Comments on: Strategic choices for calendar publishers

By: Two projects for civic-minded student programmers « Jon Udell

Two projects for civic-minded student programmers « Jon Udell — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:15:03 +0000

[...] to scraping. And for a while, elmcity curators were making very effective use of FuseCal (1, 2, 3) to transform these kinds of pages into iCalendar [...]

By: elmcity wrapup « UCOSP

elmcity wrapup « UCOSP — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:05:54 +0000

[...] The generic plugin can successfully parse the curator sites listed here: http://dianetam.com/dev/blog/2009/12/12/elmcity-design-wrapup-and-next-steps/ as well as a few of the sites from the previously parsed FuseCal pages listed here: http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/07/strategic-choices-for-calendar-publishers/ [...]

By: Patterns and Thoughts continued… « Diane's Blog

Patterns and Thoughts continued… « Diane's Blog — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:41:55 +0000

[...] found from the fuse-cal parsed pages as well as the sample pages curators have pointed to. (ie. http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/07/strategic-choices-for-calendar-publishers/ and http://friendfeed.com/elmcity/92ef3b61/hey-everyone-team-over-in-elmcity-development) – [...]

By: Elmcity Meeting Minutes for Oct 30 2009 « UCOSP

Elmcity Meeting Minutes for Oct 30 2009 « UCOSP — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:46:10 +0000

[...] be dictated by the ability to parse the pages brought up by our users here, and secondarily by this list. There’s a lot of overlap between the two, but our focus is on the sites the current curators [...]

By: Marking Scheme for ElmCity project « UCOSP

Marking Scheme for ElmCity project « UCOSP — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:23:28 +0000

[...] for completing a site-specific plug-in. If time permits, (outside 30%) we are targeting pages on here and [...]

By: Grading Scheme Revisited « ElmCity Adventure

Grading Scheme Revisited « ElmCity Adventure — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:09:35 +0000

[...] set of information for the event (date & time, title, and a link) on each of the pages listed here and here. Generalized parser is a must, the only “but” for this point is either if page [...]

By: Initial Patterns and Thoughts with Fuse-Cal Pages « Diane's Blog

Initial Patterns and Thoughts with Fuse-Cal Pages « Diane's Blog — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:36:16 +0000

[...] been working on looking for patterns the past few days within the fuse-cal parsed pages ( http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/07/07/strategic-choices-for-calendar-publishers/ ) and trying to generalize the patterns found so that our scrapers can be more general and [...]

By: Careful With Web 2.0 Tools!

Careful With Web 2.0 Tools! — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:41:47 +0000

[...] by dan I was ruminating on my last post about the Yahoo pipes, and I got to thinking about an article that Jon Udell wrote a few days ago about FuseCal. This is something to think about carefully, especially when you [...]

By: Ryan Aslett

Ryan Aslett — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:02:16 +0000

Oh man. Epic loss. Fortunately I did not rely on fuseCal, but it may well have been an integral part of a future business model – or at least the public data mining functionality they provided. It’s too bad they were the only provider of this type of service and didn’t have time to mature a business model. This is exactly the kind of useful tool whose torch should be carried on by the open source movement – (and by “open source movement” I mean myself and anybody else who thinks gathering temporal information from wild unstructured data is worthwhile). It’s already been demonstrated to be a doable task…I’d like to think that its not even that original of an idea and that there might even be a FOSS project to get involved with.

By: Edward Vielmetti

Edward Vielmetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:00:10 +0000

Jon -

You’ve hit part of the wonder of web 2.0 – the ability to build distributed systems that fail in the way Leslie Lamport says

“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.”