http://pumpd.org/blog blog typecinch en-us 2007-05-29T00:00:01-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pumpd.org/blog:68 ]]> hmmm...I've been reading the documentation about the new facebook platform, that thing is wicked. Facebook is going to take over the internet. It's going to turn into the central hub for life on the internet it seems. I can think of tons of applications that could be built for it. Basically take the idea for any Web 2.0 application and you could make it for f8. It's genius! 2007-05-29T10:05:54-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:68 http://pumpd.org/blog:67 ]]> http://developers.facebook.com/videos.php?hackathon

2007-05-25T10:45:12-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:67 http://pumpd.org/blog:66 ]]> kickn ass and take'n names? 2007-05-24T19:35:15-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:66 http://pumpd.org/blog:65 ]]>
Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/functions.php on line 636

when adding my address to location and pushing save 2007-05-24T06:17:47-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:65 http://pumpd.org/blog:64 ]]> We popped up on the product directory just now... neat.

http://developers.facebook.com/products.php?&desktop=&sort=1 2007-05-23T14:48:44-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:64 http://pumpd.org/blog:63 ]]> the 'feedback' link is only accessable on the front page when you're logged out. Might want to make it slightly more accessable... 2007-05-22T15:33:07-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:63 http://pumpd.org/blog:62 ]]> damn boy, you are just on fire with this thing lately. Every time i turn my head there's a new feature. I'm workin on making a to-do list for myself fixing up the legal is one of them (theres a few things I noticed - I've been reading contracts at work the past few days so im starting to get used to it) Keep up the awesome work, but don't forget to have a beer now and then ;) Shit at this rate I'm about to fedex you a couple. 2007-05-21T10:23:59-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:62 http://pumpd.org/blog:61 ]]> http://pumpd.org/legal
check it out, lemme know what you think. I'll still have to go back through that and fix a few things and add a few things, but i think thats the jest of it. 2007-04-26T08:38:50-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:61 http://pumpd.org/blog:60 ]]> i've been looking at the legal terms and privacy (required by facebook api) trying to throw something together. Just looking at facebook and a few other examples, holy crap does it get huge and mumbo jumboish fast. If you have any ideas on what to include let me know.

HOLY CRAP, there's a hidden button? so does that make it so only you and I can see it or something?

(I cleaned all the straggler comments off of this thread) 2007-04-24T13:40:29-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:60 http://pumpd.org/blog:59 ]]> hah, i went to add this to the blog, and i was like....wtf....theres no edit button! Cool...heh....just wasnt prepared for it I guess.
Anywho, for some reason I got 10 emails from pumpd in my yahoo email today? All the pumpd chatter and event creation we did when testing it. So I dunno what you did, but I got a lot of emails. ;) 2007-04-18T21:33:53-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:59 http://pumpd.org/blog:58 ]]> Hey, just wanted to let you know I got the emails to the following:
customerservice@pumpd.org
god@pumpd.org
feature@pumpd.org

What email do you have those forwarding to? I have all my email collected by a gmail account and it doesn't tell me who it was forwarded/sent to other that the pumpd address. 2007-04-16T18:57:41-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:58 http://pumpd.org/blog:57 ]]> Rev 1 done at the pumpd wiki. 2007-04-15T14:22:51-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:57 http://pumpd.org/blog:56 ]]> facebook changed their layout! I kinda like it. Cool... 2007-04-11T11:27:29-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:56 http://pumpd.org/blog:55 ]]> STEP 1 - Login to Facebook / read FAQ / About / ect
STEP 2 - Configure Challenge components (has sub-steps depending on event obviously. Parameters of challenge are determined by event type, so it'd be nice to have them make that choice first)
STEP 3 - GET PUMPD! (submit / create challenge - having this extra step helps in 2 ways. Allows for easier configuration of more complex challenges, and prevents the accidental challenge to the wrong person or the wrong event a little more likely. It's pretty easy to accidently challenge your little sister to pool at the bar for shots or something, having this extra step helps i think, lemme know what you think on this...what we could also do is have create QUICK PUMPD CHALLENGE, and create COMPLEX PUMPD CHALLENGE or something, and explain it more in the FAQ, i dunno)
STEP 4 - Talk shit / adjust challenge paramaters
STEP 5 - Compete
STEP 6 - Event closeout / stats or whatever
STEP 7 - Repeat

Let me know what you think of this flow. Damn, i just rhymed!
2007-04-11T06:29:15-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:55 http://pumpd.org/blog:54 ]]> http://pumpd.pbwiki.com/Event-Abouts

