"To be a part of the compute grid, just visit Chess@home or any page with a <script> we provide (include it in your blog!)."

Sounds like a dangerous suggestion. I certainly do not wish to join any grids while reading some random blog.

I understand your concern. We also provide a npm module that could be launched on any server. And for what it's worth, the iframe displays a checkbox to disable calculation by your browser.

BTW, the script to be included is a bit buggy, we're short in time. Now that votes are finished, we'll open source everything and continue improving it :)

Imagine the computing power Facebook can harvest!

8bit social beatbox is awesome - is there a way to fork instances, though?

I don't want some joker coming in with an over-enthusiastic snare.

Glad you liked it. We will be adding private rooms and saving/sharing beats within the next couple of weeks. Check back.

So many disconnecs. :(

Sorry that's my fault :( We deployed and tweeted about our 1st version an hour before the code freeze and some guy came on and trolled the server by changing instruments and effectively froze all the connected clients. After seeing that, I whipped up a rate limiter in the final minutes that disconnects people based on a crude warm up/cool down system, but set the limit a bit too strict.

sorry dannytatom, we put a rate limiter at the last second to keep our server from getting overloaded and it needs a little adjusting. if you try not to click around too fast it shouldn't be too big of a problem.

All good, was just confused as to why it was happening. It's worse because what I was doing would start sounding awesome, then I'd realize nobody had been doing anything in a while, only to find out it was because I had been disconnected minutes earlier and was playing alone. :p

I'm enjoying the social beatbox so much

Thanks regEx. Hopefully we can make it even better.

Hahaha, I have to admit that I've wasted too much time playing with the 8bit social beatbox. (Our Starwars Theme Song rocked though!)

lol, I was in there for that. nice beat indeed. Don't forget to stop by in a week or so, we will be adding new features.

A good portion of these don't appear to be functioning very well in Chromium on Ubuntu. Is anyone noticing broken apps on other platforms?

It's probably because Chromium is shipping with a different WebSocket specification which isn't supported on some hosting providers yet.

Observer was a good pick. With Hummingbird et alia it seems that Node really has a sweet spot in measurement and analytics.

Thanks, Glad you liked my entry. I personally think that Node's sweet spot is more real time than analytics. Analytics is just one of the things people want, in real time ;D

Hi V1, great work on Observer. Are you going to continue working on it? If not, are you going to open source it? I think its a very good tool, and can see myself using this.

Hi,

I am going to continue working on it, the service still needs a lot of polish and tests (didn't have time to write those yet). It's most likely going to be paid service based on the amount recorded sessions. Or I'm going for a amazon based pricing module where you only pay for the sessions you record. I haven't decided on that yet, both models have it's pro's and cons.

If for some reason my attempt fails, I'll be open sourcing the complete service but I hope that never has to happen. But all the modules that I will be building during the development of the service will be open sourced, the glue that sticks it together won't ;)