Have a Google account and Perl hacker friends? Try CPAN Timeline and see what your friends are hacking on. This could be a proof-of-concept app how to make CPAN more social place. The other approach using the existent social network includes Leon's facebook CPAN app.
That sounds cool, but I can't get it to work.
You have 0 friends on CPAN.
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Parsing CPAN Recent feed failed.
I have a rather unused Gmail account, so I added e.g. my own cpan email address (johanl@cpan.org) to Contacts. Nothing, even after I moved it to the Friends group. And I tried JOHANL@cpan.org which I've seen in other systems. Still nada.
Am I even close to be doing the right thing? Or does it actually break on the recent feed?
As an aside, I think I'm more interested in distributions I use, and I don't generally know the email of the people who wrote those.
Re:You have 0 friends on CPAN.
miyagawa on 2009-01-15T23:05:51
The address needs to match with what you register with PAUSE, but apparently your address is obfuscated like [AT]. Try adding a full name to the contact "Johan Lindstorm" and the app will match as well.
Alternatively, you can add me (miyagawa@bulknews.net) to see what happens
:) But yeah, the fundamental problem is that your GMail contact list is almost empty. I hope I could other discovery options like using Social Graph API
:) Re:You have 0 friends on CPAN.
jplindstrom on 2009-01-16T12:21:58
Thanks, that worked great!
BTW, on the subject of timelines, have you seen this rather cool JS Timeline library?
Re:You have 0 friends on CPAN.
jplindstrom on 2009-01-16T12:22:37
Ehrm... Timeline library
Re:You have 0 friends on CPAN.
miyagawa on 2009-01-16T19:49:07
Looks cool, but by Timeline I mean something like Twitter timeline which is a dashboard where you can get a glance of people's activities.
