My Twitter Feed

Well, after killing off my Sidebars in my latest redesign, I got upset that the only thing that I ever liked in my sidebars was my Twitter Feed. So I took out a piece of paper, and tried to come up with a plan to get my Twitter feed back on my site.

There were two ideas that I initially had. One, was to create a DIV off to the right side of the Content area, like I have my Social Media Links on the Left. This looked and worked well, but ran into an issue of my canvas being too wide, and on a normal 1024x768 screen resolution, it was getting chopped. So, idea number one was scrapped.

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Pure Squarespace

Well the re-design is now live. There are still a couple things I need to tweak, but they are so minimal that I did not want to hold up the re-launch while I worked on them. I hope you like it, please let me know what you think.

If you were familiar with my last version, you will note a total 100% change.

I really liked the old version, due to all the bells and whistles I added to it (i.e. Javascript Slideshows, outside Widgets, neat CSS tricks, and every other cool thing that I tested out and added because it worked).

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Twitter Apps That I Use

Yes, I’m standing up, and yes, my hand is raised… I am a Twitter Addict. I may not send out a hundred Tweets a day, or have millions of followers like the big guns, but I am on it and on it constantly. To be on and connected to Twitter around the clock is no easy feat, because you cannot just sit in front of a computer 24/7, you need to have some kind of life too, and by that I mean getting up and being mobile once and awhile.

To do this, I use a bunch of different Twitter Apps to keep me connected and up-to-date on all things Twitter, whether I am in front of a computer, or on the move.

Below, I compiled a list of the different Twitter Apps that I use, and I have broken them down into categories (On the Web, On the Desktop, and On the iPhone).

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I Must Be Lazy

A couple weeks ago, I had some free time, so I took a trip into New York City to attend the 140 Character Conference (or for you Twitter folk #140Conf) Networking Event. There I met Claire Chang, and she told me all about the company she works for called Lazyfeed.

As Techcunch put it:

Lazyfeed is an interest feed for blog items. It indexes about 100,000 of the most popular blogs and organizes posts by topic. The hottest topics, as determined by related tags, pop up to the top. On the home page it shows you the hottest topics of the moment, which offers an easy entry point into the service.

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Do You Blip???

Over the past couple months I've been noticing a ton of Tweets that have Blip.fm in them. From being on Twitter for a couple of years now, I chalked it up as just another one of the four billion URL shorteners out there.

The other day I was sent a DM on Twitter from a friend asking if I would like to check out their Blips. I clicked the link thinking that I was going to get to their Blog, or some kind of newsfeed, but instead and to my surprise, I was taken to their Blip.fm playlist.

I immediately started listening, not just to do so, but because they had some great songs in their list. I also read Blip.fm's site info, and signed right up.

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TwitterFon for iPhone Update

Just when I thought things could not get better, TwitterFon (iTunes Link) releases an update to their iPhone App with some great new features. As a Twitter addict and being mobile most of the day, keeping up with and posting Tweets is a big thing for me.

First - I can now favorite tweets, so I can go check them out later when I get a chance to get on Twitter.com. This is great, because sometimes opening some TweetLinks on the iPhone take too long to load, and there are some Tweets that I would like to Re-Tweet without re-typing them on the iPhone.

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