPC ping service that blogs use and convert it into a one that can deal with statuses.
On top of this you layer what I am calling a status service server, these would be much like ping aggregation services like technorati but with logic for dealing with follows, @aims etc
Lastly on top of this would go the twitter client which would directly work with the status service.
Now this could break in much the same way as twitter could because if the status service goes down then you are back to square one. However I have a fix for this. The user can take their data (followers etc) to any service they like and as its all running on the same protocols they will get the same information from each.
This could lead to smart clients that could detect if status service A is down and if so switch to service B.
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Last night I updated http://crowdstatus.com with a few new features
- Crowds ordered by latest statuses
- Auto refresh for crowds can be turned on and off
- a sprinkle of ajax
- a future feature peak a twitter client @ http://crowdstatus.com/twitter.aspx
more to come in the following weeks…
also I want to find time for my music app called songs and me, I won’t give any more details until I have a working first draft up…
I created a new app called crowdstatus.com
Basically its a place for keeping all the people that you follow and filter out the others. It only supports twitter statuses at the moment and I plan to add more soon.
If you have any suggestions get in touch.
Nothing much to report at the moment.
http://justaddme.com - working on version 2 and aiming for a realise very soon….
http://diystartupnews.com - seems to be picking up a bit of momentum and Tony is doing an awesome job of being the editor.
My CMS is going great, I am now working on version 2 which should be ready for Aprl. I am still trying to find a name for it as I have decided to build another product for the updatable pages domain (yet another CMS but with a difference).
Really stuck between a rock and a hard place with the amount of projects to work on. justaddme.com is coming along but I am fighting the urge to work on 5 other projects!
I won’t go into detail on them but I think they are all goers if I have time to spend on them.
I guess I need to write a list and compare them and figure out which order to do them in.
I have finally released version 1 of my CMS to some of my clients.
I have to build a version with ecommerce in april so I can sell it to the public at large.
I am currently working on a template system for the email form handler so users can design their own emails using the template system and have these connected to plain html forms on their site. The page editor makes it easy to build forms already and this enhancement will add to this.
Also on the list for version 1.1 are
content templates
and user management
I killed user management for version 1.0 because I needed to release it for clients to use. Also I had to build in a licencing system which I felt was more important. All versions now have a 30 day trial option and full blown version locked to a domain name so no one can steal it.
well sold a fair few CMS’s so I seem to have the price right.
Working on http://justaddme.com next version
Just ripped out the widget creation code and replaced it with some oop code and made it a much easier task to add features to it now. I choose to take the pain now because it would of taken me about 10 times longer to add these updates that I am working on now.
I have added a few more fields and below is a list of all of em
name
location
occupation
miniBio
website
twitter
linkedin
technorati
flickr
mySpace
ning
facebook
digg
rss
steam
xbox
xfire
stumbleUpon
delicious
lastFM
friendFeed
mashable
mahalo
youTube
myBlogLog
reddit
pownce
As you can see there are a load of new sites etc, They are now categorised into Profile page, Social sites, life streaming, social bookingmarking/news, gamer sites and misc
There will be a widget for each of these categories and a couple of new ones for all of them. Also I am adding a profile page for each user that will do something I don’t thing I have seen out there yet so I will keep it as a suprise.
Oh well back to it.
I have just updated justaddme.com
I have added a slimline version, a forum version, a html version for when iframes don’t work.
I would add the html version here but it appears that tumblr removes markup!
This week I have nailed down the first version of my CMS and come up with a pricing plan. I have decided to start at £100 for the basic CMS and extras for addons. The reason for this is for most web designers the basic version is all that is needed to add cms to a static site. The addons’ won’t cost to much for simple ones like news and form builder but the price goes up for more complicated ones. I will post a list of them an their prices once I have tested the addon system. I have a couple of meetings this week to show it off but the initial feedback has been positive.
I am aiming to get the CMS out of beta and to RC1 this week, I then have to create a site to sell it on but that shouldn’t be to hard as I am using my CMS to build it :P
Just designing my next project next. going to be a fun app next weekend I think.
I have had some good feedback on http://justaddme.com so will be making some updates this week when I find some time.
