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TimeKiwi, the beautiful timeline creator relaunched with usernames
- mihar 15y agoWe previously launched a client-side only proof of concept, that would show the potential of the idea. When the launch was successful we started building the proper version, with usernames, curation (hiding of posts) and proper OAuth. Previous launch post is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3109779 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3109779
- nicholasreed 15y agoAfter FB auth I get the Sad Wiki. Landing page makes it look interesting though!
- fookyong 15y agocurious - what was the definition of "success" that you used from the launch post? most of the positive feedback I see is from people saying it has a nice UI.
- mihar 15y agoWe considered success as the sort of "viral" PR we got, people mentioning it in blogs, articles, etc. We also collected a lot of emails from people interested in a paid version with more features.
- citricsquid 15y agoI only get the past 1 week of posts, so for me it's just like loading my Facebook page (but with less info and a poorer ui): http://citricsquid.screensnarp.com/dx5xbb.png http://citricsquid.screensnarp.com/dx5xbb.png is that broken or intentional? username citricsquid.
- mihar 15y agoYep, this is a problem with the FB API, as I couldn't access more than that in the past. It was meant that with time, this will grow as new posts will flock in. As for the being 'just like loading the FB page', the kiwi gets its full glow when many services are connected at the same time.
- basseq 15y agoImmediately posting a tweet without my say-so? For shame. An abuse of trust in this day in age and a reason I hate Twitter/Facebook universal sign-ins. Access revoked. Goodbye.
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- avree 15y agoThere was a checkbox (automatically pre-checked) that actually triggered that Tweet. Not saying it's any better, but I did see the box. (picture here: http://elsewhe.re/Cklw http://elsewhe.re/Cklw)
- tobtoh 15y agoIn Chrome (Win 16.0.912.63), the checkbox and description are there for a split second as the page loads and then disappears. I turned off Adblock in case that was the cause, but the checkbox is still invisible even when I do that. Adblock is the only extension installed, so I don't know why the checkbox is invisible to me. I'll assume it's a bug - but figured I'll call it out here in case people signup and then wonder why Timekiwi made an 'authorised' tweet advertising their services.
- hartror 15y agoSame Chrome version but on Ubuntu 11.10 and it appears fine for me. No Adblock.
- basseq 15y agoI'm seeing it currently (Win, Chrome, Adblock). I don't remember seeing it yesterday, but not sure if it's because they updated the page or that I'm not used to looking for service details on signup. Either way, it's disingenuous, IMO. You can call it "user error" and ignore the issue, but I doubt I'm the only one.
- mihar 15y agoI'm sorry you feel that way, but as someone mentioned, there was a checkbox.
- timmorgan 15y agoThis is great guys, love the simplicity.
- chewxy 15y agoOh, it finally works
- mihar 15y agoYaay! :)
- lancewiggs 15y ago"Latest Kiwis"? How about the 4 million domestic and the 1 million expat people who are New Zealanders and who already call ourselves Kiwis? To us this is like saying "latest Aussies" or "Latest Texans" or "latest Russians". It sounds stupid and is borderline offensive. Please call yourself something else.
- nestlequ1k 15y agoOh shush you kiwi
- grandpoobah 15y agoAs a kiwi I can confirm that it's pretty dumb.
- veb 15y agoI think you're barking up the wrong tree. This is _not_ borderline offensive. Don't be silly. It might be a stupid oversight, but yeah I think you're getting a bit offended by nothing.
- jomar 15y agoIt's called cultural appropriation, and IMHO this example of it is offensive plain and simple -- nothing borderline about it.
- Groxx 15y agoHow is this cultural appropriation? Wikipedia defines it as: >Cultural appropriation is the adoption of some specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group. They're using the fruit as their logo. What part of New Zealander culture did they appropriate for this site?
- jomar 15y ago> They're using the fruit as their logo. What part of New Zealander culture did they appropriate for this site? People can hold in their heads that grapes and grapefruit are different things, so it always bemuses me when they can't do the same thing with kiwi and kiwifruit. Sure, if you don't know otherwise, "kiwi" may look like a useful contraction of kiwifruit. However, once informed that The kiwi is a bird native to New Zealand; the word "kiwi" comes to English from the language of the indigenous people of New Zealand; the bird is a national symbol of the country; New Zealanders colloquially refer to themselves as Kiwis, after the bird, with a history going back a century or more; the term "kiwi-land" is occasionally used fondly as a name for the country; the term kiwifruit was coined only in the 1960s then continuing to use the term "kiwi" for the fruit is factually wrong, and even disrespectful. Sure, you yourself might not care -- but you can see why New Zealanders might and do care. This website uses a stylised kiwifruit as its logo, but let's also look at the terminology they're using: "Latest kiwis", "Kiwi of the day", "Welcome to kiwi land" Are the people behind the website New Zealanders, or associated with New Zealand in some way? Not as far as I can tell. Ergo, appropriation. (Even if the website authors were New Zealanders themselves, the usage would still not be appropriate, of course. But New Zealanders would not have used such terminology on their dinky website because for them it already has established meaning and mana, rather than being just a random cool word to be stolen.)
- superchink 15y agoAnyone know if there's a way to restrict and/or control access to the timeline that it generates?
- danso 15y agoSo...what's the target audience here? I know it seems self evident that everyone is just dying for another way to show what they've been sharing online...but it seems that the people who want to share a lot will be satisfied with Facebook and G+, both of which give greater granularity for privacy than does this.
- alexwilliams 15y agoPr-checked boxes are just exploitive. That's it.