Rallypoint Says Farewell

Posted by jay on September 15, 2006 under Web2.0 | Be the First to Comment

Has anyone else seen this?
Another Web2.0 is closing it’s doors.
I am only pointing this out because I was about to write a review of Collaboration services.

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The Rallypoint team is sorry to say we will be shutting down within the next 15 days. This is a decision not easily made because we have grown quite attached to our community of users. Although we are proud to have come this far with the product, our personal obligations do not allow us to continue developing Rallypoint toward our ultimate vision.

This was posted on Sept 13, 2006 at their site.
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Add the tagthe.net service to Ultimate Tag Warrior

Posted by jay on under Plugins | Be the First to Comment

A few days ago noticed that the Tag Suggestion functions in Ultimate Tag Warrior were no longer working. So I spent a few hours this week looking into the issue and came up with an alternative solution. UTW provides two Tag Suggestion options. One is from Yahoo and the other from Tagyu. The Yahoo service stopped working because it requires an AppID which I can only assume has either expired or has exceded is maximum number of requests and the Tagyu service stopped working because it has been shut down by the owner.

Well I really liked the Tag Suggestion service so I decided to either fix it in UTW or find an alternative. I fixed the Tagyu service by replacing it with a similar service from tagthe.net and this is what this document is about. But the fix for I the Yahoo service requires an AppID so by hacking the code (similar to the code below) and using my own Yahoo AppID I got the service running again.
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