Typo Ideas
A bunch of random ideas on improving Typo, that came during MKW1601 class. Cool lecturer, but somehow the subject makes me think of everything else during lecture.
Typo Visitor Plugins
- Comments with photos
- Who’s reading now
- Global profiles - read from blogspot, xanga, etc profiles
- Automatically link to visitor sites?
- Collect visitor properties
Geographic Tracking
- Detect visitor locations
- Collect visitor info
- Show as “Visitor from Guatemala”
- Local Map for travel photos, entries, visitors, etc.
Linking to friends
- Full separate page of links
- Last updated info (RSS?)
- Sparks for new entries past n days
- Randomize links (based on Bayesian content, on updates, on desperation)
Blog Metrics/Performance Dashboard
- Google bought the blog metrics thingy
- Feedburner. See Typo and Feedburner
- Stats page
- Allow visitors to rate the 7Cs
Branding the blogger
uh.. I have no idea what I was thinking when I made this heading
Mblog
- MMS to blog
- Random images sidebar plug
Encrypted Blogs
- Only an entry date shown, contents encrypted.
- Decrypt secrets key
- Invite readers to assign special codes (one-time?) to specific persons
Ok, this is the real big one that I’m really interested in working on.
There is much need for privacy on blogs. Too many friends of mine have said that there are things they want to say but are afraid to say on their blogs.
A simple encryption tool would have a single, simple purpose: Allow only people with the right keyword to decrypt and read a post.
More on this eventually ;)
Cool, gotta keep these in mind. scribbles frantically
I have a friend in the US who also uses his blog as a testbed for his various scripts (he's a Comp Sci grad working in NASA's JPL). He also built a system where he can send emails from his phone with a phonecam pic as an attachment, then his script would parse the email for the picture and post content and update his journal accordingly with the picture formatted for size. IIRC, he used a Python script for the email parsing and PHP for the updating.
It's called Lazyweb, bro. Post it online and wait for someone else to implement it. hint hint. Your exams ends sooner than mine! Ha! Remember you've got the PG praying for you, so go bring back some more testimonies!
More on the encryption...
Maybe I should implement a javascript-based selection encryption. Just select a bunch of text, click "encrypt", enter key twice, and the selected text is replaced with it's encrypted version. Decryption works the same.
That way encryption can be done on just selected paragraphs rather than the whole text. Then I can start encrypting the juicier ideas I get on MKW1601, rather than just dumping everything here :p
You could actually implement a decryption procedure through PHP, assuming Typo runs on PHP as well. Maybe the decryption key could be stored in a cookie on the client computer (through a "trusted reader" login or something) then you add some lines of code to Typo to decrypt the page automatically before it's sent to the user's browser. Or something like that.
Of course, a simpler way would be to look for a solution already implemented by someone else (LazyWeb™, as you mentioned), or just incorporate a reader filter or something. But then you're a programmer so you know how we like to make things more complicated than they are just for the fun of it. >_>
Speaking of fun, since you put up content on your .com, I'm tempted to finally get the .com for my name (still available). I have a bunch of stuff to try on that if I do, and I suppose I could install Typo on it just to see how everything works. Or I could just use my other sites for that. Hmmm.
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Hmmm... the thing about this encryption (or ALL cryptography in general), is that no one uses anything that requires even a bit of learning curve. :S
The idea is to have a one-click encrypt/decrypt, no login or anything. And make it work anywhere. (So log in/cookies/etc are no go).
I want to post up, eg, a short paragraph of encrypted text, like:
anstoeumsoamault212SAOEU12.3u,rcb.'s3Z Au'./-23982dhibta0hdxtnaokmlghidhb,.p[0423 [decrypt]
and allow visitors to click to decrypt. It's not top security anyways, just to make sure only people I actually know get the full juicy details. Webbots, spammers, random visitors need not apply.
Have you seen SonyEricsson phones' Code Memo function? Something like that... it encrypts the memo with the code word as hash (uh... jargon abuse!). Any code word can decrypt the memo, but only the right code will result in something that make sense.
OH! OH! If you want to get your own .com, check out the $1.99 promo at widecert.net
I've gotta buy a SSL cert or two.. you can hitch your domain on my purchase.