If you’ve got a Mac, and you use Campfire and iTunes, you can now use Kumbaya to broadcast the name and artist of the song currently playing into a Campfire chat room. Some configuration is required, but if you’re into this sort of thing you should definitely check it out. It’s also open source so you can download the source.
hornbeck
on 24 Oct 06Thanks Jason,
We hope that people will be able to have some fun with Kumbaya. Our team should be adding a few new features in the weeks to come, so keep a look out.
Mike
on 24 Oct 06What is the point or use?
Darrel
on 24 Oct 06Odd feature to be touted by the ‘less is more’ church.
‘tis neat, though.
Jay
on 24 Oct 06eventually the s vs n blog has become yet another company blog, serving mostly self promotion and self glorification. too bad…
Mark Coates
on 24 Oct 06Guys,
Right now, the point is to have some fun with RubyOSA, Marshmallow, Campfire, and iTunes—and to see what can be done by combining them. :) Let’s not get to serious here…
We are adding features as I write this to make the bot more useful. Keep an eye out and we will post when we are making the next release. Happy camping!
Anonymous Coward
on 24 Oct 06Mark,
my comment was a general observation, after reading countless company headlines in your feed. It was not really targeting your article. I understand that a company should use its blog for selfpromotion etc, but for me its more noise than signal.
Mark Coates
on 24 Oct 06Anonymous Jay,
Well, if you are referring to 37signals, it is not my company. I am with forty two squared, who developed Kumbaya. We are all about shameless self-promotion… but thanks. Hope you can find the bot useful in some way, even as a diversion.
Robb Irrgang
on 25 Oct 06So isn’t porting the most annoying “plugin-in”/script concept from the world of IRC kind of like admitting that Campfire is IRC with a little dab of Web 2.0 painted on?
hornbeck
on 25 Oct 06Robb,
It really amazes me how many people logged into our Campfire today to say how happy they were about this little bot. I do believe that it amazes me even more how everyone that commented on this post is negative about something that is supposed to be fun. Yeah, it is annoying and by the end of today I was tired of it. It does show though, that we can build useful apps onto things like Campfire and my team at 42squared is doing just that. Kumbaya was simply a way to play with RubyOSA and tie it into some of the other stuff we are doing. Have a great day, don’t be so serious people
John Hornbeck http://42squared.com
Darrel
on 25 Oct 0642squared can get really pissy, can’t they?
Jay Locke
on 25 Oct 06Noise.
hornbeck
on 25 Oct 06Darrell,
We are actually a very cheery bunch :-)
Mike L
on 01 Nov 06What options do you have for Windows users?
Mark Coates
on 01 Nov 06Mike:
I am looking into a Windows alternative.
We are currently swamped with a project-in-progress, but we have been adding features to Kumbaya incrementally. Expect a new release after November 7th (our major deadline for the current project).
David
on 15 Nov 06For what its worth we enjoy hearing what others have done to make life easier/more fun for 37 signal’s subscribers. We learned about Pyro this way and it was a huge boon.
BTW: i appended onto this exchange while combing s-vs-n archives for someone counter-proof to my IT team’s (paranoia) that Campfire’s (yes, the paid account feature set) “Files & Transcripts” management page’s lack of better Admin-level file download/deletion features is actually an evil design decision to force upgrade-by-exasperation.
Since old s-vs-n comments sections are not “live” like forum threads, how to have this conversation with programming/support staff there?
Thanks. -dm
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