Surfing in Kansas

Well I spent all day Saturday, and all night. Into Sunday morning hacking on some code. Probably the most productive 24 hours of my life. I have a couple of announcements, but in the spirit of post-a-day, I'll spread them out over a couple days :).

The big one, is that I basically wrote an entire Django application last night. You can check it out over here. It is basically an aggregator for the Django Community Feed. I seeded the data with the people who were on Django's Community Feed, and then I grabbed as much of their social networking information as possible.

All of this code will be shown at some point over the next couple of days. However, I don't have the energy to write it up quite yet. However, please play around with the data, there's some really neat possibility in there for something cool...

At the moment there is..

• A river of data for every user, all of their services
• A river of data for every user, for each service
• A river of data for each service for all users combined
• A river of data for all services for all users combined
• Atom feeds for all of the above (it says RSS but I lied)
• A permalink to every item a user has
• A profile page, listing each users username at each network that I could find.

Feeds should be updating hourly, but I haven't tested them. This model is currently pulling data, and will always have to for some data. However, I plan to be open for pushing as much of this data as possible. Most people have tumblelogs on their sites, so it would be pretty easy for them to push all their data in, with more metadata than I can apply from outside.

I'd love to hear some comments, feedback, and ideas for future directions. With a solid OpenID server and distributed identity, I think that we could really make something special.

Note: I also added the ability to combine (only) 2 tags in the user and everyone views. See http://ericholscher.com/django/river/friendfeed+twitter/ and http://ericholscher.com/django/profile/Eric%20Holscher/friendfeed+twitter/

PPS: If your info isn't showing up in your page. Add some rel="me" links to your profiles on your blog's homepage. Person profiles get updated daily.