Twitter better than RSS, part 2

Monday, April 7th, 2008

As a follow up to my previous post here’s a screenshot of my Google Talk twitter feed:

Most likely it would be easier to have a service that just posts RSS updates to IM, but Twitter’s already there and with its great API there’s a lot of third-party services around it.



Twitter better than RSS?

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

I created today two twitterfeed bots — dzone, which feeds on DZone frontpage and redditprog, which feeds on Reddit Programming. The reason for this, is while I want to be in the stream of news, I don’t want them to accumulate.
What does this mean? TwitterFeed will just check the feed every half an hour and [...]



TinyURL a nuisance?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Although TinyURL is mostly useful it also has one very annoying minus. Indexing services like Google or Technocrati cannot resolve links through it, therefore all those links go unaccounted (or at least you can’t find them anyhow). Add to this that popular services like Twitter will automatically route the links through TinyURL and it’s a [...]



Twitter in Plain English

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Twitter in Plain English — I’ve been using Twitter for some time and I think it’s great. But it’s a bit hard to explain its worth, which this (creative!) video did wonderfully! Follow me at http://twitter.com/ekabanov.