Tag Archive for 'bananacut'

Twitter Ultimate mashup

Published on April 26, 2008 in Technology and Web 2.0. 0 Comments

I had this idea a while ago and thought it was an alright idea, but never took the time to make it happen. Then in a chance conversation with Drew, he mentioned something along the same lines as what I came up with. Now that two people thought it might be a good idea, I decided to go for it.

The idea was to put some kind of framework together to use Twitter to collect score updates from Ultimate tournaments. I spent a couple hours today reading up on the Twitter API and hacking some PHP code together to make things work. I think it’s something that could work pretty well, the only problem with the idea is if people are too lazy to sign up for Twitter (and of course if they’re willing to take the time to submit updates).

The result of my Saturdays work is this: you can now send a twitter message containing “@bananacut” and within 2 minutes it will be snagged from out of the interwebsphere and posted here. Now I just need to find enough Ultimate playing Twitter users that are willing to submit updates.

Progress of BananaCut.com

Published on April 10, 2008 in Technology, Ultimate and Web 2.0. 0 Comments

I thought I would update everyone on the progress of BananaCut. Its been promising and the traffic has been slowly growing. You can see a graph of the unique visitors above, the nice big spike in the middle is from this (thanks DLK). I still haven’t made the required RSD post for every new ultimate site, but I wanted to make sure everything was in order before that happened. Right now I feel pretty good about it and I think the RSD post is coming up soon.

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I made a website

Published on March 17, 2008 in Technology and Web 2.0. 0 Comments

I’ve been working on a website for a couple weeks. BOFA and Drew helped me out a lot with the design and the back end is run by an amazing open source piece of software called Drigg, which is based on the Drupal CMS. The idea for the whole site came from some email chats with Whit, Drew, BOFA and Calle, so many thanks to them for their responses. I just started inviting people to start using it and things have been going pretty well so far. The site works exactly like Digg except the content is focused on the Ultimate Frisbee community and I think people like the content they see, but they’re not exactly grasping the voting idea. Hopefully that will come in time.

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