7 posts tagged with Twitter.
I worked on this cool hack to dynamically show Twitter messages embedded into the desktop background. The basic idea is to have some dynamic text (which could be fetched from the web) embedded in a...
I got this idea of building an application which pulls all the pages mentioned in the trending topics on Twitter. Why would that be useful? Well, it's the simplest replacement for Google News, but...
"The Afterthoughts" is a series where I revisit some of my older blog entries and see how things have changed since the time I made the blog post and now. The posts that I will choose initially wil...
Imagine you have a host of aggregation services like , , , connected to each other, such that each one is reading from your various feeds and republishing the content. Now imagine a disaster where...
Whenever I use some service over the web, I look for several things. Ease of use and customisability are important factors. However, the most important thing I consider is vendor lock-in (or rather...
I have been looking for the perfect micro-blogging service. In the last one week I tried 3 services: , and . Here is what I liked in each: Twitter The good - Simple and elegant. Gets the job done....
Many a times, I feel like blogging about my thoughts on something, but not necessarily composing a whole blog entry around it. It is easier to do this at a site which is meant for . So here goes: I...