recent artefacts from all

April 15, 2008 7:27 AM

recently.mefi?

May I have a list of recent Also On urls for everything? I enjoy the recent flickr posts page and would like to see deviant art from mefites.

posted by bleary to Feature Requests at 7:27 AM (30 comments total)

We don't have an aggregated page of deviantART like we do for Flickr, but we have a prototype of a Social Explorer where you can find links to people's profiles by service.
posted by pb (staff) at 7:30 AM on April 15, 2008 [1 favorite]

The Social Explorer will also show you which people on the returned list are your contacts by shading them in grey.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:43 AM on April 15, 2008

If only I had some way to tell if we had discussed Also On recently.
posted by Plutor at 7:49 AM on April 15, 2008

I'm actually grateful to this thread, b/c without it I'd never have noticed the Social Explorer thingy.
posted by leesh at 7:51 AM on April 15, 2008

Social Explorer is the bomb! The bomb that will bring us together.
posted by Kattullus at 8:03 AM on April 15, 2008

Ooooh, shiny.
posted by flashboy at 8:07 AM on April 15, 2008

*hugs Plutor SO TIGHT*
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:08 AM on April 15, 2008

Social Explorer is the bomb! The bomb that will bring us together.

AskMe AskMe AskMe!
posted by ludwig_van at 8:53 AM on April 15, 2008 [5 favorites]

Recently... on Mefi...

Cortex: We have to get off this island!

Jessamyn: WE DON'T HAVE TIME!

*flash*

mathowie: You understand why I've called you here...

Steven C Den Beste: (stepping from the shadows) I can make a few guesses.

*flash*

jonmc: So then this cat has been...

dios: ... yes. declawed.

*flash*

shmegegge: hey, guys, what's going on in h-

(shmegegge is shot in the head)

*flash*

languagehat: this isn't what I think it is... is it?

Blazecock Pileon: I don't know. Do you think it's... a CIRCUMCISION?!

fade to black. fade up on Blue and Green METAFILTER logo floating slowly toward the camera.
posted by shmegegge at 9:09 AM on April 15, 2008 [8 favorites]

The total numbers on the Social Explorer thingy seem incredibly low - only 639 folk who've added del.icio.us to their Also On bit, only 1296 on Flickr. Does hardly anyone bother to fill out their profile pages?
posted by jack_mo at 9:10 AM on April 15, 2008

Does hardly anyone bother to fill out their profile pages?

Only members of the kabal.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:27 AM on April 15, 2008

Remember that the upper bound for active users is 13k, so 10% isn't bad really, considering that not everyone uses Flickr.

(Also there is the fact that sockpuppets don't fill out their profiles.)
posted by smackfu at 9:29 AM on April 15, 2008

The Social Explorer will also show you which people on the returned list are your contacts by shading them in grey.

Maybe they should be at the top? Because some of those lists are really long. Finding your shared contacts on Flickr is a bit of a trial.
posted by smackfu at 9:34 AM on April 15, 2008

Is the kabal anything like the cabal? Except for the not existing part, of course.
posted by deborah at 9:45 AM on April 15, 2008

I think it is the cabal. Unless I'm so out of the circle I didn't know it is the kabal.

Are there two competing secret societies?

Do cabal members have secret lapel pins?
Cabal/kabal lapel pins?
posted by readery at 9:47 AM on April 15, 2008

one time on a crowded subway i was doing a little social exploring and this one very anti-social woman hit me with an umbrella.
posted by quonsar at 9:50 AM on April 15, 2008 [1 favorite]

I'm sick and tired of this hugging shit. I'm making a Greasemonkey script to remove that note.
posted by Plutor at 9:58 AM on April 15, 2008

I think it's a typo, but the reference is to the many users in Kabul
posted by selton at 9:58 AM on April 15, 2008

Or Kabul.
posted by smackfu at 10:01 AM on April 15, 2008

Jessamyn: WE DON'T HAVE TIME!

I say this IRL too.

Plutor, I will save my BIG HUG for you for when I see you next week. You will wish all you got was cyberhugging.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:02 AM on April 15, 2008

Big hug!

I just knew that some day Friday afternoons spent hungover watching the Teletubbies would come in handy
posted by Kattullus at 10:14 AM on April 15, 2008

cabal lapel pins
posted by carsonb at 10:15 AM on April 15, 2008

Social Explorer is the bomb! The bomb that will bring us together.
AskMe AskMe AskMe!

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour...but heaven knows I'm miserable now. [more inside]
posted by Divine Wino to food & drink at 12:51 PM

i was looking for a job and then i found a job and heaven knows i'm miserable now [more inside]
posted by anonymous to work & money at 12:54 PM

In my life, why do I give valuable time to people who don't care if I live or die? Why do I smile at people who I'd much rather kick in the eye? [more inside]
posted by Ian A.T. to human relations at 12:57 PM
posted by Ian A.T. at 11:56 AM on April 15, 2008

"Hello My Name Is Stockphoto"??? Lame name.
posted by wendell at 2:07 PM on April 15, 2008

Just curious...how come there's just about every social/blog site listed, except Blogger?
posted by iamkimiam at 8:37 PM on April 15, 2008

How do you find the Social Explorer? I just found it by searching MetaTalk for "Social Explorer" where it was mentioned in an old post. How would you navigate to it from this page, though?
posted by Locative at 9:06 PM on April 15, 2008

Locative, the Social Explorer is more of an experiment than an official feature right now. You could have found it in that earlier thread, or in the MeFi Shadowy Back Alleys page on the wiki. But there's no link to it from the header or footer here.
posted by pb (staff) at 10:08 PM on April 15, 2008

It has an electronic lock and only cabal members know the code.
posted by Cranberry at 11:37 PM on April 15, 2008

Ah, thanks pb. I thought it was something like that.
posted by Locative at 1:30 AM on April 16, 2008

Plutor: "I'm making a Greasemonkey script to remove that note."

You think I was joking?
posted by Plutor at 5:22 AM on April 16, 2008 [1 favorite]