Agile Nomads
Team Members
- Brian
- Steven Pothoven
- Josh Hemsley
- WOMlinda
What
PeepNote allows the user to import their twitter contacts and keep notes on them, including why they followed them, why they stopped following them, and other notes to help remember the important things about the people you meet online.
Where
- Entry URL:
- http://peepnote.com
- Info / Screencast URL:
- http://www.brianburridge.com/2009/08/24/rails-rumble-09-is-over/
How
acts-as-taggable-on
ar_fixtures
assest_packager
enumerations_mixin
exceptional
in_place_editing
rails_iui
twitter-auth
json
mislav-will-paginate
openrain-action_mailer_tls
scriptaculous
prototype
ostruct library
syntaxhighlighter
free bird icon
Comments
Thank you for your help with the import and walking me trough this process. I think it’s a very helpful site!
I couldn’t login with twitter. I can see this being VERY useful though. Good idea. Good luck in the future! :)
I could see myself using this app. It looks like a great idea, however I couldn’t login to twitter via oauth.
I think this is a great idea and I have been searching for such an app considering we have 21000 Followers and we receive many FFs and RTs daily.
This is a really excellent concept, I love it!! We are cultivating so mant relationships that we can forget very important details about people. PeepNote will fix this and allow us to be seen as thoughtful and friendly as we comment on notes and details about that person from our our records. Way cool!!!!!
Helen Raptoplous
http://www.ActionHabits.com
Love the video easily explaining how to use the site! Great job!
really enjoying the design. innovative yet simple. well done.
what is twitter ? i don’t how used
Wow! I cannot believe how much is packed into this site compared to the others I’ve seen. Really, really nicely done. The UI is clean and super easy to use. Plus, I can see how the millions of Twitter users would love a site like this. Something like this is way overdue!
the site is gorgeous. It needs facebook/linkedin integration as well. Having the ability to ‘star’ people or create groups would really be helpful. Giving direct contact features for urls, twitpics, etc with your starred or preferred people would also be interesting. Awesome job!
Interesting idea, although I can’t imagine wanting to use this.
love the idea. i think it could be a great app!! good luck with the development!
Really awesome design, one of the best I’ve seen this year. Good idea for an app, especially for people that have a lot of friends on Twitter.
A beautiful design combined with great use of the Twitter API is used to fulfill a need for Twitter addicts like myself. This is quite an achievement to pull off in a weekend and I think it has a great future.
I both like the feel and the concept. Very user friendly and very modern feel. Great work! I hope this can be a featured site on cnet or Leo Laporte. Being organized is a good thing, so why not organized in the social world too.
Very nice application, I’ve need it for a long time! It’s missing a few key features to make it “easy” enough to use on a large number of followers.
I like this app. Its very nicely done and really helps scatter-brained, forgetful people like me remember who’s who on their twitter list!
cool app – many of my peeps have two entries.
Wow guys! This app really caught my eye just browsing through the top list. The design is great! Its unbelievable that you were able to create such an attractive site in just 48 hours.
I figured I would come across tons of useless twitter apps here but this is definitely not useless! Its a great concept especially for avid users with many followers. As said below, the API availability is fantastic!! Hope twitter clients latch on to this tool!
Overall this app is my favorite so far! (only gone through 2 though..hehe) Congrats!!Super smooth and sleek. The design is top notch. The functionality even better. Easy and intuitive—I had imported my peeps and was tagging and making notes rather quickly. If only I could get my dev team to crank out apps like this in two days :P Great work!
The app looks great. It does exactly what it says for its function. I was also surprised by the API integration. I’ve always wondered how to keep track of my twitter users. The only way I’ve been able to do so is grouping them in certain groups on tweetdeck. It may be in your plans already, but having a way to group contacts would be a stellar feature. example, School Friends, Web Designers, Programmers, etc
Keep up the good work guys.
Excellent appearance – but more info in the peep list please (maybe the “Why” info). The API was key here and actually raised my usefulness score as I couldn’t see using yet another twitter app… but making this info accessible via the popular clients is the way to go. Great job guys!
Thanks for the great suggestions Ben. PeepNote is going to be 10x more awesome after the competition, when we have more than 48 hours! :)
We are really getting hit by Twitter’s lack of stability. Wouldn’t you know it, we synced with Twitter must be a 100x during the Rumble and never had it go down, now its down all the time. Note: Twitter’s site can be up but their API down. I’ve noticed today that while the site was up for example, trying to edit your settings throws an error.
We should have put up a message that Twitter wasn’t responding, but we never experienced the problem during the Rumble to tip us off to that possibility. Lesson learned.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I think you’ll love all the new things coming to PeepNote after the Rumble.
This feels like a version of Highrise for Twitter, which is interesting. The holy grail would be acquisition by twitter itself, though I think that’s unlikely; providing the API so that third-party tools can use your site is the next best thing, though, so great job!
This is one of the better designed apps in the Rumble this year (according to my non-scientific survey). There are some issues with the UX, mostly related to information not being found or editable where it’d be most helpful. It would be nice to see the reason you’re following someone in the main peep list, for instance – if even just as a hover or expandable section. That’s really a minor complaint, though.
On completeness, I’m wavering – on the one hand, you’ve done a great job on the vast majority of your feature set. Reason for following, tagging, and the like make the site pretty darn useful. On the other hand, search doesn’t work quite like I expected it to (it looks like notes are indexed, but reasons aren’t?) I also had a lot of trouble importing my followees (as did the prior judge). I tried 5 or 6 times in total, and Twitter was available throughout, but I still got 503s on all but the final try. That process needs to be much more stable if you continue beyond the Rumble – maybe you should offload it to a queue?
Despite my earlier comment that this feels like Highrise, I still think it’s an original idea. Good job on that!
I think Peepnote becomes more useful the more people you follow, just like any contact management system. That said, even I (following a paltry 170 or so) can find some good uses for it, and I look forward to using it after the Rumble.
All in all, this is a great, mostly-polished entry. Nicely done!
Thanks for the review Jim. The hang and crash is when Twitter is down. I saw that Twitter was down a few times today. That’s why we added the demo user, knowing how unreliable Twitter can be…unfortunately.
If you tried again you should see it work. We’ve had a lot of people import without problems.
I also use TweetDeck and would continue to do so, but would mark my notes in PeepNote. We are hoping to work with TweetDeck and other 3rd party clients to make the Notes and Tags accessible from within their Apps. I would love to be able to click on a user in TweetDeck and see all my PeepNote notes and also be able to create a column based on my PeepNote tags.
Thanks again for taking the time to write the review.
Great work for a weekend. The best designed of the sites I’ve judged.
Of the twitter based apps, definitely the best concept and functionality I judged.
It did hang and crash trying to import my twitter account but I was able to eval with the demo account, good idea to provide that.
Hard to say if I’d actually use this though. I do almost all my twitter stuff in tweetdeck, hard to imagibe using a 3rd party twitter app site much
Oops, just noticed that the url I have for our app is completely wrong. Should be: http://peepnote.tumblr.com/
We’ve created our app blog at http://www.tumblr.com/docs/custom_domains. We have the video there and an article on using PeepNote and it’s CRM use.
Here’s our overview and tutorial video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iefKbymUM2k
Incredible that such a nice application can be built in less than 48 hours. You guys did an excellent job. The design is great and it amazes me you even included a public API.
Awesome job.