mihar

Yep.

Hey, good questions.

A.) You can't download the video, because videos are owned by YouTube and their creators. We just overlay the audio and play the original videos. You can embed the resulting videos though.

B.) Every video has a one-pager with a permalink, like on YouTube.

I agree. Less useful for you, more useful for someone who likes HAML, SASS and CoffeeScript.

I agree that this not an optimal start point for someone who just heard of Backbone.js.

I do think, though, that if someone will still be a bit confused how to stitch things together after reading and poking around for a while, this sort of skeleton could provide just enough insight.

I released this as something that seemed useful to me and in that context should be useful to at least someone else.

If you're unfamiliar with the Ruby world, the usefulness somewhat disappears, but that's said in the prerequisites.

Agree. But I doubt any beginner in web development will be touching Backbone.

It's one thing to prompt the user when you start recording and another to need to go to chrome://flags.

Permissions for privacy invading features should IMO have a unified interface like they have in the OS like Mountain Lion.

It works better as in "is supported on more platforms". But here we were solving the Chrome problem specifically.

It seems it "slipped" through the cracks, although it was discovered before they released version 23 for Mac.

They are working on a fix, but in the meantime, lots of people are inconvenienced using tools dealing with mic access.

RABL is very good at this.

You are correct. You can only decide a meeting when it's due. This is because all the participants are counting on the meeting to be available until that date.

I think you missed the https://secure.stairwayapp.com/tour There are some screenshots. Does this help?

Maybe.

Very valuable feedback! We are experimenting with different kinds of learn more tours and explainers.

Glad that in the end you got it.

Where does it tip you off as being video? We're trying to learn here.

From my standpoint as an introvert, I see meetings done this was like a godsend.

I can’t express my thoughts clearly when there are other louder individuals at an in-person meeting. This way, I can sit down, relax, gather my thoughts and provide a whole lot more valuable input. This way everybody wins - me and my company.

Of course I’d have to say this doesn’t work in all circumstances, like free-for-all brainstorming sessions, but still.

Talking about a bad week. I guess their availability percentages are gonna look quite bad (when and if they switch from the May ones).

We considered success as the sort of "viral" PR we got, people mentioning it in blogs, articles, etc.

We also collected a lot of emails from people interested in a paid version with more features.

I must say I'd be interested in this kind of research.

Yaay! :)

I'm sorry you feel that way, but as someone mentioned, there was a checkbox.

Yep, this is a problem with the FB API, as I couldn't access more than that in the past.

It was meant that with time, this will grow as new posts will flock in.

As for the being 'just like loading the FB page', the kiwi gets its full glow when many services are connected at the same time.

I think I might have resolved this issue. Could you try again?

I'm getting a nasty feeling FB is throttling... will investigate.

We previously launched a client-side only proof of concept, that would show the potential of the idea.

When the launch was successful we started building the proper version, with usernames, curation (hiding of posts) and proper OAuth.

Previous launch post is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3109779

Facebook connect is in the works, but it will likely require the server-side version.

Good tip, I was pretty struggling with providing some logical navigation in the horizontal mode.

I settled with some vertical-scroll translation to horizontal-scroll in order to facilitate people with mice with scroll-wheels...

So as this was an experiment in client-side scripting and to see if I can create something viable just with that:

- HTML5 - CSS3 - JavaScript

Ok, I have to admit, I used a server-side proxy to convert RSS to JSONP. :) That one's a sinatra app.

Hmm, vertical line was planned to be just a node, from out of which events in time grow out. That being said, there's no difference between left and right.

Yep, also we were also thinking about the order in the horizontal version [1] to be reversed. What are your thoughts on that?

[1] http://timekiwi.com/timeline.html#orientation=horizontal,pos...,

I just added examples of companies and individuals on the front page. Good tip.