Digging My Blog

While redesigning my blog I chose to add more of a lifestream effect to the home page of the site. I also made a conscious effort use as much AJAX with jQuery as I could and was appropriate, both to improve perceived performance and just for fun. There are tons of great jQuery examples and plenty of...

I’ve been trying to convince myself over the last couple of weeks that I should write a blog post, but I truly feel that I have nothing worth sharing that couldn’t be put down in 140 characters or less (referring to Twitter/Facebook, of course). I’m sure you don’t really care about the minor yard work...

I recently upgraded the look of the TwitterRatio site. The charcoal look was okay for starters but I wanted to make it look more Twitter-like, something that I’d noticed that a lot of other Twitter utility sites had been doing. In the process I created a Twitter-like logo and thought I’d...

In the past month or so I've seen lots of comments from people stating something like, "I'm not getting all the tweets from my friends. I end up getting only part of the conversations." In addition to the recent poor performance from Twitter, I have a couple of other explanations, and some...

I noticed over the Memorial Day weekend that traffic for TwitterRatio.com picked up quite a bit. I've also seen the TFF Ratio auto-responder sending out replies to a lot of newcomers to the TFF party. I'm excited to see the site and bot getting some love and the following are some of the reasons Twitterers...

I received some good response from my last Best @TFFRatio Requests post , plus a request to do another one soon. I aim to please so here goes (again in no particular order): evolvingWe @ tffratio How do I compare to Gretchen now? 09:23 AM April 29, 2008 scottcreynolds @ tffratio what are the chances...

When I enabled the auto reply bot for TFF Ratio on Twitter, people immediately started having fun with it saying things like "@TFFRatio, how much to you love me" and "@TFFRatio - hit me". Recently, though, a couple of Tweeps (Dan Rigsby - @danrigsby and Rick Kierner - @rkierner in particular) have taken...

A few days ago I blogged about adding some cool updates to the TFF Ratio site that included adding a ReTweeter that would reply with your TFF Ratio stats if you used @tffratio in a tweet. I got some comments from friends and colleagues (@ jfollas and @ averyj ) that the process should be a bit easier...

Last weekend I made some updates to the TFF Ratio site to give it a little more "oomph". One of the things I noticed was that people would go to the TFF Ratio site, get their ratio and then post it on Twitter with something like "Hey my TFF Ratio is up to 1.09 now". I thought it would...

You may have read something about "TFF Ratio" by now on Twitter or in our Live Messenger status messages. If you have not been playing along I'll let you in on the joke. TFF Ratio = Twitter Folloer-Friend Ratio. It all started with this post by fellow Telligenti, Dave Donaldson . When I first read it...

If you're a regular follower or subscriber of this blog you've probably been finding yourself thinking lately, "Boy that Dan's posting frequency has fallen way off." Then again maybe you haven't. But if you had thought that you'd be partly right and partly wrong. My posting frequency to this blog has...

A little over a week ago I announced my latest little fun site: RandomTweets.com . It was a nice little site to build and working with the Twitter API was fun. Then along comes the news yesterday about Google acquiring Jaiku . The microblogging community made a huge turn on a dime in a matter of hours...

While looking at the Twitter API last week I found myself taking a glance at the public timeline - basically just to see what fields the RSS and XML feeds offered. I didn't really pay the content all that much attention, but one of the updates struck me as pretty funny. I took a look at a couple more...

Last week I attended a presentation about Web 2.0 that described the recurring concepts behind the buzzword and looked at how (as well as if and when) those can be applied to enterprise systems and organizations. One of the points of the presentation was that platforms are better than applications. Companies...