If anyone is interested, I did this for Portland, Oregon back in June.

http://labratrevenge.com/pdx

http://dealloc.me/2013/06/30/the-making-of-pdx.html

We think TopoJSON is a fantastic format and some of us have usedit in recent projects. For example: https://github.com/caged/portland-census

> The key mistake here is to rank the contributions by the popularity of the project that was contributed to.

That's not the case. Repositories Contributed To are ranked based on the impact an individual had on them (recency, # commits, # issues, etc). The popularity of the project has no effect on it.

Well, on just about every profile I tried there was Rails, JQuery or such front and center, on both sides ("Popular repos" and "Contributed to"). I still can't make out a pattern, it looks like a fairly random mix between the repos by the user and forked repos that they never contributed anything to.

Perhaps it'd become understandable if github displayed the actual metrics that lead to the ranking (commits#, issues, etc.).

Until then these new profiles remain sourceforgesque to me...

If this is indeed against ICANN policy, they're still in breach of this rule. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/602885/godaddy.png

I released a visualization I completed yesterday which is written in D3 (source on Github) - http://dealloc.me/demos/crime/2011.html. Also, I've written an introduction to D3, focusing on what makes it different than your average charting library - http://dealloc.me/2011/06/24/d3-is-not-a-graphing-library.ht....

Apple's "1000 songs in your pocket" is a great example of this vs, say, "8gb HD capable of holding over 1000 songs".

I use serve - https://github.com/jlong/serve. It can render erb, haml, html, and has the concept of a layout. It can also be as simple as `serve` in the current directory to serve up any files or directories.

    Kelly’s overarching philosophy owes to business texts, most directly, 
    the writings of Jim Collins (“Good to Great” and “Built to Last,” among others), 
    who argues that successful organizations coalesce around a concise, easily 
    communicated core mission. Kelly said: “If someone says to me, 
    ‘What do you stand for?’ I should be able to invite them to practice and in 
    five minutes, they’d say: ‘I see it. I get it.’ 
    They stand for playing hard and playing fast.”

This could be applied to your product's home page. The difference is that you'll be lucky to get 60 seconds.

Here is the original paper - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.3003v1. The paper claims their code and data is open, but the link is broken and I was unable to find it by browsing their site...which seems to consist of mostly blank pages.

I agree that some applications have very little need to add an status bar item. Fortunately, most of the ones I use allow you to turn the feature off.

On the other hand, I hide the dock on my laptop. Having a status bar item in application like this is pretty valuable for me as it allows me (in the case of Mailplane) to quickly navigate my accounts and see newer emails without focusing the main application.