Fluidinfo: an openly writable shared database

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Post by fosk » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 5:34 AM UTC

Fluidinfo: an openly writable shared database
fluidinfo.com

Re: Fluidinfo: an openly writable shared database

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Post by jayzee » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 6:03 AM UTC

I read the copy on the site and I have no idea of what they do/it does. I feel that often there is a strong urge to 'talk up' your service by making it grand. The problem with that nobody will use it because everybody thinks its cool but nobody know what it actually is.

Simple copy please? Some examples straight off the home page so that I do not have to look at the Developer'section?

Re: Fluidinfo: an openly writable shared database

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Post by phlux » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 6:18 AM UTC

jayzee wrote: post #2

I read the copy on the site and I have no idea of what they do/it does. I feel that often there is a strong urge to 'talk up' your service by making it grand. The problem with that nobody will use it because everybody thinks its cool but nobody know what it actually is. Simple copy please? Some examples straight off the home page so that I do not have to look at the Developer'section?

I agree that their site is horrible in explaining what they do - but the service is really really cool.

I have had trouble finding info on thier site in the past and mentioned it to them - yet they havent updated it with a more newbie version....

That said, what is really cool about fluid info is that it lets you tag objects arbitrarily. For example you can create an object such as a Server, then you can apply any tags you want to it: hostname, IP, Make, Model, SN, PN etc. Other people can create tags on it as well.

Their are some really interesting applications you can do with this.

Re: Fluidinfo: an openly writable shared database

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Post by terrycojones » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 6:31 AM UTC

jayzee wrote: post #2

I read the copy on the site and I have no idea of what they do/it does. I feel that often there is a strong urge to 'talk up' your service by making it grand. The problem with that nobody will use it because everybody thinks its cool but nobody know what it actually is. Simple copy please? Some examples straight off the home page so that I do not have to look at the Developer'section?

Hi Jayzee

I agree, our website is very poor. We're planning to improve it over the next week. There are quite a few hands-on programming examples and videos on our blog, at http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/ that might be helpful.

For example, http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidinfo/2011/01/14/exploring-fl... There's a programming category at http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidinfo/category/programming/

I hope that helps! Please feel free to mail me (terry fluidinfo com) or drop by #fluidinfo on irc.freenode.org to ask questions or give us a hard time :-)

Thanks, Terry Jones

Re: Fluidinfo: an openly writable shared database

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Post by terrycojones » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 6:33 AM UTC

phlux wrote: post #3

jayzee wrote: post #2

I read the copy on the site and I have no idea of what they do/it does. I feel that often there is a strong urge to 'talk up' your service by making it grand. The problem with that nobody will use it because everybody thinks its cool but nobody know what it actually is. Simple copy please? Some examples straight off the home page so that I do not have to look at the Developer'section?

I agree that their site is horrible in explaining what they do - but the service is really really cool. I have had trouble finding info on thier site in the past and mentioned it to them - yet they havent updated it with a more newbie version.... That said, what is really cool about fluid info is that it lets you tag objects arbitrarily. For example you can create an object such as a Server, then you can apply any ta…

Hi phlux - Thanks. We'll get there soon, I hope. Thanks a lot for persisting & I'm glad you think it's cool :-)

Terry

Re: Fluidinfo: an openly writable shared database

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Post by irickt » Tue, Feb 15, 2011, 3:43 PM UTC

From the developer docs: "... web based database that lives “in the cloud”. Objects exist in the database (there is only one instance of Fluidinfo that all users and applications share), users tag objects and (optionally) associate values with the tags."

From the about page: "Fluidinfo is a single web of things providing a no-questions-asked writable social object to represent each and every thing."

This is apparently a reinvention of RDF except centralized and proprietary. By writing triples "anyone can say anything about anything." http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-concepts-20020829/