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Enjoysthin.gs realtime “desktop” application.
That’s it. It works pretty well. You can comment from it, but clicking any link opens in your actual browser. This is a fairly lightweight way to have enjoysthin.gs on your desktop at all times.
I turned off twitter importing a few weeks ago while testing something and forgot to turn it back on. So when I did finally get around to importing all the tweets, I decided to watch them zoom by in the realtime feed.
It’ll probably take a few hours to catch up, so if you’re interested, go ahead and watch it yourself.
I’m glad to announce the arrival of one of the most requested features (in a long time anyway).
For a while now, you’ve been able to get RSS feeds for the things you’ve enjoyed as well as your most enjoyable things. But now I’ve added the ability to get the RSS feed of the things all of your friends have enjoyed. Yep, you can view enjoysthin.gs from your favorite RSS reader or any other place that you see fit. Get started on the feeds page.
This comes on the heels of my very long and windbaggy post about how your website is like a bad boyfriend. It would have been pretty bad form if I hadn’t listened to myself.
For one reason or another, I’ve been super interested in realtime on the web. I looked into how it worked and put up a quick version of a realtime feed for enjoysthin.gs. It worked by polling the server every few seconds and grabbing the latest content.
That sucked.
It was slow and hard on the server and utterly unscalable. It required a lot of hits to the server and a ton of extra database calls. Essentially, every time I polled the server I needed to make a new database call to look for new data.
Well, I’ve changed it. Now I can push content directly to your browser. As soon as I get it, I pass it on to you.
I’ll update the firefox plugin (which uses the old bad way), but until then I suggest you install the sidebar.
Totally stealing this from tumblr. Mouse down to the bottom of the page brings up the footer. Nice work guys.
Just wanted to make sure that it was totally clear that the enjoysthin.gs firefox extension works just fine on Firefox 3.5. So happy upgrading.
I’m releasing the (first) public beta of the enjoysthin.gs firefox extension. It’s got a bug or two, but let me know what you think.
Features:
The video proof that I’ve been working on the Firefox extension. I should be able to get a beta version of this out to people real soon now…
There are more features, but here’s what I cover in the video:
Are there any features you’re dying to have in it? Let me know and I’ll try to add them.
Ye Olde Firefox Extension is getting closer.
(Yes, the icons and the word Enjoylarity will change)
No big deal…
