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
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 
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.
What are the consequences (positive, and negative) of having a public todo list? I’m sure I’m not the first person to wonder, anyway..
Something you wanted me to do? Just prefix your tweet “@builtbydave #todo” and it’ll appear in my public todo list & my feed reader. Here’s one I sent to Aral:
What’d the use be on something like this outside of todo’s, i.e. sending a link. Not to dissimilar to del.icio.us for:builtbydave tag… @builtbydave #link? I’m sure my subconscious has me thinking about this from Alfie’s blog post, @everyone: The command line is mainstream.
Congratulations to Gra & Libby, two friends of mine for launching Nodestone. Nodestone is their new Brighton based consultancy focused on helping & educating those who want to “do good stuff in the world”, using social media.
Today they announced their learning package for charities, non-profits, social enterprises, community and volunteer sector. If you know of anyone who’ll benefit from this package, or more generally: reflective; practical support, with a social & eco twist pass it on!
I make a point to signup to most web startups I come across. I also archive the emails I receive from them in Gmail. If you’ve ever added me as a friend, sent me a direct message, tagged me in an image it’s all logged here.
It’s very unscientific & each company emails you on different notifications, however it is directly related to the people I know and what social networks we use. I don’t log the data from my browser but I’m pretty sure Twitter is my most visited site. Seems to me that Twitter is doing something right…
I couldn’t help but reply to Will with a little more then a list of tracks, it just seemed a little lacking. I’d never looked at the last.fm API but I figured I could probably throw something together quickly.
A quick page that gets your last.fm friends top 3 tracks.
I believe it’s actually a bad solution to the question, the 3 tracks you believe every iPod should have are probably not your most listened to tracks, but because I could, I did. Check it out:
Update: Seesmic’s API is “alpha”, and in turn broke this a number of times, so I’m not actively maintaining it.
Yesterday I enabled video comments on this blog via Seesmic. One of my first thoughts was why should my viewers be limited to posting videos when on my blog. I do most of my blog reading in Google Reader, and have wished for comment integration, and it stands the same would be true of video. So I twittered to let Loic know:
@loiclemeur do you plan to do Feedburner integration? i.e. leave video comment from inside Google Reader
But, then it dawned on me.. why should your video comments be restricted to blogs with the Seesmic wordpress plugin installed. Why just comments? Why not any blog? Why not any website? How cool would it be to leave video’s that are in some way linked to BBC news articles, or Wikipedia, or …?
So I prototyped it. Check out my Seesmic Bookmarklet, install it and leave a comment from any URL. I’ve messaged Loic, and Johann (Seesmic’s CTO), hopefully I can get it to the point of viewing videos others have left at the same URL. I’m open to other suggestions so please leave them here. Here’s my video announcing it on Seesmic:
Update: I’m already noticing some issues with finishing the post. The interface implies it hasn’t completed, but it has. I’ll get on it.