is there a way i can get a list of an SE's sites tags?

found it

Anybody know of any applications that can monitor all your social media accounts? Like an rss feed reader, for social media sites.

they exist

(trying to find the one i was using)

hootsuite.com/features/social-networks

I want to be able to see all data from each site in one place, and update multiple sites in a single action.

hoot will do that

was using it until i got into multiple fights with my social media guy who says facebook is the only one that matters; the rest are a waste of money / time

at which time i said f' it - u deal with social, i'll deal with the website and told him to f' off

@lsiunsuex I'm not looking for enterprise level software, I'm looking to target users. Is HootSuite something individual users would use? Does it have apple/android apps?

hootsuite.com/plans - the free version covers 5 social networks

pretty sure they had an iphone app

How's my list of relevant sites? facebook, g+, twitter, tumblr, pinterest, linkedin.

whatd u mean

i think everyone that needs to be on a social network should atleast be on facebook, g+ and twitter

g+ especially because of the tie in with the search engine; that itself is worth its weight in gold IMO

I'm trying to determine if this new project idea is worth my time. But learning to interface with 6 or more sites might be a bit of a challenge, so I want to make sure I'm focusing on the right sites.

whats the goal of the project

thats not a goal; thats a function

the goal would be to increase customer awareness or to sell more of x or ...

our goal is to use social media to find students that can benefit from our services

more students = more users = potential revenue from sponsors

The goal is to create a web site/iPhone/iPad/android app that can do this. And then capitalize off of its use.

so you want to build a competitor to something like hootsuite?

Yes, sort of. I want to be more single user focused.

doable for sure

theres many out there right now - social media is big right now

anything the big 3 will output, will be in xml or json

i know facebook, you can only access the info of a Facebook Page (not a personal page)

twitter is a little more giving; the feed can be obtained as json or xml

your biggest problem is all 3 have different features; FB and G+ are basically the same, but the 140 character limit on twitter will be something that needs to be delt with

i know your not a php programmer (no time like the present to learn!) , but you can look at eden-php.com it has a lot of nice features to interact with the various networks

That's easy, as you type, once you pass 140 characters the twitter option becomes disabled.

no, you'd need to trim it with ... and add read more or something - if you carry the 140 char limit across all the networks, why should i use your product? id rather deliver a full message to as many of the networks as i can and have a trimmed message for twitter

Good point. But where would the "read more" link point to?

The 140 character limit would not be carried across all networks, the message would still send to all but twitter.

add the read more if theres a link to a web page - if its just a message, obviously its not needed

but, if your not linking to content on your site, whats the point of sending a message on a social network IMO

or if u wanna be really snazzy, you could apply some logic to the body content and try to re-work it for them within the 140 char limit. so a post to facebook might be "Hey guys, announcing our first webinar on how to build a social media scrapper" and the twitter post could be reworked to "announcing our first webinar"

@lsiunsuex There would be no content on my site. I'd be a parasite leeching off the social media giants. The project would likely be ad supported, so ads would be sprinkled in the feed.

right, no i mean, as a feature of the system, u could have a function that tries to break long messages into shorter ones for twitter

like a url shortener, but for body copy

The more I think about it, the more I lose interest. Maybe I'll pass on this project.

paid? gimme gimme!!! :)

i'm all out of room for free projects

@lsiunsuex It might be paid, as soon as it's built, and in the hands of users, and the ad dollars start rolling in.

help me with mine then - my idea is cooler! :)

there are way to many news websites - digg, gizmodo, HN, inbound, etc...

BUT, they all have RSS feeds

the readers work well and thats fine, but theres to much news, especially shit i dont want to read

this is why i was looking for SE tags

i'm playing with building a system that would capture the rss feeds of various sites; then allow you to follow certain tags and only see the news that comes up for those tags

so if i was following php, mysql and apache, across all the rss feeds i'm watching, only those posts would show

Who makes the tags?

all the rest of the crap would still be there and i could add say nosql and the list would repopulate with those posts in it

i'm trying to rip off the tags now from SO, then if something is missing, they could add it to their personal list

So, basically you want to do a keyword search on the rss feeds?

keyword filtering, real time

as the feeds come in, filter only for what i want to read

so today i feel like f'ing off and i wanna learn about nosql and meteor - only show me posts pertaining to those

tomorrow i'm in a video game mood - only show me stuff with keywords of xbox and ps4

i dont care about snowden or prism or etc...

