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Nice implementation. Looks more like a feature than a product. There are others that do a similar (better?) job at this like http://re.vu/

Saw this on a prior comment thread: http://re.vu/BarackObama

The Obama profile looks really awesome. I wasn't aware of this service before. I do wonder how much of the profile is hand-crafted vs auto-generated from a standard data-source.

Don't know, the background is certainly custom. The timeline seems to be auto generated. Here's another one I found that seems pretty cool.

http://re.vu/sarajchipps

Love it! Definitely some great possibilities with this (fun or profit). This would integrate nicely into a recruiting saas site or online job board.

I think it's neat, but serves no business purpose.

I agree there isn't much monetization value to the app. I mainly did it as an exercise to learn Rails 3.1, Coffeescript and Mongo.

I also plan to open source the JQuery plugin that constructs the timeline. Hopefully someone will find that useful for their projects.

ok, cool. I think you implemented it very well. I think it would work well as an embeddable object on other people's websites to be honest. This is a neat way to show my linkedin profile on my personal website.

I think making into an embeddable widget is a great idea. Although the element would need to be fairly wide for it to look nice given the two columns. In the mean time, you can always link to it. I took some care to make it so that your personal lnti.me url is almost identical to your LinkedIn public url.

The JQuery plug could be really useful, would love to see this.

Awesome implementation, would love to chat. pcortes at wesleyan dot edu

Are you posting the code somewhere online? Maybe you can host this as a project on Sourceforge or Github...

Very nice! Thank you for posting

Sourceforge? Really?

My Github repo is private right now. The JQuery is still a little rough. The biggest issue is uses images for the "tips" coming out of the cards. I would like to generalize that and make it more configurable. Plus I would need to throw together some documentation as well.

Nice implementation of a simple visualization service. It kinda reminds me of Facebook's timeline.

It is definitely modeled after the Facebook timeline. I'm planning to allow users to add a cover to their timeline just like FB. That will make their profile even more appealing.

Redirect loop as of Google Chrome

Which version? Chrome 15 on Fedora opens it with no issues.

15.0.874.121 fresh from Google's servers. Maybe some i18n problem?

I'm on 15.0.874.120 (and it works), if that helps at all.

By the way: cleared cookies, authorized again in LinkedIn and results in another loop:

The webpage at http://www.lnti.me/u/pub/rub%C3%A9n-berenguel/2a/a21/390 has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.

Sorry for the bug. I'm looking into in right now. My guess is it has something to do with special characters in your public profile URL.

Love it!

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