I know where I am going to be checking to see what people are saying about TechCrunch50 this week. The TechCrunch50 Aggregator. It is a site developed by Sean Percival to collect all the Twitters, FreindFeed comments, blog posts, news stories, photos, videos, Diggs,and Techmeme headlines that are tagged “techcrunch50″or “tc50.”
Even right now, in the middle of the night before the show starts, you can see a picture of the team still unloading boxes, read Robert Scoble lamenting via Twitter that nobody has yet leaked the list of TC50 finalists (ha!), and other various opinions.
The site is laid out in a Netvibes-like grid, with tabs across the top to narrow the results by source. If this helps filter and focus the noise around TechCrunch50, the same approach could be used for other events and topics as well.
What tags should Percival aggregate next?
I’m going to bookmark this site during TC50, so I can follow all the hot juicy details flowing all over the web about it.
tc50 aggregator
not sure how i missed the video, bravo for giving yongfook his props man, darthguru told me you would get it straight, glad to know your one of the good ones even after all the fame
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NICE!! This will be useful to track updates on TC50.. I will use it!
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You should mention Yong Fook, the real developer of that webapp (SweetCron). Btw, the modificatinos over the original theme are quite ugly.
Agreed, that’s all Yongfook.com’s stuff with Sweetcron, and a bad theme applied to it lol.
I second that. Yong Fook’s stuff is awesome.
great stuff guys, this neat web app would be of great help in the next couple of days. Youre setting the standard for online connectivity….
Percival.. you’re an animal! This should be a great resource during and immediately after TC50. It would be dizzingly perfect if you could sort search results chronologically. Nice work!
While not as ambitious as Sean’s effort, seems a few people had a similar idea for TC50. YouTube videos from Sean, but we’ve got Qik and other streams. Relying on Twitter feeds instead of search results which can be up to 20 mins behind when the posts are flying.
For another approach to TC50 content curation, see http://tc50.mobilejones.com
Watch tweets, qiks and flickrs coming in sorted by time, service or attendee.
@Mauro: Erick’s probably in a hurry because of TC50 and had to skip decent research and spellchecking
I’m using our site tho follow techcrunc 50:
http://blogs.iterend.com/en/?q.....te=alltime
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If someone at techcrunch would read our mail (and try it out and decide if it’s news worthy or not), others would be able to access our site as well
1. Mixx must be pretty pissed to have wasted their sponsorship money.
2. It’s actually an installation of Yongfook’s SweetCron lifestreaming webapp.
3. Maybe we should call it a Web OS.
:/
At least the guy keeps the Sweetcron footer intact. People love your stuff, man!
I’m customizing a SC install myself, and Yongfook will get full credit. You rock man!
(Almost) all props to Yongfook’s Sweetcron! Check it out, you can build something like this yourself as well.
It’s not professional not to mention the developer of the webapp you’re using. boo TC
Harsh! Where’s the Open Source love for Yong Fook? It’s built using Sweetcron, at least give the guy and the project a mention!!!
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Powered by SweetCron!!!
where is Yongfook mention or Sweetcron mention??
Give the dude some Q it’s a no10 all over again
Whó build this? Do I hear Yongfook?!
Great to see a business implementation of Sweetcron, by the way.
http://www.sweetcron.com
…poor show chaps
yeah, thats pretty un-professional not mentioning him.
“The TechCrunch50 Aggregator. It is a site developed by Sean Percival”
Seriously……should at least mention Yongfook, the person who REALLY developed the app.
The worst part is that you’re going to write a comment signifying yongfook as the inspiration, when in truth, you should have written the freakin’ post about him.
TC, the Corporation.
I’ll voice my support too. Yongfook!
hey, tc-dudes, it’s not too late to give some props - just use the edit post-function
OMG this is why he proclaimed teh blog are dead, they don’t get it. POWER TO THE FOOK.
Are you kidding? Who cares who wrote the base open source software? Does a blog owner need to mention wordpress and Matt Mullenweg with his posts?
Also, before you jump on the bandwagon, take a look at the codebase for this “webapp”. It is a huge mess, and has been thoroughly eviscerated over @ readwriteweb (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/sweetcron_lifestream_self_hosted.php#comments). It is something anyone with basic programming could put together in a weekend.
the “huge mess” you are referring to is CodeIgniter, one of the most beautiful open source php frameworks ever made. On top of that I built Sweetcron, which uses pretty standard OOP architecture coupled with the convenience of MVC for separating logic, markup and db interactions.
that you don’t get how it works is probably because it is too l33t for j00, n00b.
fact.
oh and, I agree, say 6 months from now it wouldn’t be appropriate to mention the creator/OSS project behind an app that makes it to the TC homepage, but seeing as Sweetcron only went into public beta like a couple of weeks ago and seeing as TC has never mentioned it before, it might have been nice, tis all.
That Sean was able to put that site together as a hobby site literally days after downloading Sweetcron is kind of a testament to how fast it is to get to grips with.
Code is free for anyone to look at / download / laugh at / rub oneself against, btw:
http://code.google.com/p/sweet.....pplication
the hot, sweaty Sweetcron action happens in controllers, libraries, models, plugins and views.
