moonrise

Twitter, Badges & Features

Mon, 05 May 2008 14:31:13 -0400

This is our first major update, with lots of goodies just for you - one of the first few people to use the site. Since we started, feedback has been fantastic!

we now have TWITTER integration ;-)

It’s easy - login, click My Profile and enter your twitter username and password. Every time you post on moonrise, your twitter will be updated.

make a BADGE for your blog!

So many of you wanted to put your latest feelings on your website or blog. Now it’s easy - you can just make a badge and paste the code anywhere on the web. You can even hack the styling if you know how to. Go to http://moonri.se/makeabadge

EDIT any post - after you publish, you can now edit the post text or tags with one click

Keep your feedback coming for our next release and keep posting your feelings! In time, we’ll open up interfaces to your posts, and you’ll be able to see your ups and downs! Maybe even add a personal internet psychologist - just kidding! We have started making bits to integrate anything else you might use, like facebook. Love this wonderful world! Sincerely Yours, Amit & the Team chief potato moonrise

Planning

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:34:00 -0400

Tara Hunt commented about building ways and means to get things in and out of moonrise and pointed us to her post on this. We’ve really taken heed to this idea, and are focused on no more features at the moment, other than these ultimate goals:

Make an API to post and get data easily from moonrise
Partner with a service, or build an interface that lets you post from mobiles

I have to admit that some of the current planning was feature-focused and that we needed this jolt to get things right. Thanks Tara!

In the immediate future, we’re resting on the dilemma of several directions, not necessarily islands on their own:

do we change focus on uploading your own photos and videos?
do we stick to finding media from your search, and in the case of photos, ranked by interestingness? In other words, what we have right now.
do we keep what we have now, and focus on an API, allowing any app to post, authenticate and get a social object with reference to the original source in a way that works? An easy example is to authenticate with your FlickR account, and using your own photos to allow you to make personal photo posts on moonrise.

The third one looks far more interesting and that seems our choice, since it relates to someone elses’ media, and given the right permissions, fosters discovery between people. There’s already many services that let you upload your own content. Either way, a ramp to upload your own flickr photos would be good enough to tap into the need for people to upload photos and videos personal to them, adding reality to a feeling.

Also, follow what people are saying about moonrise on tweetscan and blogs.

Amit

How do you work out moonrise search results from what I type in?

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:15:00 -0400

When you type your post into the pink box, moonrise breaks up your post into fragments. These fragments or tags are worked out using the Yahoo! term extractor. We use these terms to send off a search with those terms to FlickR’s API (ranked by interestingness) and YouTube’s API, and QB’s database.

How we plan to improve this:

We aim to show you which tags have been picked to get a search result, with a cross next to each tag, so that you can remove that tag from the search result. This will help you find better media with a more open search if you type a long post which might have too many terms e.g. “I feel great today because the new Fiat Panda has come home - Jonny loves it!”
Question - should the tags that get posted with your post be the same tags you used to get your search results? At the moment, you can’t pick tags, they are inserted for you.

moonrise starts on ttumblr!

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:47:28 -0500

moonrise starts on ttumblr!: This is the official set of thoughts, notes and news about moonrise