IRL Connect How to Turn Twitter Into Your One-Stop Lifestream - Flock A lot of your online time is probably spent divided between publishing and sharing content on a variety of websites, from Flickr to YouTube. There are a few options that allow you to aggregate all of that content into a lifestream, such as FriendFeed, or for the more adventurous, there’s the self-hosted Sweetcron. But a lifestream isn’t any fun if no one is listening. Most of us have a few people who are interested in what we have to say in one place in particular – on Twitter. So why make the extra effort of interacting with people on two separate websites, or attracting visitors to your self-hosted lifestream, when you can easily use a Twitter lifestream to share all your online content? Set up all of your accounts to feed directly into your Twitter lifestream, and make sure to label each of these tweets with a relevant hashtag. Using hashtags gives Twitter that much-needed organization, turning it into a searchable lifestream. Videos Photos Bookmarks Music Shared Content
ictr06 » home TwitIQ Uncovering Connections on Twitter Could Become Big Business If there's a hard-to-reach person you want to meet, one of the best ways to do so is through their friends. That's true in the offline world and the increasingly social nature of the internet may make discovery of the social circles of key influencers a powerful business practice online. A new class of tools intended to surface influencers and the people they are influenced by are focusing on a hub of rapid, connected conversation that's wide open for analysis - Twitter. Could analysis of individual behavior on Twitter become a valuable tool for business development and marketing? Last week Twitter announced that it will soon allow users to create lists of friends that they can share with others. On the margins of the developing Twitter-as-business tool ecosystem are startups building light-weight influencer discovery and analysis tools. Shining a Light on Webs of Connection Still one of the most useful tools in this group, if still largely a proof of concept, is Pete Warden's Mailana.
WIKINDX 2 Tweet3 Stupid Twitter Tricks • Perishable Press - Flock Might as well face it, Twitter is here to stay. Not that it’s all that bad, just used to be a lot more laid-back and enjoyable. These days it seems to have been taken over by the lowest common-denominator, mostly high-school twits or useless commercial propaganda. Even so, I still enjoy tweeting the occasional profound thought once in awhile, and even like to play around with various types of “advanced” Twitter functionality. “Tweet This!” I like to include an easy way for readers to “tweet” my posts, but the URLs are generally way over Twitter’s 140-character limit. All we need to do is add the following script to your web pages or your functions.php file: Then, in the location where you would like to display your shortened “Tweet This!” <a href=" This is basically a link using the Twitter API to specify the contents of our tweet. Once you have this code in place, it will generate “Tweet This!” Custom short links using your own domain name <? <?
Which Open Source Wiki Works For You? by Shlomi Fish 11/04/2004 A is a web site that can be edited directly by people browsing it. That way, they can add new content, correct errors or inaccuracies, and add their own comments, among other things. Since the debut of the original Wiki Wiki Web , many publicly available, usually open source, Wiki implementations have appeared, enabling webmasters to set up their own Wikis on their sites. These Wiki implementations vary in their features, ease of installation, syntax, and semantics. The purpose of this article is to give an overview of several popular Wiki implementations and see how they fare. Common Features Offered by Wiki Implementations For their pages, Wiki implementations offer a markup language, usually very different than HTML. Most implementations identify Wiki pages in the markup by using an identifier, usually formed from capitalized words (for example, ThisIsAWikiPage ). There are other common rich-text paradigms. Evaluation Criteria Is the Wiki version-controlled?
Matt 85+ of the Best Twitterers Designers Should Follow There are thousands of designers on Twitter tweeting about everything from ongoing projects to their personal lives. But only a small percentage of those tweet about design topics of interest to other designers and design addicts. These people cover everything from their design process to their own projects, and design resources from all over the web. Below is a list of more than 85 of those Twitterers. Have another designer to recommend? Multi-Disciplinary @abduzeedo - Fabio Sasso is a graphic and web designer, as well as . @AndrewKelsall - Andrew Kelsall is a web and graphic designer who does all sorts of creative work including logo and print design. @anthonywoods - Anthony Woods is a graphic designer and web and software application developer. @artistech - Artistech Newmedia is a design and production firm working with web, print, and video. @bartelme - Wolfgang Bartelme is a user interface and graphic designer. @bongobrian - Brian Paulowicz is a web designer and graphic artist.
Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious 10 Ways to Share Music on Twitter - Flock Twitter is fast becoming one of the most important ways to share information quickly, easily, and instantly over the web. Users and developers have found a lot of innovative ways to pack a ton of utility into just 140 characters, including sharing images, sharing video, and sharing documents. What about music? Turns out, there are plenty of ways to share tunes on Twitter as well. Below are ten of the best ways to tweet about what you're listening to. If you know of any other ways to share music on Twitter that we should be aware of, please let us know in the comments. 1. Tinysong is a very basic URL shortener for music powered by P2P music sharing service Grooveshark. 2. If you want a more complete integration between Grooveshark and Twitter, you'll want to check out Twisten.fm. 3. Song.ly is a Twitter music sharing service powered by the Russian media search engine Tagoo. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. imeem 10.