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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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