TagsTagsI'd like to draw your attention to our left sidebar, where you'll see two new additions to the list of "drop-down" links: "Tweeted Articles," and "Tweeted Pages." These new drop-down lists show you the most-tweeted (in other words, posted on Twitter) LGF front page articles and user-submitted LGF Pages, in the ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, Retweet
Following up on yesterday’s post about our shocking (albeit unintentional) abuse of the bit.ly API, I emailed my contact at bit.ly and let him know about the changes in the LGF Blog code, and got this reply: Thanks! The number of /shorten requests from your account has fallen dramatically. You’re ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Retweet, John Resig, jQuery, Programming, Ajax, Twitter
Here’s an email I recently received from the URL-shortening service bit.ly, a popular Twitter-related service that I use to automatically shorten URLs for LGF-related tweets. The nice thing about bit.ly (and j.mp, it’s the same service) is that it doesn’t just shorten URLs; if you register an account, it also ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Retweet, John Resig, jQuery, Programming, Ajax, Twitter
Our latest addition to The Blog codebase is a button to let you “retweet” an LGF article. “Retweeting” is a common way for people to spread interesting content around on Twitter. Since each article is already automatically posted to Twitter, your tweet is prefaced with the standard Twitter syntax to ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Twitter, Javascript, jQuery, John Resig, Retweet