The first two, or the ones later on. Would you rather I explain what the game is about for people who don't know, or assume they do and rile them up a bit. I think I like the second option better, but that could just be me. 2007-04-10T10:59:23-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:54 http://pumpd.org/blog:53 ]]> in case you're wondering what im up to lately, along with work pouring it on, they decided to make me move to town. So im apartment hunting / moving ect...
Hows it goin? Haven't heard from you either in a while. Still catching up on those drunk days off? 2007-04-09T21:48:08-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:53 http://pumpd.org/blog:52 ]]> http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2261927130 2007-04-03T06:25:20-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:52 http://pumpd.org/blog:51 ]]> Ok, I spent the last week in a drunken haze back in my college town... and it was awesome.

I have a bunch of real work to do, but when I get some free time I'll start knocking out the little things that are bugging me. 2007-04-02T10:31:37-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:51 http://pumpd.org/blog:50 ]]> So ya, I was bored at work for an hr or 2, and I was updating that wiki previously mentioned with some stuff...and then I realized I was ending everything with GET PUMPD!.....
so i got trigger happy, and started collecting domains and pointing them at pumpd.org

http://getpumpd.com
http://getpumpd.org
http://getpumpd.net
http://getpumped.org (.com and .net were taken, not sure why i registered this one, but whatever...)
Anywho, all are registered to me on my dreamhost account pointing to pumpd.org.

Also, other domains to do with pumpd:

http://pumpd.wordpress.com
http://getpumpd.wordpress.com
http://getpumpd.blogspot.com
http://pumpd.pbwiki.com/
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=581821083
(Get Pumpd facebook profile, nothing has really been added to this)

So ya, that should probably go in our 'internal' wiki or something...
2007-03-29T14:20:02-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:50 http://pumpd.org/blog:49 ]]> just noticed something kinda funny with the icon for the event 'weight lifting'. Just look where the i is in weight............
:)

might wanna adjust that a tad. 2007-03-28T21:42:41-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:49 http://pumpd.org/blog:48 ]]> So something that kinda followed from round 1, I created those events, and deleted them...ect. Made a new event, and it kept a comment from a previous event. Also, it kept the ids of people who visited that previous event. So i guess we either need to purge the data or just not use that event again, increment anyway even if its been deleted. 2007-03-28T21:27:28-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:48 http://pumpd.org/blog:47 ]]> just so you know, IE butchers the 'chatter' underneath events. IE6.0 at least. I'm not sure of the resolution on the computer im using it on (as Im at a training seminar all day on some small crappy computer) but ya, IE is throwing some fits. On this page as im writing it, IE says it doesnt support something on Line22 char 1 also.
Doesnt throw errors on the event page, just cuts off the right hand side of my comments because my facebook pic is a lot wider than yours. Dunno how to fix this besides set a max pic width size or something so it auto resizes down (while keeping aspect ratio) to stop it from cutting off. Dunno if it does this in firefox, i just noticed it now in IE and dont have FF available on this crap computer. 2007-03-28T09:55:04-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:47 http://pumpd.org/blog:46 ]]> ERROR: exception 'FacebookRestClientException' with message 'Call_id must be greater than previous' in /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php:331 Stack trace: #0 /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php(291): FacebookRestClient->call_method('facebook.users....', Array) #1 /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/functions.php(583): FacebookRestClient->users_getInfo('8615487', 'name') #2 /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/functions.php(53): getName('8615487') #3 /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/challenge.php(155): inviteGroup() #4 /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/challenge.php(86): loadInvite('12', '1', '6', 0, true, 1) #5 /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/main.php(56): require('/home/.maddalen...') #6 /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/typecinch/layout.php(377): main('6', '11', '12', '1', true) #7 /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/typecinch/layout.php(405): loadModule() #8 /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/typecinch/layout.php(423): showLocation() #9 /home/.maddalena/pumpd/pumpd.org/index.php(131): showAll() #10 {main}

Not sure what happened, but I created a challenge, friend creates an almost identical challenge, went into challenge it it threw a hissy. 2007-03-27T18:59:37-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:46 http://pumpd.org/blog:45 ]]> Not sure how you want to handle this, but i was playing with pbwiki the other day, and so i went there and quickly grabbed http://pumpd.pbwiki.com/
pass: same as admin password

this might not be / and probably wont be enough for what we all need, but what we could do is include feature requests in part of a faq / wiki thing. I dont know if you've ever played with mediawiki before, but we could use something like that for a FAQ portion and part of the same thing we could have a feature request page on there. 2007-03-27T18:29:52-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:45 http://pumpd.org/blog:44 ]]> First goal 110% done

