Project Natal: Real-Time Motion Capture for the Masses There is some actual hot news coming out of the E3 conference today – a little something Microsoft has cooked up on the Xbox 360 platform called “Project Natal.” The technology is being likened to both Minority Report as well as the “beginnings of SkyNet or The Ma...
I Don't Want to Eat Generitech With You Another online video conference that’s making headlines today but is scheduled to take place during NYC’s Internet Week is the Digital Content Newfronts. They’ve made a splashier impression on me with a comedic video that’s circulating starring Emcees Jake ...
MySpace Launching an Online Reality Series and a Marriage [New Media Minute] Guess who’s getting married? One lucky engaged couple will be tying the knot and they’ll say their vows live online this summer. Hollywood production studio Endemol (producers of “Deal or No Deal”) has teamed up with MySpace to produce the online interactive reality...
@biz and @ev Go On the ViewYou are viewing a page meant mostly for machines to read - if you want the original article, click here for it and the video. Twitter has been officially declared “off the market” today by Biz Stone during today’s appearance on what has been loosely termed “daytime t...
SearchMe Rolls Out New Features at Ad:Tech SF 2009 My friends John Furrier and Nate D’amico from SiliconANGLE have been roaming the halls of Ad:Tech 2009, and one of the more interesting updates has been when Furrier caught up with John Galatea, the VP of SearchMe’s marketing and sales. The video contains a few words on ...
Now, while I'm troubleshooting the fact that nothing is working today on Rizzn.com with the FriendFeed API how it worked on Saturday, I'm coming to regret a few of my decisions.
First of all, as I said before, Magpie RSS is great for a lot of things (it has been the backbone of a ton of neat little rapidly developed PHP apps that deal with RSS), the nested nature of the XML created by FriendFeed is just too much for it to handle, making it necessary for a ton of crazy work-arounds.
One of those work-arounds was another shortcut I took, Yahoo! Pipes. I created some Pipes to extract out comments for just my comment stream, and comments from just me on my comment stream. It would appear that there are some weird rate limitings going on, and I can't tell if it's the fault of Pipes or FriendFeed, given its black-box nature. Sometimes the RSS feed shows up, and sometimes it just disappears (if you hit reload on the Pipes RSS feed about 10 times, it'll show up half the time, and half the time it won't).
I've created some caching subroutines that wouldn't ordinarily be necessary to make sure it'll catch all the comments, but in the next iteration of this, I'm going to have to ditch (or heavily modify) Magpie to make it work for this application, as well as recode the Pipes functionality as actual PHP. This will take me a little longer than I'd like, but it will ultimately be a much more stable application.
That's the update as of now. Off to work with me.
By the way, on a separate note, pay attention to Mashable Conversations this week - a lot of really cool interviews coming up.
Project Natal: Real-Time Motion Capture for the Masses There is some actual hot news coming out of the E3 conference today – a little something Microsoft has cooked up on the Xbox 360 platform called “Project Natal.” The technology is being likened to both Minority Report as well as the “beginnings of SkyNet or The Ma...
I Don't Want to Eat Generitech With You Another online video conference that’s making headlines today but is scheduled to take place during NYC’s Internet Week is the Digital Content Newfronts. They’ve made a splashier impression on me with a comedic video that’s circulating starring Emcees Jake ...
MySpace Launching an Online Reality Series and a Marriage [New Media Minute] Guess who’s getting married? One lucky engaged couple will be tying the knot and they’ll say their vows live online this summer. Hollywood production studio Endemol (producers of “Deal or No Deal”) has teamed up with MySpace to produce the online interactive reality...
@biz and @ev Go On the ViewYou are viewing a page meant mostly for machines to read - if you want the original article, click here for it and the video. Twitter has been officially declared “off the market” today by Biz Stone during today’s appearance on what has been loosely termed “daytime t...
SearchMe Rolls Out New Features at Ad:Tech SF 2009 My friends John Furrier and Nate D’amico from SiliconANGLE have been roaming the halls of Ad:Tech 2009, and one of the more interesting updates has been when Furrier caught up with John Galatea, the VP of SearchMe’s marketing and sales. The video contains a few words on ...