Soooo…. I see a lot of twitter action which would look nice in this form.
So I setup twitterfeed to grab my music updates, seeing what they look like on twitter (they look souless). twitterfeed is a not so efficient idea for this, and making a pure twitter integration is purely stupid, since they are ass-warping their API with OAuth and it would end up something only usable with twitter (twitter is not the only platform in the world guys).
What a terrible weekend, crunch time on the uni front, but enough about that. Sometime last weekend, natsuneko attempted to use the melative XUL app, yay. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out, but his suggestion to make a TwitterFox like extension might be better. So I gave it a shot. It was a great suggestion.
With the awesome feedback received from natsuneko, Seinime, and FFVIIKnight, the extension is usable and in a development-update state. The current version is available here and will auto-update when newer versions are released. More information about the features can be found on the blog. Although the stream is media-context-centric, it can be used without any context just like a normal status update, some of the realized features of the stream include:
The context-awareness of the stream means users can specify what they are talking about outside the message, and even announce specific experiences such as reading a chapter or watching an episode. The stream may also be unspoiled and hide messages inside announce updates, but still allowing the event to be seen.
One of the most beneficial aspects, imo, is the ability to see activity on a specific media, title, character, creator, tag, or group amongs friends. Hopefully, the implication of that feature makes sense, if not here’s an example:
Cruisin’ Sammy wishes to view all the stream updates his friends wrote about Sengoku Basara. There is no searching. He only needs to visit the URL, http://melative.com/stream/anime/Sengoku Basara, and all his friends’ updates will be available in pages.
So…
Explaining how to use melative’s contextual micro-streaming service.
Positively ensuring that posts are not lost in the unorganized clutter, use context, and by that I mean denoting posts about a title, onto the title. The above image is the part of the current user stream home on melative, and what we can see is the input asking for a topic, or context.
This comes after responding to one of usagijen’s shared notes via twitter, and being struck with the realization of the confining communication mechanism known as microblogging micro-conversing. It’s not an issue with microblogging, obviously strict-length updates are advantageous, but it is a problem with the nature of responding/messaging within a stream that was constructed for single-forward-broadcasting.
Stem theory: if an event-item is posted, a time-dependent, stemmed discussion should be readily available in it’s own persistent thread.
I want to express this as briefly and neatly as possible. I’ve written before about what differentiates a [fixed] point-based rating system from relative ratings (my rantish is nothing new by now), but I revisited my AniDB account the other day, glanced at my votes, and realized how completely fixed they really were.
Yes, I’m sitting at home, drinking some Newcastle on my Spring vacation and feeling rather down that I didn’t quite enjoy any anime or manga this week 
My own fault really, as I wanted to be less productive, but somehow managed to fire-up over an xul application. Anyhow…
