Spent some time working on the website this afternoon... with Matt and Josephine both interested in running the software, there's been a ton of development work going on.

As of this afternoon, my website runs a mashup of two versions of Blosxonomy-J... the version that drives the front page, tag searches, and item permalinks is the current development version. My old beta software still hosts my about page, and the page that supports posting new entries.

Note: comment support is broken for the time being. It should be back up sometime this week. In the meantime, please e-mail me your feedback: tim@timfanelli.com.

The new code is essentially a web-service mashup, called HawkEye. HawkEye pulls "stories" from any number of webservices - which right now includes Radar, the blogging engine behind HawkEye, and Twitter. Matt is developing a del.icio.us plugin, and flickr plugin as well - though that code isn't checked into SVN yet. I also plan on developing a generic ATOM and RSS consumer, making HawkEye a consumer of virtually anything.

My upcoming major undertakings include an event-notification system, allowing modules to react to events in HawkEye. An event would be anything new that posted in any of the story sources. This would allow you to things like tweet new blog posts; blog new tweets; udpate facebook with links to flickr photos; and any other such inter-operable nonsense that has become part of our daily routines -- all without thinking about it. HawkEye should become the basis around which your social networking life revolves.

Ofcourse, every good piece of software needs a name, and all you children of the 80's and earlier will have picked up on the theme already. In fact, at Matt's request, the project's admin console will be called "Hotlips." So what we need now is a clever name that matches the theme. Suggestions are desperately needed!

Also, if you are interested in using the code, or helping to advance it, please get in touch... the platform is growing quickly, but any help would be greatly appreciated.