BetaV1 of pumpd has been completed to my liking and is ready for crash testing

I'm going back to Laramie Wyo for the next few days to party it up 2007-03-27T17:17:39-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:44 http://pumpd.org/blog:43 ]]> With the first goal in mind, I have spent the last couple days chugging away. (nearly a 1000 lines of code already)

I'm also keeping in mind some of the more advanced things beyond goal 1 so it is going to be pretty flexible and expandable

hard links will be pretty simple:
http://pumpd.org/?c=2 2007-03-22T16:15:06-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:43 http://pumpd.org/blog:42 ]]> I edited the short about on the front page. However I put it in a list format and it doesnt show up as one. Haven't tracked down why its not outputting as a list, but i'm guessing its just in how it returns the $text or in how PHP itself works (as you can tell, php isnt my strong suit..heh). So ya, if you could fix that so it works the way i told it to in html thatd be cool. I'll go back and look at it once you change it so i know for future reference how it works.
Thx 2007-03-22T08:59:08-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:42 http://pumpd.org/blog:38 ]]> (i moved this to the top to keep it current)

just a simple thread to document what files I'm using for what.
It should also help you figure out what you need to edit if you want to change something.

******admin**********
add new events here: http://pumpd.org/events

******files**********
facebooklogin.php - login and session setup plus basic functions
quickabout.php - quick explanation for the front page
main.php - main front page display
challenge.php - how a challenge page is displayed
events.php - section for editing events table of database
fblogout.php - automatic logout and redirect to main page
bottombar.php - small links at the bottom

*********database**********
events
users

2007-03-21T14:56:31-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:38 http://pumpd.org/blog:41 ]]> I tried to make a list of the most popular events on my campus that I was either involved in or heard a lot about. So here they are in no particular order (even tho they're numbered)
1. Basketball (1v1)
2. Bar Game - Fooseball (1v1 or 2v2)
3. Bar Game - Pool (1v1 or 2v2)
4. Bar Game - Beer Pong (1v1 or 2v2)
5. Track and Field - Running 1Mile (1v1 or more)
6. Track and Field - Running 40yrd dash (1v1 or more)
7. Golf 18 Holes (1v1 or more)
8. Console Game - Football (1v1)
9. Board Game - Chess (1v1)
10. Board Game - Checkers (1v1)
11. Bar Game - Darts (1v1 or 2v2)
12. Racquetball (1v1 or 1v1v1 or 2v2)
13. Badmitton (1v1 or 2v2)
14. Cycling - 3 Mile (1v1 or more)
15. Track and Field - Running 3 Mile (1v1 or more)
16. Skiing - Downhill (1v1 or more)
17. Snowboarding - Downhill (1v1 or more)
18. Sudoku Race (1v1 or more)
19. Swimming - 50yrd freestyle (1v1 or more)
20. Weight Lifting - Bench Press (1v1 or more)
21. Weight Lifting - Squat (1v1 or more)
22. Tennis (1v1 or 2v2)
23. Texas Holdem (1vMore than one)

As you can see, most are individual events, however some can be team vs team so we would need groups for them to do that. Also, some are 1v1 or more which will also test having 3 or more people in an event like a free for all.

Feel free to delete any or add any, doesnt matter to me. 2007-03-21T11:54:36-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:41 http://pumpd.org/blog:40 ]]> Tried to submit comment:
ya, saw that on some blog earlier today, tiz cool. Also, loving the idea of the moderation on wagers. We could set rules as to what is allowed in the custom box, and well, if they want to say 'I'll bet you my left shoe' is really 'I'll bet you 20 bucks', as long as we don't know about it I dont care ;)
Come to think of it, might want to do some moderating on the trash talking on events sites. Not so much in the way as moderate every comment, more like have it able to be reported or something with a tiny button. I dunno, just an idea if u think we might need that.

and it gave me this:

Cant: SELECT * FROM pumpd_picturelist_blog_comments WHERE pid=37 AND who='Carl' AND text='ya, saw that on some blog earlier today, tiz cool. Also, loving the idea of the moderation on wagers. We could set rules as to what is allowed in the custom box, and well, if they want to say 'I'll bet you my left shoe' is really 'I'll bet you 20 bucks', as long as we don't know about it I dont care ;) Come to think of it, might want to do some moderating on the trash talking on events sites. Not so much in the way as moderate every comment, more like have it able to be reported or something with a tiny button. I dunno, just an idea if u think we might need that.'
2007-03-20T22:26:49-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:40 http://pumpd.org/blog:37 ]]> set up a system where a single facebook user can challenge another single facebook user to an event that is created on our end.
when a challenge goes out, a page (pumpd.org/*id*) will be created that will track the event
the main page will then reflect the simple challenges until the user logs in, at which time they are given the option to challenge friends to our events

so we'll need a table to track challenges, one to track events, and one to track users

