Can I have an HourlyKitty instead?
The hourlypuppy concept is so freaking good I couldn't pass up the challenge so have set to work on hourlycat ..
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Sadly, not economically viable in TV form: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puppy_Channel I'm not sure how well their website does either. http://www.thepuppychannel.com/
There's a great This American Life act about the Puppy Channel. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/233/s...
Yes, this is where I initially heard it. One of my favourite stories ever, along with Pasta Batman.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
so a subscriber could get an email with a link to the current pup? I'd suspect not many people would want an email from me every hour. perhaps making it easy to toggle on / off would make that option more desirable? I could also integrate the site better with @hourlypuppy on tw. thoughts?
Some digital picture frames will accept an RSS feed. Why not make your site able to automatically update such a frame every hour? Are there any companies out there offering RSS based image feeds, intended for such devices? One can imagine a digital frame hanging on a wall and the owner can subscribe to themed RSS streams. Owners might be householders, or companies looking for attractive wall art. A set of free stream…
rss:
http://hourlypuppy.com/feed (raw)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/hourlypuppy (feedburner)
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#54Whoa, I've been working on something extremely similar for my wife: http://www.pupgrade.com
It's not strictly about cheering people up but kinda the same thing. It's like we were reading each others minds!