There is some expectation about FavPal, a multisite social currency for connecting communities, but I need to focus on my our startup Arpamet, which was previously named Fav2Fav (independent of FavPal).

I’ve decided to put FavPal in sleeping mode for now. It’s core goes on running at FavPal.org so the Twitter’s @thankyou will continue using the API (@thankyou @hecpeare!). It’s a pity just after the campus party encouragement, but I must.

Thank you everybody for their support.

PS. It will wake up someday, I’m quite sure. If someone wants to wake up it before I’m ready or just you want to copy some ideas, even the whole source code, please do it.

I leave the main (and very simple) method below. Go to the subversion repository to find the complete code of Seekr (license: GNU Affero GPL). You may want to go to the camping site.
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post en Español (pero no igual)

I was writing a script to backup subtitles from dotsub.com and I realized that the task of seeking in webs is repetitive and non standard. Moreover, I had thought several times that I would like to execute scripts from the web. As I am using/learning Ruby (and I’m not going to use Rails for that), I googled and found Camping. It’s a microframework and it’s very easy to use even for me ;)

I tried the Camping microframework writing the little app Seekr (less than 40 lines with comments) to rewrite searches. It presents a standard way to seek so it’s going to simplify my life a bit. For example, when I want to look for a word in the Spanish dictionary of the RAE (Real Academia Española), I had to go to the rae.es and then seek my word. Now I only need to go to seekr.es/rae/perro. And the same to the Wikipedia, Technorati, Google Maps, Mininova for ordered by seed torrents, Lastfm for similiar artists and so on.

You also could specify the language:
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I’m also going to write some posts in English. I’ll post about Internet, Linux, Ruby, Ruby on Rails (and a technical view of the Fav2fav favor exchange community) and Vim among other topics. Please, note that I’m learning much basic stuff yet. I regret having grown with Microsoft non free software every day.

Of course, I will also post about free software, free knowledge and culture, democracy and capitalism.