Hi Joern, (comments inline)
On Dec 19, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Jörn Clausen wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:17 PM, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Apologies for the inconvenience; we are looking into a short term >> and a >> long term fix. > > Thanks for the short term fix :) > >> We have inquired of google, and they are not prepared to host until >> we >> reach a "reasonable" number of request---ie, one million per day. >> So, >> get out there and popularize these tools! > > Strange reasoning on Google's side... Didn't they incorporate the > Timeline into their own widget collection? Another possibility is that we could modify the Exhibit source so that it looks for its files in the Google Code hosted site. I think some other projects do this. Basically you create a tag of the project called "CURRENT" and always have that point to the "official" current release. Then people just hot-link into the HTTP-accessible CURRENT branch tag of the repository. > > > As for the hits: Just slashdot Simile, Timeline and Exhibit. That'll > do the job ;) > > Maybe a more realistic approach: There are several "static" timelines > in Wikipedia, and many pages that have simple item lists of events. If > someone would come up with glue code to create a timeline from a > simple, pure textual wiki syntax, you'd have your million hits a day. > This is exactly what Chris Musialek has done with his "Unbox" tool for MediaWiki and Fabian Howahl has done with Semantic MediaWiki. Fabian posted about the latter on the Haystack blog today: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/haystack/blog/ Hopefully this will greatly expand the visibility of both projects and get a lot more users / developers. If you're interested, definitely check out the blog post and email Fabian ([email protected]) if you want to pitch in or have any ideas. > -- > Joern Clausen > [email protected] > http://www.oe-files.de/oefiles/ > http://thebloeg.blogspot.com/ > > > Hope everyone has a nice time over the holidays, Ted - Edward Benson http://people.csail.mit.edu/eob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
