Twitter by Proxy

So, I'm done with twitview. Twitview uses the web server (vollink.com) to pull my twitter data feed. Once pulled, I turn links into links. The twittering view at the right side of this blog now uses twitview, as does the open-social app that I wrote for my iGoogle. I also added twitview to my main homepage. Another advantage of this, is that my twitter feed is now also proxied, so will be visible in places where twitter may become blocked or banned....

13 Jul 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Google Apps, iGoogle and Facebook

I've added Google Apps to my domain. I had already started handing pieces of my domain to Google when I started letting them host my blog. At the same time, I'm starting to take pieces back. More on that later... I started playing with the Open Social API today. Really simple thing -- I realized that I wanted to put some basic, static HTML in a box on both my Facebook page and to my iGoogle page....

12 Jul 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Web Ads

A few times in the last few months, I've thought to actually go out of my way and click on a Web Ad. In every case, the web ad was non-traditional and insisted on doing something which got it blocked. Seems that web ads would be much more successful if they didn't demand dumb user behavior... Middle Click In all latest version graphical web browsers, a middle button mouse click is available to open the link in a new tab....

15 Jun 2008 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink