{"id":297,"date":"2007-03-13T15:29:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T22:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/297\/who-uses-this"},"modified":"2007-03-13T16:36:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T23:36:04","slug":"who-uses-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/297\/who-uses-this","title":{"rendered":"Who Uses This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/osx.iusethis.com\/\">i use this<\/a> is a Mac-focused community site for users of Mac software products. The premise is pretty simple, sort of like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/\">Digg<\/a> crossed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macupdate.com\/\">MacUpdate<\/a>. Users and developers add products to database, and if a particular user likes the product (or simply uses it), they click &#8220;i use this&#8221; and it bumps the use number for that item.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe interface is dead simple, but with some &#8220;Web 2.0&#8221; panache. The site serves as both a sort of popularity meter for applications, and as a means of looking for updated versions. It also allows users to add comments about the applications they use.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI was talking earlier today to <a href=\"http:\/\/thefeed.vox.com\/\">Marcus<\/a>, one of the site&#8217;s developers, and decided to give him some &#8220;pie in the sky&#8221; wishes for the site. A few short hours later, those wishes are realities! How exciting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nYou can now subscribe to a feed for the latest users of a given app, and to the comments for any given app. This is a great tool for developers who want to pay attention to what&#8217;s going on with the apps on the site. Now when somebody &#8220;adds&#8221; one of my products I can get a little warm fuzzy as a space-bar through it in NNW. And when somebody posts a comment, I can read it and respond to it if appropriate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor example, MarsEdit is <a href=\"http:\/\/osx.iusethis.com\/app\/marsedit\">listed on the site<\/a>, and currently has 146 &#8220;users.&#8221; (Go on, crank that number up!). With Marcus&#8217;s new changes, I can now subscribe to user comments on MarsEdit by supplying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsgator.com\/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire\">NetNewsWire<\/a> with a URL like this:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/osx.iusethis.com\/comment\/app.rss\/marsedit\">http:\/\/osx.iusethis.com\/comment\/app.rss\/marsedit<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo subscribe to comments for your (other) favorite app, just replace marsedit with the name that shows up at the end of your app&#8217;s iusethis URL.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo subscribe to all the users of MarsEdit, I subscribe using a similar URL:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/osx.iusethis.com\/app\/users.rss\/129\">http:\/\/osx.iusethis.com\/app\/users.rss\/129<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor this one, you can easily derive it from the <a href=\"http:\/\/osx.iusethis.com\/app\/users\/129\">users page<\/a> for any app. Just add &#8220;.rss&#8221; to the users part of the URL!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI think these changes are pretty awesome, and totally geared towards making the site more useful to both users and developers. Nice work, Marcus!\n<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, and while you&#8217;re in there, &#8220;use up&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/osx.iusethis.com\/app\/flextime\">FlexTime<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/osx.iusethis.com\/app\/fastscripts\">FastScripts<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/osx.iusethis.com\/app\/clarion\">Clarion<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i use this is a Mac-focused community site for users of Mac software products. The premise is pretty simple, sort of like Digg crossed with MacUpdate. 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