[uf-discuss] Folksr is here (again)

[Mattsches]

Hi Sven,

I have several vote-for links on my site (http://www.numblog.de/).
Yet, when I enter the URL on folksr, it tells me that it ignores my
votings (although your parser correctly detected them). Can you
explain why this is the case?

Best
 - Matthias

2008/1/16, Sven Fuchs <svenfuchs at artweb-design.de>:
> I introduced folksr.de as a first, highly experimental stab at an
> application for distributed votings using the vote-link Microformat
> quite some time ago to this list.
>
> # Distributed votings: folksr is here (again) ...
>
> I've finally come around to resurrect folksr from being pretty
> stalled. I've done a complete rewrite and changed some of the way it
> works to incorporate various learnings from the first, experimental
> version. I've tried to keep things as basic as possible for now and
> omitted everything that I felt is not necessary to get a simple, yet
> useful tool going.
>
> In a nutshell: Folksr aggregates vote-links when the target URL of a
> vote-link has been registered for a voting on folksr.de (i.e. it is
> not required to link to folksr.de to get a vote in). There are two
> types of votings (called 'opinions' and 'polls'). Folksr relies solely
> on OpenID for sign-in.
>
> # How can I get you involved?
>
> I'd highly appreciate your feedback, suggestions, criticism,
> support ... and of course ... participation and help.
>
> I'd particularly like to ask you folks for suggestions and help to get
> some initial "real" votings and usage going.
>
> What could possibly be done to motivate you folks to try folksr and
> publish a vote? What topics would be interesting enough? What else?
>
> # What's next?
>
> Aside from real usage which I think is really the most important thing
> for folksr to evolve now, the next important thing might be to further
> work on the presentation and interface design.
>
> I feel folksr is way to text-laden and doesn't communicate its own
> purpose very well. I will continue to try to improve that. Suggestions
> are very welcome.
>
> Unfortunately, as a programmer, I am pretty much an all-fingers-thumbs
> moron when it comes to logos, graphics and stuff like that. So I also
> very much appreciate every single bit of help here.
>
> Also I plan to add the following features in the near future:
>
> - plugins for some blog engines for pinging folksr about new votes
> when published (Chris Messina suggested the term "voteback" which I
> think is a perfect match, thanks Chris!)
> - a timemachinesque history to review past states of votings and
> charts to visualize a voting's history (initially suggested by Brian
> Suda)
> - tagging for votings (also suggested by Brian Suda)
>
> # Some links
>
> What is Folksr?
> http://folksr.de/about
>
> How folksr works
> http://folksr.de/votelinks
>
> FAQ
> http://folksr.de/faq
>
> Announcement on my blog (somewhat extended version of this mail)
> http://www.artweb-design.de/2008/1/16/folksr-is-here-again-distributed-votings-using-microformats
>
>
>
>
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