doesn't load on my iPod so I can't speak to the functionality but I'd just like to commend you on not choosing some idiotic name like Floovr or Meeerrblap or Dooglity or Phlambo or Hogchaw or Speebu for your project. Makes it that much easier to take seriously.

i think you could make some good money as a naming consultant.

"Meeerrblap denontes speed, reminds the user of flapping, perhaps like a glorious seagull."

And no, I have no idea why that specific sentence came to mind.

This is oddly entertaining. Could you explain how you represent the "world" in the AppEngine data store?

(Also, could you use cookies to bring me back where I left?)

It's really simple. This was my first App Engine project. There's only one model, Tile, that has contents, namespace, and x/y coordinates. The contents field is a string representing the text in this tile. The namespace tells you what page the tile belongs to (e.g., /newsyc), and the coordinates are relative to the starting position. Namespace, x, and y are part of the keyname, so contents is the only model property. I don't create a tile until someone writes to that area.

I don't want to use cookies, but I'm thinking about implementing some kind of directions feature. ("Where am I?" "How do I get to X?") But I also want to keep the system really simple, so I don't know.

I assume you only construct a tile if someone types in it; not if someone simply scrolls over it?

How large are the tiles?

Correct, and 8x16.

Got it. I ask because the tile size will seem to directly impact the amount of data store contention (aka the number of db.TimeoutExceptions). It would be an interesting study to look at contention rates (percentage of failed datastore reads) vs. tile sizes when the app is under load.

(I also assume you make use of memcache, though I further presume that typing implies an immediate db put().)

Yeah. The tradeoff is that smaller tiles are harder on the client. I wasn't really rigorous in choosing the size, so it's likely not optimal. I actually don't use memcache yet.

Looks like it already arrived at 4chan :)

It also works fine in Chrome.

It actually runs better in IE8 than it did in Chrome on my work machine...

works OK in Opera 9 and 10

If it works in Opera, then it is too CPU-heavy on this older machine. I don't understand what it is, and can't interact with it.

Using opera 10 beta, and all I see is a grey screen :(

Confirmed, works in Opera 10b2.