I will probably just create filler graphics as I go along and we can redo them professionally if we find something that works. For instance, I think we will need a iconic graphic to represent every different challenge event. Like... if it's pool at the bar, we'll need a cool 'web 2.0' graphic for pool

-------------------------

more thoughts...
next weekend I'm going back to my college town and in this instance, I'd like to go play golf with my brother.
this is kind of what I thought pumpd would be used for...

I'd like to be able to challenge my brother to: a game golf... on a certain day (but not a specific time)... at a certain golf course (use google maps for the location?) ...and the loser has to buy beers at the buckhorn bar

When I create that challenge, pumpd should email both of us the info ... and any other friends we check as 'involved'
if any parties don't have a pumpd email address saved, they should be sent an automated(you still have to hit send) private facebook message alerting them to go to pumpd.org to see their challenge.

also, the user should probably be able to post some sort of link to the other user's wall ... sort of like... calling them out in public... then when anyone clicks through, we'll have spectators and chat (if enabled by challengers) ... and people can say what side they think is going to win ... or read that I wrote a note that 'everyone's invited to the buckhorn after I whoop him at golf!' sort of things...

that seems like a sort of fun little way to challenge people or just let someone know you wanna hang out...
...or even a playful way to get a date... I could challenge an ex to pool at the buckhorn bar friday night... whoop whoop

haha just ideas... what are your thoughts?
2007-03-20T18:50:55-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:37 http://pumpd.org/blog:39 ]]> Working on a spreadsheet with some data in it. I'll upload it so you can take a look at it and make suggestions / additions. There are some fields which are not filled in yet obviously, but just so I don't get too far down the wrong path, take a look and let me know. I was thinking of finding/making the icons and just uploading them someplace on the server with a link to them in that list. You'll see, just take a look and gimme some feedback.

http://pumpd.org/uploads/Events.xls
2007-03-20T09:31:21-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:39 http://pumpd.org/blog:36 ]]> because I've been racking it for an over all feel of what I want out of this back-end...

I've drawn a couple things up and thought through the process a lot and I keep coming up with something that won't take off...

I have distilled out a couple good ideas that I'll use later but for now I really feel like I'm missing the one simple 'idea' that is going to draw repeat traffic.

Since I've taken the stand-back-and-think-about-it route already and didn't really get anything I thought would work, I'm just going to start screwing with stuff and see if we somehow get something worth while out of it.

If there was a written part such as the about section that I could use as a big picture guide, that might help.

Also, I think using the word 'revolutionary' to describe anything we are doing is a little too up our own ass.

Just some thoughts.... 2007-03-19T10:48:40-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:36 http://pumpd.org/blog:35 ]]> On 3/16/07, Linda Saint Marc wrote:
Please be advised pumpd.com is not for sale.

Well....that answers that question... 2007-03-16T08:44:45-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:35 http://pumpd.org/blog:34 ]]> I did some work on the cms, it should be holding comment cookies now :)

2007-03-15T12:26:06-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:34 http://pumpd.org/blog:33 ]]> dreamhost's panel is a pain in my ass

I've been trying to get an ftp account set up so you can just get into my pumpd.org folder for like 2 hours

it forces a new user's home dir to be /home/username

pumpd.org is at /home/ozzie/pumpd.org so I tried creating a symbolic link between there and /home/carlmoeller/ (a new user I added)... no dice... piece of crap

the link is set up but it's not there... must be a permissions thing

try ftping to hops.dreamhost.com username:carlmoeller and the password is the same as this site
if the pumpd folder is empty, you can't see the link

any ideas?

I'll keep messing with it 2007-03-14T11:07:50-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:33 http://pumpd.org/blog:32 ]]> just trying to figure out what colors to use

blues:
3b5998
6d84b4
afbed4
d8dfea

grays:
e9e9e9

should our logo match up with those or should we go with the red/blue clash?

btw, good work on filling in the info along the way like the search engine stuff... that is the stuff I always lack the brain/hype ability to do :) 2007-03-14T10:08:18-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:32 http://pumpd.org/blog:31 ]]> ok, i put in the google analytics code in the footer and it seems to be reporting nicely. I added you on there so you can see it, but you have to use a gmail account, so I set it up for your austin@pumpd.org account. However, you need to set up gmail for the domain before that will work (i think i sent you directions on how to do that in an email, maybe it was a blog post). Anyway, just so you know.