(as examples)

what's the business model (how do you make money)?

usual - ad based - could be room for paid / pro features

just screwing around (its friday) right now to see / learn how to read the rss feeds / json feeds - but it might be cool - at the least, i may end up using it for myself

i'm feeling information overload right now - i'm following to many blogs / feeds / etc... i never liked "readers" so i hit each site individually - if i could hit 1 site and ONLY see what i care about

could have a watch feature - as in, i dont care about "snowden" or "prism" but tell me how many articles are in the list with those keywords or maybe show me the most recent article, where i'd see all articles tagged php

had the idea last week. was reading HN and got sick of seeing all the articles on snowden, it was getting in my way of what really mattered to me (programming)

I was working on the same thing a while back, but it was difficult because it seemed like there were no standards. Everybody's feeds looked different, so you had to understand each one individually.

It was a real pain in the ass.

a guy reproduced the functionality of google reader and said there were 60 different date formats he had to account for - so yeah - no doubt a standards issue

gizmodo.com/how-a-lone-coder-cloned-google-reader-612245186

You just need regular expressions ;)

what an incredible PITA that was to hang last night - 2 hours

Really? How many people?

minimal help from the wife and i

flag stone does not make for a good surface to stand on a ladder holding a 5lb drill trying to put a hole into a brick for a masonry anchor

That's what the scrap half sheet of plywood is for.

that occured to me after the fact

Or screw two 2x4s to the feet.

and i'm still not happy with the masonry anchors - gonna use different ones and go into the soffits on the house

the ones on the garages are fine

just waiting for a strong wind to come by and rip something out

Which way is north?

no idea

@ChrisCudmore Up

productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/68Q8RF_iyq4

so facing the back of the house (looking at the back of the house) is north

news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/07/02/…

huh...

cheaper then rackspace...

windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/cloud-services

RSS readers are dead, didn't you hear?

@lsiunsuex Should be great until snowfall...

at which point i'll take it down. a buffalo winter can be a couple of inches or a couple of feet - and i dont think the 90lb nylon rope i used will hold feet of snow

@Aaron rss readers aren't dead; their just misunderstood

so far I'm trying out feedly

@NiallC. happy?

@HerrBag Much better.

Ran out of time last night, I DID know better.

Lesson learned the hard way, when flux dries out, just give it up and go buy some new stuff.

Never underestimate the power of the flux!

You can store it in a flux capacitor...

Now you tell me.

just make sure you have enough plutonium

So I'm thinking of canceling tomorrow's PUT unless some of the non-US crew wants to take over.

I can grab it. Instructions are still in the meta right?

Should be, just post a start message, a stop message, and create a bookmark when you're all done, not much to it.

Yeah. I'll handle it. Enjoy blowing stuff up.

HA HA - you have to work tomorrow! that sucks...

:)

I had Monday off.

We blew stuff up.

Then celebrated our liberty and freedom by smoking cuban cigars.

Open the styles.xml file for the trim, and change the line wood_type="oak" to wood_type="cherry".

No. Then the alignment will be all screwed up and you'll have to use invisible trim to fix it.

Replace the trim. This won't be cheap. Trim is among the most expensive finishing steps, especially when you get into premium quality hardwoods.

really?

trim didn't seem all that expensive to me, but maybe I'm just looking at the cheap stuff

trim can actually be quite expensive if you get nice woods

rare cherry woods can be a fortune

homedepot.com/p/…

interesting, but I guess that's not actually wood

bairdbrothers.com/Cherry-C13.aspx

$5.38 / foot and thats generic cherry

Maybe we could hook-up the cherry trim guy with the Brazillian cherry guy for a volume discount

wait for it... a brazillian trim

@HerrBag Would you finish the wood with a Brazilian wax?

exactly!

Don't they use Car-nude-ba wax?

Cairo (CNN) -- Egypt's military deposed the country's first democratically elected president Wednesday night, installing the head of the country's highest court as an interim leader, the country's top general announced

Since we'll be in the neighborhood delivering arms to Syria, we can swing by and drop off some for Egypts rebels

@ChrisCudmore I rewrote the title for the mold contractor question.. Is that enough or should the contractor "shop" references go out, too?

I don't mind a "how do i find one..." as an afterthought.

But the question should really be: Who is a certified mold removal professional...

Let me have a go.

It's not great, but it's all I have the cognitive ability for right now.