Fwd: [Dev-flock] cellphone prototype stage II complete!

[Clay Ward]

Jamie, Sherri, you can now also include that cell phones can now query our database using text messages in the press release!  It won't be set up perfectly, but it will work.  We still want the focus to be on people joining our community to add information to our database.  But the cell phone feature does excite people and hopefully that means that they'll be more likely to add content to our service: so I'm sure that we'll be able to put something up on the homepage to give people the ability to demo it.

Anyone want to make a quick movie of a person using their cell phone at the shopping market to show how our service is working?  It would be really great to include that, even as a "coming soon" feature, on our homepage for the press release.

See below for technical details.

-clay

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lucy Mendel <lu...@thoughtandmemory.org>
Date: Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Subject: [Dev-flock] cellphone prototype stage II complete!
To: Dev-Flock <dev-...@mit.edu>


yo,
I'm happy to report that hooking up the database to the email script is done.
send a text or email to
  mu...@thoughtandmemory.org
with "nodeid<some node id, the same as reported in the URL
/Main/node/<some node id>" anywhere in the message or subject

and you should receive an email or text back reporting the name of the
node and the average ratings of behaviors (-1's are not shown)

mu...@thoughtandmemory.org is hooked up to the production database
qu...@thoughtandmemory.org is hooked up to the staging database, so
feel free to create fake ratings and fake nodes to test this out. the
thing with emailing/txting query is that i'm developing out of it's
folder on the server, so it might not work sometimes. on the other
hand, you'll get the latest text formatting and node information, plus
fake ratings!

stage III is to improve the message that gets sent back. let me know
your ideas. i want to get something decent but still prototyping. that
is, the features may be small (no querying for 'peanut butter' and
getting back the best three products according to your interest
portfolio and location), but the messages (and error messages) should
make sense and not frustrate users.

ps - 'nodeid' is a must for now since txt and email sends a dozen
header lines about contenttype and other stuff. i wasn't sure if the
message body always comes last. the message bodies of text messages
shows up as Subject, but also as a final message body... carriers
vary. The more messages I get from different carriers the better-- I
always collect debug info.
anyway, part of stage III is making the system lenient in what it accepts.

word,
L.
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