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14
Jan 12

Gleetch.com

Gleetch.com is a really small application that lets you tweet your newly learned skills and your unlocked achievements from Glitch.com

Now you might be wondering what Glitch.com is, but that’s a totally different blogpost. But for now you can just read their information. If even that is too much; Glitch.com is a web-based Flash game that lets you wander in a fantasy world called Ur.

Gleetch.com intro page

On Gleetch.com you can sign in with your Glitch account, they have an offical Glitch API. If it’s your first time you are asked to allow our Twitter app to get access to your Twitter account, if all is well, you will get to see your settings page. Here you can set your messages and enable or disable pictures.

All skills and achievements come with pictures, so we will send them along as well, using Twitters ‘own’ photoservice.

Gleetch.com settings page

The application will then keep checking your stats and post it to Twitter, if you unlocked something good! This is how your Tweet will look like..

The default text contains the hashtag #Glitch. So to see Gleetch in action, look at the Tweets with the #Glitch hashtag.

Gleetch.com is operational, but I wouldn’t want to call it finished. As you can see designing layouts still isn’t my best skill and we might expand the service with tweets related to your in-game wealth or location.
But the people like it and more people use this than my other service Longer Tweets: Get some! So that’s a nice incentive for me!

P.s. Glitch.com is momentarily in beta, I still got 3 keys, so if you’re interested, let me know!

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7
Aug 11

Tilly: a Twitter robot

Tillybot is a utility bot on Twitter. You can give her commands and she’ll reply to them.

At the moment she can fetch the weather, compare Last.fm users, geocode your address to latitude and longitude coordinates and fight against other people on Twitter! #fight

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27
Jun 11

Longer tweets that look good

I kinda like webservices that allow you to create longer tweets, because really, sometimes you just need them a tad bit longer.

There are (only) a few options out there, but the main ones I know are tweetlonger.com and deck.ly, the latter only open to Tweetdeck users. The deck.ly tweet page looks like a web 2.0 ERP business-aligned software page and tweetlonger.com’s tweet page, accompanied by the tl.gd domain, is just.. well judge for yourself.

Both show the Twitter username and a photo (which you quite have to search for on tl.gd) and that’s it. “Come on!” I thought “I haven’t spend ages on my Twitter design for nothing”.

Well, I didn’t really think that, but it was something along thoses lines and basically: ”Why is there no longer tweet service that incorporated my Twitter page design?”

So I created “Longer Tweets, Get Some!” or commonly known as http://lt.gs.

It’s really simple, you sign in with Twitter (give the app access if it’s the first time you use it) and then you’re ready to go! Breaking the 140-character limit since 2011! Sure, be a rebel, why not!

When your tweet is posted and people follow the short url back, they’ll find something similar to this.

A screenshot of how a tweet on lt.gs would look like.

Some people have already commented on the layout, which they consider ugly, so I’m having artsy people look at it. I’m not really a designer ..

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20
Jun 11

Friendly hack of Last.fm and ifttt.com

Last.fm button, made by fotopocket.nl

Update july 25th, 2011: ifttt.com implented the Last.fm channel and triggers.

I’ve already suggested to the guys over at ifttt.com to add the Last.fm API to their channel for us to interect with (and they’re working on it!). However, untill they actually make this, here’s a quick tip (or lifehack) on how to achieve somewhat of a Last.fm channel.

One of the default If This Then That channels is RSS. On your last.fm page you can see your recent tracks but also loved tracks and similar options, these come with a RSS feed; thus you could interact with it.

Your “Favorite Tracks” URL would be something like this: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/user/theonewithout/lovedtracks.rss
Where you would want to switch my username (theonewithout) with yours.

Now you can add an action for it. I’m obsessed with twitter, so my action is set to “Post a tweet”.

The ‘command’ looks like this:

I just added "{{EntryTitle}}" to my Last.fm favourites! {{EntryUrl}}

So in the end, our task looks like this: