The system is up and running solidly for the past few days out on the interwebs. I had hoped to start Beta1 invites today but there are still one or two problems which I really want to get closed before we do. I’m also working on the test guidelines, roadmap and known-problems lists. As soon as we’re ready, I’ll let you know. If you are even remotely interested in trying out Beta1 or Beta2, head on over to the main landing page to sign up.
It’s great to see the new Blogger come out of beta, it is a big step forward from the old one. But I find it strange that they seem to be deprecating all the old APIs whilst only providing Java, .Net and PHP libraries for the new APIs. I’m surprised that a company that does so much in Python, employs Guido van Rossum and just bought YouTube which, according to Guido, is written in Python (wow!
We’ve finally put up the email collector on the LouderVoice holding page. If you want to be part of the trials, please sign up. The plan at the moment is that we’ll be inviting a very small number of people we know into the Beta1 phase in the next few days. This is because we know there are missing features and some holes in the exception handling but it is still a highly functional application and we want to get that initial feedback.
A lovely new extension/addon for Firefox called Operator has just been announced over at Mozilla Labs. Its basic functionality is similar to Tails and Tails Export in that it detects microformats on web pages and allows you to do “stuff” with them but it looks like the author, Michael Kaply at IBM, has big plans for Operator and felt that he could not achieve that with the existing tools. Some of the things you can do include:
I’m afraid this post is in the same tone as most of the others I’ve read about Le Web 3 – the shark was truly jumped. Did my attendance fee pay for the security for Shimon Peres and the French presidential candidates? Was I at Le Web or Les Grands Buddies de Loic? Whilst the lack of functioning wifi was deeply annoying for attendees and was a PR disaster for Orange, it was completely unacceptable and frankly amateurish for them not to have dedicated bandwidth for the startup room.
Electric News has done a nice article about PXN8, PutPlace and LouderVoice attending Le Web 3. I’m thrilled we are in such great company. There may also be a mention in the newspapers tomorrow. Damien came up trumps again for us all.
The Cork crew are taking an early flight on Sunday and arriving CDG at 13:45. If anyone wants to hook up at any stage, just call me or text me (Conor) on +353-87-9790297. I’m aiming to be at this party on Sunday night and the official one on Monday night. I have to leave early afternoon on Tuesday so don’t forget to catch that pigeon.
Today is the day the code and the design have to come together. We’ve made great progress this week in figuring out some of the more annoying glitches, not all of which are due to the application code. In particular I have to admit that WordPress is breaking our hearts with its bloody content sanitization. class inside abbr is not dangerous so why strip it out? We’re having a lot more success with MT and LJ.
Usually this is quoted as a negative but in our case it is entirely positive. The TechCrunch coverage lit a little fire underneath us and pushed me to finally get some lovin’ applied to the design of the prototype. We have engaged a superb designer who I met at BarCamp Ireland to just do something quick and simple for next week. The timeline is crazy but his first proposal was absolutely spot-on and we’re running with it.
Sam Sethi over at TechCrunch UK&I has done a blog post about LouderVoice, saying LouderVoice one to catch at Le Web 3 I’m blushing just writing it. There goes all our expectation setting out the window! We’re thrilled to get the coverage and I hope we can live up to it. Due to the oddness of flight times from Ireland to France, the Cork contingent will actually be arriving early afternoon on Sunday 10th Dec.
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