Tag Archives: twitter

using Twitterrific with identi.ca

July 18, 2008 – 5:56 pm

Since identi.ca has introduced support for the Twitter API, switching Twitterrific over seems to be as easy as entering this command in a Terminal window: defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific baseUrl -string ‘identi.ca/api’ The command to switch back is the following: defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific baseUrl -string ‘twitter.com’ You’ll also need to restart Twitterrific after each of these to see the change [...]

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Queue everything and delight everyone

July 4, 2008 – 3:17 pm

This is a blog post I’ve had simmering in my brainmeats for well over a year or two. I’m suddenly inspired to break blog-radio-silence and get it out of my head. From Let the microblogs bloom - RussellBeattie.com: Once this is widely accepted (and I’m sure there are many that would argue with me), the thing [...]

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Why I’m playing with Laconica

July 3, 2008 – 4:32 pm

I just posted a quick writeup on Laconica installation. But, beyond the how, there’s the why. As I mentioned in that entry, I’ve started and neglected at least two attempts at building a distributed Twitter clone. That’s mostly been a function of how busy I’ve been; how long I screwed around with [...]

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Getting Laconica up and running

July 3, 2008 – 3:21 pm

Update, 30 Sep 2008: You don’t want to follow the directions on this page—instead, leave this page and read this: http://laconi.ca/darcs/README At one point, very early on in Laconica-time, this blog post offered useful information on getting Laconica up and running. But since then, my time has taken me away from playing with Laconica [...]

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Outsourcing creativity via APIs

November 1, 2007 – 2:17 pm

Tim Faulkner at Valleywag: “I blame Twitter. It’s not enough to be a website anymore. Oh no. You must be a platform. Have an API. Court developers. Build an “ecosystem.” Whatever. You know what an application programming interface really is? An admission that you’re too poor, cheap, or uncreative to build all the features your [...]

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Twitter’s Mojo Bubble

October 17, 2007 – 10:36 pm

Michael Gartenberg: “First, it’s another queue to check. … It looks like I could add Twitter into the flow of RSS feeds but do I really want to do that?“ No, you don’t want to do that. If you’re “checking your Twitter queue” - you’re doing it wrong. You should be using something like Twitteriffic or [...]

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Sticky Tags for Twitter?

August 21, 2007 – 11:31 pm

I should elaborate on what I mean by tags in Twitter, since I got a few head-scratching responses. No, fitting tags into the 140 characters for a message won’t work. And, no, tagging every tweet as you go is a horrible approach - no one will do it. What I’ve thought might work, though, [...]

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Damn kids! Get off my web!

May 16, 2007 – 1:31 pm

Scott Burkett, Stop Twittering and Go Solve a Problem: “Aside from aesthetically looking like something a 12 year old cobbled up, the entire tool seems utterly pointless to me.” For Scott, Twitter probably is pointless at first glance. And that’s because no one’s talking to him. Really, this should be a FAQ for all [...]

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