Monthly Archives: July 2008

twitter/identi.ca/etc: XMPP and SMS

I think SMS gateways should be just another XMPP client for twitter/identi.ca. Telephony providers could implement them and charge their users (that also may happen to be existing clients) for the SMS sent and recived. It makes so much more … Continue reading

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TwitVim support for urlBorg

TwitVim, a Vim plugin that allows you to post to Twitter and view Twitter timelines, has now support for urlBorg. Cool! Details at mortonfox.livejournal.com.

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short URLs are gestures of attention

Nektarios is developing a drupal plugin that will make use of urlBorg. He asked me why, urlBorg creates a new short URL every time he makes an API call, even if the target URL is the same. Wouldn’t it be … Continue reading

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urlBorg vs. bit.ly

Sounds like the latest url shortener, called bit.ly, got a lot of attention. As an answer to my rant, that you have to involve an a-lister to get some attention, my good friend Nikos stepped forward and did a crash … Continue reading

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The commenting standard of the future (my suggestion)

My suggestion to Comment Portability: The Commenting Standard of the Future is a very simple, tried an decentralized solution: Add an extra “comment tracker” URL to any comment form and trackback to this URL the content of the comment, the … Continue reading

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Mike Butcher, editor of Techcrunch UK, in Athens, Greece

I just got home from the 13th OpenCoffee Athens meeting. What was special this time was Mike Butcher’s presence (editor of Techcrunch UK). It was a great night, with many interesting presentations from greek startups. Here is what Mike told … Continue reading

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