#Twitter

A while back Twitter announced the Snowflake service. Snowflake is a unique ID generator that is fast and generate 64bit integer unique ids that are “roughly sortable”. That is, newer ids are bigger than older ones, up to a certain point. The service was originally written in Scala (which runs on the JVM) and has a Thrift interface, which means you can talk to it from almost any thinkable programming language. [Read More]

I just wanted to let all of you know that we just released a new feature on Yedda which integrates nicely with your Twitter account. You can read the official blog post here. In a nut shell, upon giving Yedda your twitter username and password, you will be able to share your Yedda expecrience with your Twitter friends. We will twitt on behalf of you about questions you ask, answers you give, questions you add to your watch list, thumbs up you give to other answers and questions you are being invited to answer by Yedda (all configurable through the settings screen). [Read More]

This is a bit of shameless promotion but I think it’s worthwhile never the less :-) One of the things I did lately on my day job (Yedda) was to integrate it with Twitter (check the integration here and add Yedda as your friend!). Yedda is all about sharing and us sharing things like code with the rest of the world is no exception. So, without further due, I’m proud to present the Yedda Twitter . [Read More]

Dave Winer says: “[…] we could make Twitter the open identity system we’ve been looking for. Make your Twitter ID the one that you use to log on to other service […]” I say let Twitter support OpenID with all of the good Relaying Party Best Practices including (but not limited to): Ability to associate an existing account with an OpenID Ability to switch to another OpenID (sort of a password recovery for OpenID) Ability to create a new account directly with an external (non Twitter) OpenID (be a standard relaying party) If they want to, they can also be an OpenID provider (which should be good for them, of course ;-) ). [Read More]