Proof of concept of the USE-IT Twitter Split-flap Display, a project issued by USE-IT and built by a few of my students Professional Bachelor ICT The whole installation is connected via a Netduino board to Twitter and monitors a certain (configurable) hashtag. Tweets found are then displayed on the split-flap display. Heart of the installation …
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New Twitter Logo in CSS
Even though I don’t like these “X’s logo in CSS” things (CSS wasn’t made for that), I do like this one as it clearly shows you the idea (being circles) behind it. Also: if you rotate it 90°, it’s Batman! Twitter Logo in CSS →
Improving performance on twitter.com
To improve the twitter.com experience for everyone, we’ve been working to take back control of our front-end performance by moving the rendering to the server. On top of that, we asynchronously bootstrap a new modular JavaScript application to provide the fully-featured interactive experience our users expect. Improving performance on twitter.com →
On the Tab Labels in the New Twitter App for iPhone
Nobody wants to connect or discover. People want to talk, send email, chat, share, post to Facebook, tweet, and so on. They want to find old friends; they want to find new friends; they want to see if their brother went skiing on the weekend so they can remember to ask about it on Christmas. …
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NewNewTwitter Promo Video: Fly Twitter
A few notes on the new design after a quick look and some read tweets: The textarea to compose a new tweet has gone from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?” to “Compose a new tweet” … #hmmz. NewNewTwitter still has these dreadful hashbang urls. DMs apparently are not prominent anymore. One reason for …
Is It Old?
Before you make a complete fool of yourself when you send a link to your friends, colleagues or twitter followers, enter it here to make sure it’s fresh enough. Is It Old? → via teusje
I’m Glad We Didn’t Have Facebook or Twitter on 9/11
When it was all said and done, when we were all done sharing our bilious aggression and dime-store punditry with our friends and followers, then would have come the saddest part: the online memorials. Unsure of what to do with the anger and melancholy that had welled up inside of us, many of us would …
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Community Manager
Your community manager is not someone who belongs in marketing. It is a person that links your customers to any department. It is a person who can report directly to any department head. The Community Manager Disconnect →
The Problem with Twitter’s Verified Accounts
Today, Twitter launched verified accounts. A great initiative indeed, but they forgot one thing: one can’t define good without defining a bad …
Introducing Twitpickr
The past few weeks former classmate and friend Stijn (@wwdj) has been working on Twitpickr, a webapp which lets you easily upload your twitpic pics to your Flickr account. As of yesterday, Twitpickr has gone live to all twitterati 🙂