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July 19th, 2007
I've been a little quiet here and that is because I've been a little busy. We rolled out our new version on Monday and things are cruising along. There are so many new features and, of course, a new design that it is hard to decide what to say in this first post in a long while.
So, let me just go right into a surprising (for me) xerpi use case... Mom.
My mother is slowly getting into the 21st century and has a pretty decent desktop now, so she is always asking me how to "pull up" this or "pull up" that and it is typically a struggle. I am either on the phone with her dictating "H-T-T-P-COLON-SLASH-SLASH... no, forward slash..." And you can relate to how fun it is when you get to the "A-S-P-X-Question Mark-Item-EQUALS-THREE-FOUR-EIGHT...." And, even shooting her a link in email backfires cause somewhere along the way the link gets chopped and it is truly impossible to explain how to "rebuild" the link.
So, how does Xerpi help? Well, I set Mom up with Xerpi and made it her home page and dropped a few of her favorites in a link block. Then, I added myself as her friend and setup a friend block for me and a tag filter of "for_mom". This is great. Now, as I go through my favorites or find something Mom may like, I simply tag it with "for_mom" and it will show up on her home page. So, it doesn't get much easier than that.
So, sign-up and tag things for your Mom or your Dad. Then we can all do a Xerpi search on "for_mom" or "for_dad" to find more sites to pass along!
BTW - Xerpi renders nicely on the iPhone, but the iPhone interface interferes with the drag 'n' drop functionality! :O
So, let me just go right into a surprising (for me) xerpi use case... Mom.
My mother is slowly getting into the 21st century and has a pretty decent desktop now, so she is always asking me how to "pull up" this or "pull up" that and it is typically a struggle. I am either on the phone with her dictating "H-T-T-P-COLON-SLASH-SLASH... no, forward slash..." And you can relate to how fun it is when you get to the "A-S-P-X-Question Mark-Item-EQUALS-THREE-FOUR-EIGHT...." And, even shooting her a link in email backfires cause somewhere along the way the link gets chopped and it is truly impossible to explain how to "rebuild" the link.
So, how does Xerpi help? Well, I set Mom up with Xerpi and made it her home page and dropped a few of her favorites in a link block. Then, I added myself as her friend and setup a friend block for me and a tag filter of "for_mom". This is great. Now, as I go through my favorites or find something Mom may like, I simply tag it with "for_mom" and it will show up on her home page. So, it doesn't get much easier than that.
So, sign-up and tag things for your Mom or your Dad. Then we can all do a Xerpi search on "for_mom" or "for_dad" to find more sites to pass along!
BTW - Xerpi renders nicely on the iPhone, but the iPhone interface interferes with the drag 'n' drop functionality! :O
July 23rd, 2007 at 08:17 PM dood, i love this idea and this post. hilarious and cool.