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A Digest of what I did on May 11th

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
facebook (feed #6)
Marianne Cain commented on your status.
facebook (feed #6)
Simon Ball commented on your status.
facebook (feed #6)
Leigh Twentyfourhourparty Herbert commented on your status.
facebook (feed #6)
Daragh Jones commented on Marianne Cain’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Simon Ball commented on your status.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on your status.
facebook (feed #6)
Sarah Louise Taylor-Gow commented on your status.
facebook (feed #6)
William Jennings commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on Carl Holland’s Photo.
wikipedia (feed #5)
Contributed to 4 pages.
facebook (feed #6)
Chris Butters commented on Marianne Cain’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Chris Butters commented on Marianne Cain’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Chris Butters commented on Marianne Cain’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
William Jennings commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Sharonjeet Banwait accepted your friend request.
facebook (feed #6)
Dave Solomon commented on William Jennings’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Sarah Connolly and Colin Woodland are now friends, as you suggested. You can suggest more people Colin knows.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Wall commented on Carl Holland’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Mark Critchley commented on Carl Holland’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
William Jennings commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on Carl Holland’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Mark D. Pepperdine commented on William Jennings’s Post.
facebook (feed #6)
Teresa Grout accepted your friend request.
twitter (feed #3)
A Digest of what I did on May 4th http://bit.ly/8Y2ogF [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Demand grows for electronic polls http://bit.ly/coEeEe [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Rats top invasive mammals table http://bit.ly/bUehsi [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Thank you martygoldberg ( http://www.codeplex.com/site/users/view/martygoldberg ) for finding the bug that was crashing twitterbrite [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Twitterbrite as a service is now ready to roll. [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
RT @UKLabourParty: Please retweet if you want a #LibLab Proportional Representation Deal #DontDoItNick #DontConDemUsNick [Scott_Herbert]
blog (feed #1)
twitter (feed #3)
twitter (feed #3)
Now I’ve finally got the RSS to twitter feed service fixed in TwitterBrite, I just need to build the whole thing and push it out. [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on his status.
twitter (feed #3)
RT @James_Ink: RT @UKLabourParty: We need 100,000 people to retweet if you want Proportional Representation [you had 13yrs to implement. ... [Scott_Herbert]
blog (feed #1)
twitter (feed #3)
TwitterBrite as a Service. WTF http://bit.ly/cXbGOH [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Demand grows for electronic polls http://bit.ly/coEeEe [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Rats top invasive mammals table http://bit.ly/bUehsi [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on Andrew Wallace’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on Carl Holland’s status.
twitter (feed #3)
http://bit.ly/99TM5P Little evidence that priests more prone to paedophilia [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
Sih Yu Chen commented on Andrew Wallace’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on Andrew Wallace’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on his Link.
facebook (feed #6)
Marianne Cain commented on your photo.
facebook (feed #6)
Adam Butler commented on Sarah Connolly’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Sarah Connolly commented on her status.
facebook (feed #6)
Sarah Connolly commented on her status.
facebook (feed #6)
Matt Davis commented on Andrew Wallace’s Link.
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on his Link.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on Andrew Wallace’s Link.
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on his Link.
twitter (feed #3)
Looking forward to school 4startups at UoL with @DouglasRichard [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
TwitterBrite as a Service. WTF http://bit.ly/cXbGOH [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Nokia sues Apple over technology http://bit.ly/bdK9H5 [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Nature loss to damage economies http://bit.ly/bJxaIs [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Go me I’m on the big screen #s4stv [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
#s4startups you need a unique selling point. Does twitterbrite have that? Maybe it’s a desktop client… [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
#s4stv Google voice. Vs Apple [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
#s4stv tips for geting people to pay. Be nice and be persistan [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
William Jennings commented on his Post.

TwitterBrite as a Service. WTF

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Today, after a fair amount of testing and racking my brains debugging with well revived help of martygoldberg [1] [2] I’ve managed to finish and add to TwitterBrite, what I’m calling “TwitterBrite as a service”. WHAT I hear you scream software as a service! Thats a cloud thing! You’ve ranted against cloud computing.

Well firstly, I’m not against cloud computing, I just don’t think it’s everything to everyone. Secondly “TwitterBrite as a service” has nothing to do with cloud computing.

