Posts in Category ‘social media’

Kiwi Services for App.net

Kiwi has turned out to be the best App.net client so far, so Joe Workman went berserk and built a bunch of services that make it easier to use Kiwi to post from other apps.

Like Alfred? Like searching for files in Alfred? You can draft new posts with a quick ⌥-Space (or ⌘-Space) then send them to Kiwi, or quickly browse for an image in Alfred and send it to Kiwi for sharing.

Joe also built Kiwi integration for Dropzone, LaunchBar, OS X Services, PopClip, Quicksilver, and a good ol’ fashioned Safari extension. It’s a good thing.

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Wisdoms of Pearl (Tweens + Instagram = тωєєиѕтαgяαм !!!)

Post fast, delete fast.  It is important to purge your photos once you’ve reached 40 (or was it 100? I’ll have to inquire within).  This is the point at which Instagram takes ownership of your photos, so you will want to stay below that number.  This is serious shit!

Need help with a tricky word game.  Take a screenshot. Post it to instagram.  Maybe consider @ing your friend who is gr8 with werds and write “help!”.  A couple of minutes later you will get your answer. Delete photo from instagram. Continue game.

The practice of inventing entirely new layers and uses for apps and services that have no such structure is fascinating to me.

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App.net: Introducing a free tier

Going freemium is a brilliant move. Paying members have long been able to invite people to try the service, but now those invitees can opt for a free plan with a few limitations, such as the number of people you can follow and amount of file storage space. Don’t forget: App.net’s ambitions go far beyond Twitter.

My friend Isaiah Carew put it quite well:

Right when Twitter is bringing the hammer down on developers, App.net opens their arms wider. It’s a good day to be a dev. A very good day.

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iMore: Thou shalt have no brand before Twitter

Rene Ritchie, nailin’ it:

In a very real way, much of the brand identity now associated with Twitter came from those hard-working third-party developers. Indeed, much of it came from the Iconfactory and Twitterrific, including such fundamental things as the bird as mascot (see Ollie in the picture up top), and even the word “tweet”.

 

We often look at that as a sign of how much Twitter gained from third parties. They may look at it as a sign of how dependent they were on third parties.

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App.net begins taking its true form

App.net is a platform for doing stuff online. That’s it, that’s the elevator pitch. It just so happens that the first in-house app they built to attract attention and help show off what will be possible is a public messaging service. This new file API is the first App.net announcement that should really blow some minds. Read more →