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Archive for July, 2009

That time of year has come around again where Flash and the family will be heading out of the basement with all its attractions and into real life instead. Our first stop will be Ja Jolla. Grandma and Grandpa are demanding to spoil Zac and Max up close and personal. From there we take the train to Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley. Aunt Judi is looking forward to sharing the fruits of California’s immigration while enjoying 100 plus degrees of valley weather.

I’ll have a laptop in tow (I’m borrowing one) so will be getting my mail almost (but not quite) daily. Additionally, I’ll have my phones forwarded to my cell. Don’t be bugging me unless it is an emergency. BTW, an emergency is NOT a typo you found, that has been there for over ten years!

One can not actually embed an image or video into a twitter tweet, but one can upload an image or video to one of the many services whom in turn will provide a shortened url to the content to be copied and pasted into your tweet. Some of these FREE Services will even post the tweet with the image and or video url in it to your twitter account; provided you supply your login and password. A couple of my favorites are Posterous and PikChur (impossible bad spelling url)

Here is a brief roundup,  and by no means a complete list. New services continue to come online:

TwitPic
TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, their API, or through the TwitPic website itself.

Pikchur
Pikchur is a way to share photos with your friends and family, no matter where they are! Pikchur accounts include a social aspect.

yFrog
Post images and video. Supports the iPhone app Tweetie to post images and video straight from your phone.

Flickr
Flickr has just released their long awaited feature for posting photos to Twitter. It’s been in beta over the past few weeks but now is live. Flickr is a free images hosting service, maybe the most popular too.

Posterous
No account necessary. Email attachements to upload photos, video, mp3’s and files for instant posting. Posterous accounts include a social aspect.

Twitgoo
No account necessary. Email attachments to upload photos, video, mp3’s and files for instant posting.

FileTwt
FileTwt, a beta service for file sharing on Twitter, is a basic but convenient utility for quickly sharing any file, up to 20MB, with your entire Twitter network or just a single user.

TwitDoc
The EASY way to share your documents on Twitter. Upload your file, shorten the URL, and post a tweet all in one easy step.

Twitter just released a new widget designed to pull targeted information. In its simplest form one can easily add a dynamic scroller of twitter feeds specific to ones city, town. That just scratches the surface of what the widget can pull in and display.

Twitter’s Search widget makes use of Hash Tags and key words, focused by AND/OR operators. Lets use Oprah Winfrey for an example. Searching the hash tag #oprah gives us all tweets that specifically use the oprah hash tag. Adding in OR #oprahwinfrey will then display all tweets with either #oprah or #oprawinfrey. The following is a list of search operators supported by twitter:

Search Operators

You can type these search operators directly into the search box. (Alternatively, you can use the advanced search form to automatically constuct your query.)

Operator	Finds tweets…
twitter search	containing both “twitter” and “search”. This is the default operator.
“happy hour“	containing the exact phrase “happy hour”.
love OR hate	containing either “love” or “hate” (or both).
beer -root	containing “beer” but not “root”.
#haiku	containing the hashtag “haiku”.
from:alexiskold	sent from person “alexiskold”.
to:techcrunch	sent to person “techcrunch”.
@mashable	referencing person “mashable”.
“happy hour” near:“san francisco”	containing the exact phrase “happy hour” and sent near “san francisco”.
near:NYC within:15mi	sent within 15 miles of “NYC”.
superhero since:2009-07-26	containing “superhero” and sent since date “2009-07-26″ (year-month-day).
ftw until:2009-07-26	containing “ftw” and sent up to date “2009-07-26″.
movie -scary	containing “movie”, but not “scary”, and with a positive attitude.
flight	containing “flight” and with a negative attitude.
traffic ?	containing “traffic” and asking a question.
hilarious filter:links	containing “hilarious” and linking to URLs.
news source:twitterfeed	containing “news” and entered via TwitterFeed

Example Oprah Feed

Twitter Search Widget»