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Finally, Taskerrific is live
It took long enough, but in my defence, I'm only one guy. But yeah, Taskerrific is up and in private beta, although it feels more like an alpha release to me.
Taskerrific update
I'm going to be away for most of the weekend, but before I head out, I want to talk a little bit about Taskerrific. I hope to have the service up and in public beta by the start of May, and in the meantime, I'll give occasional updates into the progress of Taskerrific's development.
Connecting users is trickier than you might think
With social networking, one of the more important things is how users connect. It might be the defining feature of a social network. And usually, from the user's perspective, it's pretty simple. Usually. But what happens under the shiny surface of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?
Taskerrific: The easy way to manage your tasks!
At long last, I'm announcing my social media project, Taskerrific. I decided that things have progressed to the point where I'm better served letting everyone know about it (and have you ensure I get it complete) rather than keep it secret and allow it to be easily cancelled.
Things are finally feeling like they're in motion!
I'm referring to the social media project I've been working on for the past while. Over the past few weeks, I've only been working in fits and spurts. But yesterday saw the first day of some serious, hardcore development work on the project, as well as making the final choice on name. And this morning, I was struck by inspiration for the logo for the site.
It feels damn good to finally be making progress.
Should I use ASP.NET's default membership provider system, or roll my own?
A friend and I are currently developing a new social app, the details of which we're keeping under wraps until we're ready to start inviting in testers. However, before we get to that point, there is still a lot of design and development work which needs to be done. One important thing that needs working out is the membership system, as I'll explain.
A new version of Radio Alarm Clock to annoy you each morning
I just finished working on the 0.10 release of my project Radio Alarm Clock. It's getting pretty close to finished (if a software project could ever be considered complete), and at this point there are only three things remaining before I'll bring it up to the big 1.0 version number:
Dan Zarrella wants to keep me busy...
Dan Zarrella, the social media pro who created Tweetbacks, released yesterday a new Wordpress module which encompasses Tweetbacks and even more Twitter functionality for blogs. Called TweetSuite, this add-on brings in things such as a "ReTweet This" button for each post in the Tweetback list, as well as a Digg-style badge for blog entries.
So now, I'll have to add all these features to the Drupal Tweetbacks module.
One of the TweetSuite functions I won't have to implement, however. The Twitter module for Drupal already handles sending out a tweet whenever you create new content on a site, so anyone wanting that can use that module instead.
New Tweetbacks for Drupal release
I just put out a new version of the Tweetbacks module I put online on Friday. The download URL is now <http://drupal.org/node/357978/release>. This new version includes support for all of the options for Dan Zarrella's Tweetbacks system, although described in slightly different terms.
Download it, and have fun!
UPDATE: Tweetbacks is now on drupal.org! It will be a little while before builds start appearing but from now on, project development will happen there. If you are interested in helping me maintain this module, let me know. Also, there are a couple little bugs in the version currently available on this site. Please wait for the fresh drupal.org build to show up; when that happens I'll be taking down the file from here.
UPDATE 2: Builds are now appearing on Drupal.org. I've removed the download from here, so you'll want to go to the actual project page from now on.
Tweetbacks: Let Twitter host your blog's comments
Back on Sunday, Mashable put out a list of predictions on how Twitter would change blogging in 2009. The first prediction in their list was "tweetbacks", or a way of showing tweets that reference a particular blog article. Well, not two days later did someone actually create them. Social media pro Dan Zarrella whipped up a Tweetbacks system that went live on Tuesday, followed by an update on Thursday.
