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.

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…

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? :]

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).

@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.

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

@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…

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?

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.

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