Showing Your Last Tweet With Javascript
Phil Windley wrote about using Kynetx (his new startup) to show your last tweet on a site. My question was: why would this be better than using plain Javascript to do the same thing? Phil then wrote a...
View ArticleWhich Should Come First, Spec or App?
I am still twice burned on specifications leading innovation — I’m more confident investing in something led by a consumer killer app. - Matt Mullenweg, commenting on his own Twitter API post
View ArticleTwitter Style Group Blog With P2
How-To Geek has a nice post on creating your own Twitter style group blog with P2 (the WordPress theme). I like that they walk through how to setup P2 on both WordPress.com, the hosted service, and...
View ArticleTwitter Salt Lake City Data Center
Last week Twitter announced they were working on a new data center in the Salt Lake City area. I live in Sandy, Utah (about 30 minutes drive south of SLC) so I saw plenty of local talk about this new...
View ArticleLocation Expectations
These seemingly conflicting items showed up in my Twitter feed today: The natural conclusion from these two tweets is that Phil’s wife is used to living in the future and she isn’t impressed :-)
View ArticleTwitter: Promoted Tweets in the Timeline
Last night I headed over to Twitter.com to check on the recent updates to my timeline. Near the top I noticed something a little different: Subtle isn’t it? Just in case you missed it, here is the same...
View ArticleGoDaddy, the Hugh Hefner of Domain Registrars
… GoDaddy, the Hugh Hefner of registrars. via Tadd Giles commenting on the Godaddy promoted tweet he noticed yesterday. That reminds me, I need to finally get the last few domains I’ve got registered...
View ArticleTwitter Backing Away From Hashbang URLs
The big news from Twitter’s Improving performance on twitter.com was the first step in backing away from hashbang (#!) URLs: … our primary reason for this change is to improve initial page-load...
View ArticleLast month I actually started using my Twitter.com account, not that it has seen much action. Part of the reason for that is I really don’t like having more of my content somewhere that is outside of...
View ArticlePrologue, A WordPress Theme
While in Arizona Matt Thomas and I implemented a new theme that Matt Mullenweg came up with: Prologue. It is a Twitter inspired WordPress theme. Here’s the run down: Post new entries right at the top...
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