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# New Project for Flibz
Make a 'messagedex', i.e. like blogdex, but the spider polls message boards for links instead of blogs. It'll be utterly fantastic, trust me.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 4:08, archived)
# Excellent idea
Interesting project to get it to deal with all the different message board formats out there.

btw

Rob, you were wondering how the daily question thingy mechanism that popbitch does could apply to b3ta...
obvious, but we could attach people's competition entries to their profiles?
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 4:20, archived)
# Or you could have a go, cthonic
I'd really like to see the results.

Competition entries? Yep, it's a brilliant idea.... but Cal, damn it, is busy ...
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 4:37, archived)
# I like it...
Can I have some messageboard suggestions to start me off....

What data do we want to store ?
Board URL, Link URL, Link Text...now what else.

Lets have plenty of input on this today so
I can knock it up over the weekend...
(I helped save b3ta! flibz, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 5:49, archived)
# Another project
Make an automatic 'vanity searcher':

Ask for someone's name and/or email and/or web page
then combine search results from Google web/images/groups, and anywhere else you can find.

You could probably sell it to advertising companies for tracking their oh-so-whacky viral projects.
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 4:25, archived)
# as mine went off the bottom
of the board almost as soon as I posted it, I'll re-post my suggestion here:

'Sian Can'
Get a picture of Sian Lloyd - and have a database of animated gifs of her doing verbs.
There is a text box saying "Sian can..." If you type in, say, 'jump', you see her jump.
If you type in a word she cannot do, she cries.

Like a kind of weird tamogotchi.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 4:57, archived)
# What was the BBC game which
had that as a premise? Was it called Pod or something...?
(I helped save b3ta! AndyK, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 5:00, archived)
# Found it...
Podd. With two Ds... Ah yes, memories...
Podd can Fly.
(I helped save b3ta! AndyK, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 5:24, archived)
# can you
find a screenshot?

Wasn't it a pumpkin or something?

(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 5:56, archived)
# the best I could do was a very badly shrunken
image of the front of the box. I think he was a tomato-thing or something.

Unfortunately the site that this google image came from is not available. boo. And I can't find any other pictures. But I did find a Disk file for a BBC emulator (I can't be bothered to install one though)
(I helped save b3ta! AndyK, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:01, archived)
# Flibz!
We want Sian Can! :)
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 5:55, archived)
# Well if you want Sian
I want some animated gifs of her doing stuff...including crying

Post them here....If i get a few I'll build it, and we can add more later...

But the messagedex idea is technically interesting.
I haven't built a spider for a while...
(I helped save b3ta! flibz, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:05, archived)