I’ve made a few modifications to FF To Go this morning (with more in the pipeline):
Fixed Time Deltas
This was an interesting bug. When FF To Go was hosted on Google App Engine I incorrectly set the project’s time zone to EST. FriendFeed’s API returns UTC timestamps for everything; but all the time deltas (”x hours [...]
Here are some steps I’ve taken towards delivering a more reliable RSSmeme:
All static files are being served by S3. My server is set to redirect any requests to static files (like the widget) to the file on S3. This means that if RSSmeme slows down and you have the widget installed; your site will not [...]
Who is using Google Apps for their email? FriendFeedStats is now a pretty large database of users so I wrote a quick script using the FriendFeed API to compile a list of Google Apps users by checking the MX records for everyone’s blog.
Some heavy hitters make the list including FriendFeed, Mashable, Lifehacker, Perez Hilton, kwiry, [...]
A big problem in the field of link aggregation is tailoring the results to an individual user. RSSmeme doesn’t have an account system. You don’t need to make an account to get involved; you just share and I hope it stays that way forever. How then can we make a customized view for individual users?
I [...]
I’ve been playing around with Google App Engine and wanted to share my first impressions. First and foremost I’d like to thank a Googler out there who got me into the App Engine beta. I’m not sure he wants it public that he got me in because I didn’t sign up for App Engine quick [...]
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