June 9th, 2009 § § permalink
Since Startup Weekend, I have noticed the impact that having that many top-notch people around in one place has had on those same top-notch people. Many different blog posts, tweets and general conversation has come out of this weekend. So I am going to do my best to aggregate some of that information here. Twitter Posts #swb09 LilBiker’s Startup Weekend Boulder 3 (note: Neal and I are in the picture towards the bottom of the article!) LilBiker’s Flickr Set of Startup Weekend Photos Presentation Video of all of the Startup Weekend Ideas. The Official Startup Weekend Boulder 3 Page Startup Weekend’s Idea Fuel (Illegal Pete’s) —- If there are any other links that I am missing, please tell me and… » Read More
March 13th, 2009 § § permalink
These are all of the features I would like to see in a single twitter app. If there is a twitter app that already has all of these features, then tell me, so I can STFU and get my perfect app. I would love it if this could happen. Twitter Features Following/Unfollowing Allow me to follow or unfollow people from the app. I know the API has this feature. Search Yep, I want to be able to search. Yep, I would like the results to be in a time line like my normal feed Yep, I would like to have multiple searches Nope, you don’t have to keep these running in the background, just run them when I look at… » Read More
February 22nd, 2009 § § permalink
I have been doing quite a bit of marketing via Twitter recently. During this effort, I have noticed a couple of trends in the automatic Direct Messages I am getting when I follow people. (I am assuming that most people have an automatic Direct Message). Some of them I don’t like, some I understand, and some I feel are inappropriate. You make the call, I just listed them in generic groups below. Excited You’re following me? FABULOUS! U Rock! Let the tweets begin. Thanks for the follow! You rock Please check out my Young Internet Entrepreneur blog ****** You totally ROCK, thanks for the follow! Please @me anytime. Seen ***** yet? How can I help U? FaceBook What I don’t… » Read More
February 5th, 2009 § § permalink
I was replying to a friend on Twitter using trim, and I had a <script> tag in the post. I realized when I submitted that the tag made everything after it in my tweet dissapear. If you want to see the actual tweets, you can find them in my twitter feed here: Matt Bernier’s Twitter Feed First thougt was, “No Way!”. Second thought was, “What Else Can I do?”. So, I tried basic HTML with this tweet: <h2>Testing whether HTML breaks tr.im</h2> B/c my <script> tag did earlier</script> <span style="color:blue;"> ScreenShot coming</script> This got me this result: Then I tried an alert: <script type="text/javascript"> alert('does this work?'); </script> That got me this result: Then lastly, I tried a little more… » Read More
January 29th, 2009 § § permalink
welcome to twitter @nakedguyinurpool # uhh…scratch that last tweet. Should be “welcome to twitter @nakedguynurpool” # trying out url highlighting in twitter mycityheadlines.com # one more: http://www.mycityheadlines.com # TinyURL has an API http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/06/27/tinyurlHasAnApi.html # Pandora please keep your coldplay out of my playlists # altitude is a disgusting misspelling of latitude # @chriseaster The best part of the story was the last 4 lines: “Must have been a slow work day, huh?” # Thank you post office staff for being rude, and for making fun of me. I really appreciate it. # why is my first thought “fight” when my body is already in “flight”?? # @ctshryock @charlesmhudson For fear of repercussions of people literally going “postal” I am keeping… » Read More