Dish Rag Tag: the Sequel sign-ups are officially closed at 289! Follow Yarn Miracle to stay current on Tag related events including next year’s race.
Dish Rag Tag sign-ups are now at 266! Will there be 34 more people before noon tomorrow? Stay tuned to Yarn Miracle to find out!
In the meantime:
Michael and Don are ready to alpha launch their latest endeavor. You’ll like this. It’s all about connectedness. Who you know, who you follow, who knows you. They need some test users to sign up and get their Divvs Rating. It’s free, painless, and oddly fun.
Here’s the text from the front page of Divvs:
Our primary service is the Divvs Rating. We analyze your connections to other people across all the social networks you share with us, do some Complicated Math, and come up with a simple number that represents how connected you are.
It’s perfect for Craigslist or web forums where you want to keep your personal details private, but want to prove you’re a real person, with real friends. You can share your rating anywhere you can add a link to an image, and you do it without disclosing anything personal.
Think credit score, but social not monetary. Sign up for fun and to help test the system.
**Just for fun (I just thought of this and DRT has made me a little contest happy), comment on this post with your rating before midnight (central) Sunday August 10, and I will throw you in the pot to win some sort of knitty goodness. This is an anywhere in the world contest by the way! There is also a skein or two of Socks That Rock to the knitter who manages to knock the top rated user out of his slot.**
Right now I have a 74 out of 100.
This might not be a 74 anymore due to Wild Fluctuation (see below).
Not bad, but if you all sign up, it would get better! Once you’ve finished that process, and have become obsessed with your rating, run over to the support site and give a thumbs up to adding ravelry! If there was a Plurk user out there that wanted that network involved – open a support ticket*.
Just so you know, since this is the “alpha launch” the ratings will Fluctuate Wildly as more people sign up. Feel free to obsess as much as I have and check your Divvs Rating many many many times a day.
*How cool is Get Satisfaction? I love that you can say how requests and answers make you feel with smilies!
P.S. It’s my Blogaversary! Thank you to Beth for reminding me.
Happy Blogaversary!!! 🙂
Wow! This sounds like so much fun, but I don’t knit! Do you know if there’s a Dish Rag Tag for crocheters? If not, would you mind if I started one over at my place?
Happy Blog Anniversary Emily!
Happy Blog Anniversary to one amazing knitter–with a darling baby! 🙂 I still can’t quite figure out how Divvs works but I definitely am curious…although I fear if i joined my approval rating would be so small! Ha! Unless I of course pack a killer, lightweight, inexpensive but amazing bag of goodies for the Dish Rag tag!
CAn’t waint for dishrag tag to start!
Happy Blogiversary
Do you get some sort of perverse pleasure in making me shake like a little Mexican dog? Believe me I *will* be back with my rating! Mark my words!
Happy Blogiversary!
I enjoyed being part of the Dish Rag Tag last year. I’m looking forward to next one. Happy Blogiversary!
Sigh. I signed up several hours ago and I still don’t have a rating. I guess I’m just not cool enough. 🙂
Wow. My rating is a dismal 43. I’m not exactly sure what it’s for, to be perfectly honest – does it rate someone based on how many people they know? I feel like I’ve failed something somehow…heh.
Noting the above comment…I feel really bad now about my very low rating of a 30!!! LOL 😉
I DO know a couple people….sigh.
Happy Blogiversary! I’m rocking an amazing 42 at the moment. Here’s hoping your score goes up!
I finally have my rating. Its 60. The contest is a great idea!
Right now our algorithm doesn’t do much with email addresses. If you don’t have Twitter or Facebook, we can’t get to the real connections you have. 30 is currently the “not connected to anyone we know about” score, although that will change over time.
In short: if you have a 30, add a Twitter or Facebook account, and make sure you’re friends with (or follow on Twitter) your knitter friends, and you’ll see that 30 move up quick!
Thanks to everyone for helping us test, your feedback is fantastic.
And yes, we’re working on Ravelry support. 🙂
I got 30. I Plurk instead of using Twitter. Plus, I don’t use Facebook or MySpace, so I guess that makes sense. Oh well!
Well, I’m 30…until plurk gets added. I have not twitter friends. 🙁
I’m emailing this to my work address as I know it’s the sort of thing my boss would love. I’ll post it in our chatroom at work and encourage all of them to sign up too.
And isn’t Get Satisfaction great. I use it for work, my company uses it to interface with our clients, and love it. My catch phrase is “I’m excited”.