Nurph Blog

@Nurph said: Hi everyone. The blog has been quiet over the last couple of weeks - we've been working away in the background on cool stuff :)
@Nurph said: Oh, and yours truly has been in their first ever promotional photo shoot for Nurph.com!
@Eggdough said: @Nurph Yes, that was fun! BTW, I'd like to say that my iPhone photography skills have come on a bundle.
@Jestly said: @Nurph say cheeeeeeeeeeeeeese ;)

What's new in Nurph?

Several areas of the back-end architecture have been improved to increase the stability of Nurph.com. You should get a much more stable experience as you're clicking round the site.

The Nurph Blog has made it's way to a new home on Posthaven.com. The blog was previously hosted on Posterous.com, which shutdown at the end of April.

Finally, @Nurph (that's me) and @Eggdough held the first ever Nurph photoshoot! 

Have a great weekend.

Regards

@Nurph

@Nurph said: We've been trialling some great new features for hashtag chats this week. And #AllStartups is back!
@Eggdough said: @Nurph oh cool - can we see the hashtag features?
@Nurph said: @Eggdough soon...they're nearly ready for launch :)
@Jestly said: @Nurph and I thought I was a tease! 
@Nurph said: @Eggdough @Jestly Also #AllStartups is back! It's the real-time Hashtag Chat for startups, founders, and developers.
@Nurph said: @Eggdough @Jestly Join us on Fridays, 3pm-4pm GMT to meet and chat with likeminded people over Twitter.

What's new in Nurph?

#AllStartups is back!

#AllStartups is a Real-Time Hastag Chat that was founded in 2010 to bring together startups, founders, and developers. The chat has had great participants and discussions - in fact, it's how @auxbuss was first introduced to @Nurph & @NeilCauldwell. The chat has been offline for the last couple of years - but now it's back, so make sure you tune in on Fridays, 3pm-4pm GMT!

Have a great weekend.

Regards

@Nurph

@Nurph said: Calling all Twitter Hashtag Users and Twitter Chat Hosts - you're going to love our new features!
@Eggdough said: @Nurph oooohhh, what's new?
@Nurph said: @Eggdough Nurph turns your Twitter Hashtag in to a Chat Room, making it far easier to run and participate in Twitter Hashtags!
@Nurph said: @Eggdough just type your hashtag in to the Nurph.com home page to watch your Twitter Hashtag results streaming by in real-time.
@Nurph said: @Eggdough...and any messages you type in the Channel will be automatically published out to the Twitter Hashtag too.
@Eggdough said: @Nurph this should make it much easier to contribute to a Twitter Hashtag Chat!
@Jestly said: @Nurph It sounds like it's time to get real-time!
@Eggdough said: /play rimshot 

What's new in Nurph?

Get a Chat Room for Your Twitter Hashtag!

• Type your Twitter Hashtag in to the Nurph home page
• This takes you to your Twitter #Hashtag's Nurph Channel
• Watch the Hashtag Tweets streaming by in real-time
• Type messages to easily publish tweets to your Hashtag
• The Channel design & branding matches the corresponding Twitter account
• Get chat Archives
• See Statistics on Contributors, Visitors, Content, etc.
• And there's much more on the way!
• Running a Twitter #Hashtag? You'll love it...

New School ReTweets Are Here! 

• The "New School" ReTweet feature is live in the Channels.
• Just press the button to ReTweet a tweet in a Nurph Channel.

Finally, @Eggdough and @Nurph have landed on Earth!

Have a great weekend.

Regards

@Nurph

@Nurph said: Hey everyone - it's a bank holiday weekend in the UK where @NurphHQ is based. Four day weekend!
@Eggdough said: @Nurph that's great for @NurphHQ. Do we get bank holidays here in Weldshire, too? 
@Nurph said: @Eggdough that would be nice, but we may need to ask our programmers to construct a Weldshire bank first.
@Jestly said: @Nurph I'm great with numbers - I'll be the bank manager!
@Eggdough said: @Jestly I wouldn't count on it :)

What's new in Nurph?

