Library Journal took a look at the current landscape of messaging applications and their potential utility from a librarian's perspective. Meshly gets a quick mention at the bottom. It's interesting to see what we're doing right, and what we need to work on.

Submitted by jason - 2007-07-23 14:37:58
Channels - general meshlydev
Tags - meshly im messaging microblogging librarian

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Sorry for the service interruption today. Anything that you posted to the bot should be there -- we just had to deal with a minor web server issue.

Let's all just pretend this never happened, okay? You never saw a thing, right?

Submitted by stella - 2007-06-22 16:37:20
Channels - meshlydev
Tags - meshly error

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If you've been using the Meshly embed code, you may have noticed that you sometimes get an "invalid feed" error.

There was an update to the yourminis plugin that caused this error to occur for users that had never visited the yourminis.com site. I've updated our code with the new widget version, and it's working correctly now.

Submitted by jason - 2007-05-29 10:37:23
Channels - meshlydev
Tags - meshly widget feed yourminis

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Hey there,
Looks like the Meshly post feeder is not working at the moment. We are looking into the issue and should have a fix soon. Thanks for your patience!

Submitted by dannis - 2007-05-23 07:26:31
Channels - meshlydev
Tags - meshlydev bugs

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We've posted a list changes that we are working on for Meshly on our blog. Some of the changes have already been added. For example, you'll notice that links open in a new window AND you can add links to your post descriptions... see http://meshly.blogspot.com/. Wow, I hope that works! Anywho, take a gander. Please comment and let us know what you think about the pending upgrades.

Thanks!

Submitted by dannis - 2007-05-07 07:41:40
Channels - general meshlydev blog
Tags - meshly blog updates

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On the Meshly blog, we've posted a list of updates that we're currently working on, as well as some proposed future revisions.

A lot of this stuff is based on your input, so please check it out, comment, and let us know how you'd like to see Meshly evolve!

Submitted by jason - 2007-05-03 12:21:55
Channels - meshlydev
Tags - meshly updates bugs features

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These are just a few of my suggestions for Meshly. I like the system and with a few minor improvements this could really rock some of the big sites out there now.

Submitted by tekrat - 2007-04-27 05:57:35
Channels - meshlydev
Tags - meshlydev

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Josh Catone of readwriteweb.com posted a really thoughtful review of Meshly that's worth a read.

My favorite quote:
"Meshly is not really like Twitter; it is not really like del.icio.us; and it is not really like digg."

I know that one of the things that Meshly isn't doing well right now is really explaining the difference between tags and channels. We're working on that (hard), but in the meantime here's a quick explanation: tags are for topics, channels are for communities.

So when you post to a channel, you can also vote for items within the channel (from that channel's page). So you can build a community of posters under a channel, and that community can be 2 people or it can be 200. Voting/moderation is determined by the number of channel participants. What you do with a channel and what you post in it is up to you - and your channel's community.

Submitted by jason - 2007-04-25 21:00:24
Channels - general meshlydev
Tags - meshly tagging channels review

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A proof of concept - javascript and back end php that calls back to Google's translate service for text translation.

Submitted by jason - 2007-04-24 23:17:57
Channels - hackszine meshlydev
Tags - google translation api translate

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It's been really exciting to see so many different languages being posted via Meshly. I've been trying to read what people are posting and so far I'm finding dictionary.reference.com's translation service to produce the best results. Give it a shot.

On a side note, I'll be working on making multibyte channels and tags function correctly. We just got things working in the post body, so thanks for your support while we keep adding features for multiple languages.

Submitted by jason - 2007-04-24 19:52:31
Channels - general meshlydev
Tags - meshly translation language

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I spent the night trying to figure out the character problems we've been having with non latin characters in Meshly.

Turns out AIM sometimes encodes text as latin1 and sometimes as utf16-be, so the bot needs to make a guess as to what it's getting. Google Talk via iChat seems to encode everything utf8 so it works fine, though the java client seemed to be garbling non-latin characters (nothing I can do about that). I haven't had a chance to test MSN and sort out what it might be doing.

So, long story short: you can post in non-latin text with iChat/AIM and Google Talk and it will come out correct on the website. Some of the text the bot spits back in its confirmation is still garbled, but that's a bug for another day.

Submitted by jason - 2007-04-24 01:44:07
Channels - meshlydev
Tags - debug unicode aim oscar jabber

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Molly McDonald of demogirl.com put together a really nice screencast which demonstrates Meshly's main features. If you're new to Meshly, go check it out.

She did mention a couple things that need fixing, namely that 1) Meshly is a bit short on documentation and 2) there's no way to delete or edit posts. We'll make sure to address both of these issues as we continue to add features and nail down bugs. Thanks Molly!

Submitted by jason - 2007-04-23 19:25:14
Channels - meshlydev
Tags - meshly screencast documentation todo

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Just testing posting from msn on the new server.

Submitted by jason_striegel - 2007-04-10 22:14:50
Channels - meshlydev
Tags - testing debug meshly

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