March 2008
41 posts
Here’s the screencast demoing posting to twitter through Quotably: http://screencast.com/t/49NDM6zSjf
Reply to Tweets directly from Quotably.com
Well weekend #2 of Quotably.com development has come to an end. T he major development is you can now reply to tweet (and post new ones) directly from Quotably!
How this works is first you must login: Quotably.com/login using your Twitter account. This will land you on your homepage. From there you have two ways to reply or post. You can use the big text field at the top of the page (when you...
and it’s live!
Major new Quotably.com feature launching shortly. Testing it now.
having a blast hacking on quotably.com. Just setup ssl, can you guess what’s coming next? ;-)
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right →
For academic-types checking out Quotably:
You may enjoy another site I’m involved with: BibMe, a really simple Bibliography generator with an AutoFill mode.
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“Quotably makes it easy to follow the @replies conversations that people are...”
– Biz Stone, Twitter, Inc. I’m happy to hear they approve.
“Quotably: Very impressive new web app that assembles threads from Twitter...”
– John Gruber Thanks!
realizing the quotably layout is rather broken in ie7. Oh well.. no one uses that anyway, right? ;-)
“Quotably just launched. Interesting way to follow Twitter conversations.”
– Leo Laporte’s Thanks Leo!
launching my weekend project: http://quotably.com
learning about big tables in mysql
“So?”
– Dick Cheney last week in response to the statement “Two-thirds of Americans say [the Iraq war is] not worth fighting.”
waiting in the audience for Greek Sing 2008 to begin
“Then I wondered, what if I had been born in Germany instead of the U.S. The...”
– Dave Winer
“[T]o threaten either to sit out the election or vote for McCain or vote for...”
– Josh Marshall
wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle →
Fire Eagle + OAuth + Wikipedia + GeoNames + Google Static Maps = wikinear.com. I love this kind of stuff.
“Twitter is a digital program that lets users send short messages to a list of...”
– Ariel Alexovich, The Caucus - New York Times Blog. Someone should write Twitter as an analog program.
“…And so, at 11 o’clock AM on a Tuesday, a prominent politician...”
– Jon Stewart
The Daily Show, March 18th 2008
Loving the starbucks barista who made my Americano with 4 shots (usually it’s just two I think). Maybe I looked tired?
“We can’t know how effective Mr. Obama’s words will be with those who will not...”
– Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage - New York Times
wishing I could go back in time 3 years and smack myself into commenting this thoroughly confusing line of code. What was I thinking?
Man… Yahoo Pipes rocks! One of those things I never knew I’d use, but I keep going back for more.
Waiting at the airport for my flight back to Pittsburgh.
greatly enjoying the Juno soundtrack http://tinyurl.com/2pdbj9
Face-to-face with a whale of a Chinese buffet. It is not yet clear who will win.
“Spitzer is simply the latest married politician caught with his pants down, a...”
– The Cheating Man’s Brain | Newsweek.com Somewhat interesting article.
“People who think that Geraldine Ferraro is right, and Barack Obama is the...”
– Rogers Cadenhead. Rogers has a really good point here. It’s not like Barack became blacker.
Things that make Men proud of themselves
testumblrone:
There are a lot of things that us men do that are just plain awesome. We are without doubt cool as fuck, and it’s things like these that reinforce this in our own heads.
HAVING A THIN BIT OF WOOD - in the shed, solely to stir paint with. If you don’t have one of these, get one asap. And some paint to stir. The piece of wood must always have paint to about halfway up it from the...
Sheesh…. there are a lot of people at the airport today!
Two 3-hour sleep nights in a row does not a very alert day make. :-)
wow. “reblogging” in tumblr is very awkward.
“Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against...”
– brandtkurowski: “You’re fucking kidding me. I have as many problems with the Bush administration as the next person, but this is just childish, and doesn’t belong in serious politics.”
I share some trepidation, but I think “serious politics” has unfortunately become...
Google Maps Without the Scripting →
This allows grabbing static images from google maps. Sweet! I’ve wanted to be able to do this in the past.
dealing with my iPhone which has decided that it doesn’t like to emit any sound post-ZiPhone.
releasing a little rails plugin (find_random) http://tinyurl.com/2p36ap
amazed at how warm it is today.
in Ann Arbor for the weekend