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fenguin
contestantThanks for the vote and comments! Our value proposition (and the reason we decided to do this) was to actually be real-time, unlike our competitors in the space who take as long as 5 min to update. We have a lot of plans for the future though, and we'll definitely be taking this to the next level after NKO!
I love this because it says "fuck the man." Also, it's totes useful. Also, I loved your screencast; really well made.
What a delightfully odd, fascinating little thing!
Nice concept + cute art!! Unfortunately it didn't work for me because there were simply too many wizards in the world.
I think this could turn into a really interesting tool to help younger kids (10+ years old) learn the fundamentals of programming. Really interesting to think about what Space Quest would've been like if you could actually change the world around you.
Nice work, team.
Thank you for making this. I love the simplicity of both the concept and execution. Basically, I'll be using this a few times a week.
Where do the recipes come from? (Is attribution required?)
Being a developer (and somewhat of a kitchen tinkerer), I'd kinda like to be able to fork recipes to my github account so I can modify them. But, yeah, most people wouldn't do that. :)
Really interesting tool.
It would be nice to provide side-by-side comparisons on how an API-heavy site performs with vs without Little SPAS. I'm curious because if SPAS is making 14 flickr requests vs the client, there's still going to be latency for those 14 requests; it's just a question of whether the latency is between client/service or spas/service, right? And if that's the case, keeping the client/spas connection speedy will be important to avoid introducing extra latency, right? Certainly SPAS would help a great many sites, but could also hurt many sites if needlessly used. So some way to help make the decision would be rad.
What I really like is the ability to map/reduce/transform vendors' API responses into my own format. Sometimes I think vendors are on crack, the way they implement their response objects :)
It's a totally useful tool. Packaged up into a development workflow, it'd be a boon to lots of front-end developers.
This is totally and completely rad! SlickSlide is cohesive, utilitarian, and honest in that makes no promises that it can't keep. And I don't need to create a login to use it. Love it.
A couple minor suggestions: (a) Go way, way minimal: get rid of any copy that isn't necessary. It's a perfect little utility on its own. (b) Make it a bookmarklet that throws the public/private urls into a dialog when you click the bookmarklet on your presentation.
So excellent. Definitely looking forward to seeing more if you guys continue to work on it.
chrisjaure
contestantSweet, thanks for the thoughtful feedback. Adding a bookmarklet is a great idea.
It didn't work in Chrome but did in Safari. Definitely an interesting tool given the increasing frequency of people posting public pics on the internet. Could be really interesting to filter by keyword + time + region (you already have keyword + region). That way, you could find, eg, #ows images in nyc around the 1st half of 2011. Like a little image sieve.
Would've been nice to make the red map markers clickable so I could see what image is underneath.
Also would've been nice to make jazzycat dismissable :)
Overall, a great start at what could become a very interesting little tool to enable an anthropological exploration of public images.
nice work, team. i'm not a reddit kind of guy, but i get where you're going with this.
a couple additional notes: - infinite scroll would vastly improve the ux - the client-side forces chrome to gc all the time. seems like something to fix, as you mention in your note :)
cute art! did you guys make it yourself or did it come from somewhere else? there's an opportunity for some excellent background music + sound effects to accompany the visual detail.
gameplay was a little frustrating because my goal wasn't clearly defined. and i kept getting lost on the maps :)
antonmaju
contestantThanks ! The art is done by our designer (ariefpro). We were planning to integrate music (with soundManager component) and touch (with Hammer.js) however we kept battling with bugs so we didnt have time to implement it.
Really nice execution on the real time dashboard concept. In particular, I was struck by your excellent choice of typography and colors. Good work, team.