Blackbird Pie: Embed your Tweets in HTML (the nice way)

on May 8th, 2010

No more screenshots and embedding them as images! Twitter has launched Blackbird Pie, a service to create a nice looking embedable tweet code in HTML, nicely making use of your awesome Twitter background. You can try it out here: http://media.twitter.com/blackbird-pie/

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Playing for change: the song that went around the world

on March 25th, 2010

Discovered this initiative through an article by Andrea La Valleur on BitRebels; and it is so bloody awesome I had to share it in turn.

WordCamp Presentations: Blogging, WordPress and Social Media

on October 25th, 2009

Awesome presentations from WordCamp Seattle to get you started with Wordpress, blogging, social media and internet marketing.

10 unbelievably cute 404 page illustrations

on October 3rd, 2009

Cute, cute illustrations for your 404 pages. Worth a visit – and a smile.

Limeshot is now accepting advertisements

on October 3rd, 2009

Yes, that’s what the little illustration to the right says: Your Ads Here. Try again, perhaps you can see it this time. Anyways, if you click on the image you’ll be taken to Buysellads.com where you can see the available ad spots and their pricing. Since we are just starting up, they’re quite cheap, so [...]

Twitter client review: Mixero

on September 15th, 2009

I have come across this application recently, thanks to a Twitter friend (@erosnicolau). Not being particularly happy with TweetDeck, or Twhirl, or any of the other apps I have used so far I thought I’d give it a go and fell in love. To start with, Mixero looks sexy. I’m not sure how you guys [...]

The truth about the Alexa rank updates

on February 9th, 2009

After no updates for weeks, the Alexa ranking has now been updated in the Sparky toolbar, but not on the Alexa website, and only for the main domain, not for secondary pages. Meanwhile, Compete.com picks up the game and pitches itself as a more reliable alternative.

Twitter Resources

on January 15th, 2009

I have been trying for a while now to finish writing a beginner’s guide to Twitter; I suppose I will finish it, some day, but I realised it was quickly becoming a list of links to various applications and resources. So in the meanwhile I thought I should just offer those here, as a reference [...]