Well, most users don´t look at this, so it really doesn´t matter. But anyhow we were delayed again.. right on! :-).

We basically had a bunch of problems while testing the migration path and I also found a little quirck on the new bot, and being as obsesive as I am, I had to go there and rewrite the full component.

Man, this whole thing was wierd.. I mean, I was really used to the way we were working before, but getting a new server and adding Ernesto to the team (we are actually a dev team now!!!.. not just me and my imaginary friends..:-).. ) was more complex than I thought. We had to setup a new development environment and get the new server ready ( We tried installing Debian on it, but decided that it was too complex without physical access to it, so we are keeping it´s preinstalled Fedora ). And coordinating work was also complex, I was just too used to doing the whole thing myself (yep, believe it or not, we managed to get to version 3.2 with a devteam of just one guy (TTIW Core is me on Code + Guy on Financials, Management, etc.), though version 1 had a designer, Sebastian who did the logo and the original design.. but version 2 to 3.2 was just me!! I even did the stylesheets and the little icons on the menu!! and replied to your mails!!! Though Ernesto helped from time to time, ( and Guy sometimes answered emails too ), but now Ernesto is on a more regular basis.. we´ll probably get some designer help for the next steps when we will focus heavily on the GUI and on more social features (you´ll like it, it´s a really nice concept). Anyhow, I do believe that by today´s standards we are sort of a beta actually. I just started versioning the thing cause I wanted to send the message that we were doing Software here. ( That´s also the reason we have "the mythical man month" on the left. If you haven´t, go read it it´s a classic. ))

Anyhow, I´m trying to get all ready to migrate tomorrow, but it seems more realistic to settle for saturday or sunday (as always the final date will be the one on the service email).

I got this question about wether we were gonna go for the space separated tags like del.icio.us .. and no, we are keeping the commas. I mean our audience is less techy than the people that use delicious (which I love dearly BTW, I think their whole concept is Brilliant) and commas are more intuitive... and you know, there are also certain ideas which go better with 2 words. It´s just that "art nouveau" c´est pas la meme chose qui "nouveau art", n'est pas? . But we are doing something that will make it so that if somebody tags something as "nouveau art" you can still get it in the results if you search for "art". And you know that is one of the "3 innovations of TTIW", which I will proudfully enumerate (just because I feel like it :-).. ):

1. First site to send a bot on demand to fetch info from a page. (We did that when we added the amazon thingy back in version 2 (And I coded that from an internet cafe in beautifull Prague!! In case you´ve been to that amazing city it was on Easy internet cafe, not the one in Vinohradska but the one in the basement near Winceslas square. "TTIW, the webap coded from five mayor cities in the world".), funny thing is we were working on a better bot when other sites came up with the same concept. I haven´t seen that done before on any site but I think it will become commonplace now with the emergence of microformats. Though I made a complete mess of myself in their mailing list (I have the social skills of Attila the hun).. I´ll try to compensate it by releasing some code I´ve been thinking of latelly (I actually didn´t have the time to work on anything else lately, I haven´t shaved in 3 weeks!!!))
2. Separating access by Private, Guest and Public. And having the possibility of doing a link that gives special access. Again I haven´t seen that before, and now Yahoo´s My web has something similar, that´s pretty wierd.
3. And last but not least, using commas to separate Tags.

And that´s the end of the "3 innovations of TTIW".
The rest is all copied.. :-)

Well that´s it for today, I have to go test some stuff now.

But before I leave, I have this really great news: Travis of gunnerweb.net did an awesome wordpress plug-in for displaying your list as a full page on your blog. It´s really, really nice and it´s way more elegant than our current version. And though it´s still an alpha, we will be adding it to the next version, cause it´s really nice. And I just found out while I was looking at his Blog, that he and Rachel did this amazing service called Swap-Bot where you sign up to swap stuff with people (like postcards or homemade tapes of your music or your art.). It´s a new, new service that has just started, but it´s a great, great idea, so go check it out!!!. I´m working on some experimental electronic music, when It´s ready I´ll start a swap there.

Emiliano