Nathanael Lawrence's dashboard

I'd like to see any of you with the slightest idea of how to use the Get Satisfaction API make a dynamic collection from this very support forum.

If you could make a wiki that updated the CXML, we could add further metadata categories (I'm not necessarily using 'categories' in any proper Pivot terminology - as opposed to Facets, etc. because I still haven't sat myself down to clearly learn the definitions yet) and list attributes in those categories in the event that such a sorting mechanism does not already exist in GetSat. Examples might include 'Topic Type Correct' as a category with possible values of True or False, with a connected category of 'Actual Topic Type' where a thread that has been listed as a Question that should be listed as an Idea, etc. can be marked by the community for review by the Pivot team. You could also introduce a 'Common Concepts' category and list the same idea across multiple threads (possibly multiple threads, again as guidance for whoever is using the Get Satisfaction 'gardening' tools for the forum) as an alternative to the automated 'Related Topics' links.

For quite a while I was keeping track of the Photosynth community on Get Satisfaction in my own Excel sheet with my own comment categories (although I never did completely finish archiving it even when I was still working on it) and I was constantly wanting a way to play with the data with Seadragon. Pivot looks to be that chance.

Frankly, though, copying all the data by hand is incredibly tedious and if I had any idea how to use the API to pull the data out, I would. I'm very much interested in collaborating in the design of the DZI layout for each comment. I'd like to see the Get Satisfaction color scheme maintained and welcome the use of their official icons, etc. in combination with some custom presentation and layout, but would actually like to try rasterizing the full text replies, instead of going the trading card route (although I wouldn't mind seeing that as an optional alternate visualization). Perhaps there could be a splash screen that let users choose which version they would like to use: either pure thumbnail type trading card or the colors and icons of the trading card but using the full text replies.

Even in pasting topics into an Excel spreadsheet, you can already immediately begin to see which topics dominate in terms of size, which people post the most often, which people are most verbose (guilty as charged =), etc. I anticipate that the added kick of seeing the full lengths of replies visualized, rather than every row being an identical height will just bring all of that out all the more. (You'll definitely be able to recognize those dxdiag replies at a glance, I can assure you. =)

Being able to search the full text of all replies within a given thread or across the entire forum would be very welcome. I'm not sure how fast we'll hit the 3,000 post mark here, but perhaps it won't matter as this is by definition a dynamic collection to begin with. Beyond full text search (which I'm not sure is even possible to be functional within the Pivot interface - searching for exact phrases, etc.) it would be awesome to be able to reply within Pivot as well, but in lieu of that, providing a 'Reply' link to every post that would launch the appropriate page with the text editing box open at the correct reply point would still be quite useful.

Some basic categories for your consideration include:

TOPIC (My COMMON CONCEPTS idea)
PRODUCTS: LISTED
PRODUCTS: CORRECT
TOPIC TYPE: LISTED
TOPIC TYPE: CORRECT
TOPIC TITLE
TOPIC AUTHOR
TOPIC DATE
TOPIC VOTES
POST IS CHILD OF... (Provide post #/ID of parent comment)
REPLIES TO THREAD
POST LINK/#/ID
POST AUTHOR
POST DATE
POST VOTES
POST TYPE
POST IN FULL
MOOD (Are there unicode characters for all four emoticons? Does Pivot's interface support unicode?)
COMPANY COMMENT
COMPANY INTERACTION RECORDED
COMPANY INTERACTION ACTUAL
TONE
ERROR NUMBER
LINKS TO THE FOLLOWING PAGES
COLLECTIONS DISCUSSED

So I love Pivot, but I'd like to see zooming out of a webpage be a little simpler. I only earlier in the night found that zooming out on the current webpage by dragging the scrollbar into the center of the screen was possible. This is a beautiful bit of functionality but I wish I could just continue to drop the page away from me to jump to any other page in my web history.

I know that you can't really break the function of the scrollwheel on webpages away from scrolling up and down the page, but perhaps using a shift key concept in combination with the scrollwheel could drop me back into my stream of web history.

I know that to some extent using the back button can perform this, but not really seamlessly. I'm not certain what I want the page to look like when I zoom out - whether a cropped thumbnail as currently seen in web history would do or whether I would rather see the entire length of the page rendered and different sized pages simply visualized as though their widths were equal.

Another idea which, by all rights, should have its own thread but is just too related to this one is that I would also like Pivot to be able to track when I link from one domain to another (versus just manually typing a new URL in the address bar, completely unconnected from other sites) thus revealing my own personal web.