Claim Bookmarklets

Brian Ellin
May 29, 2007 in Things to do and Posts. 0 Comments

Here’s a couple of little bookmarklets to aid in making claims. A bookmarklet is a small javascript program that is stored inside of a bookmark. When clicked, the javascript is run and can extend the functionality of the page you are on. To install, just drag the bookmarklet links below to your browser’s toolbar or bookmark folder.
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Claim from selection
When clicked, this bookmarklet will take you over to Jyte and start a new claim the text you currently have highlighted. Try it out by highlighting some text with your cursor and then clicking the link.

Claim URL
When clicked, this bookmarklet will take you to Jyte and start a new claim about the current URL in your browser. This is useful for making claims about general websites or other people’s OpenIDs.

Live Jyte discussion on Pibb

Brian Ellin
May 18, 2007 in Things to do and Posts. 0 Comments

logo.gifLast week JanRain launched an exciting new group discussion service called Pibb. Simply put, Pibb is a live, OpenID based group discussion tool. You can connect with other Jyte users in real time right now. It works right in your browser, just follow the link below and sign in with your OpenID.

Jyte Demo at Bar Camp Portland

Brian Ellin
May 11, 2007 in Things to See, Things to do and Posts. 0 Comments

This weekend is Portland’s first BarCamp. BarCamp is an event with no agenda except to bring the local tech community together to discuss and learn in an open environment. It is an intense ad-hoc gathering with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. BarCampPortland will be held this Friday May 11th and Saturday May 12th at CubeSpace, check out the website for specific times. If you are interested in sharing and learning about what is going on in Portland’s tech community this event is for you. Attendance is free, food is free, and we’ll be giving a Jyte demo Saturday evening as part of the DemoCamp.

See you there!

Claimrollin’

Brian Ellin
April 25, 2007 in Things to See, Things to do and Posts. 3 Comments

Today we launched a small new feature called claimrolls. A claimroll is simply a set of recent claims that you may embed on an external webpage or blog. It’s a way to spread Jyte and get the people who are looking at your sites to participate in the claims that are important to you. The claimroll comes in two flavors:

Personal Claimrolls

Below is an example of a personal claimroll in which I’ve listed the latest claim others have made about me. You can create personal rolls that include claims that are about you, that you’ve made, commented on, voted on, or are watching.

Adding a claimroll to your blog sidebar is a fun way to engage your website readers, and for them to learn more about you.

Tag Claimrolls

A tag claimroll is not associated with a particular user like personal rolls. Instead, a tag claimroll lists the most recent claims that match a certain set of tags. For example, below I’ve rolled the two most recent claims tagged “politics”.

If you look in the sidebar to the right, you’ll see I’ve added a roll for recent claims tagged with “Jyte”.

Tag claimrolls are especially cool for sites that discuss specific topics, or want to allow their readers to participate and add polls to the site. For example, a blog about monkeys may add a tag claimroll to its sidebar for claims about “monkeys” OR “monkeyblog”. Readers would see claims about monkeys and also be able to create Jyte claims tagged with “monkeyblog” and have them show up on the blog for other readers to vote on.

Creating a Claimroll

To create a personal claimroll, log into Jyte and click the “Home” link at the top. From there, click the “widgets” link, and then follow the steps to create your roll.

To create a tag claimroll, browse to the list of claims with that tag and click the “Claimroll” link to the left. Here’s a quick link to the Tag Claimroll Creator tool.

A Beginner’s Guide to Jyte

Brian Ellin
April 5, 2007 in Things to See. 0 Comments

Top Jyte user Rachel hits the nail on the head with her Beginner’s Guide to Jyte.

Rachel’s guide gives a clear and concise reference on how to get started with all of Jyte’s major features. The guide is a quick read and will get you up to speed on what Jyte is, how community is created, and what it expects from you as a user. Claim and cred etiquette is discussed, as well as tagging technique, sign up, OpenID, commenting , and site culture. It’s the best crash course on Jyte we’ve seen.

I predict that Rachel will be the first Jyte user to receive cred from 100 different people. If you’ve haven’t given her cred already, think about it, she deserves it. She’s a big part of what makes the site fun.

Thanks Rachel!

Jyte Cred Bubbles

Scott Kveton
March 27, 2007 in Posts. 0 Comments

It amazes me when we see users doing cool things with the data on Jyte.

This morning I stumbled across Jyte Cred Bubbles (warning: Java applet). This is a really cool application that takes the Jyte cred data and publishes it in an easy-to-read/navigate bubble format. Very cool stuff.

