Wow! Do you want to know where your friends or collegues are hanging out? Well, you can call them, of course, but hey: phones are soooo last millennium! Look what I found today: a mashup of Brightkite and Microsoft Surface… The future is now! 🙂
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Tip: #Share your #Twitter #Favorites using #RSS
The next trick I discovered “by accident”, when I realised it is, in fact, very cool:
If you’re on Twitter, you can use your browser or client on your phone (iPhone, BlackBerry) to mark (or unmark) a tweet as a Favorite with just one single click. This allows you to quickly mark a tweet while you’re on the road and read it later on, when you’re comfortable behind a computer with a nice big screen.
When you go to the page of your Twitter account and click Favorites, you’ll see the orange RSS icon in the address bar of your browser. Click it, to see the address of the RSS feed of your Twitter Favorites.
This RSS feed you can use on your weblog and use it yourself, but it also allows you to share your Favorites with the readers of your weblog!
Tip: You can manipulate or add stuff to your Twitter Favorites RSS feed by feeding it to Yahoo Pipes and if you make a Feedburner feed out of it, your list of Favorites suddenly becomes an “intelligent” feed, allowing you to add interaction to it. Read my Crash Course FeedBurner for more information on the use of FeedBurner. And if you’re really into it, you can even use TwitterFeed to have your newly added Favorites tweeted to your followers! Now, how cool is that?!? 🙂
Coffee, sugar and cream
I once advised a girlfriend to put in the sugar first, as it would dissolve better without the cream, so that’s exactly what she did: first sugar, than cream and finally stir… 🙂
On my mind since #jd09nl: @WordPress vs @Joomla
I never considered WordPress and Joomla! to be competitors, but more like apples and pears. WordPress is a Blogging Platform and Joomla! is a Content Management System.
During the Dutch Joomla!Days 2009 I saw a Google Chart which made me realise the huge development WordPress has gone through lately. I’ve been very alert ever since and I watch the differences closely. I admire WordPress for its fast and innovative features, while, at the same time, Joomla! is the robust “engine” that big websites use without anyone knowing about it; invisible, ungrateful and yet super reliable… And guess what? In the US WordPress is more popular than Joomla!, although the numbers we get from Google Trends should be interpreted: the chart doesn’t show the install base, but rather the amount of information Google hosts on both topics. And besides: these charts can easily be used for propaganda, as an image is easier remembered later on, than the explanatory guidelines, telling you exactly how it was to interpret the image…
About Google Trends: It’s great fun: you can truly match anything against everything (provided that Google has enough data): you can literally compare apples and pears and if you want, you can even throw in a refrigerator as well. It doesn’t matter to Google. Whatever you want. they find. Think of the possibilities…
Funny as it may sound, it feels as if I see more and more WordPress around me. Even websites that I considered to be “real” websites 😉 WordPress is clearly doing well and I think their big advantage is being more recognisable than Joomla!, but I could be mistaken (Guido thinks I am)…
Anyway: I hope Joomla! 1.6 will bring us a lot of good *soon* and I hope they may inspire one another for a long, long time! 🙂