internet
Posted Fri, 10/02/2009 - 04:14 by metarobert
I'm experimenting with the twitter streaming API.
BeStream is currently a real-time stream of everyone I follow on Twitter and all messages sent to them (Not including messages from people with private timelines)
It's archiving everything to sqlite database, so I'll have a copy of my twitter stream even when twitter doesn't keep it anymore. There is no admin type interface yet.
Posted Wed, 01/28/2009 - 06:36 by metarobert
I had such a hard time finding podcasts I liked, and was SO appreciative when I found someone else who had a list I liked, that I thought I'd better return the favor. Below is a list of the podcasts (or netcasts, if you prefer) that I'm currently subscribed to.
Subscribe:
RSS, Podcast - Home Page:
The Naked Scientists Naked Science Radio Show PODCAST - Stripping Down Science
Subscribe:
Posted Sun, 08/10/2008 - 16:22 by metarobert
I put a small service together on
32Hours to "ping" Twitter services. The services available to check Twitter were not helping me much, so I decided to write a little app that actually checks a few extra things:
1) Is Twitter is up (they all do this, but it's not enough now that Twitter "degrades")
2) Checks the Twitter service response (http response - 200's are good)
3) How long it takes to connect to Twitter
4) how long it takes to finish the entire process of getting the public timeline.
If you'd like to have a look
Posted Thu, 07/24/2008 - 16:08 by metarobert
I've gotten linked into a bit of a mess related to Twitter. It appears that a Twitter user named
Tocaya posted a message, which then appeared as coming from another Twitter user,
Louis Gray. Very bad news. The part where I come into the picture? BeTwittered was the source of the message. I have some investigating to do.
Posted Sun, 07/06/2008 - 02:23 by metarobert
PreBeTwittered has come a long way this weekend. I actually got several hours to update it. I've changed the interface a bit. I also added replies, direct messaging. Everything seems to be working, even in IE, which can be a serious challenge sometimes. Because everything does seem to be working, I'll probably put it into the production version (BeTwittered) tonight and start on some new features. Next up: paging back through tweet "history" and viewing your reply and direct message lists.
Posted Fri, 04/04/2008 - 09:25 by metarobert
Here is a link to a LifeHacker story about Prism.
Feature: Create Distraction-Free, Customized Webapps with Prism Prism really has my attention and imagination. I REALLY like how I can run BeTwittered as if it were a regular desktop application. There it is, floating about like a normal window on my desktop. No modifications required from the little web-app it really is. There are a couple issues I have, like lack of packaging things up like a regular, everyday application installer.
Posted Sat, 03/15/2008 - 11:44 by metarobert
It's really kind of stunning. What started out as a learning experience, and a bit of a hobby, got a lot more attention than I expected.
BeTwittered now has a couple of thousand subscribers. It's been really pretty exciting to have put something together, and watch it's use grow. Part of the fun is using Google analytics to see where everyone is from. All over the world. That might sound a bit naive, but even though I'm no newcomer to the internet and technology, it's still a bit stunning. I suppose I'm just finding out how much I enjoy c
Posted Sat, 02/23/2008 - 05:37 by metarobert
I got a bit of a lesson this morning. I updated BeTwittered, and was very pleased. Well, until I noticed that the formatting was junk. What did I learn? Stylesheets get cached, and pretty liberally. So if you were using BeTwittered this morning, and it suddenly looked a bit clunky, my apologies. One interesting thing, IE was better than Firefox in this case. It surprised me that IE picked up the changes when I closed it and re-opened. Firefox was VERY stubborn... So, here's the
Posted Sun, 02/03/2008 - 05:06 by metarobert
I need a bit of help. I'd like to make a couple of improvements to
BeTwittered, but I have a couple of questions I need some feedback on. I'm wondering if you (if you use BeTwittered) would like me to add those "posted about 1 hour ago" type of timestamps to messages. I really like them, but I'm not sure how important they are to everyone else. I suppose I could just put them in as an option. Question for you, then:
Would you rather have the timestamps on or off by default?
The other bit of help I need is from Mac users.
Posted Thu, 01/31/2008 - 10:49 by metarobert
I've been hacking about in PHP again. Found that my use of ereg was outdated by pcre's preg while listening to PHP Architects "
Pro PHP podcast." Besides these archane regular expression changes internally, I've made some nice changes to BeTwittered, my Twitter gadget for Google homepage. I've made clickable links of replies Now, clicking on an
@username will take you to that users homepage. I've also added a settings page, and moved the logout button there with the new "no pics" option. I felt moving the logout option w