Colors + Header: I've been playing with the colors and stuff. I like it how theres the pumpd.org logo in the upper right, but I think the main logo needs to move up to be in-line with it, but I cannot seem to find where that header is or if I even have access to it in the layout section.

Actually there's a lot of stuff i dont really have access too, like the php stuff for footer...well i dont really care about the footer cause I think it looks good. But ya, I was going to edit the text for the Short about at the opening page but i couldnt get access to the custom php (separate php file on your server I assume). So maybe I'll whip something up for a short about and telling them to login and you'll have to play with it.

Oh, weird thing in IE (6.0 anyway...). In firefox the EDIT in the top right corner looks like the pumpd.org logo in the top left corner...well in IE 6 the EDIT just looks like text. So dunno whats going on there (stupid IE, unfortunately most people still use it for some reason).

Anywho, that was a short update.
2007-03-13T11:53:53-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:31 http://pumpd.org/blog:30 ]]> I really like the small pumpd.org in the upper left corner, however I dont know about the grayish bar at the top and then the white, it just kinda looks weird. I dunno, its not really important right now. But what I do really like is the layout, its really looking good. 2007-03-12T19:54:44-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:30 http://pumpd.org/blog:29 ]]> so just now I was trying to figure out how to get this font 'Myriad' in a close css look-alike... so I searched: Myriad in css

...and that took me here http://www.nicklewis.org/ where I was like... wow cool style... so i looked around... and there was a link to your site... weird how the world is connected : ) 2007-03-12T19:24:36-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:29 http://pumpd.org/blog:28 ]]> pumpd logo is uploaded. The 'woman' says a white back ground would be best for the logo, but you can play around with it. Time for some Eye Candy :) Oh, and maybe think of other logos / icons we might need....favicon for example...I'll keep a list of stuff to find/make/get her to make (her name is Fran b.t.w.) 2007-03-12T16:24:09-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:28 http://pumpd.org/blog:27 ]]> STATS! The ability for team captains / people to record statistics of their games. So they won 23-20 in basketball 1v1 vs John or something. Then we can implement a ranking scheme later or something.
So stats would be a combo of 3 places.
Main page - rankings, latest stats or something
Stats page - full stats
Event page - where they would input the stats. Obviously for stats to count both parties must agree on the outcome or its not counted. Not sure what the best way to handle stats certification is tho...cause there's always going to be punks trying to beat it. I guess thats for the more indepth period of development tho. 2007-03-12T11:00:34-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:27 http://pumpd.org/blog:26 ]]> Number 1 already. We're awesome. 2007-03-12T09:39:23-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:26 http://pumpd.org/blog:25 ]]> Front page
-pumpd logo
-Login To Facebook
-Challenge friend - GET PUMPD
-Short About (explain must login to facebook to use, brief about pumpd functionality, link to FAQ and large about).


FAQ
-self explanitory


Large About
-self explanitory (include about the authors or something too maybe)


Main page (after login)
-Facebook info (possibly name + pic of user and linkback to their profile)
-List of currently enrolled pumpd events (dates / friends involved, each event listed links to that event)
-Add event / get PUMPD (link to separate page or on same page? - I'll treat it as seperate page for now)
-I was thinking have small links at the bottom of the page like facebook has for FAQ, About, Blog, Terms, Privacy, ect)
-Logout button somewhere
-Possibly a feed of pumps friends are involved in recently
-Possibly a feed of latest comments / shit talking


Get PUMPD page (add event / team)
-Add Team (for team events) - list friends and pick from them - send emails saying they are invited, team name, possibly team captain chosen or something for coordination purposes - could cut down on email going around by just notifying team captain manditory and everyone else optionally.
-Add Event (school/group will be filled in automatically unless we make outside group events, like Wisconsin vs Wyoming club / university level baseball or something)
-possible fields include (Level(University, Club, Intramural, non-sanctioned), Event type, event time, people / group / team challenged, people / group / team initiating the challenge - so if they choose baseball for instance, a group/team whatever must be specified - otherwise person initiating the challenge is auto filled)
-possibly facebook info on one side
-possibly list of friends to challenge
-small links at the bottom of every page as before (about, faq, ect)


