June 2nd, 2008
Anyone who is a user of twitter, the microblogging service, will know that in recent weeks it has been providing a less than stable and predictable service.
Like many, I use a desktop client application (Twitterific in my case) to send and receive to and from twitter. You can also have the twitter messages (tweets) sent [...]
April 7th, 2008
I was initially resistant about twitter, the micro-blogging service that has opened a new means of trivial communication across the net. I cannot say it has become an invaluable tool, but it is a valued accompaniment to my day.
For the past few days, and for no particular reason, I decided to de-twitterfy my life. I [...]
December 7th, 2007
Seesmic is to video what twitter is to blogging. Microvlogging, perhaps you can call it. But while the videos (vlogs) might be short, the Seesmic experience is far too consuming.
Seesmic is very much in alpha and there are only a handful of invitation codes going around at any one time as they control how many [...]
November 26th, 2007
If you are in the geek new media space, then you will have certainly heard of Seesmic - no? then sit up and pay more attention.
Seesmic offer a straightforward way for individuals to have open “conversations” (comments and replies) through brief online video segments. It seems to be just like twitter - the microblogging service [...]
June 30th, 2007
Scott Sigler, the author who roared to success with his podcast novel then printed novels Ancestor and Earthcore, had a little dabble in Twitterfiction yesterday, creating a story around the iPhone release.
Scott’s tweets started with: “ I just cut in line at the Apple Store. Geek fight ensued…” and rapidly developed into a [...]
June 24th, 2007
FishDog, AngelSpoon, and Kirk are three characters which have been with me for a few months now. They grew organically out of some random text insertions after becoming bored with sensible content for my Skype mood message (a status message visible alongside my Skype name in contacts’ Skype windows).
When Twitter came along, it seemed an [...]
May 20th, 2007
A Minor Technicality 29:
Deliver us from the clutches of P & J
Minor Technicality slips into your ears once more with a look at Twitter, how authors are being branded more than their books, the way to deal with email is to switch it off, sniffer dogs at the station, freecyclegems, and at last, the banjo!
Music [...]
May 5th, 2007
Thanks to James Cridland’s fix here, the plugin now works.
Looking at the code (which I didn’t have the time to do earlier - see previous post), it’s obvious this plugin would not have worked as you cannot simply POST to twitter as though submitting a form. PHP CURL is the only way to call the [...]