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By: fbatista
01-03-2013
Development, Labs, Web, Web-Applications

About Melee (part 2 of 2)

Part 2: From Single to Multi user

In our previous post, we talked about we modeled our app to make Backbone and Redis integration as seamlessly as possible. Now as we develop our app and start adding it’s vital organs around the skeleton (backbone?) we designed, we need to keep in mind our end goal as we develop the basic “Single User” version, since everyone hates to refactor code.

In this post, we will do a step by step of how to transform that prototype version of the app into something people can actually use. In order to do that, we’ll look under the hood and check out Backbone, Redis, Node.js, Socket.IO and how everything is glued up together.

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By: fbatista
21-02-2013
Ajax, Culture, Development, Labs, Web-Applications

About Melee (part 1 of 2)

Let me introduce you to Melee. Melee is a collaborative brainstorming application. The idea (and implementation) for it dates back a few years (literally 2 years) and the reason we choose to unearth this relic is simple: we noticed that over the years, we had lots of promising ideas and internal tools that were left unfinished, so we’ve recently decided that wasn’t going to happen again and also that some of those ideas actually deserved to be finished, even if that meant only releasing a prototype and posting something (hopefully interesting) about it.

Keep on reading to learn about the story and the technology behind Melee!

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By: Fred Oliveira
18-03-2008
Web 2.0, Web-Applications

Friendfeed: Wow, that didn’t take long

Coincidences are fun, and this one is pretty cool. So yesterday I posted about Friendfeed needing two things to make it complete. Well strike one out of the list, because search has been done as Techcrunch, Mashable and the guys at Friendfeed themselves are reporting. I know when to say a product is lacking, and I know when to praise – this is time for the latter, for this simple modification, my friends, just made Friendfeed worth my time and account.

Now I can actually see what my friends are saying (or creating) about design, userexperience or development – these are just examples, obviously. And I can do site-specific searches (something I also asked for) which is down right amazing. And (I just tried), I can get RSS feeds for these searches. Friendfeed people, you got me. I’m a full-on user from this moment on. You win – actually, I do, because my information overload is soon to be gone.

Note: I’m re-reading my post and it sounds like sales. Trust me when I say it’s not – I’m just pretty happy about this. Maybe as happy as I was when I joined Twitter back in 05, or maybe when I joined GMail. Wow moments are hard to get, allow me to ride me for a few minutes.

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About Webreakstuff

Webreakstuff is a product think tank. We've worked with companies like Bell Canada, Techcrunch, Totspot, Sequoia Capital, MTV and Sapo on their own products, and we've built a few of our own (most notably, Goplan - an online collaboration and project management tool). You should follow us on Twitter.

 Our products

Bling

Bling is a platform where people share what they buy and maintain a wishlist of things they want to get. Users can also follow their friends and people they admire, or browse our explore pages - listing what people are adding across the site - for inspiration.

Bling

Back in 2005 we found a need for a great online collaboration tool to manage our clients and projects. We built one for ourselves, and then decided to open it to a greater audience. We turned Goplan into a full-fledged product, and we've been maintaining the platform since.

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