Jyte Cred Bubbles

This isn’t the only cool thing we’ve seen from our users … famed Jyte user Ryan Grove has also build the JyteBot. JyteBot allows you to track comments and claims that might be about you by watching Jyte Spy and then reporting back to you via Jabber. Very cool!!! I’m lovin’ these fun new applications of Jyte and some very exciting things are yet to come!

March-ing along with new features!

Scott Kveton
March 8, 2007 in Posts. 1 Comment

March is here in the beautiful City of Roses and with it comes (a little) more rain, great craft beers and of course new Jyte features!! Here is a brief list of some of the new features … more to follow soon!!:

  • See every voter: For the people who just have to know who voted on what we no longer truncate the list of who voted on what claims. Now you can actuallysee who voted on what (in this case who loves Portland craft beers).
  • Tag love: You can now view all of the users interested in a specific tag and have given/received cred for that tag. For example, you can see that there a several users that have beer cred (how am I #3 on that list?!). You can also see the different users that are interested in beer or have mentioned it in comments, etc.
  • Comment preview: That’s right, we can now preview comments! You don’t have to sweat getting it right the first time when you post a comment. Just “Preview” it first and you’ll never (rarely?) go wrong! :-)
  • Big Speed Improvement: This is from the will-always-be-in-the-new-features list because the Jyte team is constantly tweaking things to make them faster. Traffic keeps growing and with growth comes the need to go faster … we’re on the scene and making it happen!

One of the coolest things we keep seeing are people that make claims about how to make Jyte better. People will make a claim about a feature they want or a bug they have found and voila! Within days (hours sometimes) the feature appears on the site! So keep claiming about features and most importantly keep voting on features you want on the site!

Finally, last but not least, a big shout out to our top claimants Vynce (313), Ben Breedlove (309) and Oscar J Carlton IV (296) … without you folks Jyte wouldn’t be the fun and absolutely enthralling place that it is … thanks.

New features abound!

Scott Kveton
February 26, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Sometimes in life we just don’t use enough exclamation points! Well I’m changing that! Today is officially “International Exclamation Point Day”!

Or not. :-)

I’m just excited about the latest Jyte features. The Jyte team keeps on knockin’ ‘em dead with the new fun stuff they are adding all the time:

  • User ranks: You can now view all kinds of user rankings on all manner of things. Most votes? Top claimant? Most comments? Now you can see it all plain as day.
  • Spy!: We have the coolest thing going in “Spy!” technology … Jyte Spy! is here and gives you the ability to see what’s happening in real time on the site all in one page. Votes, claims, comments … you name it. Its all there for you to see. Quite fun (and enthralling IMHO).
  • Ignore User: Is there a user you’re just tired of seeing claims from? Guess what, you can ignore them! Head over the users’ profile page and the “Ignore user” option will reveal itself.
  • Bug fixes and Speed! (with a capital S): We’ve heard you when we have a bug. You’re all so responsive and we’re trying to respond as quickly as we can. Your patience has been rewarded with lots of bug fixes. Also, we’ve tweaked a bunch of the site to make it much faster. Its one of those things you can never test until you actually have half-a-million page views under your belt.

Thanks again everybody! Jyte is really taking off and its because of all of you!

Our Terms of Service

Scott Kveton
February 26, 2007 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

Its funny when you build a site like Jyte. Our users have the means to speak out about new features, bugs in the site and problems with our terms of service:


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Well, as it turns out, we spent a lot more time working on making the site a great experience than we did reading over the terms of service for the site. As such, some of the boiler-plate that is in there is just plain silly. We want you to use the site in any and all ways, including retransmission. That’s what the API and widgets are all about.

In any case, we hear you, loud and clear, and we’ll be actually spending some time making a better terms of service that isn’t silly.

Thanks everybody for your input, thoughts and most importantly your time and effort in making Jyte such a great place. Oh yeah, and thanks for your patience with us when we do silly things like this … :-)

RSS Love to the Jyte-stars

Scott Kveton
February 14, 2007 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

My lord!! The Jyte team are maniacs!! (in the good way of course)

We’ve heard folks clamoring for RSS feeds for days now:

and the today the guys delivered!! You’ve got a couple of options for the views that you might want of this stuff.

Today the guys got RSS feeds going of claims. You’ve got a couple of options for this:

This is great! I was already getting obsessive about Jyte and now I can get crazy obsessive! :-) Did you know that this means that Jyte now works with Yahoo! Pipes?!:

Proof positive can be found here and here.

Woohoo! And happy claiming now! Great work guys!

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