Remember my earlier post about a tweak-it bot? Well.. ive added wave support to it! Just add tweak-it@appspot.com to your contacts and pass it urls. you’ll get tweaked answers! :)
update: dont want to shorten long urls, but resolve tweaked domains? aye! supported!
Some years back I had this project: Thumbs Up! A website dedicated to images having people showing thumbs up. I stopped with the project because I needed to switch my sites to a new web server without PHP support.
At random times people would ask me when the site would be back up.. I kept promising..
Today is the day! I ported the project to Googles App Engine, making it more stable ;) I already uploaded all old images making it a fun browsing thing already.
Note that this is just the initial port.. I have some stuff to do and will add some features..
Now go to http://thumbsup.tk! Have fun!
Just had some fun combining Dot TK’s TweaK API with Google App Engine’s XMPP support.
The result is a jabber-bot that you can talk to. In most cases it wont understand you, but if you pass it an URL, it will shorten that using Dot TK’s TweaK.
Go to http://tweakbot.tk/ and ask the bot to invite you. After accepting the invitation, have it rename some urls for you!
There is a MAUI WAP Browser! :)
I was wondering how much traffic one Twitter post would generate,
and more importantly, I was wondering *who* would visit.. So I simply
created a text file, tweeted it and checked the access logs.
http://twitter.com/mauriez/statuses/2929340532
Message posted at 30/Jul/2009:14:43:02 +0200
(local time on box where I checked the logs)
Access log shows this: 66.249.68.198 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:48 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
174.129.91.213 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:57 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Python-urllib/2.5"
91.121.123.191 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:57 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051128 SUSE/1.5-0.1 Firefox/1.5"
75.101.156.169 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:59 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "AideRSS 2.0 (postrank.com)"
174.129.89.199 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:08 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Python-urllib/2.5"
80.46.93.186 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:10 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "http://twitter.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070611 Firefox/3.0.12"
89.151.84.35 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:10 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot"
79.99.6.106 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:11 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "Twingly Recon"
174.129.111.78 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:11 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "PycURL/7.18.2"
89.151.84.35 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:12 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot"
208.74.66.43 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:13 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.0" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Butterfly/1.0; +http://labs.topsy.com/butterfly.html) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8"
91.121.89.155 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:22 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "PycURL/7.19.3"
75.101.196.118 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:27 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Twitturly / v0.6"
91.121.53.183 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:56 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2009011817 Gentoo Firefox/3.0.5"
I have cut out the requests that were not for tt.txt .. but its amazing
how many automated hits you get after a simple post!
MonaTweeta II - Mona Lisa encoded in a tweet!
Sometimes you just think of something, start it, and then discover that others have been doing the same. My latest example of this is resolvurl.com.
As I was thinking about shortening URLs and the fact that there quite some services out there, I started wondering about “the other way around”. How to resolve URLs for what they really are.
Without proper investigation (who wants to investigate when feeling all fired up on an idea) I started working on that and then bumped into longurlplease.com. Exactly what I wanted to do! :)
Instead of re-inventing the wheel Ill utilize the longurlplease API. Gives me more time to think of something fun to put around it. .. Probably only to find out someone else already did :)
When in need of passing an associative array using JQuery’s Ajax function, declare the array as:
var $a = new Object();
instead of:
var $a = new Array();
Works lots better ;)
Rob Geus.
Death Star over San Francisco!
