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If you want to read your Twitter timeline from FriendFeed, you can do so utilizing what FriendFeed calls an Imaginary Friend. Simply set your “friend” up with a custom RSS feed that you’ll get from Yahoo! Pipes and you’re set. Here’s the setup for your pipe:
Make sure you add your password into the private string [...]
Tags: How-To
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. Since [...]
Tags: Social Media · Sports
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 service? [...]
Tags: Social Media
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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A few days I wrote a post about OpenID. There’s another authentication method similar to, but different from, OpenID called OAuth. OAuth stands for Open Authentication and was formed by a committee of users. The original spec for OAuth was released in late 2007. OpenID and OAuth were conceived for the same general purpose, but [...]
Tags: Internet
I’ve been working on mu for the past few days and have it running pretty well. It’s been pushing out updates to my social networks on each post I’ve made for the past 3 or 4 days, so I’m convinced that part of it works. Here’s a set of features that mu will [...]
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