the blog: tag= twitter

Date: 6/08/2008 11:32:00 PM [permalink]
Author: yahooza
Entry: I know I'm late to the game, but if you haven't, Brightkite is worth the trial run. I'm here. The best parts are the Twitter and Fireeagle integration. The former displays m' location on m' Twitter page, while the latter updates m' Fireeagle account and provides the easiest way, by far, to update m' location. Go open APIs and the open web!

Note, you need a beta invite, otherwise you ain't cool enough to play.
Labels: brightkite, fireeagle, geo, twitter, yfireeagle
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Date: 5/21/2008 10:57:00 PM [permalink]
Author: yahooza
Entry: http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/i-have-this-graph....

i made the comment today that it's becoming routine that Twitter kicks the can. It would be news, if the site didn't hiccup for a week or two straight.

On the other hand, I appreciate the diligence of the Twitter engineers for providing a fantastic and free service to the masses.

It reminds me of Yahoo! Answers' first slam dunk that brought the house down. Marketing had either spammed the wild world of Y! about or front-page-linked to the first Answers celebrity promotion featuring Donald Trump.

It came out of the blue. Everything flatlined. 4 front-end boxes just said, "fuck it, you don't pay me enough." The quick-and-dirty patch had been to statically link the Don's question to a static file—only the first 30 answers are displayed in the initial view (pagination for extended views). Later on, less short-term solutions involved caching view fragments and dropping extra-hardware bombs.

If you could qualify anything about Web 2.0, it's that webapps have evolved since the dotcom days. It's not just another shopping cart site, and that reading, storing and continuously updating relational data (and not necessarily using a RDBMS) is a 24/7 job and an architectural challenge.
Labels: scalability, softwaredesign, twitter, yanswers
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Date: 2/27/2008 12:04:00 AM [permalink]
Author: yahooza
Entry: http://tweetstats.com/graphs/yahooza

Someone wrote a web (chock full of charts) wrapper to dcortesi's twitter stats. I twitter most in the mornings (~10am).

Neat!
Labels: stats, twitter
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Date: 8/21/2007 09:20:00 PM [permalink]
Author: yahooza
Entry: Last week, I hacked together a Yahoo! Social Media mushy widget badge (see right column on my blog). It uses the Google Feeds API to parse and normalize XML feeds. I want use Yahoo! Pipes instead, but I'd need to write additional code that the G! API does all by itself. In due time ....

Today, I added the Twitter tab, so it's not "totally" a Yahoo! thing. I plan to inject more services and release it so anyone can slop this silly thing on his or her blog.
Labels: del.icio.us, flickr, mashup, twitter, yanswers
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Date: 8/17/2007 02:58:00 PM [permalink]
Author: yahooza
Entry: I've cobbled up a PHP script to send status messages to your Facebook, Twitter and Jaiku accounts simultaneously. All you need is a PHP environment to run the script and accounts for each service; these values are set in a static array near the top of the file. If you don't have one, then just leave 'em blank. The code will just skip over.

I've also added some YUI goodness to make the experience a bit more bearable.

You can grab it at: http://api.yahooza.com/download/status_updater.0.1.1.2_5.php.zip

Much thanks goes to thse folks who did most of the heavy lifting:
http://www.nexdot.net/blog/2007/04/20/updating-facebook-status-using-php/
http://www.modaco.com/Updating-Twitter-status-t250376.html
http://devku.org/docs
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui
Labels: facebook, jaiku, php, twitter, yui
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