What it does have a lot to do is removing one of the drawbacks of desktop RSS to twitter clients.

With cloud based twitter clients, such as co-tweet and Hootsuite, you can post your RSS feed to their site and walk away. The tweets will keep being processed if your their or not. However with TwitterBrite you have to fire it up, leave it eating up memory, while your not using it as a client your just posting RSS feeds…

But not any more! Windows allows you to have programs called services, which sit in the background, using only very limited resources and they can be started when you start windows up; as you may well have guessed, thats exactly what TwitterBrite as a service is, a very small windows servers that uses the same database as the main TwitterBrite application but runs in the background.

A Digest of what I did on May 4th

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
facebook (feed #6)
Richard Henry Hopper commented on Andrew Wallace’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Caroline Wilson commented on Andrew Wallace’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Caroline Wilson commented on Andrew Wallace’s status.
twitter (feed #3)
A Digest of what I did on April 27th http://bit.ly/aYySN2 [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Legality of iPhone raid queried http://bit.ly/9LNMnt [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Space rock has frosted surface http://bit.ly/d9cCfq [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
Anna Row commented on Simon Ball’s Link.
facebook (feed #6)
Simon Ball commented on their Link.
facebook (feed #6)
Simon Ball commented on their Link.
facebook (feed #6)
William Jennings commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Becky Lovell commented on William Jennings’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
William Jennings commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Becky Lovell commented on William Jennings’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
William Jennings commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
William Jennings commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Becky Lovell commented on William Jennings’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
William Jennings commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on Andrew Wallace’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on Andrew Wallace’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Marianne Cain commented on her status.
facebook (feed #6)
Julia Dias commented on Andrew Wallace’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on Neil Brown’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
William Jennings commented on your link.
facebook (feed #6)
Neil Brown commented on their status.
facebook (feed #6)
Neil Brown commented on their status.
facebook (feed #6)
Simon Ball commented on your link.
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on Neil Brown’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Neil Brown commented on their status.
twitter (feed #3)
Testing TwitterBrite running as a Windows service, soon you can have always on RSS -> twitter without risking your password [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
William Jennings commented on your status.
facebook (feed #6)
Rachael Hyams commented on your status.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on your status.
facebook (feed #6)
Meltem Bayraktar accepted your friend request.

