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public individual timelines have RSS Feeds (under the timeline) so you can subscribe in your favorite Reader.
Twitter. I would love to get his updates on my phone!
Yesterday we posted that
Ray whipped up. He (or maybe its she?) has got everyone from the
public timeline in her back pocket. Give her a click and she just might show you a polaroid snapshot and a latest update from someone you know.
We're not quite sure what to do with Celly but she's a great example of an API project and she's really cute so there you go.
Some smart folks out there on the that series of tubes we call the Internet have been putting together interesting projects like
Image found at The Twitter API exposes some of our internal workings using JSON and XML. Note to developers: All of the methods (except for the public timeline) require user authentication via Basic Auth. The username is the email address you have stored on Twitter, the password, your password.
In which we highlight the greatness of Blogger's new "Add a Page Element" feature.As much as you'd like to be sitting in front of your computer blogging all day every day there are times when you have to stand up and go outside. Maybe you need to walk to school or work. Maybe you're even out having fun and doing things that will make a good blog post later. But why wait?
Twitter Help or contact [email protected].
Note: Non Beta-Blogger folks can place the Twitter code directly in their template like any other blog add-on. There's more about template tweaking at Blogger Help.
Odeo, and
According to
Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English Google is a verb which means "to search for information about a specific person through the Google search engine" and a Blogger is "a person who keeps a Web log (blog) or publish an online diary." Those words didn't get official definitions untill well after they'd made it into the public lexicon.
Xanga and Odeo will have to wait to get into the big book but Twitter has been rocking it in one form or another since the 1300's!
Twitter was in part created because we thought the increasing amount of folks using the status message field in their IM client to indirectly communicate with friends indicated a potential need or market for a service built around that sort of use case. Check out the
In the caption, Haughey noted the interestingness of his cumulative status messages: "We also use status as a presence monitor and I noticed today I have racked up a story of my life over the past six months, in statuses."
He's not kidding. Since building Twitter, I have published almost 12,000 words through the system either through SMS messages or the web UI. That's roughly the equivalent of six months of blogging at
insists that Twitter "is now the ONLY way I keep in contact with people."
Tony's remark is important because it aptly describes Twitter as an effortless way to stay connected that works with his life on his schedule. Now if I can just get my little sister out in Maine to sign up, I think we'll really have something here.
Twitter Public Timeline. That would be great. There's one on there now by Nate that would be perfect: "Omg! Is that coming out of your wallet?!"
Today California joins New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and 20 other countries around the world in
outlawing hand-held mobiles while we drive.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will sign a bill today making California the fourth state in the nation to outlaw speaking on cell phones while driving unless the driver is using a headset or other hands-free device, his office announced Thursday.
Cells phones are apparently the leading cause of distracted-driving accidents in California. This new law begins January 1, 2008 and will carry with it a $20 fine for the first infraction and $50 for subsequent violations. This article, however, doesn't mention texting which can be even more dangerous while driving.
Some of us from Odeo and Twitter were at
Laughing SquidIt wasn't the only time Twitter was mentioned.
Ted Rheingold is also a Twitter fan and gave us some nice props on stage during his talk on passion-centric communities. There were some great talks at this conference, I hope they do it again next year.
Maybe that's a bad idea. Anyway it works on proximity, get close enough to the mirror and you see the text messages recently sent to your phone. Must be bluetooth or some-such.
Cool, Twitter Blog showed up in the coveted Blogs of Note sidebar much to our surprise. Thanks for that, Blogger team.
http://google.com/reader (sign in or get account)
Search for "blogs of note" in the search boxClick the "Subscribe" button for Blogs of NoteDo the same thing for other blogs, podcasts, photo sites, and news sites and before you know it you will be catching up on tons of stuff every morning and all day long. (Warning: It's a blessing and a curse.)
Techcrunch: "The future of computing is definitely going to be heavily impacted by hand held mobile devices, so show me something that resembles IM, mobile blogging and group SMS mashed up and I'm interested."
Our JSON and javascript output for the Share feature is popular with the geekier types which is just fine with us because they keep using it to demonstrate interesting ways of displaying Twitter timeles like
this recent example.
Right now people on Twitter are surfing, sleeping, working, looking for a good mechanic, spinning, showering, blogging, waiting, wine tasting, meeting with a guy named dan, listening to adult podcasts, surrounded by sorority girls, eating chips and salsa, lunching, drinking beer, discovering things, sitting on a fat ass, testing, feeling slightly ill, preparing for karaoke, considering making tea, smoking, loathing, wishing, microblogging, quitting, thinking, photographing a wedding, applying to work at Starbucks, bringing sexy back, ordering falafel, designing a flyer, chilling with friends, getting starbucks, eating chili and garlic bread, washing the car, running errands, shopping, eating too much, being laughed at, downloading music, stuck at work, going to subway, heading out, learning perforce, wishing canadian tire sold retro sneakers, getting back into the groove, lost somewhere in southern california, going to mcdonald's, remembering, thinking, air guitaring, and eating take out.
If you live in the EU, Middle East, or Asia we now have an access number for you to use. It's not as easy to remember as the US shortcode (40404) but it works just as good.
UK Access Number
+44 778 148 8126
Text to it right now if you like. If you don't have an account, we'll set one up for you via a short volley of texts. Of course if you're reading this blog you might just want to
join online.
Patrick has written a excellent post on his blog detailing
How to make your own twitter-badge using our new sharing functionality (click "Share" at the top of Twitter to get the codes).
With twitter.com you have the ability to post your status message on your website. Earlier in its history they had only a flash-badge that was unconfigurable. Now there is a javascript-badge that seems to be quite extendable to me. Here is how I changed the provided script to fit my wishes.
If you are so inclined, take a look at his instructions. The end product really does make for an interesting addition to your web site or blog.
Cellular News today reports there are
694 Million People Currently Use the Internet Worldwide. The point is not that there's more cell phone connections than internet connections; it's that there's lots of folks getting connected. 40 million new mobile connections per month.
Austin, Tony, and Susan are a small IT team that provides services to a bunch of physicians around town. There's lots of running around and meetings so one of their biggest complaints was, "We never know where you are!" Now they're using Twitter to text in their whereabouts.
Clients can check this page (set up using our new JavaScript badge code) to see where they are and what they're up to. Brilliant!
Today we're launching new features at
Settings for entering a link to another web site if you have one—it will show up under your name. Hope you like the new look. Let us know what you think.
Narendra Rocherolle is hooked on Twitter: "My most recent fascination is with the genre of nanoblogging–new publication services centered around small bursts of information about your location, presence, mood, etc."
Spreading The Word: "Movie studios once felt confident they had at least two weekends to sell as many movie tickets as possible before toxic buzz would undermine their multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns. Hollywood executives now say that the proliferation of movie-related e-mail, Internet blogs and text messaging has reduced that window to mere hours, as the quick decline of last weekend's heavily promoted 'Snakes on a Plane' proved"