PUMPD Event page
-Participants (either people or group/teams - could always click thru to see group members to cut down on stuff on the page)
-All info included in event detailed (type, level, ect ect)
-Shit talking (must be logged in and a member of the pumpd event to shit talk)
-links at bottom of page
-notification options (emails, comments)
-modify event link (only available to team captains or something)
-link to code or something so they can place PUMPD event on their blog /facebook profile / wall or something (possibly include this in first notification email we send out or something)


All righty then. Let me know what you think of these options, im sure I missed a bunch but thats a pretty hefty start. Feel free to change everything as I was just throwing out possibilities. 2007-03-12T07:38:57-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:25 http://pumpd.org/blog:24 ]]> VISIO for OSX?
I know microsoft doesnt port VISIO to osx, but is there something else we could use to toss flowcharts..ect back and forth? I can get into parallels for visio but obviously you cant. I was thinking of making a flow chart of the project functionality for the user (or even the backend too). Just wondering if you knew of a good program we could use. 2007-03-09T09:59:29-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:24 http://pumpd.org/blog:23 ]]> I've got the major hurdles of figuring out how to interface with the fql done. Now we need to start tossing around ideas and hammering out a basic scheme so we can start writing the back end.

what do we want our users' experience to be like?
2007-03-08T16:38:53-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:23 http://pumpd.org/blog:22 ]]> Let me know what you think, and also what size. Obviously that one is small by comparison to what we'd use, but since its made in adobe illustrator is completely scalable. 2007-03-07T20:59:47-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:22 http://pumpd.org/blog:21 ]]> I like how there are 912 and we just start ranked 2nd

We probably need to change the description for google in the layout section (in the 'Headers (for search engines)' part)

I'm sure we will jump to one as soon as we get linked, but it's just funny.

2007-03-07T17:57:00-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:21 http://pumpd.org/blog:20 ]]> ok, I've added external php functionality to the cms and ran the update so now we can start with the facebook interaction. I will soon create a testing area for facebook calls. 2007-03-07T13:43:48-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:20 http://pumpd.org/blog:19 ]]> I was reading an article about mobile domains and the like. What if, and im in no way saying from immediate launch, but what if we had a 'service' eventually that would let pumpd.org interact with cell phones...m.pumpd.org...i know facebook has a mobile component m.facebook.com. When you think about it most people want to know when their friend wants to go play some basketball/ect and where...and with the boom of mobile phones w/web we could interact 1 of 2 way or both...whichever. m.pumpd.org you could login to facebook and issues challenges...and or check when stuff is. Or you could have a text message sent to your friend with a challenge/info. Both of which are something to think about, but i dont really want to worry about that with the initial stuff...its just too complicated/too much to do already. But i'd be willing to bet that if pumpd.org takes off a lot of users will be using their cell phones instead of a computer. FYI: Facebook Mobile FAQ
2007-03-05T11:01:23-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:19 http://pumpd.org/blog:18 ]]> I noticed the RSS feed doesnt have
or anything in the posts. It's just a continuous run of text with no blank lines. At least in google reader anyway. Just a heads up.


2007-03-05T08:19:27-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:18 http://pumpd.org/blog:17 ]]> It cut off my comment -->
hmm...as far as bets go. I would love it, but I'd be a little careful about money changing hands and US keeping a record of it. Cause then the IRS / gov might come callin. But maybe we could have pre-defined bets that are small that wouldnt attract attention...like have it pre-set to dinner or a drink or has to kiss his feet or something. Another thing that would be cool tho is to have champion trophies or something to the 1/2/3 place people/teams or something. We could probably create graphics for those really easily.

Diarrhea of the brain is the best way to get ideas! That way they aren't limited and we can go back and cross out the ones that we don't like.

I really like the idea of the 'foot in the door' and the functionality of the initial page / login type stuff. Also, I agree that we are going to need a pull down menu because of how many different activities we are going to have...along with the events/challenges that they have already participated in or signed up for.

There is a share feature in facebook and I know i've used it for photo's before. It would be nice to be able to integrate that share feature into our challenges so when they form a challenge they could share it with all participants or something. Also, extra stuff link is a definite yes.

I'm not quite sure on the naming thing yet. The EE/programmer in me wants to do the pumpd.org/123 to make it easy...but then again people want to name their events to promote them. I just think it will get too out of hand if we let them name all the events. Like basketballkillazUWMadison1v1round2 and so on. But maybe we could do pumpd.org/Wisconsin/basketball/1v1/123 or something so they know its basketball 1v1 at Wisconsin or something. I dunno...this is still up in the air i guess. I think as long as we let them name their teams whatever they want it will be fine to use simple naming conventions and numbers. Also, definitely list something so they can add it to their blog/profile or something to create more buzz about pumpd and reach more interest.