A Digest of what I did on April 27th

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
facebook (feed #6)
Robert Marsh commented on Andrew Reeves’s Link.
blog (feed #1)
twitter (feed #3)
Adobe Gives up on Apple, Welcomes Android http://viigo.im/3f5t [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
Richard Henry Hopper commented on Andrew Wallace’s status.
twitter (feed #3)
twitter (feed #3)
Banking virus is back warns firm http://bit.ly/9CPbzn [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Paltry carbon curbs point to 3C http://bit.ly/cJM6Aj [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Airplanes back in the sky but many passengers still waiting – Vancouver Sun http://bit.ly/bERM0p [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Adobe Burns Bridge With Apple, Embraces Google – InformationWeek http://bit.ly/bERM0p [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Adobe Gives up on Flash for iPhone, iPad – Wired News http://bit.ly/bERM0p [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Looking back at Oklahoma City – Los Angeles Times http://bit.ly/bERM0p [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Government goes high-tech to redesign $100 bills – Sacramento Bee http://bit.ly/bERM0p [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
RT @MichaelPata: Cuba’s "Johnny Appleseed" scientist wins ‘green Nobel’ shifts farmers from dependence on chemicals http://bit.ly/dpQ9n7 [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Ben Shephard to leave GMTV sofa http://bit.ly/cn9LXR [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Starbucks brews leap in profits http://bit.ly/aixdEa [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Brain games fail to boost IQ http://bit.ly/ctg6y5 [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Flights resume as air ban lifted http://bit.ly/98yfRA [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Airlines dispute passenger rights http://bit.ly/aERKcU [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Manchester Utd is richest club http://bit.ly/cxES02 [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Europe air to return to normal http://bit.ly/bUgrIE [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on your Post.
twitter (feed #3)
Europe skies head back to normal http://bit.ly/bUgrIE [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Oil platform blaze off Louisiana http://bit.ly/dthQXz [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Nasa telescope s new Sun images http://bit.ly/90AJAK [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
India embarks on road building marathon http://bit.ly/9R5f7u [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Thousands return after ash chaos http://bit.ly/cuJfkU [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Union warning over new curriculum http://bit.ly/aAaq0k [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
I m yours London Marathon , says Sophie http://bit.ly/9IoCHF [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Baby sight fears over methadone http://bit.ly/bfBK6U [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Can the British curry take off in India? http://bit.ly/d3qmr4 [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Oil industry politics mapped out http://bit.ly/9ygjtT [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
Julieanne Doig-Archer commented on Chris Greaves’s status.
twitter (feed #3)
Cardinal axed for Washington Mass http://bit.ly/9KBR7d [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Nasa s jumbo eye in the sky http://bit.ly/b7uBjn [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Sats boycott: Your comments http://bit.ly/9GZUXI [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Sydney s Aborigine cultural sanctuary http://bit.ly/9fAdsh [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
UK election at-a-glance: 22 April http://bit.ly/9cDIpv [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
US warns Syria over scud claims http://bit.ly/anklIy [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
UK needs to find new world role http://bit.ly/cZ53gh [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
A hectic trip from Rome to home http://bit.ly/brAyX6 [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Boastful killer to be sentenced http://bit.ly/9fkkMj [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Fire murder police in city appeal http://bit.ly/bUD8JX [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Recriminations over flight chaos http://bit.ly/dtaM4e [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Profile: Huang Guangyu http://bit.ly/bTEZUD [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Hubble s role in search for aliens http://bit.ly/cFRYm8 [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
US warning over India attacks http://bit.ly/cpDbX0 [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
South Park warned over Muhammad http://bit.ly/c4qvgi [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Discrimination case makes history http://bit.ly/cBUgyF [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Sea warning over drowned reveller http://bit.ly/cM3ryL [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
What the Scottish papers say http://bit.ly/byfLwf [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Union warning over new curriculum http://bit.ly/aAaq0k [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Fire crews tackle spa hotel blaze http://bit.ly/csoIkf [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Boy injured after taxi collision http://bit.ly/9bqCXK [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
Jill Fisher commented on Andrew Wallace’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Tom O’Donovan commented on Chris Greaves’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Jeni Cousins commented on Chris Greaves’s status.
facebook (feed #6)
Andrew Wallace commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Chris Greaves commented on his status.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on your Post.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on your Post.
blog (feed #1)
twitter (feed #3)
facebook (feed #6)
Simon Ball commented on their status.
facebook (feed #6)
Simon Ball commented on their status.
blog (feed #1)
facebook (feed #6)
Simon Ball commented on your Post.
twitter (feed #3)
Apple, the friend of open standards… Honest guv we are http://bit.ly/96GeCO [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Adobe abandons iPhone code tools http://bit.ly/9DjQlV [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Lift-off for military spaceplane http://bit.ly/aHxee4 [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Ditch the Biz Plan, Buy a Lottery Ticket http://bit.ly/dg36Ez [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Secrets of Farmville #11 http://bit.ly/c4qvfR [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
Denis Fan commented on your photo.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on your photo.
twitter (feed #3)
Apple, the friend of open standards… Honest guv we are http://bit.ly/96GeCO [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Adobe abandons iPhone code tools http://bit.ly/9DjQlV [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
Science enthusiasts chase dream http://bit.ly/9Ypslf [Scott_Herbert]
twitter (feed #3)
RT @maxalter: “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Napoleon Hill [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
Miaomiao He commented on your photo.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on your photo.
blog (feed #1)
twitter (feed #3)
Run for your lives the OAuthcalypse is coming http://bit.ly/c78aBw [Scott_Herbert]
facebook (feed #6)
Denis Fan commented on your photo.
facebook (feed #6)
Rob Liddiard commented on your photo.
facebook (feed #6)
Marianne Cain commented on your photo.

TwitterBrite API now public

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

As of today the TwitterBrite API (to search for twitter users interested in a topic, as well as add or remove throses users from the database) is now public.

Full details can be found on the TwitterBrite site and I hope to be putting some client library’s out their (for .net and PHP initially) soon.