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ThinkUp1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Build an information network that connects to today’s social networks, but isn’t centralized and dependent on a company or investors.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]Others from Diaspora to Singly/Locker Project are trying, but they focus on the tech first rather than a compelling user experience. We are building a great app first.
3. Describe the network with which you intend to build or work. [50 words]We begin by working with all the existing social networks, connecting first to Twitter, Facebook Google+ and Foursquare. From this base, we provide interesting analytics and insights, while using those connections to enable the creation of a new decentralized network behind the scenes.
4. Why will it work? [100 words]We will draw people in through a compelling media site that encourages participation via our decentralized platform. We have unique experience in creating some of the most important tools and most influential sites on the social web. And we’re using that experience to build a decentralized, peer-to-peer network that powers a great media property with broad appeal — imagine if Digg or Reddit were open, decentralized and powered by a network instead of votes.
Prior attempts have tried to solve this problem based on the assumption that it is a technical challenge; We believe it to be a social one.
5. Who is working on it? [100 words]ThinkUp’s cofounders are Anil Dash and Gina Trapani. Most recently, they cofounded Expert Labs, which was backed by the MacArthur Foundation for more than a million dollars, and supported by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Those initial efforts created the fundamental platform for this work, and allowed us to attract nearly two thousand developers to collaborate with us on this open source project, with almost 250 of them working directly on the code. The efforts of our initial two-person team are amplified by dozens of passionate core members of the community who are eager to contribute.
6. What part of the project have you already built? [100 words]We have already built our core platform, ThinkUp, which is one of the most popular web server applications to have been created in the past few years. ThinkUp has robust abilities to connect to social networks, archive your social content, analyze the activity of you and your connections, display your data in useful dashboards, and then communicate this data to other nodes in the network. We’ve built a network with over 15,000 users, more than 5,000 software installations and nearly 15 million individual social networking accounts connected, with most having joined in just the last three months.
7. How would you sustain the project after the funding expires? [50 words]We will build a flagship media property on top of the ThinkUp network, which uses the insights gained to power a large, mainstream advertising-supported property. In addition, we expect affiliate and referral fees from web and cloud hosting providers to provide substantial revenues.
Requested amount from Knight News Challenge: $1,080,000
Expected amount of time required to complete project: 18 months
Total Project Cost: $2,400,000 Name:
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Upcoming Extension for Alfred (hint)
This is more of a giveaway than it is a hint. It’s another extension (really kind of a framework) I’m working on though that will help all extension developers.
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Updated Screenshot Extension
Several users requested a timestamp in the filename when grabbing screenshots so older screenshots wouldn’t be overwritten. Well, here it is. Filenames are formatted exactly the same as OS X screenshots. “Screenshot <date> at <time>”
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AlfredTweet
Introduction
Alfred is a productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web. The Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. Deeply integrated with OS X, it will make you more productive that ever!
What is AlfredTweet?
AlfredTweet is a new way to interact with Twitter via Alfred. The previous method of using console_tweet, while sufficient for some, proved to be a little daunting for some users, especially if you didn’t already have the developer tools installed that were required to build it. AlfredTweet provides a simple extension to interact with Twitter including:
- Sending tweets
- Sending direct messages
- Following/unfollowing
- Blocking/unblocking
- View timeline, mentions.
- and more …
Setting Up AlfredTweet
This was the most important area. If I couldn’t make this dead simple, it might as well have not been done at all. I made setup a two step process. Step one, authenticate to Twitter. Step two, enter your pin number. Setup is done this way so that you are assured I’m not doing anything tricky with your username and password. You are authenticating to Twitter, not me/the extension. This extension requires Growl for all functions to work properly. Growl is required for using a lot of this extensions functionality.
To setup AlfredTweet, install the extension (of course), and then in Alfred, type ‘tw setup’ and press Enter. A browser window will open and you will authenticate to Twitter. After authentication, Twitter will give you a pin number. Copy this pin number. Then in Alfred, type ‘tw pin <your pin number>’. Do not include the <>’s around the pin number. You will see a message that the extension is authenticating to Twitter, and then a confirmation message informing you when the extension is ready.
