It’s been well-over a year since I hacked the the first few lines of code for Trowel, the open source, Perl solution to your Twitter and Growl needs.
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Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category
Displaying Twitter messages using Growl
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Twitter & Growl — real world solutions
Monday, November 23rd, 2009By-far-and-away the most popular blogs I have ever written are How To: Growl and Twitter and Twitter + Growl = Trowel v1.0.
These simple how to’s, provide a solution to a simple problem. How do I pipe my Twitter time line to Growl?
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UK Local News Aggregator – The Skinny
Friday, March 6th, 2009Ever since we set up The Matters Network, we’ve been trying to find new ways to bring local content to out thousands of users. So at the end of 2008 we set up the Matters News Network, the aim was to distill the gigabytes of local data we produce each day and distribute it in the most convenient way (for us and our users).
The Prior Art Project – Open Source Ideas
Sunday, February 15th, 2009I’ve had this idea for a few weeks and I finally want to move it forward or forget it.
In a nut shell Prior Art will be a podcast (weekly or bi-monthly to start) that will discuss ideas and inventions sent in by listeners. The stated invention is to enter into the public domain ideas and systems before large corporations and patent trolls can patent them.
Future Twitter Syntax
Monday, February 9th, 2009As part of my Prior Art project I am publishing these Twitter syntax ideas I would like to see implemented.
We all know the standard Twitter syntax elements (#, @, d), these are documented below. Please leave comments and your own ideas (and correct my mistakes).
Local News on Twitter
Friday, February 6th, 2009Local news just got that little easier to find on Twitter. The micro-blogging site has exploded over the last 2 months and with it a seemingly inexhaustible supply of information.
Below is a list of local news services on Twitter… enjoy.