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Articles Tagged "status":
Twitter Statuses Badge ¬
2007-05-07
A couple weeks ago, my friend Jimmy saw a modification of the Twitter JavaScript badge that I had whipped up for the coming site redesign and liked what he saw. He decided to integrate it into his site, but wanted a few more features: most notably, the ability to display more than once recent tweet.
So last week I took an hour to clean it up and improve it. The end result is as follows:
The main features of this modification are:
- The twitterer’s icon, which links to their twitter page.
- One or more of the twitterer’s recent tweets.
- Tweet date-stamp that links to that tweet’s permalink.
- More CSS hooks for more advanced styling, including: ‘first’, ‘last’, ‘even’, and ‘odd’ classes on the list item tags.
You can download following package which contains a stand-alone copy of the JavaScript, plus an example theme (CSS) for it that mimics much of the Twitter look (as seen above):
twitter_statuses_badge-0.1.tar.gz
Please note that the included example CSS stylesheet does not render exactly as intended in Firefox and has not been tested in Internet Explorer for Windows. It was hacked together pretty quickly and tested in Safari, but does fail fairly gracefully in IE for Mac1. I’ll leave those fixes as an exercise for the reader.
I’d highly suggest also taking a peek at Jon Aquino’s modifications as well, because he’s got a fix for date parsing in IE (it doesn’t appear to work in IE for the Mac, though) and provides a similar hack with no additional CSS hooks and such.
I do intend to release additional features that I’m currently developing for my site so check the development page for the latest release.
I hope you all find it useful! I also am interested to hear if anyone wants it wrapped into a Textpattern plug-in.
1 If I didn’t personally have a collection of Classic Macs, I probably wouldn’t even bother testing it anymore.
Twitter as my global status message ¬
2006-12-12
When John Gruber mentioned Twitter a couple weeks ago, saying, ”[his] spidey sense says Twitter is going to be one of those ‘everyone’s using it’ big deals pretty soon,” I went straight over to twitter.com to see what it was all about.
When I got there I was pretty under-whelmed with the concept of the site/service (all it does is ask, “What are you doing?”) and left pretty quickly. It’s like a blog where all you post is a 143 character quick message about what you’re doing. Big deal. So I browsed on.
About 30 minutes later it suddenly hit me. What if I used Twitter as a central location to update a personal status/away-message for my web site, Adium (and so all my AIM, Jabber, and Yahoo! Messenger accounts), possibly finger, as well as whatever service I start using next. That’s where Twitter’s ability to post via web, AIM/Jabber, or cell phone suddenly appeared to be complete genius to me.
I’ve never cared for the SMS messaging functionality for reminders in Google Calendar or other services and I sure don’t want to use my cell phone to post weblog entries like some people do, but how many times have I gotten back to my computer to find numerous IMs from people that hadn’t caught on that I was away or didn’t realize I was busy with some other project? Obviously too many to count on all my digits (including toes). So, integrating a centralized status message with as many services as possible would be very beneficial to me.
I quickly happened across the TwitterAdium Xtra for Adium1, found the API fairly easy to work with via JavaScript, a Textpattern plug-in, and many other cool things.
What I’m finding out about the latest “Web 2.0” sites/services is that their true power is not so much in their tagging (although very useful) or their community aspects (which I tend to care little about), but in that many of them publish APIs and embrace others using them as building blocks. “Web 2.0”—or are we up to 2.5 yet?—is very much like working on a unix command line: others have created many, many useful tools and all you have to do is pipe their output to others or occasionally write a script to glue them all together.
1 Unfortunately, TwitterAdium currently requires the latest beta and I’m using the stable release, so I’ll have to actually upgrade or wait it out.
