TaPingYa now provides RSS feeds of chat rooms.  Now, you can monitor what's going on from your favorite news reader.  Additionally, we added the "Shout It" feature.  This allows you to post a message to all rooms where you have recently posted a message (last 30 days).  The more rooms you post to, the louder your voice will be!

You can chat about TaPingYa at the TaPingYa Room.  Come visit us there.

TaListYa's look has changed.  This will be the look for all future TaHelpYa applications.  Each application will have its own color.

Work on TaPingYa has started.  This is a chat/social application, allowing you to create a room and invite others to it to chat or post messages.  We'll put Jott integration into it, as well as many other ways of posting messages to the individual rooms.

Check out TaPingYa Here.

Jott is a cool service I discovered the other day.  You can call Jott on your phone and Jott does Voice to Text and adds the items to your Inbox.  Very cool stuff and the voice recognition is very good also.  What is really cool about the service is their Links.  This allows a developer, such as myself, to use the Jott service to feed the text into any HTTP Post API I want.  The possibilities are endless, and I have a few ideas hatching as I type this.

A quick integratiion I put together is to TaListYa (http://talistya.com).  You can now Jott items directly to one of your TaListYa lists.  The simple instructions for setting this up is at the TaListYa FAQ.  I now have an Action Items TaListYa list and when I call Jott, I only need to say "Action" and I can begin adding Items to my list.  If you pause when you say things, Jott will comma seperate.  TaListYa will take each comma as a new Item in the List.  So you can say "Butter, cheese, milk" to your grocery list and have items for each one.

You can now easily re-order your items in a TaListYa list by dragging and dropping.  This is the best interaction for re-order, and we will add more functionality to make it easy to organize your list.  You will find a "drag" handle next to each item.  Simply click and drag to reorder.

Other organization features we will add:

• Move to Top
• Insert (maybe.  It's pretty easy to add and then drag up)

You will also notice a new logo and slight style changes.  We are working on more style changes to give TaListYa a fresh look.

I love simplicity.  It's what I strive for in all I do.  The 100 things challenge is about simplifying through reducing the things that weigh you down.  I like that!  I have so much stuff, laying around and collecting dust.  So, I have put together a list of all the things I feel I need in order to determine what I don't need and what I can get rid of.

http://talistya.com/e2xlxp

Currently, I'm at 50 things, which means I'm doing good, right?  Wrong!  I have many books, computer equipment, clothing, etc., that I have not listed yet, and it will take time to get it all.  I think what's important is that I am evaluating what I own more carefully, and also evaluating what I purchase now.  This is the essence of the challenge, to challenge your stuff.

Read more about the challenge here.

I've started work on an API for TaListYa based on REST and JSON.  For example, to get a list back in JSON, you would use the followin url:

http://talistya.com/data/list/mmtnv2

This example will return the JSON for my Task list for TaListYa.  Other calls that are available so far are:

http://talistya.com/data/list/create - will create a new list.  This must be a POST with the following parameters (name, description, owner, email, password).

There are more calls to come, and my goal is a complete API for handling your lists. 

I worked all weekend putting together the email service for the two sites.  Basically, this service handles all email requests for events and lists.  If you send an email to myevents@taseeya.com, the service will reply with a list of all events created by you.  This makes it very easy to get your events back, no matter where you are.  This combined with the TaSeeYa iPhone interface makes it very easy to create and view events while on the go.

The command supported by the services are:

For TaSeeYa

myevents@taseeya.com - Replies with a list of all your events
eventcodehere@taseeya.com - Emails all Guests.

For TaListya

mylists@talistya.com - Replies with a list of all your lists.
newlist@talistya.com - Creates a new list.  The subject is the list name, the body lines become the list items.
listcodehere@talistya.com - Adds items to a list.  The subject line must be the list password.

 

This is the first entry in this blog.  Currently, the blog for Kalisty, TaSeeYa, and Quist are at http://kalisty.blogspot.com/.  This was good for Kalisty, but now I needed a blog that was a bit more general.  You can still refer to that blog for previous entries on Kalisty and the other web applications.  From now on, all blog posts will be here.

Quist is now running.  Quist is a quick list tool for creating and sharing lists.  It's similiar to TaSeeYa, in that you get unique URL's for your lists, for sharing and editing.  You can also email your list by using the [youruniquecode]@simplicityfirst.org.  To get an email of all the lists you created, simply email mylists@simplicityfirst.org.

Quist is available at : http://quist.simplicityfirst.org/ for now.  I'll being coming up with a new name and domain soon, so it will change.