22nd Feb, 2006

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Identity Aggregation at Feedication

I love the early work at Feedication.com. He’s basically aggregating everything about a person that’s available in RSS. I’d love to see a way to browse that data either by layering a social network (aggregate XFN) or adding tags. My profile has my del.icio.us links, my blog feed, my netflix history, flickr photos, and my odeo channel.

12th Feb, 2006

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Odeo Hackathon

Now that we’ve finished our first sprint I’ve figured out the answer to my question, “do we need a break between sprints?” Yes.

Our answer included a hackathon modeled after JotSpot’s. Tons of fun. I can’t recommend this enough! Noah made a video so that all the happy details can go online at some point. Here was my entry:

Podcast GMap. I took our podcast data, located it according to host ip, then put it into a google map. Then I added popups with the Odeo player. The data is static, the ip address geo data is spotty, and the underlying podcast data comes from a one time database dump. But what the heck, I had fun. Plus note the gubernator podcast coming from sacramento.

Special thanks to Perl Wizard Rich Gibson and Schuyler Erle for their Google Maps Hacks book.

Everyone else made really awesome hacks. I’ll be sure to call them out as they get released.