Dave Concannon

The weekly retweet

A recap on any interesting links I posted or retweeted this week

• Congrats to @twilio on the launch of OpenVBX – “This changes everything. Again.” – http://bit.ly/cfBugb // Fawk… awesome. (Via @daryn)
• Kill The Settings, Build Opinionated Software http://kiss.ly/dA7Tc0 /by @mike9r (Via @hnshah)
• Great case studies from @vlaskovits (author of custdev.com) slides at Los Angeles Lean Startup Meetup: http://ht.ly/1W2zP (Via @ericries)

The weekly retweet

Some interesting links this week. Slightly less original articles from me this week, real life intrudes. Testing out Twitter’s new Anywhere API on these link, I think it looks real purty – Let me know what you think.

• Bootup Labs runs out of money, screws startup founders: http://bit.ly/baYbu5 – @bootuplabs, hoping you have a good explanation (Via @cperciva)
• We are like prisoners… We do not have a life, only work. http://bit.ly/d0SIlG // A Microsoft sweatshop in China (Via @newsycombinator)
• Breaking News: Why Didn’t Stack Exchange Work? – with Joel Spolsky http://ow.ly/173TXb (Via @giangbiscan)

The weekly retweet

No April fools here today!

• WORST CASE FORECAST OF STARTUP REVENUE: How serial entrepreneurs think about that by John Nesheim http://ow.ly/1tcZd (Via @giangbiscan)
• Really, how can you fight something you can’t even spell? (re: Teabonics: http://bit.ly/bOJHc3 ) (Via @jolieodell)
• RT @staghaddos: 2007 Techcrunch 40: Where are they now? mint.com got acquired for $170m – [infographic] http://bit.ly/aw7KG4 (Via @lessallan)

The weekly retweet

Interesting links from the week of March 26th. This week, Sean Ellis gave a talk on “The Keys to Explosive Startup Growth” for the Lean Startup Circle which was very well received.

• Slides from Sean Ellis‘ talk last night at the Lean Startup Circle in SF. http://bit.ly/92C64c #leanstartup (Via @richcollins)
• “You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms,” he told a journalist. http://huff.to/cbqRTa // Fantastic. (Via @jasonfried)
• Why The Onion dropped drupal and switched to django: http://bit.ly/9c00gX (Via @jeebers)
• YOU HAVE GOT TO WATCH THIS. Jesus. Content aware fill in Photoshop #CS5 Phoaw – http://bit.ly/aJOiDu (Via @nonsequitir)

The weekly retweet

A recap on any interesting links I posted or retweeted this week

• Watch disgusting tweets float past: http://thingsthatmakeyougo.eu (Via @omgtbh)
• The story will continue tomorrow. Spread the word: http://bit.ly/39zXa – Government in “all mouth, no trousers” shocker. (Via @EvertB)
• New Space Avalanche Comic – The Dark Knight – http://short.ie/dark (Via @spaceavalanche)
• Gray hair may protect us from cancer: http://trkk.us/?ecs – I prefer to call it “STEELY HAIRED”. (Via @GuyKawasaki)
• Breaking: very disturbing video of innocent women shot dead in Tehran watching protest. http://bit.ly/XBzEb Horrific. (Via @JasonCalacanis)

The weekly retweet

A recap on any interesting links I posted or retweeted this week

• New Space Avalanche Comic – Fish – http://short.ie/fish (Via @spaceavalanche)
• This is amazing, compelling. http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15131

The weekly retweet

A recap on any interesting links I posted or retweeted this week

• Ha, ha, ha. Video: 5 mins. The Astounding World of the Future: http://tr.im/nfrO (Via @avinashkaushik)
• Nicely weird language comparison http://bit.ly/lGQJB, Java and Python do well. Ruby not so much… (Via @jdrumgoole)
• How To Build Something Real (In Your Spare Time) http://tinyurl.com/ox3×89 (Via @BobWalsh)
• New Space Avalanche Comic – “Blup Blup” – http://short.ie/blup (Via @spaceavalanche)

Photo via seemoo

I’ve been looking for a simple way to keep track of the interesting links I see every week, and was searching for a way to integrate it seamlessly with how I already browse the web. One of the major points I took from Matthew Ogle’s talk at FOWA Dublin was that in order to provide a service that’s really useful to the user it has to coexist with how they already use technology. So basically I don’t want to have to store the links somewhere special, and don’t want to have to add additional tags in delicious (I’d link to John Keyes‘ nice implementation, only his blog doesn’t seem to have “previous post” navigation buttons anywhere…).

Simultaneously, I wanted a little project to play about with yahoo pipes* somehow.

Shamelessly grabbing the “post to wordpress” function from this blog post on how to post to wordpress using python and XMLRPC, I’m filtering my tweets from the last week for any retweets that contain links and bundling them into a post. At the moment I’m leaving them as drafts to be published manually while I iron out any unforeseen bugs, and future implementations might include a nicer template or to add an automated flickr image for every post.

* Admittedly, pipes aren’t a necessary component in this setup as all. All the pipe is doing is taking my twitter stream, and plucking out any that have links in them and start with “RT @”. Optimisation sometimes makes for less interesting implementation, I just wanted to tinker.