When making the challenge we should definitely have the option to turn off email notifications and or what they will be notified about. Every person who joins should have that ability to control what they want to see, not just the creator of the event...because what if the creator doesnt want any email, but most teammates want to be able to talk smack at the other team every time they make a comment. Ect.

I think i addressed everything, ill read it again and see. 2007-03-05T07:11:13-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:17 http://pumpd.org/blog:16 ]]> some loose functionality ideas:


first, list our events from our db as 'challenge facebook friend(s) to *our event*' ... or 'give an opinion (talksmack) about *our event* ... or get pumped for *our event* ... the advantage of this side is that it doesn't require a facebook log in until they have clicked a button ...foot-in-the-door salesmanship?

there should also be a button at the top that says 'challenge a facebook friend to a facebook event' this will require them to log in. Once they log in we can pretty much list their events as 'challenge friend(s) to *event*' buttons and then list their friends as 'challenge *friend* to *event*' buttons

I was thinking a pull down menu would be cool for each selection, but I would think friends and events would also need to be displayed with a facebook profile pic or event profile pic

once they make some sort of a challenge, we direct them to a predefined private message to the person they want to challenge or talk smack to that says something like:


You've been challenged to *event*, better get pumpd!
http://pumpd.org/event


once the other user clicks through we pick up his info too...

now we have both faces and we can post a full head-to-head challenge on our site...
[we can only store the two users' facebook ids so we have to query all the other info on each load]
(then allow a whole commenting/pumping up side that is our information to use freely in our own database ... we could show what users have logged in to the challenge and who has pumpd what side..)
...probably also link to the facebook event if it exists...
so pumpd.org/234 would be challenge 234... people could copy and paste that to their profiles, groups, walls, or walls

or even pumpd.org/thekeystoneclassic
should we shoot for giving events/challenges/editorials(smacktalkin?) an easy to promote identity?

oh now that I think of it there is a facebook share feature right...? people could create the challenge on pumpd and then there could be one of those (share +) buttons that just shares it to their feed/profile.... I think that might be the best way to do it...

(we could include extra stuff link the html to copy and paste to an external site or their personal blog)

diarrhea of the brain right now... feel free to edit any of this stuff(!!)

putting away ego and focusing on what is going to be the most successful is hard but necessary in this situation

should we get their email address to notify them of things like when their facebook friends come comment on the challenge or get pumpd for one side or the other (i think email should be an optional check when you make the challenge... we don't want to be spammy)




2007-03-03T13:20:25-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:16 http://pumpd.org/blog:15 ]]> I dont know if we should really include the 'sponserd' sports for colleges, but it would be kinda fun to have on there so the players could add it to their profile. Also, I'm not sure how many sports are Co-Rec at the school level, but heres what i've got so far...

I was thinking kind of a multi-tiered approach of level / type of participants / competitive activity.

School(AvB) - Men's, Women's, Co-Rec
Club(AvB) - Men's, Women's, Co-Rec
Team(XvX) - Men's, Women's, Co-Rec
Individual(1v1, 1vAll) - Men's, Women's, Co-Rec

And then an activity under these. The list of activities for each level / participants could be defined, or we could just do a lump group of activities.

Here is a list of Club sports at UW-Madison:
Aikido EagleClaw Kung Fu Lacrosse-Women's Volleyball - Men's
Archery Fencing Racquetball Volleyball - Women's
Badminton Figure Skating Rugby - Men's Water Polo - Men's
Baseball Frisbee - Men's Rugby - Women's Water Polo - Women's
Budo Frisbee - Women's Running Water Ski &
Wakeboard Team
Capoeira Ice Hockey Shorin-Ryu Karate
Chinese Wu Shu Japanese Karate Tae Kwon Do Wrestling Club
Cycling Kendo Tennis Club
Dance Elite Lacrosse - Men's Triathlon

Most of these can be included at all levels...
But we could also include non 'supported' activites at the school/org level.

Other activites off the top of my head:
Beer pong, chess, rowing, soccer, tennis, track, i dunno, there are tons of ideas.
2007-03-02T11:18:24-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:15 http://pumpd.org/blog:14 ]]> First, when i go into edit mode, it stretches the window way out to the right (im at work, so I have a minimal screen resolution.....ugh i wish they'd use macbook pros..heh). So whatever is doing that if you could find it thatd be great.
Second: Have you ever used google analytics before? http://www.google.com/analytics/ Its a great way to keep stats on your site, and all you have to do is enter these lines of code:




_uacct = 'UA-1405961-4';
urchinTracker();


That UA number is so it sends it to my google analytics so i can see the stats, if you sign up you can put both UA numbers in there. Each UA number is different per site. (well, the middle number i think is the customer number at google, the last number is the 1st, 2nd..ect site that you added to the list to watch.) Try it out, (you need a gmail account so if you still need one let me know, i wonder if you can use your austin@pumpd.org???)

