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Stewardship and naming

Submitted by David Snopek on February 19, 2008 - 9:19pm

So far, I haven't had much luck building a community around Memorati™. The Drupal make-over will help bring more community features to the site and this should help. Which also makes this an opportune time to make any big changes, while, essentially, no one cares...

Right now, Memorati attempts to be three things:

  • A free public website which hosts an online flash card program.
  • A piece of open source software implementing this online flash card program.
  • A community effort for maintaining the program.

But as I mentioned a few months ago, I also want to find a way to monetize Memorati this year. That means that it would be a commercial venture too. Now thats probably a few things to many.

So, sometime after the new Memorati site goes live, I'm going to be making some changes, which I will describe below. First, however, I would like to define some terms:

New Year’s Resolutions

Submitted by David Snopek on December 10, 2007 - 8:43am

It might be a little early to think about this, but its already on my mind. At the end of each year, I like to think back on the previous year, about what has happened, what was accomplished, what wasn't accomplished, what was awesome, what wasn't, etc... It helps prevent the years from just sliding away without taking notice.

For most people new year's resolutions are a joke, but I like them. Probably people don't like them because they feel bad when they don't meet their goals and so'd rather not set them. I like setting goals, even if I don't reach them. The attempt is more important.

For 2008:

  • Pay off my debt. This was a resolution last year too! I got close, but still not there.
  • Study Polish for 2 hours a day until I have a language break-through. I'm hoping this will be a 6 month goal, because I plan to study in Lublin again in July.

In the works…

Submitted by David Snopek on October 30, 2007 - 7:33pm

I've had a number of language learning software projects in the works for a long time. Unfortunately, given my limited time, I've been struggling to get them "out of the works" in into a place where other people can use them. But until that time, I'd just like to describe what they are - or really what they will be!

Memorati™

Memorati™ is my main focus right now. It is an online flash card system based on spaced-repetition. It is designed to be rich and flexible using modern Web 2.0 techniques and easily embeddable inside of other applications. In fact, when you go to www.Memorati.org, you are actually seeing Memorati (the application) embedded into Memorati (the website).

There are still many features missing from Memorati and at this point should be considered Beta. In the future, I plan to include:

  • Plugins for domain specific cards, ie. geography cards could include maps.
  • Media! With a player for audio and video files.
  • Offline support, so you don't always need an internet connection.
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