I don’t usually make public feature requests and I know our friends at Twitter are dealing with crazy scaling issues but I would like to register one simple request: the option for centered backgrounds. Background: Twitter lets you upload a background image, but it’s always left-aligned which means unless its tiling interacts awkwardly with the [...]
New plugins Foursquare map Foursquare is rising in popularity, and will continue to grow. This plugin makes it easy to share your last check-in location without needing to worry about giving away personal info, and you don’t need to be an expert in mapping APIs! Vanityvid Vanityvid is a service that turns avatars into videos. [...]
Bad mornings are the ones where I sit at home compulsively unbolding things hoping that somewhere in there there will be the gem of connection and stimuli that gets me out the door. Kellan Elliott-McCrea on a 2006 post called Twitter Curve. I really like the word “unbolding.” Original post by Matt
How-To Geek has a nice post on creating your own Twitter style group blog with P2 (the WordPress theme). I like that they walk through how to setup P2 on both WordPress.com, the hosted service, and using the WordPress.org software. We use P2 quite a bit at Automattic, it has become a critical part of [...]
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The Twitter Devolution questions some of the assumptions we all had about Twitter’s role in the “green revolution” of Iran. For the record, I didn’t shade my Twitter picture green because it’s pink and they would combine to make brown. Original post by Matt
I didn’t post many details in my previous update, and I’d like to visit some of them now. At the time that post was written, it looked like the user experience for Twitter Tools was going to look something like this: Download, install and activate Twitter Tools. Click a link to twitter.com where you would [...]
Good morning everyone. Hope you are having a great weekend. For your Sunday morning reading pleasure we bring you the latest installment of WordPress Theme Releases. Enjoy! Tumblelog Reloaded Tumblelog Reloaded is the 4th theme from UK-based Polaraul Themes that we’ve featured here at WLTC. This theme is a rework of the Tumblelog theme by [...]
In this video I explain: – Using themes to quickly & easily change your blog’s appearance – Finding and installing new themes using the search and upload tools – Adding the Search widget to your sidebar – Installing and activating a Twitter plugin…
I’ve finished researching the changes needed to integrate OAuth into Twitter Tools. The code changes are pretty straightforward and there is plenty of prior art and examples out there to reference. The technical implementation isn’t a problem. My concern is with the user experience of the initial install and set-up of the plugin. This would [...]
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