Monday was the last day of
Demola project 55, "Microblog feed parsing platform".
I haven't blogged about Demola earlier. I should have, since Demola is the main reason we have managed to create the service with practically no funding (BTW, thank you
Slush!).
Demola is an open innovation environment, where great things can happen without too much hazzle. There are many ways to explain Demola. I have my own: Demola aims to project the brainpower of (tens of thousands Tampere region) students that is usually wasted on pointless assignments towards something less pointless, like real life projects.
Thank you
Digioske for understanding our mission and providing the necessary resources for making the Demola project possible. This summer Jani Palovuori, Tuomas Rinne and Matti Särkikoski, our excellent Demola team created the Illtags core and it works perfectly!
This is interesting: Because one of Demola's purposes is to create new businessess, the rights of the Illtags core will stay with the Demola team. I bet Illtags will not be the only service utilizing the microblog feed parsing platform (or Tagregator as we call it). I can imagine a range of services making use of the simple technology collecting tags, combining them to user contexts.
Even though we were lucky enough for being able to concentrate on the actual product development, the summer was hectic. Facebook API, Twitter API, RESTful API, AJAX programming... all of the current technical buzzwords were strangers to us until this summer. We googled, we learned, we conquered!
At the moment I feel very comfortable with the product, even though it is full of small holes. Pre-alpha is our version of the blinking "under construction" sign. We'll remove the "pre" when we have the servers in a bit more solid state.
...and I'll test the site with IE6 when we can call it beta ;)
