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  Neil 06:41:45 am on August 27, 2009 | 135 | # |
  

  It’s been a while since posting here but I just had to announce Nurphy.com, for which EntreList provided a ton of inspiration.

  Holding an ongoing conversation with the ‘Entrelisters’ highlighted a few things;

  1) Not everything can work in 140 chars, especially email-esque conversations.

  2) People will discover conversations if they’re interested in the subject matter (as the IILWY founder demonstrated when he discovered our ramblings on his start-up and its addictive games).

  3) Conversations need to be easily managed via a cleanly presented home page with quick methods of setting privacy expectations, adding new contacts, and marking things as ‘not new’.

  That’s Nurphy in a nutshell. If you’re reading this and you want something similar to EntreList.com but with far more convenience that a WordPress blog and its user administration, Nurphy’s the thing for you.

   

• Neil 04:37:57 am on July 18, 2008 | 1537 | # |
  

  No worries, Peter, good to hear from you. I saw a few tweets about your Vodafone comp entry - congratulations, that’s ace (and so is the news on exams and wakoopa). Do the top 11 constitute the final round?

  I’m still very busy beavering away on the top secret app. Yes, it’s been quite a while, hasn’t it?! That’s what you get for pretty much being a one man show, stuck in the middle of nowhere (Ryan has been doing awesome stuff over GitHub when he can, and we hope to get some good collaboration sessions over the next two weekends). But it’s still looking good…

   
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  Peter 04:45:24 am on July 17, 2008 | 87 | # |
  Tags: vodafone

  Hi everybody,

  Sorry for the long radio silence. I’ve been very busy with work at Wakoopa.com and exams. The results are however, that I’ve finished both an LL.B. and the first (rough) version of the recommendation engine! Expect some cool stuff to be online soon.

  Furthermore, Dominiek and I have been working hard on our application for Vodafone Mobile Clicks, and we’ve been selected into the top 11. So it’s almost certain we get to present at PICNIC 2008, and get a chance to win E100,000! I’ll post a more detailed write-up later on.

  What is everone else up to? :]

   
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  Neil 10:55:46 am on June 27, 2008 | 5 | # |
  Tags: IILWY, Jaiku

  @IILWY - I must be psychic. The EntreListers’ favorite ex-dating/casual-gaming site is back in the press. They’ve raised a new round of funding, one of the investors being Mark Andreessen. How cool. Check out the GigaOm post (and I bet TC try their best not to cover it now);

  http://gigaom.com/2008/06/26/iminlikewithyou-gets-vc-cash-for-new-game/

  The post also reveals a little more info about our man-on-the-inside, Charles Forman. Turns out he’s a Valleywag fave, to say the least;

  http://valleywag.com/tech/charles-forman/iminlikewithyou-founder-not-as-big-a-jerk-as-youd-think-318980.php
  http://valleywag.com/370335/reallynotinlikewithyou

  I would like to think that EntreList.com, and the zillions of man hours we’ve poured in to writing about IILWY, has helped to sway the new investors, board members, and team members in their decision. And I’m looking forward to the next sunday session (whenever that may be), safe in the knowledge that the new funding will keep our favorite sunday down-time app around for longer.

  Talking of which, Ryan and I are finally meeting next weekend! I’ll make sure we talk about a full-on EntreList meetup in Amsterdam….

  @Micro-blogging & Jaiku - I’ve been revisiting my Jaiku account (got the username ‘neil’ back in the day), and it’s not bad at all. I have a different set of contacts from those on Twitter, so I’ve justified actually using another microblogging service (or visiting one when Twitter is down). @Peter, I’m following you, but it looks like you’re back on Twitter full-time. The funny thing is, the Jaiku rss import cron jobs obviously can’t handle a quick update of the imported Twitter feeds - they turn up at least 24 hours late (well, maybe this is a tactical decision - that wouldn’t surprise me).

   
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  Ryan 11:44:10 pm on June 22, 2008 | 1 | # |
  Tags: Git, IILWY

  @Neil - you need to spell the acronym right chap, its IILYW, not ILLWY (they really should sort that name out). Get well soon mate.

  @git - my post was only really the beginning, it doesn’t really go into anything like branching or forking, but thanks for the support.

  @IILWY - I’d like to see powerup that sends a 7 block long, U-shape piece (i.e there are 2 blocks at each end - like the current U block but longer) to another player (in blockles), and that block is just reserved for powerups. Another could be they get their screen blocked until they solve a simple maths problem, it would catch most people of guard, and it would be hard to solve with that much adrenaline pumping through your veins! - Applicable to all games probably.

