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Visualizing the 2015 SotU on TodaysMeet

Now that you know how TodaysMeet works [https://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/how-todaysmeet-works-1237/], here’s part 2: using the message queue architecture to build the SotU visualizations. TodaysMeet [https://todaysmeet.com] has a long history [http://blog.todaysmeet.com/case-study-meeting-during-debates-88/] with political events [http://blog.todaysmeet.com/2014-state-of-the-union-room-205/]. During the 2012 Presidential

How TodaysMeet Works

I want to write about TodaysMeet’s 2015 State of the Union [http://blog.todaysmeet.com/sotu2015-on-todaysmeet-426/] site, but I realized I spent half the time on the existing architecture. So, this is part 1, and here is part 2 [https://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/visualizing-the-2015-sotu-on-todaysmeet-1246/]! A little over two years ago,

What's Next

Friday was my last day at Bitly. Starting now, I am concentrating on TodaysMeet [https://todaysmeet.com]. TodaysMeet has been a side project of mine for a long time, and lived for several years without much input or attention from me. Recently, though, it’s been growing, and I have

The Future of TodaysMeet

This is the second half of a two-part post. Start with part 1 [https://coffeeonthekeyboard.com/the-problem-with-todaysmeet-550/]. TodaysMeet [http://todaysmeet.com/] is an interesting challenge because it has components that are absolutely real-time and should be built like a messaging system, not a CMS, and parts that aren’t real-time

The Problem with TodaysMeet

TodaysMeet [http://todaysmeet.com/] is a project I started in 2008 to help my father [http://speedchange.blogspot.com] solve a problem in one of his classes. The fact that it’s as popular as it is—mostly in education—never ceases to amaze me. Unfortunately, I don’t give