FluidDB » Blog Archive » Meet Tickery We’re very excited to present Tickery: a fun tool for exploring sets of Twitter friends and finding new people to follow. Tickery starts off very simply, letting you see who pairs of Twitter users follow in common. For example, who do Tim O’Reilly and Tim Bray follow in common? Please be patient with Tickery if you do a query on a user we haven’t added yet. Tickery lets you sign in via Twitter – see the button on the top right of the tab bar. Tickery also has an Advanced tab, which gives you another big jump in power. Powered by FluidDB The most important and interesting thing about Tickery is that it’s built on top of FluidDB (description, API). You can read about this in the context of Tickery on the About tab. These are the kinds of ideas that people have recently been writing about as the future of data. Stay tuned, there’s much more to come.
OneRiot.com – Realtime Search for the Realtime Web A few weeks ago, a small team from @WalmartLabs visited the offices of OneRiot in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. OneRiot has developed some pretty nifty technology that analyzes social media signals from popular networks like Twitter and Facebook to deliver ads that are relevant to consumers’ interests. As our teams debated the finer points of Big Data, Fast Data, and machine learning technologies, it became clear to us that we could find no better colleagues than the guys at OneRiot. As a part of Walmart, we're continuing to work with the intensity of a technology startup. Today I’m pumped to share the news that, within 30 days of that first meeting, we have closed a transaction to acquire the key assets of OneRiot. The technology team at OneRiot will move to Silicon Valley and become part of @WalmartLabs in September. As I have written before, here at @WalmartLabs we’re doing some amazingly interesting and impactful work at the intersection of social, mobile, and retail.
TLists - Search. Curate. Join. Listorious: Discover the Best Twitter Lists Security Expert Suggests Twitter Focus on Output Escaping not Input Filtering - ReadWriteWeb Twitter's status blog this morning announced that Twitter has addressed the most recent variant of the Mikeyy worm but recommends that you still avoid viewing the profiles of users posting "uncharacteristic or otherwise suspicious tweets." It shouldn't be this hard, Peter Soderling, founder of Stratus Security told ReadWriteWeb yesterday. "It appears Twitter is solving the problem by focusing on the input filtering, but a simpler and more effective solution would have been to focus on output escaping; encoding the script tags so they could not execute in any victim's browser." Web application development 101: You want to output something that the user has provided? Escape all of that data so that it is harmless. But what does this really mean in plain English? Input Filtering in Plain English Input filtering is the way in which developers validate data coming into their applications, and thwart any invalid, incorrect or malicious data from being used or executed. Here's why.
Twitter Search Twitter Features from GigaOm Without a doubt, Twitter has become a useful communications tool for everything from breaking news to emergency dispatches to business conversations. Most of us tend to use only a few of the features Twitter offers; just enough to do what we want to do. For example, I use Twitter daily, accessing it from HootSuite on the web or TweetDeck on mobile, and I just tweet, check my @ messages and DMs, peruse my stream, retweet a few tweets, then move on to something else. However, the Twitter website is rich with features that may not be easily accessible (or even available) via other other tools. Even if you do use the website, you may be used to using Twitter in a certain way, but it’s worth exploring a few other tools. Who to follow. Twitter Tales. It’s easy to overlook features on Twitter that you don’t immediately uncover and use frequently.
100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Librarians on Twitter - Learn-gasm Librarians are embracing Twitter as a helpful tool to bring together community and make work easier. Whether you are just starting out with Twitter or are looking for ways to improve your existing Twitter experience, the following tips, tools, and resources will have you Twittering like a pro in no time. Dive into this list to find everything you will need to use Twitter in your library.
Tweet Scan In the innovative world of Microblogging, one site aims to organize it all. Tweet Scan searches Twitter, identi.ca and other Status.net-based sites with more being added all the time. You can search public messages and user profiles with results available via email, RSS, and JSON. For more information check our API page or read our Blog Benefits of using Tweet Scan Email Alerts: Find lost or multi-user replies. Services indexed by Tweet Scan: Tweet Scan is a Sterry IT, LLC project. Hahlo 3.1 I’m a little bit sad today. Twitter has today turned off v1.0 of their API. As a result of this my mobile twitter client, Hahlo, has also ceased to work just short of its 6th anniversary. Six years is a long time in the web world, I know a lot of things now that I wish I’d known back then - sure would have made many things a lot easier. Twitter has changed a lot in that time, as have the capabilities of the browsers and devices being developed for. So, why is Hahlo dead? Basically, Twitter have turned the old version of the API off which, as you can probably work out for yourself, means it no longer works. When they originally announced the plans for the v1.0 API retirement I investigated ‘upgrading’ Hahlo to use v1.1 of the API, but the changeover would have required much more than a simple find ‘1.0’ replace with ‘1.1’. The beginning, the challenge. The original concept, back when it was iTweetr. Hahlo comes from a time before native apps were even an option. Some numbers. Lots of usage.