Whats new in 1.4:
- #NowPlaying! - Tweet your current playing song from Rdio, iTunes, Ecoute, or Spotify
- Rename commands.
- Improved reset command
- Added follower account to user info
- Show tweeted message on success
How to use
AlfredTweet’s commands are pretty simple and self explanatory. Here they are:
- tw setup - Initiate setup
- tw pin <pin number> - Save pin number
- tw <tweet> - Send new tweet
- tw tweets - List the last 5 tweets in your home timeline
- tw mentions - List your last 5 mentions
- tw dm <user> <text> - Send a direct message to the specified user
- tw info <user> - Look up user info
- tw follow <user> - Follow specified user
- tw unfollow <user> - Unfollow specified user
- tw create <name> - Create a new list
- tw delete <name> - Delete the specified list
- tw lists - Display all lists
- tw add <user> <list> - Add user to list
- tw remove <user> <list> - Remove user from list
- tw block <user> - Block the specified user
- tw unblock <user> - Unblock the specified user
- tw search <term> - Search Twitter for the specified term (results in Growl)
- tw split <on/off> - Turn off tweet splitting
- tw playing - Tweet current song
- tw set <command> <new> - Change command keyword. See below for command list
- tw reset - Reset all authentication info
Download
More Extensions
For more of my extensions and many others, check out the new Alfred Support site.
Command List:
Use these keywords to set the corresponding command keyword.
- tweets_command
- mentions_command
- dm_command
- info_command
- follow_command
- unfollow_command
- create_command
- delete_command
- lists_command
- add_command
- remove_command
- block_command
- unblock_command
- search_command
- playing_command
Use these command names with the “set” command to change the keyword for that command. For instance, to change the keyword for the “Now Playing” function to play, you wold type “tw set playing_command play”.
Setting a hotkey to Now Playing:
To set a hotkey to the Now Playing feature, go to Alfred’s Hotkey tab, create a new hotkey, type will be Extension->Shell Script. Then on the right side, choose the AlfredTweet extension, and set the Argument value to the keyword for the Now Playing feature. If you haven’t changed this keyword with the set command, it will be “playing” as shown in the preview below.
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DoublePane is a very simple window management utility for OS X. It lets you do four things:
- Make a window fill the left half of the screen.
- Make a window fill the right half of the screen.
- Make a window fill the screen entirely.
- Restore a window to its previous state.
All four options can be triggered with a user-configured command key combination.
This happens to be exactly what I want out of a window manager, no more, no less.
If your window-wrangling needs are similarly simple, DoublePane is available in the Mac App Store for $1.99. Or $0.00, for eight of you—I like the app so much I asked the developer for some promo codes, and here they are:
3344PJE36A6K HNKAH6XWYA4A PWWA94XN6LAX YKYH64T3XWXN 34JLNAM7A3L6 4K944YN636MJ 3YFPL4R77RRW F44AYE3NREXJThanks, Nick!
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WriteRoom 3.0 for Mac. Coming Monday!
Built for Lion - WriteRoom has been rewritten to support OS X Lion. Full screen, scrollbars, autosave, and auto-resume are all what you expect from a native Lion app.
Create and share themes - WriteRoom makes it easier than ever to set up your favorite look, and now you can share your themes with others. See the Window > Themes menu.
Track your writing progress - WriteRoom adds optional session tracking and logging. Track your word counts and automatically log them to a spreadsheet. See the File > Session menu.
And More…
- Faster handling of large documents.
- Live session counts, reading time, and more.
- Shift line up, down, left, and right commands.
- Select word, sentence, and paragraph commands.
- OS X Lion style and single screen style full screen modes.
- Choose background images, paper textures, and typing sounds.
WriteRoom 3.0 will cost $9.99. For existing users the update is free if you bought it in the last year, otherwise it’s $4.99.
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