Oh, you can also track different pages...like pumpd.org/blog or something 2007-03-02T06:24:54-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:14 http://pumpd.org/blog:13 ]]> 5 bucks a day? 2007-03-01T22:59:09-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:13 http://pumpd.org/blog:12 ]]> do you think we should start with an initial set of competitions that are allowed, of should we leave it wide open like facebook does with groups? I mean, we could come up with quite a few, but i doubt we'll hit them all. Maybe start with a set of as much as we can think of, and let them expand it? Lemme know your thoughts on this. 2007-03-01T22:29:27-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:12 http://pumpd.org/blog:11 ]]> Wow, today was busy for me, didn't get as much done as I hoped I would. I have some really neat ideas for logos tho that I'm trying to get my g/f to make for me. She designed a couple of them. Should have some more time tomorrow to work on what we need to include in the main content. 2007-03-01T19:20:08-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:11 http://pumpd.org/blog:10 ]]> Google apps is setup and ready to rock-n-roll. See email i sent you for instructions / login...ect. 2007-03-01T06:52:13-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:10 http://pumpd.org/blog:9 ]]> First: showed my g/f the logo.....she laughed at me...heh But she said she would try to whip something up for us in between her other jobs.
Second, as far as icon collections go, ive got some links bookmarked but haven't had the chance to go through them yet...as I think a logo is probably the most important thing right now. That, and it'd probably be a good idea to make a list of what icons/logo's we need/what format before we go searching for icons too in depth. That being said, here's a few sites with free icons.
http://openclipart.org/
http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/index.php?sort=date
http://www.everaldo.com/crystal.html

Third, i just noticed you have the favicon setup already...heh...nice. (obviously that'll get re-done along with the logo). But i'm liking the boxing gloves. 2007-02-28T21:14:02-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:9 http://pumpd.org/blog:8 ]]> Hey, just wondering if you backordered pumpd.com or contacted the owner to try to buy it off of him. I was planning on pursuing that, but obviously dont want to if you already have...it would make the owner think there is too much interest. 2007-02-28T20:55:47-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:8 http://pumpd.org/blog:7 ]]> Ok, time for the tricky legal craps. I know it doesn't really matter up front since we basically have all the stuff we need to work on the website for a long time before we get it setup and everything, but we need to whip up a document with our signatures and make copies of it for each of us, so we can split the costs / assets. We can do this a bunch of different ways, some require just a paper and a couple signatures, others require actual registeration with a state as a company (LLC, LLP, partnership...ect). Advantage of the registration with a state, is we could get advertisements payable to the company, and a company bank account....ect ect, downside is we'd have to pay for the LLC and file reports for it every year...while this isn't really impossible it is cumbersome when we're not really making a lot of money cause we'd probably do it ourselves. Once its profitable by a decent margin, the LLC/LLP is definitely the way to go IMO. But for now, id probably just suggest a joint venture agreement. Which is basically just a piece of paper with some terms on it for division of costs/assets and our signatures. Let me know which way to go and i'll look into it more. If you want to go with the joint venture agreement I'll get a draft going and email/upload it for you to look over and make suggestions (mostly ill just copy one off the internet and edit out stuff that doesnt pertain to us). 2007-02-28T19:18:15-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:7 http://pumpd.org/blog:6 ]]> ok the blog is cleaned up and back to being public

pumpd.org/blog

when we start getting traffic we can find a better way of hiding it, but there's no need for now

(the feed is working too) 2007-02-28T09:39:23-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:6 http://pumpd.org/blog:5 ]]> Read an interesting post this morning about advertisers and a new program/service --> http://www.johnchow.com/rmx-direct-getting-the-ad-networks-to-fight-over-you/

2007-02-28T09:16:10-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:5 http://pumpd.org/blog:2 ]]> To increase involvement in the site, it would be cool to be able to advertise to specific schools specific messages... like... 'your so and so team has been pumpd X times and so and so oppenent is only pumpd X, click to pump up the so and so' ...at least it would get clicks... probably start shit talking

-austin
2007-02-27T21:06:52-07:00 blog http://pumpd.org/blog:2