otrops: jeff van campen's personal blog

Joanne just received a Direct Message on Twitter from someone she follows, but doesn’t actually know. It read “Hey is this you on here?” followed by a link and looked like this:

The link took her to a site that looked like Twitter and asked for her Twitter password:

If you receive a similar DM, do [...]

Using Tweetie 2 with the current release of StatusNet requires a bit of tweaking, but it should be fully supported with the next release of StatusNet.

I’ve been playing with Tweetie 2 for the iPhone this evening. As I was browsing the documentation, I noticed that you can set a custom API root. This means that you can use Tweetie 2 with microblogging services other than Twitter, including identi.ca and status.net (formerly laconi.ca) installations.
I thought I’d give it a go, and [...]

Royal Mail has shut down ErnestMaples.com, which provided a UK postcode API. Since the postcode database was created with public money, it should be made freely available for non-commercial use.

I read my feeds on my daily commute to work. Over the past month, I’ve been experimenting with various RSS readers on the iPhone. I have yet to find the perfect feed reader. I have, however, tried three of the most popular iPhone RSS readers — Byline, Newsstand and NetNewswire — and thought I’d [...]