New things happening around the place

posted by dag

3 months ago • 283 views

I'm just back from a 3 week holiday - but things haven't been standing still around here. You'll notice we have a few new billboards up promoting projects:

VaroCMS is Lucky's brainchild - the structure behind VideoSift that keeps everything running smoothly. The past year has been a great proving ground for the software - and now we'd like to apply the same model to other ideas - games, music, pictures whatever. We'll be using VaroCMS to launch ideas of our own - as offshoots of the VideoSift - and hopefully to partner with other companies and groups that would like to use VaroCMS for their ideas. We not-so-humbly believe that VaroCMS is the smartest software out there for building a community.

ScrapeUp.com is a project that's an order of magnitude smaller than VaroCMS - but has been fun for me personally over the past couple of months. The idea came from always going to the usual suspect sites and navigating through different UIs to try and find the new stuff. ScrapeUp pulls all my favs into a single interface and makes it easy to post to VideoSift. I hope it will serve as a useful little tool for Sifters.

Lastly, in addition to VideoSift as a community - we are also a company. Sift Partners was founded around 1 year ago because we needed to manage the business side of VideoSift - (taxes yech) it's also nice to have a place to point people to get a quick rundown on what we're all about. To that end, we've launched a small company site, SiftPartners.com that compresses maximum information about what we're doing into one HTML page.

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Explain more how Scrape Up works.

written by swampgirl

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1. it presents the existing feeds that some of the reddit
Fark
Digg
GameTrailers
College Humor
LiveLeak
sites provide in a easy to read webpage.

Those sites provide a protocol for webpage authors like dag to incorporate into new webpages. The protocol consists of new videos.

2. It automates the first step for the submission of new videos to videosift.

written by marinara

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So when does VS start selling shares on the stock market

written by Crosswords

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Our slow takeover of the world begins...

written by Fjnbk

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ScrapeUp on Mashable:
http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/videosift-scrapeup/

Yay!

written by dag

| 3 months ago | CH

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Hey dag (or lucky) I was checking the varocms page, and I have an idea. When you do a command to a sift on VS here, you do * whatever. But, you can upvote with a single click. Wouldn't it be easier to make this

Possible *Invocations • more info
discard • sticky • unsticky • promote • quality • nochannel

list of commands here into links, in which it would send a message to ol' siftbot here, and he could reply with "user did this comment, this happened" without us sifties having to actually post a comment when half the time all we are doing is just sending siftbot a command? I think it'd be easier, in my opinion. What do you guys think?

written by Obsidianfire

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You feel that grime? That's corporate, it doesn't wash off.

written by K0MMIE

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>> ^Obsidianfire:
...without us sifties having to actually post a comment when half the time all we are doing is just sending siftbot a command? I think it'd be easier, in my opinion. What do you guys think?

It's definitely not a bad idea, but working invocations into comments is part of the charm and fun of it. Making it a mechanical operation takes away it's uniqueness and makes it... well, more mechanical.

written by lucky760

| 3 months ago | CH

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>> ^lucky760:
>> ^Obsidianfire:
...without us sifties having to actually post a comment when half the time all we are doing is just sending siftbot a command? I think it'd be easier, in my opinion. What do you guys think?

It's definitely not a bad idea, but working invocations into comments is part of the charm and fun of it. Making it a mechanical operation takes away it's uniqueness and makes it... well, more mechanical.

Is it a better idea to go to a video, like it, see there are 10 comments in there? Go "Oh boy discussion" only to find it's 4 beg commands, 4 siftbot retorts, and one actual post?

written by K0MMIE

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I would love to see multiple *begs rolled into one once the video is finally sifted, like "begged for x times" or some such.

written by gwiz665

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>> ^lucky760:
>> ^Obsidianfire:
...without us sifties having to actually post a comment when half the time all we are doing is just sending siftbot a command? I think it'd be easier, in my opinion. What do you guys think?

It's definitely not a bad idea, but working invocations into comments is part of the charm and fun of it. Making it a mechanical operation takes away it's uniqueness and makes it... well, more mechanical.

I don't feel the same way myself. We can agree to disagree.

written by Obsidianfire

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