NoseRub

It took some time, but we now have NoseRub 0.5(b) running on Identoo.com. A new relase (then without the beta) will hopefully be released on thursday. There were fewer glitches than I thought, but the evening is young, so maybe we need to fix some more stuf, before we make it a release.

What's new, you ask? A lot. When I did the update, I realized that hardly any file remained untouched. The biggest new thing is the polished and enhances profile page:


You now can add a photo to your profile, add a little "About" text and give information about how you can be reached (ICQ, GTalk, Skype, etc.). We also added services that do not have a public feed, like FaceBook, Xing, LinkedIn and SecondLife.

We wanted to give you the ability to create a real and complete profile of your digital identity.

Be aware: everything is public right now!

There is currently no way to set your profile into some kind of stealth mode, so be sure you only add stuff, that you really are comfortable sharing with anyone. The whole privacy stuf will be what we are about to focus on for the release after this.

We also introduced a new startpage, where you can follow the social stream of all the users on Identoo.com. It makes fun to browse around and find interesting people.

One other thing made it into this version just before the feature freeze: sending messages to someone else.

This is currently limited to the server, where you have your NoseRub account on. So you will not be able to send someone a message who has a NoseRub-ID on another server. This is just an intermediate solution, because we did not want to open the servers for spam. You currently also can only send messages, when you are logged in. In a future version, we also want to allow everyone to get in contact with you. Again, we need to think about the spam problem.

For the moment, the messages are directly send to the eMail account you provided on registration. You can choose who should be able to send you messages and in a future version you should be able to choose, wether you want an Inbox on Identoo, or use your eMail account for handling the messages.

At the end a quick warning: when you update you current NoseRub installation with the trunk version, you might not be able to perfrom the /jobs/:hash/system/update/ URL, because some SQL is missing. I already reported that issue, a quick solution is to manually execute migration 35 (located in noserub/app/config/sql/migrations) by doing a copy&paste to phpMyAdmin, or whatever you use. And then to call the system-update URL again. You then will get an error message because of the already present tables, but after another reload, everything should be fine.

I'm sorry for that and this is the biggest issue we need to address before the official release.

But all in all, we are pretty happy with this release and curious what you think about it.