Gerben Jacobs

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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

New York, day 4

This post is the fourth part of a series named “New York”, in which I talk about my trip to New York city in the first week of May 2011. These posts will be loaded with pictures, I took 1050 that week!

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or read all about day 3!

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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:

From (Last.fm) RSS to Twitter

And our tweet like this:

The end result: A tweet

Hope this blogpost can you help you figure out cool stuff!

P.s. All available Last.fm feeds can be found here: http://www.last.fm/api/feeds

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24
May 11

New York, day 3

This post is the third part of a series named “New York”, in which I talk about my trip to New York city in the first week of May 2011. These posts will be loaded with pictures, I took 1050 that week!

View all posts about New York 2011

or read all about day 2!

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