   
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  Neil 10:54:02 am on June 22, 2008 | 3 | # |
  Tags: ILLWY

  @Peter - no worries, I have an allergy which has made my mouth swollen (eek) and my speech even worse than usual. I would’ve sounded like a wookie on Skype. A session next sunday should see me healed and ready to take on those EntreLister’s new to ILLWY.

  You’ll like Git, not that I know anything about Subversion. GitHub makes version control far more fun by all accounts, so I’m betting Wakoopa will be on GitHub soon too.

  Did you see the comment from one of the guys at ILLWY? We finally got through to them! Maybe we can influence the choice of Power-Ups in the next game…Balloono.
  Charles, I want a heat vision power-up, like the one Predator had. That, or a way to take control of another players’ screen. http://entrelist.com/?p=73#comments

   
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  Peter 07:51:43 am on June 22, 2008 | 3 | # |
  Tags: IILWY

  @Neil - Sorry, no session tonight… I’ve got a very busy week ahead of me and will be needing my time. I will rally the rest of the Dutch part of EntreList for a session next Sunday at 9:00 pm CET, having dinner before that with @Pieter and @Coen. Is that a good time for everyone?

  @Wakoopa - We use SVN at Wakoopa, but we’re gonna switch to Git sometime soon, so I will check out @Ryan’s post by that time Glad you guys like the business card! I just hope I still have the same number when I switch to an iPhone in a month…

   
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  Neil 09:46:55 am on June 21, 2008 | 7 | # |
  Tags: Git, GitHub, ILLWY

  @Everyone - still good for a Blockles session tomorrow? I think 7.p.m GMT (I think that’s the same as last time) will be fine for me. Fingers crossed we have more arcade games available, but the ILLWY guys do have a pretty solid lineup now, and I’m expecting to hear a bit more about them in the press soon. GigaOm went mad over the first dating-iteration of the site, and I think it’s about time the bloggers came back to see what they’re up to now.

  Has anything interesting cropped up for you guys in the last week or so? @Peter, I like the Wakoopa biz cards, got a glimpse from one of your tweets with Ryan…

  Speak of the devil, Ryan just made a great post on using GitHub. I’m lucky because I came straight to Git without having used SVN seriously, but this has some handy tips for SVN-Git converts and version control newbies like me;

  http://thinkrefresh.com/posts/18/git-and-github

  GitHub rocks, btw. Ryan and I are both customers. Peter, what are you using for version control at Wakoopa?

   

• Neil 12:40:13 am on June 16, 2008 | 2 | # |
  

  @ILLWY - Yes Peter that was great, next weekend would probably work for me. Voice really mixes things up, it’s far more fun. And I’m impressed with the skype conference calling feature.

  The new arcade games are great too, Dinglepop being my favourite so far. They do seem to have even more in the works - maybe if we can on being flag bearers for ILLWY we can get our own game requests turned in to real apps? Talking of which, we need a 3 or 4 player collaborative SmashTV, top-downer shooter as well. That way we can lambaste the weakest player, rather than just sending them the entire back catalog of orange flavour powerups…

  This really reminds me of Xbox Live, just without all the required hardware, subscriptions etc. Social gaming on the rise, I think.

   
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  Peter 01:30:36 pm on June 15, 2008 | 423 | # |
  Tags: IILWY

  @IILWY - That was an awesome session! We should hook up again next weekend or so. This time we should aim for an all-out session.* The games at IILWY are great to get to know each other in an informal way. Especially in combination with a Skype conference call it’s really ace CU guys next weekend!

  * Too bad Sjoerd and Dominiek are in a different timezone (well, so is Mark, but it’s earlier for him).

   
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  Ryan 06:29:33 am on June 14, 2008 | 3 | # |
  Tags: Entrelist, IILWY, iPhone, TheWineGod, ThinkRefresh

  @IILWY - I am up for that! I’m not very good at blockles (Neil thrashed me last time), but I’ll give it a go.

  @iPhone - I can’t believe how cheap they are, in the UK we basically get £150 off, for the same contract, and same term length (18 months). However £60 will go towards my MobileMe subscription, which I think is going to be pretty impressive, all I want is the syncing, however it will be good to use the apps for inspiration.

  @EntreList - Maybe we should only stick a few select tags, wipe what’s currently there, and just make sure we only use tags that are going to be used often. E.g: EntreList, External (for twitter, facebook, IILWY, etc), Wakoopa, TheWineGod, VoiceTracker. Obviously the list would be added to as we start new and exciting projects. I have a few more ideas, but will think them over before plurking them out (sounds like an appropriate phrase!) on Entrelist.

