I just released a new version of Wikalong that is compatible with Firefox 1.5 last night.
Wikalong is a Firefox Extension that embeds a wiki in the Side Bar of your browser, indexed off the url of your current page. It is probably most simply described as a wiki-margin for the internet.
I've had people bring this up before. All I can say is, "Ok."
There's little I can do to assure people that I just don't care about what they're looking at. My theory is, it could become useful enough that those fears are outweighed. Or so I hope.
On an upside, and you can verify this yourself, it only relays said information when the extension is active, or in other words, when the Wikalong sidebar is open.
When the Wikalong sidebar is not open, no data is transmitted. I mean, I know that's not perfect, but hopefully should offer some reassurance.
Thanks for your comments though. Perhaps I'll come up with some way around this, but unfortunately, a lot of the more useful bits of info come from having the actual unencrypted URLs.
I guess it's sorta like del.icio.us in that, you don't bookmark private things in delicious, so perhaps you just don't browse private things with Wikalong on?
I fully agree. I was expecting a lot more from this. I've used extensions that do almost all of these things.
In my book, you don't get points for redesigning a browser that was already written with a front end for a bookmarking system that was already written.
Yes, I know there are other features. See paragraph 1.
all this says to me, is that ps and xbox users not only had to wait for a new version, but also a new platform revision, to equal the quality of what we enjoyed from RE4 on the game cube.
The "real" economy went virtual the day we didn't have a value in gold to back the value of ever dollar.
There's no difference between the economies of a MMORPG or a country. You pay a service to play MMORPG, you pay a tax to live in country. While in that country / MMORPG, you have opportunities to earn local currencies. Why shouldn't you be allowed to convert them? (country lock-in?)
It bugs me that people (not necessarily parent poster) and developers seem to think users have no rights to this. Developers just don't want other people making money off their game, which is silly if you refer to the tax analogy above. (more farmers, the more monthly income) Players seem to think that anything that can be done for fun shouldn't be desecrated by the concept of economy. Only they don't know when to say when, because they're perfectly happy to take part in economies to sell an item here or there but upset when someone makes this the point of the game for themself.
Who cares? Ok... now if there are sweat shops, honestly, something needs to be done. Otherwise I say let them farm if they want.
I've written up a little extension called Wikalong.
Basically, it puts a wiki in your sidebar, that is indexed off the current page you are viewing. The wiki is online so anyone using the plugin, that visits a page you make notes on will see your notes, and vice versa.
It doesn't work perfectly yet, but I'm hoping to attract some smarter people than I to help get it straightened out.
my first suggestion would be to setup the project page on a wiki, may I suggest Kwiki?
I have found that wikis make putting your ideas down easier, and allowing group collaboration to work seemlessly. They especially work well as you are just working out details and ideas.
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I just released a new version of Wikalong that is compatible with Firefox 1.5 last night.
Wikalong is a Firefox Extension that embeds a wiki in the Side Bar of your browser, indexed off the url of your current page. It is probably most simply described as a wiki-margin for the internet.
Wikalongvoice over jabber. +ssl.
Heh, of course.
I've had people bring this up before. All I can say is, "Ok."
There's little I can do to assure people that I just don't care about what they're looking at. My theory is, it could become useful enough that those fears are outweighed. Or so I hope.
On an upside, and you can verify this yourself, it only relays said information when the extension is active, or in other words, when the Wikalong sidebar is open.
When the Wikalong sidebar is not open, no data is transmitted. I mean, I know that's not perfect, but hopefully should offer some reassurance.
Thanks for your comments though. Perhaps I'll come up with some way around this, but unfortunately, a lot of the more useful bits of info come from having the actual unencrypted URLs.
I guess it's sorta like del.icio.us in that, you don't bookmark private things in delicious, so perhaps you just don't browse private things with Wikalong on?
Actually, yes, it was.
I hadn't noticed this. I've just fixed it. Shouldn't be a need to reinstall.
Thanks for pointing that out.
There are some other bugs here and there, but from this point, it should be more usable.
I'm hoping to release a new version before the end of the month.
I'm a bit biased as the author, but Wikalong is my personal favorite.
I fully agree. I was expecting a lot more from this. I've used extensions that do almost all of these things.
In my book, you don't get points for redesigning a browser that was already written with a front end for a bookmarking system that was already written.
Yes, I know there are other features. See paragraph 1.
all this says to me, is that ps and xbox users not only had to wait for a new version, but also a new platform revision, to equal the quality of what we enjoyed from RE4 on the game cube.
Rock on sony and ms.
I think the big story is that HP's invented a combination Wayback Machine and Reality Distortion Field.
Unfortunately for HP, the White House has a patent on this already though.
You have to go to the icon in the top left of your console window, click, go to edit in the resulting menu, select "Mark."
Then you can drag a squere to "select." It's lame and your selection will be wrapped at the same width as your mark box, but it's something.
This is just from what i remember. I could be wrong, or there could be better ways.
I think Peggy Hill tried this maneuver. The plan was to pull the musings once the readers got hooked.
The software is in no way affiliated directly with the project, only in that they use the software.
I'm friends with Rubric's author, but not associated with either project otherwise.
There's an installation of rubric also setup to work with wikalong, a Firefox extension.
http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Rubric-0.06/
If you were designing a car bug, what would you use for storage?
Something without moving parts.
You mean as opposed to the "real" economy?
The "real" economy went virtual the day we didn't have a value in gold to back the value of ever dollar.
There's no difference between the economies of a MMORPG or a country. You pay a service to play MMORPG, you pay a tax to live in country. While in that country / MMORPG, you have opportunities to earn local currencies. Why shouldn't you be allowed to convert them? (country lock-in?)
It bugs me that people (not necessarily parent poster) and developers seem to think users have no rights to this. Developers just don't want other people making money off their game, which is silly if you refer to the tax analogy above. (more farmers, the more monthly income) Players seem to think that anything that can be done for fun shouldn't be desecrated by the concept of economy. Only they don't know when to say when, because they're perfectly happy to take part in economies to sell an item here or there but upset when someone makes this the point of the game for themself.
Who cares? Ok... now if there are sweat shops, honestly, something needs to be done. Otherwise I say let them farm if they want.
but it sounds like a great use for a mesh networking.
Web annotation with Wikalong. shameless plug
A little self promotion. If you use Firefox and enjoy wikis, please take a look at the Wikalong Firefox Extension.
Wikalong embeds a wiki in your sidebar the contents of which relate to the URL you are currently viewing.
Think of it as a wiki-margin for the internet.
I've written up a little extension called Wikalong.
Basically, it puts a wiki in your sidebar, that is indexed off the current page you are viewing. The wiki is online so anyone using the plugin, that visits a page you make notes on will see your notes, and vice versa.
It doesn't work perfectly yet, but I'm hoping to attract some smarter people than I to help get it straightened out.
More details on the site I linked above.
my first suggestion would be to setup the project page on a wiki, may I suggest Kwiki?
I have found that wikis make putting your ideas down easier, and allowing group collaboration to work seemlessly. They especially work well as you are just working out details and ideas.
Not affiliated.
Troll? That wasn't a troll... it was a joke. Like php.
Errr, is PHP playing nicely with Apache 2 yet?
Errr, does anyone care?
This is a movie of the incident in question.
http://tracker.apt202.net/no_id_arrest_LARGE.mov.Please keep your downloads open. Thanks!
Anyone with any contact to the webmaster please tell them to provide that link if they would like.
Get 2 more wi-fi laptops and triangulate.