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Twitter tip, who’s helping your message

Dave — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:42:36 +0000

Following on from my quick tip last month about not missing replies, I’ve got another one: tracking who’s RT / retweeting / whatever phrase you use for this action.

Once again using the same somewhat unknown feature on http://icanhaz.com I created a quick URL to get those retweets.

http://icanhaz.com/retweet/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE
e.g. http://icanhaz.com/retweet/builtbydave

last.fm for film?

Dave — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:28:32 +0000

Where is it, anyone know?

Twitter tip, don’t miss out

Dave — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:37:07 +0000

Quick tip. If someone tweets, “@builtbydave ….” the tweet will show in my replies tab. If they “…. @builtbydave ….” it doesn’t — there’s a good chance I’ll miss it. Using a somewhat unknown feature on http://icanhaz.com I created a quick URL to get those missed tweets.

http://icanhaz.com/nonreplies/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE
e.g. http://icanhaz.com/nonreplies/builtbydave

I recommend subscribing to the given feed in your favourite feed reader

Mixture of thoughts on Chrome

Dave — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:49:12 +0000

All this browser innovation (not just Chrome, but also Snowl & Ubiquity from Mozilla) are great, but how quickly can this really move.. after all we still have IE.
If we don’t see the innovation from IE, can we bridge it somehow to allow it to gain mass market? IE plugins?
Chrome uses WebKit. It joins, among others Safari, Chrome, Nokia, iPhone, and Android. Is this aimed at all non-WebKit engine? i.e. IE (Trident) & Firefox (Gecko)
So, who is this aimed at?
- Safari? doubt it.
- Opera? Did WebKit gaining popularity take care of them.
- Firefox? Between WebKit (Apple, Google, Nokia) and Microsoft I can’t help thinking maybe their market share is a niche?
- Internet Explorer? doubt it, too small an aim for the Google
- Microsoft? Now we’re talking, bring Gears (included in Chrome) into the mix (over all the supported platforms) and you have the framework of an assault on desktop applications, Microsoft’s core business.
- Facebook? If we’re looking at a push from desktop world into a web application world the phrase ‘WebOS’ appears. Remember f8 acquisition Parakey?
- On ‘WebOS’, land you get to Google App Engine, Amazon AWS, OpenSocial et al. I’ve previously laid some thoughts on those.
Javascript engines? Chrome uses V8, while Mozilla has SpiderMonkey & Rhine in it’s toolkit. Both IE and Opera also have their own. What will it mean for Javascript?
From Gears, what about Adobe AIR, Prism, Fluid, what will it mean for these bridging technologies?

I’ll leave it there for now. Your thoughts?

Google outlines Web development investments in three areas

Connecting the dots

Dave — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:11:48 +0000

Google earlier this year filed a patent called Network Node Ad Targeting. Basically, it’s about finding the influencer in a social network & advertising with them, via (I assume) AdSense (… I’ll leave a Pistachio vs Google comment for another time!).

In February Google released their Social Graph API, and according to ReadWriteWeb the information they’re gathering is starting to surface. It’s extremely valuable information, just think of it in a context away from advertising, i.e. people search.

Are you an “influencer?” If so BuzzLogic has an ad network for you

Amazon SimpleDB export

Dave — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:52:52 +0000

Over at Pistachio HQ we’re a big fan of Amazon Web Services, and we’ve been using SimpleDB since day 1. However, for one reason or another we’ve needed to export our data and it turns out there’s no tools that do that… until now!

It does exactly what we want it to.. get our data. If you need to export your data, check it out. It’s open source and hosted over on Google code:

http://code.google.com/p/pistachiomedia-simpledb-export/

When you get your data, why not say thank you to Gary on Twitter, he developed it

Firefox tip, Google calculator suggest

Dave — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:30:41 +0000

Google Suggest is a nifty feature of Google. It shows you a list of searches and the number of results before you actually search.

Firefox has accessed this list for a while now but only today did I notice that the results also include results from Google calculator, which as my main calculator I find very useful.

Hope you do to.

Update: so this is old news. But I’d missed it, hopefully you didn’t.

Social Media Cafe, Brighton branch

Dave — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:03:35 +0000

Photo by sizemore

Hopefully everyone reading this has had a chance to visit the Social Media Cafe in London, every Friday at the Coach and Horses, if not I highly recommend it.

Brighton branch? Josh Russell (my partner in many-a-crime) is organising the Brighton Social Media Cafe, 11am every Saturday upstairs at the Quadrant. Unfortunately doesn’t look like I’ll be able to make the first, but I recommend you do.

Pre-FOTB Burgers

Dave — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:49:41 +0000

At dConstruct for the last few years I organized ‘pre-dConstruct pre-party Burgers’ (still time to signup for this years), for some it’s almost tradition now… I thought, “let’s do the same for Flash On The Beach“:

One of GBK’s finest burger’s with great web/RIA folks before a slow-burger-waddle to the pub for pre-FOTB fun, games, and chit-chat. For pubs, we’ll go round the corner to the Waggon & Horses / Mash Tun / Mrs Fitzherberts trio (which for those not in the know is between the official hotel & the venue).

Add yourself to the Upcoming.org event so I can warn GBK in advance.

Twitter-is-down. Substitute

Dave — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:04:30 +0000

If Technorati limit feed bodies to 140 characters don’t they already have a “decentralized” Twitter? And search. And advertising platform. And ping. And funding. And… identi.ca who?