  Speaking of which, I’ll just give a short run down of what I am up to at the moment. ThinkRefresh is coming along nicely, I am working on a series called Rails 101, for beginning Rails development, however there will be a lot of non-Rails Ruby content. My boss is going on a trip abroad next week to source wine for TheWineGod, and I will be beginning the e-commerce system.

  I have been making a central account manager for use within a set of applications (CMS, e-commerce, issue tracking, client login etc), and in doing so I decided to port out the authentication as a plugin for Rails called Authenticaterb (http://github.com/ryantownsend/authenticaterb) which is also coming along great. I’ll soon be releasing another plugin aimed at easy to implement spam filtering.

   
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  Neil 05:59:47 am on June 14, 2008 | 3 | # |
  

  @ILLWY - 7pm is fine for me. How about everyone else?

  @iPhone - I’m looking forward to tackling a completely different approach to interfaces and engaging users, which undoubtedly we have to deal with when targetting apps to iPhone/touch-screen mobile users.

  @Plurk - it has a horizontal timeline view of tweets/plurks, but I’m not a fan, it’s just hard to follow data this way. The vertical, chronologically ordered view that most social apps use is far more appropriate.

  @EntreList - the list view of ‘Recent Projects’ is unweidly, unless you can stick to <10 or so tags. I definitely agree with the point re. tag clouds, they would make far more sense, and we could take out the ‘tag it’ and use the space for more comment input. Although Safari pretty much kills off the necessity with the easy resizing of inputs. And we definitely don’t need the feeds - but all of this just comes bundled in the theme. Fingers crossed you’ll see something that answers most of these issues in the app I’m working on.

   
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  Peter 07:45:20 am on June 12, 2008 | 1 | # |
  Tags: Entrelist, IILWY, iPhone, Plurk

  @IILWY - What time would be good for everyone? I propose 8 pm CET (that’s 7 pm GMT).

  @iPhone - Definitely getting one as soon as it gets out on July 11 Have to look into my current subscription, because it’s with a different carrier than the one Apple made an exclusive deal with.

  @Plurk - Haven’t tried it yet. Any good?

  @Entrelist - Maybe it would be a good idea to make ‘Recent Projects’ into a tag cloud, instead of a list. Also, I don’t think Entrelist is big enough to necessitate RSS feeds for the different ‘Projects’. The layout would look cleaner if these two changes were implemented. Finally, the quick post on the main page - when logged in - could use two things: (1) option to add a title - nice for the people who have EL in their RSS feeds (2) Make the text input field bigger, lets say twice as big? OK, those were my 2c

   
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  Neil 01:53:55 am on June 10, 2008 | 6 | # |
  Tags: Entrelist, ILLWY, iPhone, twitter

  @Everyone - Peter and I were thinking of doing an ILLWY session this Sunday. I’m good all day at the moment, let’s see what works for everyone else (maybe some time in the evening?). Some highly-competitive Blockles and furious Draw would be great.

  @iPhone. I’m so so so glad I didn’t buy a first gen now we know that the 3G will be aggressively subsidised. By doing this, Apple just made one of those moves which we always think the big cos should do, but they never seem to have the guts to carry out. I may even put in a pre-order on the O2 site today.

  So, hands-up; who on EntreList won’t own an iPhone by the end of this year?

  @EntreList - I may have asked a similar question before, but does anyone have any thoughts on this site? E.g. Do you have any suggestions for improving the layout? Is the input box big enough? Too many tags, maybe? Or, do you have any thoughts on the conversation?

  Finally, we’ve been using the @SomeDude comment-directing convention on EntreList for a while now. Do you see any synergy with how Twitter handles the conversion to user profiles, and do you think there’s a place for this on EntreList?

   
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  Ryan 01:59:44 pm on June 2, 2008 | 1 | # |
  Tags: facebook, IILWY, Plurk

  @Peter - that was a very interesting article, but I am not sure how I really feel about Facebook at the moment. I don’t really think they have a defined idea, everything seems a bit blurry at the edges.

  @Puke.com (my new name for it) - Yes really not happy with it. There is a point at which AJAX puts me off. There is no need to have the timeline open whilst I am editing my profile, so don’t popup a box on screen, just let me view a normal page.

  @IILWY - Neil you might also want a dictionary… Unicron what a truly great game, much prefer it to Tetris, especially because people cheat so much, and you get some really stupid words.

  @Neil - Hope it wasn’t Safari’s fault, don’t want you to give up on it or anything.

   

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