Mycrocosm

Hello,

Mycrocosm now supports data entry via twitter. We are still testing this feature (hence calling it experimental), and you may try it but there may be a few kinks. To do so go to your profile page on mycrocosm and update your profile to include your twitter screen name (user name). Then follow this user -> mycro, after 5 minutes or so mycro should follow you back after which you can send direct messages to that user and have them update your mycrocosm stats. For example you can do “d mycro stuff more”, everything coming after the “d mycro” part should follow standard mycrocosm syntax.

Caveat: My experiments with the twitter api suggests that updates from twitter may not always be timely. The API occasionally lags behind the information visible on the sire (for example it may take way longer than 5 minutes for the twitter api to let me know that you have followed the mycro user). I will be keeping an eye on it over the next little while but it is something that you should be aware of (and my guess is that you probably already are).

So there it is, try it and let me know if it works. These instructions will also be moving to the main mycrocosm help in a few days once i am sure its all working.

Hello. First of all I would like to thank everyone who has tried out Mycrocosm and especially those who have sent feedback or comments, its been a lot of fun watching people put stuff in and make some really interesting graphs (especially after a few months of staring at the same [small] set of graphs during development).

This post is to announce the addition of timezone support to Mycrocosm. I know it has been annoying for those of you tracking times who are not at GMT -5:00. Now you can go to your profile page and set your time zone, with that you should be able to use “now”, “start” and “stop” when working with time graphs.

I have also worked on the ability to embed graphs in other places (something i had planned on doing from the outset when i started working on this), currently it uses an IFrame to link to a page that just shows the graph, its title and its caption. The use if IFrames does allow you to embed a graph and have it update on your site as you change it on Mycrocosm (which we could do with our flash based graphs but not our image based graphs). To use this feature go to the edit page of any of your datasets, there is a new text-field with the code you need to place on your blog or website. I should mention that you cannot embed private datasets offsite.

Feel free to let me know if there are any problems using these features. And feel free to post links to places where you embed your graphs. I would love to see some of these graphs in the context of peoples other online stuff.

Cheers