twitter from second life
Communicate with your friends who are on Twitter, while you're in Second Life!
Now you can use an old-school typewriter, from within Second Life, to type a message that gets published on Twitter. Once you hit enter, it publishes your 140 character or less masterpiece to the SLtypewriter Twitter stream.
I know! Who needs friends anymore? Or the outdoors? Starting next week, I'm officially becoming a pixel.
Labels: mashup, secondlife, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:57 AM
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a new way to waste away productivity with twitter
If Twitter isn't already stealing enough otherwise productive time from your day, you may want to play with TwittEarth. See tweets from around the world, but on a wonderous 3D globe. Like Twittervision, but cuter. I guess. Originally saw it on Mashable.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:48 AM
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it's raining twitter tools
The Twitter lords have laid yet another glorious Twitter tool upon us. Tweetburner monitors the most popular shared urls on Twitter. There are two charts - the top 10 of all time, and the top 10 of the last 60 minutes. A great picture of the twitterverse. Twitter be with you.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:34 AM
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more data than you can shake a monkey at
Data lovin' monkeys, rejoice. Here's loads, and loads, and loads of free data. I guess you could even say monkey loads of free data.
Infochimps.org is a new community built to assemble and interconnect data. They want to built the most gimonkeyous free almanac, with tables of data on every imaginable subject.
If you're the type of person who loves to play around with Microsoft Access or Excel, instead of drawing pictures, well this is your lucky day.
Alternately, do you have data just pouring out of your desk drawers, and you don't know where to put it? Upload your own datasets, and set them free to live on their own data island, with monkeys.
Labels: mashup, nonprofit, social media, strategy, web2.0
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:08 AM
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twitter lovefest at sxsw. Mat says FU.
I've gone on and on and on about the wonderous tool, Twitter.
It popped big time at SXSW last year. At this year's conference, it's the communication medium of choice, too - as attendees use it to share what parties are hot, what panels are interesting, what celebrities are at the taco joint on Sixth Street. Which is awesome, if you're at SXSW, but might be annoying, if you're not.
Well Mat was fed up, and is now getting everyone back. He's at home in San Francisco, but tweeting as if he's here at SXSW. Pretty funny stuff, if you've been annoyed at all of the SXSW tweets of the last few days.
Related, (and sure to annoy the crap out of Mat), twemes.com is a cool mashup of Twitter, that allows the tagging of tweets with the same theme. So you can track whatever meme of the moment might be important to you. The SXSW version is pretty much on fire, as you might expect.
(I just realized that if my mom were to read this post, she'd have absolutely no idea what that last sentence means. Buzzwords out of control.)
Tweet on.
Labels: mashup, social media, sxsw, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:33 AM
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rest well. the major sites have been plotted to a train map.
Last night, as I fell asleep full of worries, one of my concerns is that I haven't yet been able to visualize the world's most popular websites as a Tokyo train map. Until now. Finally, someone has pinned down the most popular sites the one of the most popular train maps. Tonight, I will sleep well.
Labels: design, illustration, mashup, trends
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:27 AM
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microsoft discovers people are using the internet
The New York Times reports that the latest Microsoft development teams are actually incorporating mashups into their new software development. Web 2.0 style. Like they're actually paying attention to the way the rest of the world uses the interweb. Wow. If they could just make it so that Word doesn't take 34 minutes to open up on my machine, we'd be all set.
Illustration by James Yang, via the New York Times.
Labels: mashup, productdesign, trends
posted by darryl ohrt @ 6:15 AM
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having trouble getting started this morning?
This ought to get you moving around the office. It's like the extra caffeinated version of Ronald McDonald.
Labels: creativeinspiration, mashup, video, viral, youtube
posted by darryl ohrt @ 6:09 AM
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threadless turns merchandising into art
Threadless is having another one of their fab $10 t-shirt sales, and in the email announcement, I noticed something even cooler.
Every week, their in-house artist/musician/snowboarder Joe Suta creates an original painting that's a mashup of the week's winning t-shirts. The painting is used for display in their Chicago store window. At the end of the week, when the display comes down, they sell the artwork. Which has created a wonderous collection of one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Every week.
What an excellent example of doing something local and growing it into something more biggerer. The Chicago storefront is by its nature only viewable by a limited audience. People in Chicago. But by adding the paintings to their retail internet site, they've shared them with the world - all while helping to offset the cost of the process.
An awesome example of creativity, art and commerce working together. Other retailers should take note.
Labels: art, fashion, mashup, retail, streetart
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:24 AM
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here's a great way to get started on twitter.
Check out TwitterPoster. It's a visual representation of the most followed Twitter users.
If you're just starting out, and don't know who to follow, this is a good start. But as Twitterer (tweeter?) Gruber points out, this tool has the effect of drawing additional followers to the already popular. It would be so much better to find the exact opposite.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter, web2.0
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:18 AM
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