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Re: New Features! Remember Me, Following, Retweets and More

cwalcott — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:40:09 -0000

Everything mentioned in this post is still in Tweetree. Or did you mean some other work?

Re: Read your blogs inside Tweetree

cwalcott — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:19:09 -0000

No "account" has been created. Putting any public Twitter username in
the URL, like http://tweetree.com/<username>, will display that user's
tweets, formatted and with links back to Twitter.com. This comes
directly from the Twitter API and is not hosted or changed by us in
any way. Twitter's TOS, at http://twitter.com/tos, not only allows
but encourages (their words) what we do, as long as there are links
back to twitter (which we have). Here is the exact text from their TOS:

"The Twitter service makes it possible to post images and text hosted
on Twitter to outside websites. This use is accepted (and even
encouraged!). However, pages on other websites which display data
hosted on Twitter.com must provide a link back to Twitter."

With that said, if you'd like, as a courtesy, we can prevent tweets
from being displayed specifically on your page.

Re: Read your blogs inside Tweetree

cwalcott — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:39:07 -0000

Hi,

We don't strip ads out of the feeds. The only way we alter the content
is disabling Javascript, which is only done to prevent malicious code
from being run.

We specifically use RSS so that website owners have control over what
we show. What users see on Tweetree should be no different than what
they would see in any other feedreader. Is it possible the ads depend
on Javascript? If there's a bug on our side, we'd be happy to help
fix it.

In terms of opting out, that's kind of like asking to opt out of
Google Reader. The best way would be to simply remove or alter your
RSS feed.

Re: Performance Updates

cwalcott — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:07:11 -0000

Do you mind trying again? We just pushed out a fix.

Re: Tweetree Now Checks for New Tweets

cwalcott — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:05:19 -0000

Hi,

The refresh notices were down for a while last night, but they should be back now. Sorry about that!

Re: New Features! Remember Me, Following, Retweets and More

cwalcott — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:50:50 -0000

Thanks! We're actually working on adding DM support right now :).

Re: How You Can Add Thumbnails to Tweetree

cwalcott — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:16:52 -0000

We should have more types of embedding coming very soon. Are there any particular sites or services that you'd like to see?

Re: How You Can Add Thumbnails to Tweetree

cwalcott — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:22:31 -0000

Thanks! This looks promising too. I'd love for Tweetree (and other sites) to be able to support multiple standards, such as oEmbed, this Facebook sharing standard, as well as the kind of mechanism Dave Winer has described. This gives site owners more options, which is always a good thing.

Re: Item-level permalinks, and FriendFeed account

cwalcott — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:17:31 -0000

Hmm, links that go to other sites should be opening in new windows. If you don't mind, could you let me know what kind of links aren't opening in new windows, and which browser you're using?

Thanks for using Tweetree!

Re: How You Can Add Thumbnails to Tweetree

cwalcott — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:06:24 -0000

Neat! Thanks for pointing me to oEmbed, I'm going to check it out.

Re: The space between Twitter and FriendFeed (Scripting News)

cwalcott — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:07:13 -0000

This post got me thinking that you could do a lot of what you're describing with a Twitter client. You could follow any links that come through Twitter, and for things like images, videos and music embed the content directly in the client, similar to Friendfeed. Other links could at least show the page's title and URL (after redirects).

Another important bit to Friendfeed is the way it nests conversations. I know with Twitter I always feel like I'm missing context when it comes to replies, and the only solution is to keep clicking those "in reply to" links. So another important part would be to show "in reply to" messages right above replies.

I've actually started working on this as a project called Tweetree, and an initial working release is up at tweetree.com. I think there's a lot of potential to create a rich, graphical interface to the Twitter backend, using the FF model you've described here.

Re: Boxee Invites

cwalcott — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:44:25 -0000

I understand the need to keep the user base controlled at the beginning, and a closed alpha/beta lets the company have more control over scaling. I think creating a Boxee signup page for AVC readers was a great solution, since it lets Boxee know which of the users are the early adopters that come from your blog.

I also get the sense that a big part of closed betas is the scarcity creating a marketing tool, which I find interesting. I remember with Seesmic, there was a time when it was still nominally "closed", but Loic would give an account to anyone who asked for one, and would even post invite codes in blog comments and Twitter. As a user it doesn't bother me, but I don't know if other people find it annoying.

Re: Boxee Invites

cwalcott — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:36:35 -0000

I'm loving Boxee so far, but I'm wondering why not make it an open beta if all the invite requests are being filled?

Re: 5 Simple Ways To Keep Up With The Rails Community

cwalcott — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:27:34 -0000

Thanks, glad you found it useful!

Re: How Apple Can Support True Background Applications on the iPhone

cwalcott — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:19:11 -0000

Yeah, I was thinking of a way to have only one application run in the background at once, since as you said users probably don't actually need too many simultaneously. But for multiple background processes I like your method a lot.

Re: Backups in Solaris using rsync

cwalcott — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:32:16 -0000

Sorry about that! Must have been a problem with our redesign. The code should be visible now.

Re: Ryan Twomey

cwalcott — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:38:00 -0000

Really cool app, unfortunately it sounds like people are saying it's been removed from the App Store :-/. Apparently it goes against the AT&T TOS.

Re: Ryan Twomey

cwalcott — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:49:01 -0000

You called this one! People seem to be going nuts over snackr right now

Re: Ryan Twomey - A busy day...

cwalcott — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:41:15 -0000

Enjoy the hours of sitting through ceremonies tomorrow! I'll be doing the same thing.

Re: A Rails Developer’s Thoughts On Using Grails

cwalcott — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:41:59 -0000

Great questions. I can't yet speak to speak to speed in terms of performance, but with development speed, it was very much like Rails. When you change a file, Grails monitors this and reloads jetty (the application container that it uses). It's usually fast enough to be seamless.

One bit that did slow me down was integrating the Acegi plugin for authentication. Integrating it wasn't as fast as say, restful authentication for Rails. Luckily it has some pretty good documentation (http://grails.codehaus.org/AcegiSecurity+Plugin).

Re: A Rails Developer’s Thoughts On Using Grails

cwalcott — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:16:02 -0000

Yes, configuration is greatly reduced with grails. Definitely more on the order of Rails.

Re: 12 Notes on Setting up Gmail IMAP with Apple Mail

cwalcott — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:43:15 -0000

I've actually ended up storing Todos locally rather than on the server. That way I can use my local iCal calendars. I have noticed that Mail keeps trying to create a Gmail label called "Apple Mail Todo Items", which I have to keep deleting so that Mail only shows my local Todos. Still not a perfect solution unfortunately. Hope that helps.

Re: 5 Simple Ways To Keep Up With The Rails Community

cwalcott — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:19:26 -0000

Good point! I guess that might not be the best way to keep up with the latest news then :).