{"id":8302,"date":"2012-09-04T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T16:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=8302"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:57:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:57:54","slug":"the-atlas-of-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2012\/09\/04\/the-atlas-of-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlas of Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or: privatesquare, ten months later<\/h2>\n

It would be generous to say that privatesquare was ever released<\/q>. Instead, the source code was made public<\/a> with a long and twisty blog post<\/a> and a flurry of screenshots<\/a>. I’ve told a few people about my installation of privatesquare but since I haven’t had the stamina to run a service for strangers (and a free one<\/a>, at that) it’s remained small and reserved for friends and family. A few people along the way have set up their own instances and that’s been both gratifying and enormously useful in working out some of the kinks.<\/p>\n

Maybe there are lots of copies of privatesquare running in the wild. I have no idea and no way of knowing. This is not a bad thing. In the meantime, I’ve continued to chip away at the project adding small features and fixing bugs as they come up.<\/p>\n

Recently, we moved from San Francisco to New York City. Maybe foursquare, itself, woulda-coulda-shoulda<\/span> started in another city but once you start to live the day-to-day ritual in New York it becomes pretty clear why it started here. The Atlas of Desire<\/q> feature, described below, probably would have languished in a pit of good intentions if we hadn’t moved here but I’ll come back to that in a bit.<\/p>\n

When it was first announced, last November, privatesquare came with a long list of tricks it hadn’t learned so it’s probably long overdue for a status update.<\/p>\n

New old things<\/h3>\n

Here\u2019s an unordered list of the things privatesquare said it didn’t do went I pushed it out of the nest:<\/p>\n