TagsTagsSo, without telling anybody, Twitter suddenly changed their remote login system to use OAuth instead of Basic Authentication, and my code to do Twitter updates automatically when I post to LGF stopped working. What? They did tell everyone, repeatedly, that they were going to change it? Oh. OK, my bad. Anyway, the ...
LGF Pages has quietly transmogrified into a full-featured blogging tool, with embedded videos and images, text formatting, “shadowbox” image popups, auto-linking, and more! If you have an LGF account, you now have your own blog with its own LGF URL. The address of your LGF Page is: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/pag es/username (Replace “username” with your ...
Little Green Footballs, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter, HTML, Editing, LGF Pages, Blogosphere
The new LGF feature of the day is visible in the right sidebar: “Featured Pages!” These are LGF Pages posted by registered users, selected to appear on the front page by our crack staff. How do you get your page to show up in “Featured Pages?” Well, the best way is ...
Little Green Footballs, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter, HTML, Editing, LGF Pages
Gizmodo has the story behind the strange little episode that took place today on Twitter, in which an incredibly simple trick was discovered that allowed anyone to force anyone else to follow their accounts: The Real Story Behind Twitter’s Ridiculous Follow Bug. It’s pretty surprising (to say the least) for a ...
Did I mention that LGF Pages is turning into a full-featured blogging tool for any registered LGF user? I did? Well, it took another step in the mutational process today, with the addition of a free-form tagging system. “Tags” are words or phrases associated with an LGF Page; there are very few ...
Little Green Footballs, Linkage, LinkViewer, Spinoff Links, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter, HTML, Editing, LGF Pages
Yeesh. When you’re moving text around among browsers and Javascript and PHP and MySQL, and when that text is coming from outside sources (copied and pasted from web pages by LGF users), sometimes the character encoding and translation issues can become … intense. Yes, I’m coding away at LGF Linkage ...
Little Green Footballs, Linkage, LinkViewer, Spinoff Links, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter, HTML, Editing, Diaries
The latest enhancement to LGF Linkage is a biggie — you can now edit any links you’ve posted, using a super-fast Ajax popup form, and see the changes instantly appear without reloading the whole page. Here’s how this feat of prestidigitation works. When you’re viewing the LGF Linkage pages, any links ...
Little Green Footballs, Linkage, LinkViewer, Spinoff Links, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter, HTML, Editing
We have another improvement to announce in our new LGF Linkage bookmarking tool: now you can use the same HTML formatting you use when posting comments at LGF. Bold, italics, strike-through, blockquote, and HTML links can be used within the description of your post, and the link posting form now ...
Little Green Footballs, Linkage, LinkViewer, Spinoff Links, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter, HTML
LGF Linkage now supports posting to Twitter, with a little blue button in the upper right corner of each link (next to the Favorite and Report buttons) with Twitter’s lower-case ‘t’ logo. The button looks something like this (in fact, it looks exactly like this): When you click this sweet ...
Little Green Footballs, Linkage, LinkViewer, Spinoff Links, Social Bookmarking, Internet, Technology, Twitter
The tsunami is expected to begin hitting the islands of Hawaii in the next 20 minutes or so; this is a live stream of the local CBS channel. (Changed from KHON because it's better quality...) [Video removed...] (Note: sometimes Ustream videos cause problems with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. You may have better ...
Earthquake, Chile, disaster, Tsunami, Hawaii, Twitter, Live Video
Here's an embedded Twitter feed for '#hitsunami', for the latest news on the tsunami waves expected to hit Hawaii in about two hours... [Twitter feed moved to newer thread...]
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
Instead of getting really, really upset that Barack Obama bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito while visiting Japan where bowing is a custom that goes back thousands of years, I’ve been working on some pieces of The Blog’s back-end code, playing Batman: Arkham Asylum, going for a short bike ride, taking ...
Barack Obama, Bowgate, Japan, Emperor, Penne, Marinara, Windows Vista, 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
At last, parents have the technology to discover their children’s deepest secrets. [Video]
Now you can keep up with Sarah Palin’s daily life by following her new personal Twitter site. I’ll stay in touch w/whomever wants via personal twtr site;launch July 26; in meantime it’s pleasure to update interested folks on State biz!
Since I received two emails last night asking why LGF doesn’t have a Twitter page—here’s another reminder that as of last week, we do have automatic updates on Twitter every time a new post appears. To receive these updates, follow the Lizardoid.
As an excuse for an open thread, here’s another reminder that LGF now has automatic updates on Twitter, every time a new post appears out of the phlogiston.
In case you missed our announcement last Sunday, we have a new feature in the LGF Blog that automatically sends a Twitter update when a new article is posted. Here’s the page where you can follow the tweeting lizardoid.
Using the Twitter API, the LGF Blog now automatically sends out a Twitter update whenever a new article is posted. A “tweet,” if you will. To get these tweets, follow the lizardoid. UPDATE at 3/15/09 12:09:21 pm: Ed Driscoll has a video intro to the wonders of tweeting: Twitter On The Edge ...