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The link seems to be broken. but the website points to a github repo wich in turn has another netlify-link, this one working.

https://kind-babbage-78b799.netlify.com/

it seems to be a frontend for a google sheet.


This is based on the Smallest Federated Wiki Ward Cunningham has been working on since 2011. I think it's great that they're moving to new architecture, and the SFW looks great. The interface is still pretty arcane, though.


That sounds interesting. Do you have any more details on this architecture? c2.com seems to be overloaded at the moment.


This is the (admittedly somewhat long) transcription of a talk I use to introduce people to the idea: http://hapgood.us/2014/11/06/federated-education-new-directi...

The elevator pitch for tech-minded people is that wikis are to SVN as federated wikis are to git. Instead of a shared wiki that people modify, each user has their own wiki which consists of both pages they've made or forked, so information propagates back and forth between users. It's a really compelling idea and I hope they can make it work.


So, the bar for contributing to the wiki has been raised from "has access to a computer" to "has access, knowledge, and resources to run a wiki server"? I hope one or more WaaS (wiki as a service) providers will emerge where a user account == a fed wiki node.


That's already how it works. You could run your own node and share information back and forth with other nodes, or you could use an account on an existing node. This is clearly the case: if you go to the C2 Federated Wiki, you'll note the Login button.


Ah, thank you. Still wrapping my head around the new architecture.



He proves a point and establishes a market by showing a google search query. I don't think this is valuable since we all know Google is building up your personal filter bubble. Therefore it's quite logic he gets suggestions for unprotected tweets, he's already investigating in that field. I don't get these results. But this might change now that i read his article and composed a comment on that matter.

Doing a google search is not a proof for anything anymore, because they are perfectly tailored for you. I wonder why people still do it.


because it was designed just now?


Because most likely there is still a niche market for that. That's why the $450 pricetag, I believe.

The bottom line is I think the killer, for now, would be that noone wants to put this with 13 likes. If I see a coffee shop with 13 likes its goes this way in my hand "damn I wish I would try but they only have 13 likes? Maybe their coffee sucks, where is the nearest Starbucks?". You see, the problem is that most people will compare this number of likes to other similar. So someone running small business does not want to show how few likes they have. Big business, on the other hand I dont think would care about this, unless its starbucks or hand of other large companies, but most likely than not you wont see your local coffee shop with the one (thats why I believe they price it so high, comparing to something reasonable like $99).


whoa. mind blown.


yep, plus one for infinite scroll, i don't know why people would implement pagination any longer.

also, the form field of the search bar looked confusing to me. I would make it a little less subtle to find it easier.


Looking at the grid i noticed the 1-column divs change size. e.g. 41px - 42px - 41px - 42px - etc. When resizing in smaller displays it behaves different: 25 - 25 - 24 - 25 - 25 - 25- 24 - etc. Was this always the case in bootstrap? I don't really understand the reason for this. It seems odd.


I suspect that will be because the primary grid is now based on percentage values rather than fixed pixel values. When you're splitting a grid into columns using percentage widths, often the browser has to make a choice between rounding up or down to the closest pixel value for display.

The fluid grid has long been a part of Bootstrap, but until now has generally been secondary to the fixed 12-column grid, which used strict pixel values.


whew, i was shocked when my evernote client asked me to enter my password because i did not recieve the e-mail. It seems like this was a precautious step as nothing was 'really' hacked, or was it?


Their blog is down now, but they did say that attacker had access to usernames and encrypted password but nothing else.


So the content within the accounts was safe then?


And email


I'm from germany so i cant say nothing about the service itself, but i love the coverimage-animation. It works great in this context!

Also you have a small code-glitch above the logo? or is it intentional? you never know these days


If it's an ruby hash, that's unintentional. I changed one of the I18n paths in the app at 5am (the competition finished at 8am for us) and changed it in most places around the site. I missed the home page (since it uses image replacement) but in some configurations (e.g. I think Retina MBPs in Chrome) it shows up still.

We can't modify code until post-judging, so it has to wait until then to be fixed. And thanks, the cover animation was the work of our wonderful designer, @levibuzolic on twitter.


isn't this a lot like http://www.momentoapp.com/ ? I've been using it for some time now, it only stores the data locally with an option to backup into itunes.

Your POS seems to be the Statistics thing, momento doesn't have that.



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