A New Ubiquity Homepage + What’s a Better Planet?
In an attempt to give us a better place to link to for Ubiquity, we’ve put up a shiny new home for Ubiquity based on a mix of the Labs and Mozilla site designs. It has the basic web-site doodads: a big link to the download, links to the tutorials (now in multiple languages!), and a brief video introduction. It also has an experimental kind of Planet-style news aggregator.
It uses Yahoo Pipes to aggregate the feeds, and PostRank to figure out which are the most influential posts. It’s an attempt to help reduce the information overload that the raw amount of information flowing through Planets yield. Try it here.
We are also interested in other ways of playing with opening up the Planet — making it more read-write by allowing a wider community to shape, comment, and pick-out the pulse of the project.
Both Chris Beard, and Atul Varma have talked about using a WordPress-based aggregation plugin to make a scalable Planet. Something akin to FeedWordPress. As a side point, it’s by the very same Charles Johnson who made the Humanized History plugin for Word Press.
We’re interested in your thoughts. What should a good Planet do?
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dria
Just to be clear — are you talking about changes to planet.mozilla or something else?
dria
Oh I guess not – I should consume more coffee before commenting :) Nm.
Alan
It’s nice, although it could do with a TITLE tag. And maybe a few less Planet items on the front page…
Zachary Lym
The RSS feed from that page is to the original Google feed, not the polished PostRank.
Zachary Lym
To clarify, if you subscribe to the RSS feed of you new homepage, it gives you the raw RSS from Google, not the PostRank one that the homepage shows.
Aza Raskin
@ Alan: Fair point. Although scrolling down has very little cost — if you don’t want to see any more, don’t scroll :)
@ Zachary: I wasn’t sure if the PostRank one or the raw Google one would be better. You’re probably right, though.