The scenario I’m trying to support is this: Rather than someone come to this site and subscribe via RSS just to the blog, they would subscribe to the lifestream. But, the lifestream would be built such that the content is relevant enough they don’t get irritated by its content.

This time last year — that’s March — I did something new. Annually, geeks of the web, film and music variety descend upon Austin, Texas for South By Southwest. 2007 was a blast; allowing me to meet a huge roster of new and wonderful people, whilst enjoying seven days in the sun and heat of Texas. It [...]

Once upon a time I wrote a dashboard widget called Twitgit. It lets you interact with Twitter from the Mac OSX Dashboard.

In the face of stiff competition from the Icon Factory’s magnificent Twitterific application, Twitgit has been rather neglected for over a year now. It’s hard to motivate yourself to write software that you don’t [...]

In a rash act of spontaneity I’ve spent this weekend updating Twitgit, my OSX Dashboard widget for Twitter.

Download Twitgit 0.7.1 for Mac OSX Dashboard (10.4.3+)

Fixes and additions in Twitgit 0.7

New scrolling status view.
The ‘Refreshing Twitterings’ text is gone, with network activity now indicated by the Twitter ‘t’ glowing gold.
The widget is 100px shorter, and no [...]

I’ve been working for a week or so now on learning to build Dashboard widgets for Mac OSX. I’ve got one for the rather incredible Last.FM in the works, but since it’s quite complex I took time out for something simpler.

Announcing Twitgit! A Dashboard widget for everyone’s favourite Web 2.0 time-waster, Twitter.