Slashdotted

By Robert Ennals (Intel) (25 posts) on September 23, 2007 at 11:20 am

As I write, Intel Mash Maker is featured on the front page of Slashdot, and our poor little signup server is completely overwhelmed.

If you are trying to sign up and find that you can't get through, wait a little while for the crowds to die down and then try again.

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September 24, 2007 3:14 AM PDT


Jon Lister		 Looking forward to getting signed up and seeing whether your unusual approach to mashups will pay off!
September 24, 2007 8:59 AM PDT


SocialMedia.net		 Great stuff Rob, just blogged about it there. The comments on /. are pretty daft; I think that their discussions are fast becoming more juvenile than many of the worst teenage message boards on the Web.

Best of luck with the project.
September 24, 2007 9:30 AM PDT

Robert Ennals (Intel)
 Some of the comments on slashdot are pretty hilarious. I particularly like the one about how the fact this only works on FireFox is part of a vast anti-microsoft conspiracy, rather than the rather more mundane "we happen to use it ourselves, and it is easy to write plugins for".
September 24, 2007 10:19 AM PDT


Aaron Tersteeg		 The slashdot community brought up a few more interesting point about potential abuse with commercial spam stuffing the mashups. I know right now you are throttleing the proposed mashups and allowing users to eject inapporpriate mashups. How do you see the process eveloving to allow for more scaleable community development and sharing of the best mashups?
September 24, 2007 10:29 AM PDT

Robert Ennals (Intel)
 A good question. Right now, the process is that any mashup has to be reviewed by one of us to make sure it isn't abusive, and then, users can mark things as being good or bad by right clicking on them and saying what they think of them. Our hope is that this will keep spam mashups at bay, and allow really cool mashups to rise to the top.

We'll have to see how this plays out over time. One thing we probably will want to do eventually is allow trusted users to be made moderators, avoiding the need for us to check all submitted mashups.
September 26, 2007 2:31 AM PDT

Michael Shadle (Intel)
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 The guy who admins that server must be good!
September 26, 2007 2:47 AM PDT

Robert Ennals (Intel)
 The guy who admins that server is awesome. The guy who wrote the code that leaks a file handle on every signup (me) was rather less awesome :-))

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