How Twitter’s site SHOULD function (Brizzly.com)
Posted by Jeff | Filed under Techie Stuff
If you’ve been reading over the various Twitter clients in Lifehacker.com’s Hive Five and thinking “I don’t want some fancy application, I just want the actual Twitter web site to be more functional!”, then you’ll definitely want to check out Brizzly. The first thing that strikes you after logging into your Brizzly account is how similar it is to the actual Twitter interface—except vastly improved. Shortened URLs are automatically expanded, links to pictures and videos are automatically thumb-nailed and easy to preview. The left and right navigation columns are fixed, so as you scroll through the tweets you never lose sight of useful links. Brizzly is a super-charged version of the Twitter web interface. One thing, if you’re ready to try Brizzly out. You’ll need an invitation to the service. Fortunately invitations aren’t hard to come by, Twitter is buzzing with them. Search Twitter with this link and check out invitations until you find one with an active use left. (borrowed from Lifehacker.com at http://bit.ly/lgs3T)
Twitter … failing
Posted by Jeff | Filed under /RANT ON!
Their servers ping out, their API fails … you can’t even update or change your profile picture without dying out. A good idea (I guess) but a poor implementation of same. FAIL. 0 out of 5 jalapenos.
Whats the big appeal of Twitter?
Posted by Jeff | Filed under General Babble, Techie Stuff
I just snagged twitterfon for the iPhone a while ago and started adding people to it. Not too bad except you only get 100 updates an hour and I guess looking at a tweet counts as an update. Oh well. Will keep trying it to see if it’s actually worth spending time on. Way too busy with the TWIRP project but will see of it helps me stay in touch. On yeah, I’m posting this via my iPhone too. Too lazy to go get on the ‘puter I guess.