Yeah, I guess not properly securing database input is pretty l33t huh?
“that you don’t get how it works is probably because it is too l33t for j00, n00b…”.
First off, real classy response. And yeah, I’m a contrib to RoR, so I guess I wouldn’t know anything about the aforementioned coding practices…
What a tool.
> Yeah, I guess not properly securing database input is pretty l33t huh?
where? everything is escaped, and the sanitisation issue that Mark Trapp over at RWW found was fixed a while back. I just googled your name and didn’t find anything RoR related, btw :/
Yeah, Yong Fook. The internet is srs business, and this guy contribs to RoR, so he is a better and more successful person than you. Most impressively, he can see right through CodeIgniter and find the disgusting, non-functional core even with layers and layers of perfectly working actual code on top of it.
Learn some RESPECT, son! Also, never release a beta product bcz it might have problems and then it is a piece of crap automatically.
Like those Firefox bugs. OH SHI-
Why did you expect a classy response when you comment pretty much bad mouthed yongfook :/.
I don’t see you guys releasing a CMS that a big website and thousands of blogs are adapting to. And saying that he is a more successful person is bollocks when you don’t even know YF’s financial situation or even his social life.
This is absurd.
Yongfook deserves credit for this. Stay classy Techcrunch, stay classy.
THIS IS RIDICULOUS !
What is wrong with these TechCrunch guys… This is stealing !
http://www.sweetcron.com
http://www.yongfook.com
duuuuuuuuuude it’s not stealing. Sean was nice enough to attribute Sweetcron in the theme he made and he didn’t even have to do that.
The only thing that’s kind meh here is the fact that TC didn’t recognise this as a new, stupidwickedcool open source project that might have been worth giving a mention to.
egads, release the list already!
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Big deal on credits, its an app.
credit WEB invented by : Sir Tim Berners Lee
electricity discovered by : Alessandro Volta
that good enough for yoofook ?
Hey, you could also receive IM updates or even text messages for each new item posted about TC50 here : http://notifixio.us/sources/10.....aggregator
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Yongfook Yongfook Yongfook Yongfook
Yongfook Yongfook Yongfook
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Give the man some credits.
Your man Sean just did like everybody: download, updload, put the feeds, change the colors: 10 mn of work. That’ s all.
I did a lot more, but thanks for your note.
There is nothing with Sean and the website in question. The problem is how Erick’s post is worded by saying the website was developed by Sean, but gives no mention of Yongfook.
Sean did create the website, but he did not developed the aggregation backbone that collects all the information.
The post needs to be edited fix the language.
yeah, ya see this is why somethings are just really crap. write a post. big up yongfook. he deserves it. spread the word folks. dont credit a guy who made some changes as the guy who made it from scratch
Honestly I think you guys need to make a statement that says you weren’t aware that the author had taken the design from someone else and not credited them. As a reader I would not continue to come to a site that allowed plagiarism to go unchecked.
Are you blind good sir? I credited Sweetcron in both the sidebar and footer.
Yong is my buddy, and either way his great software is getting press/exposure.
FInd the rogue Twitters of this year and put them front /center … their remarks were entertaining.
I think they were Techcrunch40 Twitterer
Man, I’ve never read so many comments for a single post. This is hilarious…is this really a freakin flame war on techcrunch!?! I’m embarrassed to have read this but it’s been entertaining. lol
Shocked and amazed. Shocked and amazed.
glad you enjoyed it!
This is definitely superb!! but i thought TC should give some credit to SweetCron considering it’s beauty plus it’s NEW.. [wonder why it has never mentioned here]
hmmm
HUGE TECHCRUNCH FAIL, Arrington please check your writers bro, no bueno! Give the creator credit not the damn developer who didn’t do very much developing. I see the cloud over TechCrunch forming and the foot of Arrington stomping out the little guy *shakes head*
It doesn’t matter what anyone’s opinion is of sweetcron. Fact is this is that the article is about the first mainstream implementation of some new software and it would have made sense to mention said software at the very least in a footnote.
It’s not a travesty or a crime but I don’t think it’s good manners.
Moreover to compare it to crediting the internet and electricity is ludicrous and I can only assume was done in jest.
it matters when TC is writing about every little bit of happenings and they missed out SweetCron!! duhhh!!
Agreed.
On the one hand it is very weak show of tech community love by missing the fact that what Yongfook did with sweetcron is a totally new branch in the history of the web. On the other hand what has been done is cool.
I started on sweetcron about the same time as Sean and will back up he did a good bit more than upload mini tweak and go. He even beat me to the idea of merging wordpress with sweetcron. Something that is a hot topic with us sweetlifers.
All in all the credit is at least now going to the people it is deserved by. The maker John Yongfook has virtually blessed us with some beautiful coding to bend to our own minds. Sean Percival did a great and laser quick job of stripping it to the bones and adapting it to a news aggregator. Techcrunch ummm…. donated the bandwidth to let us all babble a bit about the potential FU this post could have been to the original coder. Oh and Techcrunch has presented us with one of the most interesting adaptations of sweetcron mass media wise.
This does without a doubt prove one thing 100% to be true …
SweetCron Rocks
Peace
Mich D