My favorite show, The Big Bang Theory, just started its new season about a month ago. The second season is looking even better than the first, which is good news. It’s a really funny show – even more so if you’re into science and nerdy stuff like I am. This isn’t the first case of [...]

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OK, it was more like a coincidentally timed outage, but … Today’s SmartyPig giveaway was held at 3:00 PM Central Time. At approximately 3:02, I noticed that I couldn’t hit Twitter’s web interface any longer – it was asking me to log in as an employee. Sadly, I don’t work for Twitter, so I couldn’t [...]

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If you’re interested in setting up a Laconica 0.5.0 instance of your own, you can follow the directions I’ve outlined below. I got the general outline from decafbad.com but had to do some modifications of my own to get it running. This how-to requires you to be fairly knowledgeable with web systems and databases. If [...]

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Wednesday’s meme of the day was sillyphobia, a revealing of a person’s strange fears. A quick search on the #sillyphobia hash reveals the originator to be a fellow #dmtweetup member, @Kathy_L. The scope of #sillyphobia was nothing like the reach of #mangavatar a few weeks ago, but it was certainly fun to track the topic. [...]

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Tweenky is a relatively new Twitter client that’s currently in beta. Tweenky is different from most Twitter clients in the sense that it’s a web-based application. This has both good and bad aspects to it, but overall, Tweenky handles it well. It’s written primarily in PHP and uses jQuery extensively, and also relies on Amazon’s [...]

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You may remember the MLB ScoreBot I created in July to report MLB scores to its followers. Since it was so much fun (and I liked the positive feedback), I’ve decided to build an NFL ScoreBot. The underlying premises of the bots are the same – go out to the official site and scrape scores. [...]

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Everyone knows that search.twitter.com (formerly Summize) is a great way to aggregate or find tweets with certain criteria. Here’s a few more tricks that will help you narrow your search results: Use a boolean: searching Obama OR McCain will give you results containing either of those keywords. String them together as you like (Gustav OR [...]

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I was tipped off by @microblink last night to a new third-party Twitter service called Tweenky. I was quick to jump onboard with the service knowing nothing about it. After the last few lackluster services I reviewed, I was taking a shot in the dark that this service would be something worthy of reviewing. I [...]

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This is the day many have been waiting for. While Ping.fm‘s beta exclusivity was hardly exclusive (providing you know people), that’s all been wiped clean now. The announcement came this morning on the Ping.fm blog — anyone who wants to can now sign up at Ping.fm, invitation code free. What does this mean for the [...]

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FriendFeed has launched a number of widgets available for use on other websites. It allows visitors to your site to check out what services you use, how many comments you make, view/subscribe to your feed, etc. This puts the FriendFeed brand out there in the “blogosphere”. What impact will this have on FriendFeed’s popularity and/or [...]

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