Like polishing up an old wooden rocking chair, over the past several evenings I’ve been migrating an old Rails application. I was able to get the 3.1beta Rails app (sweet updates) working locally without much trouble. But it’s the first Heroku app I’ve migrated from the 1.8.7 stack to 1.9.2 Badious Bamboo, and it’s not quite ready for prime time.
Tag: twitter
Forget inbox zero, say hello to follow zero
Reorganizing my default follows onto a list. forget #inboxzero hello #followzero. Forces me to place context on twitter browsing
@VictusFate
Mark Essel
I finally did it.
I followed one too many people and got to the point where browsing twitter became unmanageable. I prefer to familiarize myself with a few sources and tune into their messages regularly, but what I’d done over time was accumulate more subscriptions than I could handle.
Twitter is not “broader” than Pubsubhubbub
Image Browser for Twitter is Live
This is an adaption of the IMM (Intelligent Media Manager) focused on dynamic images. It includes a search within function (search within user tweets or search within list tweets) by clicking on an image.
Tweet to wordpress or tumblr blog, Use the twitter API/protocol?
Here’s some bizarre coolness. With WordPress adopting a twitter API and Tumblr doing the same I can now use my Tweetie 2 client to post or search either data set. (more…)
Twitter Powered Contextual Advertising is Live for Any Bloggers/Web Hosts
*update please visit Victus Media for information, the ad tool is no longer supported. The current web app is live here imagebrowser.heroku.com*
If You Love Your Imagination, Set it Free
Evan Williams of Twitter discusses, “What is your Side Project?“
Evan declares early in the video that he has learned to listen to his hunches:
Now it’s hard to justify doing a side project at a startup where focus is so critical, but I’d actually launched blogger as a side project at my previous company thinking it was just a little thing we’d do on the side. And it ended up taking over, not only the company, but my life for the next 5 or 6 years. So I learned to follow to kinda follow hunches even though you can’t necessarily justify them or know where they’re gonna go. (more…)
Ignore the Stats, Connect With Your Authentic Audience
How Many People Actually Listen?
Out of a couple thousand twitter followers I wondered how many actually care about what I post on a regular basis, and my estimate is probably only a couple dozen. If they follow like myself, they only have time to observe their undirected input streams a couple of times a day. What does it mean to have followers or subscribers for modern Internet browsing habits? Is it simply a token of approval? These questions are in some part supposed to be answered by analytics and statistics. We can see how many folks visit our sites or download files. We see how long they decide to stay on the site, how many other pages they visit, and determine if our content is valuable to them. But I hypothesize that this data is largely irrelevant to our goals. (more…)
Layered Internet Apps, Real Time Search as a Virtual Assistant
Internet Development Layers
The Internet is evolving in layers of applications. New programs and businesses reside on top of multiple web functional layers, as well as providing APIs to external, potentially higher order applications. One sharp example Semanta has a high functionality API. Their interface has available effective semantic tools to extract meta data from natural written language. I’d like to fulfill a user need to have real time search information based on thoughts they express within social media. This could facilitate discovery of others who are interested in discussing similar topics. The long term goal I have for a business I’m working to startup (along with some sharp friends) is to create the ultimate web based virtual assistant. (more…)
How to Build Business Value for Fans and First Time Visitors
What Percentage of Resources Should be Expended on Members vs. Outsiders?
I’d say 95%/5% (for members vs. outsiders) of planned expenditures should be focused on improving things for your members following my earlier stated top 4 business priorities. Without Member Satisfaction you don’t have a business, plain and simple. Your business will be based upon providing value to your members which include: (more…)