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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