We're working away in the background to bring exciting new features for you after the bank holiday weekend. But you may have noticed even more UI improvements to the Channels and Statistics pages recently. Check them out and let us know what you think.

Have a great weekend.

Regards

@Nurph

@Nurph said: Hey everyone - great news - Nurph has gained further financing.
@Eggdough said: @Nurph that's great news!  
@Nurph said: @Eggdough sure is! This allows us to keep our heads down and focus on delivering our exciting real-time chat, statistics, and AI features.
@Jestly said: @Nurph does that mean I can get a new lick of red paint now? I've picked up a couple of scratches from all this Nurphin' around.

What's new in Nurph? 

Further Financing

• This supplements the angel investment raised in 2010: http://goo.gl/3G52m
• The funding allows us to continue building a brand new Twitter Chat, Statistics, and AI platform to our growing number of beta testers.

80sTrivia iPhone App and Web App

• 80sTrivia is a side-project straight from @Nurph's workshop
• Download the app and play 60 second multiple-choice rounds
• Log-in with your Twitter account
• Publish your high scores to a global leaderboard!
• Learn more in the blog post: http://goo.gl/kZDSH

That's it for this week. Fancy joining the beta testers? Tweet me, @Nurph!

Have a great weekend! 

Regards

@Nurph

80sTrivia is an iOS trivia app by Nurph. Download it right here http://goo.gl/RJOE2. You can play 60-second, multiple-choice-question rounds about 80s TV & movies (more topics on the way), and you can log-in with a Twitter account to publish your high scores to a leaderboard on http://80s.TriviaNova.com. 

Tech

The iOS app uses:

- RubyMotion
- bundler
- bubble-wrap
- twittermotion
- NSUserDefaults
- A super-simple, custom "AceModel" ORM by @NeilCauldwell: http://pastie.org/7067134

The web API uses:

- Rails
- Twitter gem
- PostgreSQL
- Heroku

The RubyMotion toolchain is great fun to develop with, as it makes the transition from writing Ruby web apps to iOS apps a little smoother. "AceModel" will probably be swapped out to something like MotionModel, but writing a custom ORM provided an opportunity to learn about NSUserDefaults and other storage options on iOS. Also, a UI tool such as SugarCube or Pixate could be integrated to help separate the view and controller logic.

Results

Right now 80sTrivia is side-project/playground app for getting to grips with RubyMotion/iOS development - but version 1.0 had good visibility in the App Store shortly after publication and was downloaded 700 times in the first weekend. Total downloads are now over 2000.

Version 2.0 has only just entered the App Store, so it'll be great to see Twitter users logging-in and publishing their high scores to the leaderboard.

What's Next?

There's much more on the roadmap, including more advanced Twitter, and even Nurph Channel integration! Watch this space…

Download the app http://goo.gl/RJOE2, log-in with your Twitter account, and let's see those high scores!

@Nurph said: Hey everyone, the Nurph Channels have just had an awesome makeover! 
@Eggdough said: @Nurph Great! What's new? 
@Nurph said: @Eggdough there's a brand new appearance that leverages your Twitter "Header Banner" image...
@Nurph said: @Eggdough and there's a much more spacious and tidier chat timeline.
@Eggdough said: @Nurph Can't wait to try it. This gives me a good reason to finally add a Twitter header image to my profile.
@Jestly said: @Nurph thanks for giving us the headers-up.

What's new in Nurph? 

