Crazy features you may not have tried but should! Go to a chart page and hit the escape key. That is AJAX madness!
Have you subscribed to maps in your RSS reader? You should! Every map has its own RSS feed.
A wave of new code has been unleashed, incrementing the version number to 11! No question, these are some of the biggest new features since our launch last year.
New features include:
When you add this to the sweet new scoring system, we are creating a simple but broader data framework to let us offer a sweet new wave of functionality.
Update: We have abandoned SIC codes for the 2007 NAICS list (using only 2 and 3 digit codes to keep the file size down). Is there a better list of industry types that is still standards-based-ish?
Just rolled out a new feature: cogscores! Check out an example by looking at anyone’s cogprofile - for example, you could look at rpeters59’s cogprofile, you can see that he has made a number of maps, some of which are a pretty good size, and his cogscore reflects his contributions to the cogmunity! (My, we are feeling coggy today!)
So here we are implementing a bunch of the things that people say make sites more social-ish. First profiles, now scoring. LSVP, my site of choice for linking love, has a slew of good posts pointing to other posts on this.
Obviously, there is the potential to game the system to get points. The initial implementation of this is super simplistic, but we will ramp up the complexity over time to factor quality, popularity of maps, and some other interesting metrics into the mix. For now, build lots of big maps and you will be a winner.
Our help page explains the awesome benefits of point accumulation: not too much.
Many new features on the way.
I get emails once a week asking about printing org charts on Cogmap and why it is excruciating. Based on that, I wanted to offer up some clarifications on what the deal is:
We would love ideas in this area, or even better, send us better print.css files! We know hackers are out there. Thanks.
Another step in making Cogmap more data friendly, profiles are now hCards.
Go check out a profile: Alex Markson, for example.
If you have installed a microformat detection system like Operator (Mozilla Firefox extension) or Tails (Mozilla Firefox extension) then you have lots of fun ways to look at and download the data on the page.
Props to Kevin Lawver for convincing us that it was worth the trouble.
Sorry we don’t have a more inspiring post, but I am pretty sure that I am meeting Chris Messina tomorrow so I figured we had to get this launched so we would have at least one thing to talk about!
Have you noticed that there are now RSS feeds on every map page? That is right, using your RSS reader you can subscribe to maps and be always up-to-date on the latest changes. Insanely great or just insane?
This is a great example of coding something because it is cool rather than coding something people will actually use. Our next big thing is focused on email subscriptions, which will be a way to subscribe without having to geek out.
We have been up for six months and I bet here is something that no one knew: Anyone tried hitting the Escape key on a map page? That’s an Easter Egg! You will go nuts for sure.
