Link: learn python on 43 Things, Twinkler.
Link: dj's progress on Become a better programmer on 43 Things, Hugster.
Link: Anil Dash: Netflix Friends.
As Anil says, social software is a feature, not an application. 43things and flickr are so focused on adding features, it's exhilirating to watch (really). But is there no migration from twinkler to hugster, and when is someone going to use the flickR API (*) to correlate accomplished tasks with visual conversation? I've heard rumors of an API for upcoming, can we connect events from upcoming to pictures from those events on flickr, to milestones being met on 43things?
update, after spending a few more minutes with hugster. The first thing I do is race through to-do lists adding items to my own, (and presumably, robbing my future self from time I certainly don't have). This reminds me of what I call "the flickr point," the moment at which people upload large batches of their old photos to flickr, instead of using it as a temporary storage place for cameraphone photos. This suggests a benchmark for maturity in social software, when social software's primary use is actually getting somethind done, like listing photos (visual conversations) or to-do entries (global priorities) rather than assembling a prestigious "friends" portfolio.
This is not all good, as it also creates what I call "the chore". "The chore" envelopes all the time I've spent managing the physical and virtual junk I've accumulated through my own life. "The chore" is exacerbated by my OCD tendencies. "The chore" includes, but is not limited to:
- Moving. I hate moving. I'm very happy we have an affordable, spacious apartment, even though it's twenty minutes farther from Manhattan's center than I'd like it to be.
- Sorting Books, or splitting what was once one shelf or topic into two shelves or topics.
- After buying a new CD, resorting your CD book in alphabetical order. This necessitates moving every CD in the book one or two sleeves over. (This chore is obsolete)
- Deleting duplicate songs in iTunes.
- Consolidating iPhoto libraries.
- (coming soon) Consolidating hello, eyeballs photo libraries and making flickr and typepad's photo albums play nice.
- Using Applescript to forward and auto-label my old email folders into gmail. (in two years, gmail is going to be in wider use than outlook, that's a no brainer)
- Catching all Pokémon.
*Mom: an API allows websites to compare, sync and exchange data automatically
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