openNASA redesign
We’ve been looking forward to rolling out a redesign of the openNASA website for quite some time. Today we’re proud to share our new look with you. We’ve added quite a bit of functionality like individual author profile pages, avatar integration, a cleaner user interface and a fancy space “lifestream” that imports space news and media from all over the web. We have a number of other upgrades we’ll be adding to the site over the next few weeks as well. We’d love to hear from you about what you think of the redesign. If you have any suggestions for improvements or added functionality please do share by leaving a comment here or submitting an idea to our uservoice feedback forum.
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InfiniteFrontier on April 7th, 2009
What decides what space news appears on the lifestream that imports space news and media from all over the web?
Skytland on April 7th, 2009
Other then the constraints of the Wordpress plugin we use, we are open for recommendations. We are currently importing the @NASA twitter feed, the NASA HQ flickr photography feed, our own comments from openNASA, and NASA RSS feeds from http://www.nasa.gov/rss. We are working on importing more space news feeds but are having a technical issue that we have to solve first. We are also able to import info from plurk, jaiku, del.icio.us, last.fm, photobucket, facebook, pownce, and ohter generic RSS feeds. The goal is to create a stream of news and information related to NASA – and if possible, directly from NASA. If you have any suggestions for what else we could add or that you’d like to see, please share and we’ll see if we can add it.
InfiniteFrontier on April 9th, 2009
Well… I primarily go to three NASA-themed websites every day and they are: OpenNASA, NASAWatch.com, and SpacePolitics.com
… but the first four I mentioned I definitely think should be on the lifestream.
I would also add spaceflightnow.com to that list even though I wouldn’t say I go there every day.
These sites aren’t official NASA websites, but in my opinion they belong on any list for someone who wants to keep up to date with what goes on with NASA.
And of course I can’t leave without plugging my own blog: http://infinite-frontier.blogspot.com/
InfiniteFrontier on April 9th, 2009
hmmm…seems my reply didn’t post…
Well, what I said was the three sites I visit the most (for NASA related stuff) are spacepolitics.com, nasawatch.com, and opennasa. I think those three sites should definitely be on the lifestream. I would also recommend adding spaceflightnow.com
I also would have to plug my own blog: http://infinite-frontier.blogspot.com/ …but really those first 4 are the most important I think.
InfiniteFrontier on April 9th, 2009
hmmm… looks like since the redesign it doesn’t tell you whether or not the comment has been sent to the admin for approval (it used to do that with the older version of the site). You guys may want to look into that (if you ever get this message).
InfiniteFrontier on April 9th, 2009
hmmm…seems my reply didn’t post…
Well, what I said was the two sites I visit the most (for NASA related stuff) are spacepolitics.com and opennasa. I think those three sites should definitely be on the lifestream. I would also recommend adding spaceflightnow.com
I also would have to plug my own blog: http://infinite-frontier.blogspot.com/ …but really those first 4 are the most important I think.
Jessy on April 9th, 2009
hi InfiniteFrontier — great suggestions. we’ll try to fix the notification about comments, it should definitely be letting you know.
what about the other forms of content– do you find the flickr and twitter feeds equally useful? we can pull in anything with an rss feed, but of course want to balance quality and quantity!
InfiniteFrontier on April 9th, 2009
I like the twitter feeds (some good ones are Astro_Mike, KSC_Updates, DESERT_RATS, and NASAKepler) but I don’t like that I can’t tell who made what twitter (at least I can’t tell how to see where the twitter is coming from).
The flickr feeds are a little annoying since each picture shows up individually it can overwhelm everything else when a large group is uploaded at once (like what happened with the Expedition 18 pictures).
Chip McCann on April 28th, 2009
I prefer going directly to those other sites for the information found there and only seeing comments from individuals posted here.