Brand new Nurph Channel UI:

• Your Channel looks like a real-time, 'Twitterized' Website based on your Twitter account
• Your Twitter header banner scrolls across the landscape
• Your Twitter background image blends in behind the chatter
• Your slogan/tagline scrolls in to view
• A wider, tidier, clearer timeline makes it loads more fun to chat
• There's less clutter
• There's easily accessible navigation links to your:
  • #Hashtag Statistics
  • @User Statistics
  • Tweets
  • Photos & Videos

New "Daily Archives" Pages for your Twitter Interactions

• See your "@Replies" on a specific date
• See your "@Mentions" on a specific date
• See your "@ReTweets" on a specific date
• It's super useful for seeing tweets about an event or product launch

Have a great weekend! 

Regards

@Nurph

@Nurph said: Hey all. Imagine if you had a "Twitter Time Machine" and could easily see all your Tweets on a specific date...
@Eggdough said: @Nurph that would be great! Especially for things like product launches, events conferences, tweet chats, etc.
@Nurph said: @Eggdough well now you can. Just click on a point on your "@Tweets" Statistics Graph to see all your Tweets on that date!
@Eggdough said: @Nurph Excellent. Can't wait to take that for a spin.
@Jestly said: @Nurph good times!

What's new in Nurph? 

- Daily "Tweets" Archive pages

• Click on a point on your @Tweets Graph
• See all the tweets you sent on that date
• Search through the tweets
• Order your tweets by RT count, content, and more!

• See tables of your Relationships with other Twitterers!
• Order your Twitter Followers and Following by...
• @Replies received
• @Mentions received
• @ReTweets received
• Followers count
• Following count
• Now you can really grasp your Twitter engagement...
• Just visit your @Folllowers and @Following Stats pages

- New Beta Testers! A warm welcome to...

• @JorvikViking, the Viking Centre in York
• @XanderMatthew, estate agents in Clapham

- Best Tester Feedback

• "@RateMyPlacement are using Nurph Statistics to search through and connect with the influencers in their Twitter Community".
• The new @Followers search & ordering features helped @RateMyPlacement to discover their most influential Followers. 
• Fancy joining the beta and gaining insights in to your Twitter Community? Tweet @Nurph.

Have a great weekend! 

Regards

@Nurph

@Nurph said: Hi all! We've been working away on fixing the bugs and building new, much-needed architecture for the Follower and Following Stats pages.
@Eggdough said: @Nurph sounds good. Can we see anything live on the site right now?
@Nurph said: @Eggdough sure! The new architecture and search features are already live on your Followers and Following Stats pages. Check it out!
@Jestly said: @Nurph @Eggdough I'm in a relationship...but it's complicated - and open source!

What's new in Nurph?

We're working on a new "Relationship" mapping architecture that powers your "Followers" and "Following" Statistics pages. This will enable us to scale past the levels of data and traffic that we're currently testing with our Official Beta Testers, and to make vast improvements and awesome new features around the interaction data for your @Replies, @Mentions, ReTweets (and much more).

You can already see this in action on your Followers and Followings. For example, try ordering your relationships with other Twitter users by @Replies, @Mentions, and ReTweets to learn about the different ways that people interact with you on Twitter. 

Regards

@Nurph

@Nurph said: Hi all! We've been working away on fixing the bugs and building new, much-needed architecture for the Follower and Following Stats pages.
@Eggdough said: @Nurph sounds good. Can we see anything live on the site right now?
@Nurph said: @Eggdough sure! The new architecture and search features are already live on your Followers and Following Stats pages. Check it out!
@Jestly said: @Nurph @Eggdough I'm in a relationship...but it's complicated - and open source!

What's new in Nurph?

We're working on a new "Relationship" mapping architecture that powers your "Followers" and "Following" Statistics pages. This will enable us to scale past the levels of data and traffic that we're currently testing with our Official Beta Testers, and to make vast improvements and awesome new features around the interaction data for your @Replies, @Mentions, ReTweets (and much more).

You can already see this in action on your Followers and Followings. For example, try ordering your relationships with other Twitter users by @Replies, @Mentions, and ReTweets to learn about the different ways that people interact with you on Twitter. 

Regards

@Nurph