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Sell your soul on Twitter

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HOWTO: Auto push your Facebook status updates to Twitter via Twitterfeed

It’s been a while since I had to figure this one out and Facebook has gone through a few revs since I last tried it. It’s a bit of a hack. I’ve not been able to identify any official support or documentation from Zuckerberg et al. Maybe it’s deprecated; maybe it’s a REST API experimentContinue reading “HOWTO: Auto push your Facebook status updates to Twitter via Twitterfeed”

Register.com suffers DNS problems

Register.com’s nameservers seem to have been the target of a adDoS attack, whatever that is. (A)synchronous? (A)symmetrical? I need to look into that. Whatever caused the outage last night seems to continue to be causing problems this afternoon – either that or there are bad records cascading now. It’s on Twitter too.

FDA has RSS feed for food recalls

I am loving this. I just went to check on the pistachio recall. I was checking out a link to FDA recall notices when I found this: http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/rssRecalls.xml I’m kind of stoked on that – a perfect utilization of news feed technology. Now if we could just get the FDA to use Twitterfeed to pushContinue reading “FDA has RSS feed for food recalls”

Application Programming Interface(s) leading us into the future

Okay, now I’m pretty sure that APIs, combined with some mix of RSS/JSON + AJAX, really are emerging as the defining technology of the web. I’m still trying to piece it all together because it seems like a lot of this stuff is really intelligently heading toward some kind of unification. There’s no doubt anContinue reading “Application Programming Interface(s) leading us into the future”