My daily readings 04/20/2007
5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good - lifehack.org Annotated
Quick Human Answers- Ask folks on your friend’s list which digital camera to buy for under $300 US, and you’ll get back a stream of responses.
- I like this application very much - post by joel
Direct People to Good Causes- I’ve seen plenty of posts of someone doing a walk for hunger or a collection for diabetes. Twitter allows people to use their friend lists to propagate that information faster, and try to draw more direct help down to a problem.
- need a good way to keep in touch - post by joel
Bonus- As advertised, Twitter answers the question “What are you doing?” It means that you can stay in touch with others without being intrusive. Just follow their twitters.
TwitterBuzz - The most popular links on Twitter - URL Popularity Annotated
TwitterBuzz shows you what people using Twitter, a microblogging service, are linking to. It’s updated constantly. The default view shows the most popular links over the last day. Normal service has now been restored. More features coming soon.
- We can do some marketing here - post by joel
The 12-Minute Definitive Guide to Twitter | dev.aol.com Annotated
And what fun Twitter is. In these hyper-interactive, YouTube-enabled times, it is remarkable that an enjoyable, meaningful web service can be created out of something as simple as 140-character text segments. Like all good web services, however, Twitter thrives on its ecosystem–the army of users and programmers and designers that are coming up with ways to make the Twitter experience more fulfilling. Here are a few of my favorite Twitter-based applications.
URL Rewriting | redirecting URLs with Apache’s mod_rewrite || HTMLSource ]
Module Rewrite - URL Rewriting guide.
mod_rewrite, a beginner’s guide (with examples)
