Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

The Twitter Theater

19 Apr 2011 at 07:50

Daniel

Hype, Twitter, Web2.0

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A really nice posting from mashable.com regarding the upcoming (?) acquisition of TweetDeck for $50.000.000: There has been recent friction between Twitter and UberMedia. In February, Twitter banned UberSocial and Twidroyd for API violations. This was just weeks after the rumors about the TweetDeck acquisition first hit the wires. [...] That brings us to today’s [...]

Twitter says goodbye to Ruby on Rails

06 Apr 2011 at 20:59

Daniel

Java, Ruby/RoR, Software

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The guys at Twitter are moving away from their Ruby on Rails front-end servers towards their customized Java server Blender which is based on good old Netty. In the next phase of our deploy, we will eliminate Ruby on Rails entirely, connecting users directly to Blender and potentially reducing latencies even further. (via twitter.com)

5 Steps of Twitter success

15 Mar 2011 at 10:06

Daniel

This&That

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The Five Steps of Twitter Success: Follow, Reply, Retweet, Share, Repeat I want to break these down and go into some detail, because a lot of businesses may feel they are doing this already, and don’t understand why it’s not working. Follow LOTS of people with varying interests… not just the folks that you think [...]

Twitter Annotations Are Coming — What Do They Mean For Twitter and the Web?

20 Jun 2010 at 18:13

Daniel

microformats, Web2.0

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Image via CrunchBase In a nutshell, Annotations would allow developers (and Twitter itself, of course) to add additional information to a tweet — such as a string of text, a URL, a location tag or bits of data — without affecting its character count. In other words, such information would be metadata about the tweet [...]

Free and awesome icon set for social services

20 May 2010 at 09:28

Daniel

This&That

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Just searched for icons and found at komodomedia.com this nice and free set of awesome little icons for social online services like Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm and all the rest. The icons are available in 16×16 and 32×32 and look pretty shiny. Download here: http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/06/social-network-icon-pack/

Twitter: Using file based message queue instead of SQL database

16 Apr 2010 at 14:02

Daniel

Building the Web

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Just found this in a pretty old article about Twitter and it’s architecture. Now, a more sane way to do this (if I may be so bold) is to keep a message queue for every member, and whenever someone posts a new message, copy a pointer to that message into the queue of every member [...]

Second Life/Twitter Code

18 Mar 2007 at 08:58

Daniel

Second Life

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Second Life/Twitter application code available at the SL Developer’s Corner.

Twitter in Second Life

17 Mar 2007 at 00:01

Daniel

Second Life

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Just built a little Twitter / Second Life mashup using Ruby-on-Rails and LindenScript. Here is a little screenshot. I will put the code on my new SL-weblog at http://sl-devcorner.blogspot.com in this week :)