The Naked Blend 33 1/3: The Next Insult

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Presented by Greg Davies (cGt2099 from The-TrukstoP.com), Jay Fowler (SilentJay74 from JuicySnake.com), Brian Hill (Bdog2g2 from MixxingBowl.com), Reem Abeidoh (Nomadelle from ReemAbeidoh.com), and Joshua Olson (Honest_Ape from HonestApe.net)the Social Blend examines the latest news and opinions hitting the world of social media. The main focus of the show is on Mixx.com, yet focuses on other sites and contenders in the social media field.

While Greg intends to name this edition of Social Blend in tribute to Leslie Nielsen and The Naked Gun series; SilentJay74 goes nude for the 33 1/3 episode!  We’re joined with special guest, Kerry Parkins from Mixx, who answers YOUR questions about what’s coming up for the site.

Our User Focus is DarkNemesis this week – and as usual we talk of some Comments of the Week and jump into the Mixx Lounge.

Social Blend and Mixx News
A cool end to another hot summer
http://www.mixx.com/stories/1866531/a_cool_end_to_another_hot_summer_the_mixx_blog

Comments, Kudos, and Community, oh my!
http://www.mixx.com/stories/1752728/comments_kudos_and_community_oh_my

Community Focus
Barack Obama
http://obama08.mixx.com/

John McCain
http://johnmccain.mixx.com/
User Focus
DarkNemesis618
http://www.mixx.com/users/darknemesis618

The Mixx Lounge
http://www.mixx.com/lounge

The Social Blend Mixx Community
Post stories you’d love to see discussed on Social Blend.  Reem chooses a new article with each new episode
http://socialblend.mixx.com/

Greg’s Mail Sack
Send your hate mail to:
socialblend@gmail.com
Or
cGt2099@sbcglobal.net

Music Credits
Music by Corey Hodgetts / West of October
http://www.myspace.com/coreyhodgetts
http://www.myspace.com/westofoctoberband

5 Responses to “The Naked Blend 33 1/3: The Next Insult”

1. Julie aka calinazaret Says:
   August 22nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm

   It always really cool to hear Kerry talk about the vision of the site. It’s pretty exciting ^_^

   Also, my last name is pronounce “LOO-hahn” for future reference

2. ih8mondays Says:
   August 22nd, 2008 at 9:29 pm

   “Freeballin’” LOL.

3. ih8mondays Says:
   August 22nd, 2008 at 10:18 pm

   With regards to my questions about the API I was asking about the API itself and not the apps built around it. I asked about the API specifically because, well, I’m a programmer and I want to write a desktop client for Mixx. I was poking around the API docs a few weeks back and found them lacking especially the docs concerning authentication for desktop apps.

   As it stands right now it’s easy to build web-based apps around the API, but it is not possible to build desktop apps around it. All the data the API’s provide right now are also already available as RSS feeds. Namely the “thingies” are essentially items in an RSS feed so the API as it stands right now is redundant (read: useless).

   Some details about the app I am planning on building. Unfortunately the current API does not have everything I need to build something that:

   * will run as a desktop client. I’m planning on doing a cross-platform app, personally I run Linux. Posting this from a Windows machine because I’m doing some stuff in Flash.
   * will be able to analyze voting patterns for users. This will help in in spotting voting rings and sock puppets.
   * will provide a customized view of “My Mixx”. Right now, I find the current “My Mixx” layout a bit frustrating.
   * will be able to monitor submissions to communities and groups that you are not a part of.
   * will have all sorts of goodies to make life easier for Mixxers and Supermixxers.

   Honestly I don’t even need an API to be able to do all of that. I can just write a desktop app that will scrape content and present them in my app the way I want to. But that will probably get my ass banned on Mixx. So there. Please if you get the chance to have Kerry again or Bill on Social Blend I would really like to hear what they have planned for this. I already emailed Bill as instructed by someone on Mixx Feedback but I got no reply from him.

4. Bill Says:
   August 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm

   Nimrod -

   The API actually does quite a bit more than the RSS feeds do. There is, for example, no way to post content or comments via RSS feeds, but the API allows for this. It is also not impossible to write a desktop app; only authentication this way is undocumented. It will be documented when the next release of the API comes out with support for OAuth. You should have responses to your requests in your mailbox. I regret that you find our API useless; others have found it to be quite useful.

   -Bill

5. ih8mondays Says:
   August 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 pm

   Just to clarify, I don’t find the entire API itself to be “useless”, it’s just the thingies API. You can already get much of the data that you can get from the thingies API via the available RSS feeds. With the exception of per user thingies of course.

   > It is also not impossible to write a desktop app; only authentication this way is undocumented. It will be documented when the next release of the API comes out with support for OAuth.

   That would be awesome! Thanks Bill!

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