Comments on: Identi.ca Reply Sniffer http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/07/02/identica-reply-sniffer/ Consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities through social media.Focused on online communities, open technologies, open source, web 2.0, social media, RSS, blogging, and podcasting. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:32:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Dawn http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/07/02/identica-reply-sniffer/#comment-16533 Dawn Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:34:36 +0000 http://fastwonderblog.com/?p=531#comment-16533 Troy, Yeah, it's pretty buggy. It was mainly a temporary solution to catch some @replies until they implemented that feature. The reason it's buggy is because it depends on RSS (there wasn't the equivalent of Summize for Identi.ca yet). The RSS feed for all of the people that any individual follows only contains ~50 entries. If Yahoo Pipes doesn't poll the RSS feed before the @reply scrolls out of the 50 entries, then it will miss the @reply entirely. It will miss more @replies if you are following a bunch of people, since posts will roll off more quickly. Honestly, I would scrap this pipe now that Identi.ca has @replies built into the site :-) Troy,

Yeah, it’s pretty buggy. It was mainly a temporary solution to catch some @replies until they implemented that feature.

The reason it’s buggy is because it depends on RSS (there wasn’t the equivalent of Summize for Identi.ca yet). The RSS feed for all of the people that any individual follows only contains ~50 entries. If Yahoo Pipes doesn’t poll the RSS feed before the @reply scrolls out of the 50 entries, then it will miss the @reply entirely. It will miss more @replies if you are following a bunch of people, since posts will roll off more quickly.

Honestly, I would scrap this pipe now that Identi.ca has @replies built into the site :-)

]]> By: Troy H http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/07/02/identica-reply-sniffer/#comment-16528 Troy H Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:42:05 +0000 http://fastwonderblog.com/?p=531#comment-16528 Hey, Dawn. It doesn't appear to be working for me yet. I got my first @ reply in identi.ca 13 hours ago, but still no results from the pipe. Identi.ca added a Replies tab last night, and I do see it there. Thanks for sharing! Hey, Dawn. It doesn’t appear to be working for me yet. I got my first @ reply in identi.ca 13 hours ago, but still no results from the pipe. Identi.ca added a Replies tab last night, and I do see it there. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Gary S. Walter http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/07/02/identica-reply-sniffer/#comment-16396 Gary S. Walter Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:39:36 +0000 http://fastwonderblog.com/?p=531#comment-16396 Thanks! Thanks!

]]> By: Dawn http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/07/02/identica-reply-sniffer/#comment-16158 Dawn Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:40:13 +0000 http://fastwonderblog.com/?p=531#comment-16158 Aha! It wasn't liking the "." in the text input name. Should work just fine now - no need to hardcode your URL into the pipe. Aha! It wasn’t liking the “.” in the text input name. Should work just fine now - no need to hardcode your URL into the pipe.

]]> By: Dawn http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/07/02/identica-reply-sniffer/#comment-16145 Dawn Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:31:02 +0000 http://fastwonderblog.com/?p=531#comment-16145 Gary, You should just be able to enter your name in the username field and click run pipe. If you enter your username in the field it will autopopulate the fetch feed box with your rss URL. There really isn't any need to hardcode it in. Yahoo Pipes does some strange things with caching, which can cause a delay before things get picked up by the pipe. I suspect that your copy worked because it was new (therefore, nothing was cached), not because the functionality was different. There could be some bugs, so I'm curious if anyone else is having the same issue as Gary (I haven't been able to reproduce the error). Gary,

You should just be able to enter your name in the username field and click run pipe. If you enter your username in the field it will autopopulate the fetch feed box with your rss URL. There really isn’t any need to hardcode it in.

Yahoo Pipes does some strange things with caching, which can cause a delay before things get picked up by the pipe. I suspect that your copy worked because it was new (therefore, nothing was cached), not because the functionality was different.

There could be some bugs, so I’m curious if anyone else is having the same issue as Gary (I haven’t been able to reproduce the error).

]]> By: Gary S. Walter http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/07/02/identica-reply-sniffer/#comment-16098 Gary S. Walter Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:21:17 +0000 http://fastwonderblog.com/?p=531#comment-16098 Hi Dawn, I've been playing with your Yahoo! Pipes identica reply sniffer for a couple of days. Here is what I've learned. In the "fetch feed" box, I had to add my own rss url - or I just received your replies, related to me (which was one). Then of course, I put my own user name in as the default (gwalter). Then it seems to work fine. Here is my version if you want to look at it: http://ping.fm/35IEo If you come up with any changes, let us know. I was looking at @metafluence's Twitter reply sniffer - but that starts getting waaay over my head! Thanks gw Hi Dawn,

I’ve been playing with your Yahoo! Pipes identica reply sniffer for a couple of days. Here is what I’ve learned. In the “fetch feed” box, I had to add my own rss url - or I just received your replies, related to me (which was one). Then of course, I put my own user name in as the default (gwalter). Then it seems to work fine.

Here is my version if you want to look at it: http://ping.fm/35IEo

If you come up with any changes, let us know. I was looking at @metafluence’s Twitter reply sniffer - but that starts getting waaay over my head!

Thanks gw

]]> By: Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 02 » Silicon Florist http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/07/02/identica-reply-sniffer/#comment-15947 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for July 02 » Silicon Florist Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:02:16 +0000 http://fastwonderblog.com/?p=531#comment-15947 [...] Identi.ca Reply Sniffer at Fast Wonder Blog Dawn Foster writes “It looks like a few of us are starting to play with Identi.ca. It’s just like Twitter, but without the community and without any real tools to support it Anyway, there doesn’t seem to be a good way to track @replies. I’ve put together a quick Yahoo pipe that will catch at least some of your replies. This is highly experimental (pre-alpha stage maybe). Welcome to the Identi.ca Reply Sniffer Pipe.” [...] [...] Identi.ca Reply Sniffer at Fast Wonder Blog Dawn Foster writes “It looks like a few of us are starting to play with Identi.ca. It’s just like Twitter, but without the community and without any real tools to support it Anyway, there doesn’t seem to be a good way to track @replies. I’ve put together a quick Yahoo pipe that will catch at least some of your replies. This is highly experimental (pre-alpha stage maybe). Welcome to the Identi.ca Reply Sniffer Pipe.” [...]

]]> By: Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away | SheGeeks http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/07/02/identica-reply-sniffer/#comment-15938 Identi.ca Apps & Why It Could Blow Twitter Away | SheGeeks Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:37:10 +0000 http://fastwonderblog.com/?p=531#comment-15938 [...] button to the identi.ca UI. Works like a charm too. Also, Dawn aka geekygirldawn has created an identi.ca reply sniffer via Yahoo Pipes. You can subscribe to the feed for [...] [...] button to the identi.ca UI. Works like a charm too. Also, Dawn aka geekygirldawn has created an identi.ca reply sniffer via Yahoo Pipes. You can subscribe to the feed for [...]

]]> By: Marshall Kirkpatrick http://fastwonderblog.com/2008/07/02/identica-reply-sniffer/#comment-15904 Marshall Kirkpatrick Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:00:10 +0000 http://fastwonderblog.com/?p=531#comment-15904 Nifty! Good work! Nifty! Good work!

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