Tweet this, bitch
As a trader and an internet junkie I can’t help but have come across stocktwits. The amount of buzz about this thing has finally pushed me over the edge to start paying attention to my twitter account. So I finally went and started “following” a few people who were following me, kicked the tires on actually “twitting” from my phone, uploaded a pic (a good inebriated one) and all that there.
So if you’re one of those types of people I’m on twitter as, you guessed it, madwilliamflint (yeah yeah, I know what I said. mpwilson wasn’t exactly available.)
I can’t begin to imagine what I’m going to twit about (tweet? god this is worse than the fucking coffee jokes for java.)
I’ll probably need some bizarre blog integration thingie… but in which direction I’ve no idea.
V. Kate had something that seemed to update her facebook status with twitter things but that could’ve been my imagination… so much is lately.
I’ve also been pointed at a really stellar piece of software (how often do you hear me say THAT?) called TweetDeck that’s an adobe air application (frankly I don’t even know wtf that means. I’m so damn behind.) It helps you follow and group and filter your twitter subscriptions, so you can maintain a nice console with group updates, etc. It’s very much the kind of thing I’ve fantasized about writing for rss feeds; sort of a recombinator and filtering. (Frankly because boing boing’s political ramblings make me want to puke. But their tech stuff is fine. Nix Cory, gimme Xeni… that sort of thing.)
But if you’re a twitter person, check out TweetDeck. It’s free as in beer and runs on either platform worth mentioning (take THAT.)
And as always, if you have any recommendations, gimme a holla, yo.
On another note…
eh, that’s another post.
January 30th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Air is Adobe’s framework for allowing web apps to run on the desktop (ie outside the browser instance.) There are some terrific apps using Air - I particularly love the one that lets me Google Analytics without needing to keep a browser tab open for it. It has allowed many useful little web apps to be widgetized too. (There, my contribution to the English lexicon - widgetized - you heard it here first.)
Paul