Archive for June, 2009

How many tweets have you made on twitter ? I have made over 1600 I believe. I learned of twitter a long time ago now and friendfeed not long after. From the 30daychallenge I learned to link my twitter tweets into friendfeed and facebook.

So all my tweets automatically update there too. But this week I discovered how to integrate my tweets with 50 other web2.0 communication portals also – not only that but my blog posts can also be integrated.

I may have to disconnect the facebook and friendfeed system I have in place now or I could cause a tweetloop.

I cant wait to set this up. What fun.

I’m planning to start building some large WordpressMU blog directories.

The sites will be too large for me to create the content – I have to aggregate it.
Preferably in such a way that I am not splogging or outright scraping content.

In my research I have discovered the partial to full RSS scripts that will extract the full posts from a partial RSS feed. EG:

http://echodittolabs.org/fulltextrss

Just enter an RSS feed URL into the form and it will convert it to full text via HTML extraction.

This lead me to Yahoo pipes

Which is designed to aggregate feeds and create unique content – there are several pipes for full text RSS conversion.

What you can do with pipes and Google App engine is nothing short of incredible.

I cant really describe it but imagine being able to combine content from all of googles services, ebay, yahoo, amazon, every blog on the planet withan RSS feed, every website with an RSS feed, datafeeds etc etc.

Not just in a flat and brainless way but in an interactive, unique and useful way.

Google App engine taps into Googles vast server farm. This is a small hint of what the internet will soon become. You see the most advanced supercomputing systems are now in the Petaflop category – that is very close to the hardware equivalent of the human brain. In the next ten years supercomputers will be advanced beyond the human level.

These machines will be linked with fiber optic grid technology to the internet. You will be able to access these machines and their hyper intelligence via web based computing.

Online applications, gadgets and mashups will thus provide services that desktop computers can simply not perform. We are begining to see this now but it will explode on the next decade. What will also explode is the interfacing of consumer electronics to this online distributed computing network.

Man I found some cool software that gives you a 3D view of any websites Internal Link Structure.

You can zoom, pan, rotate using the arrow keys. Press H for help, F1 to toggle full screen.

If you want to make a 3D movie you will need to download Fraps as it runs on an openGL window.

A very useful tool for link analysis.

Down Load for FREE

Yep google wave must surely spell death for friendfeed and twitter.

It doesn’t exist in the public domain yet but it looks pretty cool.