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Major slashgeo Update & New Media
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on Tuesday March 14, @07:46AM
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The guys at Slashdot are working hard on slashgeo's engine. Last weekend, slashgeo was significantly updated. I can't tell you everything that's new and we'll have to decide which features we'll give you access. In short, this is excellent news. As a first new feature, users have a greater control on the way stories are displayed on the main page depending on the story's type. Go see it for yourself and change your homepage preferences (extended explanation below). We'll introduce and explain new features as fast as we can.
Not related but of interest, CNN Money had a praiseful article last month about Slashdot and the slashcode engine, the engine behind slashgeo.org. Don't miss Very Spatial's superb 47 minutes podcast of the AAG Panel Session on new media.
Not related but of interest, CNN Money had a praiseful article last month about Slashdot and the slashcode engine, the engine behind slashgeo.org. Don't miss Very Spatial's superb 47 minutes podcast of the AAG Panel Session on new media.
Here's how the story display on main page works. Each story is assigned to one or more section (Reviews, Industry, Application domains, Technology, etc). The new system allows you to decide, for each section, how stories appear on your main page. You can decide to fully see all stories from a section to your main page, even stories which were tagged to be "sectionnal" (not on main page) by the slashgeo author. You can decide to only see the headline of some stories (depending on its section type), not the full story. You can also decide you don't care about some sections, say the Calendar section, and entirely remove it from your slashgeo main page. See your homepage preferences to get all the possibilities.
As you might have guessed, this means we'll now use more often sectional stories to keep place for stories we judge of greater interest. An example of a sectional story not fully shown on main page is yesterday's Nike and Google story posted by slashgeo's author dct.
As you might have guessed, this means we'll now use more often sectional stories to keep place for stories we judge of greater interest. An example of a sectional story not fully shown on main page is yesterday's Nike and Google story posted by slashgeo's author dct.
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Slashgeo: slashgeo Adds Flickr Images to User Journals
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Flickr.com acquires slashgeo.org! Just kidding ;-) Amongst the recent enhancements, I added a feature to slashgeo that you won't even find on slashdot: the ability to add Flickr images to your journal entries. Journal what? slashgeo gives every member a journal where you can write stuff in it. You can now share your Maps and Screenshots directly in your journal using this. At your choice, you can let other members comment on your journal entries.
Want to use and try this? Go in your users prefs to add your Flickr ID and then go to your journal and write something and include that Flickr picture! Of course, an explanation would not be complete without a proof of concept ;-) I took the time to update a lot of minor elements of slashgeo, including adding the Last Journal entries slashbox on the righ-hand side of slashgeo's main page.
Want to use and try this? Go in your users prefs to add your Flickr ID and then go to your journal and write something and include that Flickr picture! Of course, an explanation would not be complete without a proof of concept ;-) I took the time to update a lot of minor elements of slashgeo, including adding the Last Journal entries slashbox on the righ-hand side of slashgeo's main page.
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