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Think you can review something in 140 characters or less?
Posted on June 13, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Blogging, Reviews, Technology, Tweets.
Then LouderTweets are for you.
After a few late nights we’re now ready to let you send reviews from Twitter to LouderVoice. We’re calling them LouderTweets and they are 140 character mini-reviews you can send using Web, SMS or IM via Twitter to LouderVoice.
So far we’ve had reviews of chocolate, couscous, a conference, a lawnmower and many others. Make your Tweets Louder!
An important point is that you don’t have to be a LouderVoice member to send LouderTweets but you should join if you want to rate, bookmark and build/share useful collections of reviews and mini-reviews.
And how do you send LouderTweets as a Twitter user? It’s very simple:
- Add the Twitter “review” user as a friend here
- Wait until you get a confirmation that you have been added back as a friend
- Post reviews using this format on Twitter: @review RATING ITEM. REVIEW
- Example: @review 4 The Apprentice UK. A stonkingly good series that has thrown up plenty of surprises
- That format is very specific otherwise we won’t pick up the review. Rating is in the range 1-5. Full-stop/Period mandatory.
- Shortly afterwards that review can be found by searching on www.loudervoice.com (in an open community microformat called hreview)
You can see an example here:
Tweet: http://twitter.com/oldchapel/statuses/101344802
LouderVoice: http://www.loudervoice.com/search?q=tesco+chocolate
As with all tweets, you can send your review tweet using whatever tool you like: web-page, Google GTalk, SMS, Tweetr etc
Let us know what you think.
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Greatest Wordpress Theme Ever!
Posted on April 29, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Blogging, Technology, Tweets.
If you are not a geek, stop reading now. Factory Joe (aka Chris Messina) did a Tweet earlier pointing to a theme for Wordpress. I just checked it out. I am so in awe of this person.
It is a Commodore 64 Command Line Interface to a blog.
Try typing last, next, current, help or cat
Someone somewhere please please do a ZX Spectrum version of this.
UPDATE 1: Ach, just realised Chris must have seen it on Boing Boing.
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Quicker than I thought
Posted on April 10, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Blogging, Technology, Tweets.
I’ve set-up a new blog which consists entirely of daily digests of my tweets. So rather than seeing every tweet as a separate feed item, this groups them together into more manageable chunks. You can get to it either via www.conoroneill.com/twitter or www.conoroneill.name
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Daily Tweets turned off
Posted on April 10, 2007, by Conor O'Neill, under Technology, Tweets.
It was an interesting bit of fun but I don’t think the daily Tweet digest was a great addition to this blog. However, if you are still interested in the Tweets themselves, you can subscribe via RSS to the feed here. I may set up a separate simple blog which does the daily digest. If I do, I’ll pop a link here.
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Tweets on 2007-04-09
Posted on April 9, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire passed the time. Another late night. Back to Bandon in the morning #
- Wow, Rosslare to Bandon 100% improvement in cop coverage. One at Carrigtwohill, Ka-Ching and one in Innishannon, Ka-Ching-Ching #
- One other cop - tailgated me for two miles out of Kilmeaden. Finally I pulled into hard shoulder and he passed at 70mph. Late for lunch? #
- Fantastic weekend with family. now back to work. #
- Forget the web, wife should become a professional gambler and support us all. Just won a few bob on the Grand National. #
- Amanda Peet is one of the most under-rated actresses doing both movies and TV in the past five years. Yeah another enjoyable Studio 60. #
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Tweets on 2007-04-08
Posted on April 8, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- Gosh the bloggysphere must all have taken an easter holiday. It’s soooo quiet out there. #
- Easter Egg Hunt starting soon. Oisín worried they’ll be put in the dogrun and the dogs will get them. He should be more worried about adults #
- Dear PaddyLazyWeb, is there any way of putting a .forward on a free eircom.net email account? #
- @topgold, no time to read Damien, too busy online
# - Balmy. Horrible winter forgotten already. #
- Learning all about XBox modding. Oscar decided he wants modded old-school XBox instead of Wii for birthday. Suits me, €100 less! #
- @donncha - InPhotos.org a bright spot on an otherwise dull bloggy day. Off to a Folk Park to non-twitter for a few hours. #
- Sunday Independent plagarising blogs after doing a hatchet job on them recently. As I said then, smell the fear. http://tinyurl.com/yoobcc #
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Tweets on 2007-04-07
Posted on April 7, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- Wow, 6 of us in room and they all slept despite their daddy’s snoring. Up 7.20. Sooo glad weather is good so they can play outside #
- Spam gone mental in the past week and Akismet letting quite a bit through. Added Spam Karma 2 and Bad Behaviour to blogs to assist #
- Why does Bad Behaviour cause 400 Error on conoroneill.com but not on argolon.com or blog.loudervoice.com? No joy on google #
- FON up and running between Rosslare and Tagoat. Only €3 per day. All proceeds go to the conoroneill benevolent fund. #
- Both CBS in US and BBC in UK refuse to stream Amen Corner live to Irish IPs for my Da. The joy of web-proxy sites! #
- Nephew just pointed out that web proxies are how they get around all the lockdowns on their machines in school! #
- Bandon to Rosslare. One cop at Carrigtwohill at the site of that lethal piece of arrow straight dual carriageway where no-one has ever died. #
- 22 year old french wine. Strange crust on cork. Not great but drinkable. Oldest wine I’ve ever quaffed. Thanks Dad. #
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Tweets on 2007-04-06
Posted on April 6, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- I can’t stop thinking of the word Payola. Anyhoo, off to Rosslare en famille to go to a house with 18 people! #
- 4 out of 5 in bed despite noise of 14 other people. FON nearly live in Rosslare. Kids lovin hanging out with all their cousins #
- Sifry to step down as CEO of Technorati? Wow, the rumours were true. No smoke etc. #
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Tweets on 2007-04-05
Posted on April 5, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- 7-year old has discovered “am I bovvered”. Promised to show him Catherine Tate vs Doctor Who on Comic Relief #
- Can we have an EU-wide referendum to ban the use of the phrase “I’ll give it 110%”? Particularly on The Apprentice #
- Running Thunderbird 2.0.0pre. Rock solid and fewer problems than 1.5. Still has stupid “new mail notification” bug when spam is filtered. #
- considering using GMail fulltime but with backup using fetchmail to grab everything via POP and store on server here #
- @imeallach : trust no-one! My data on my machines is the rule I live by. I just let others “borrow” it. #
- Hope Google MyMaps isn’t bad news for Click2Map as I really like their product. #
- Azureus -> Zudeo -> Vuze. Whatever ya wanna call it. New site vuze.com #
- This time tomorrow Rosslare will have its first FON access point. Should have coverage of up to 3 or maybe even 4 houses
# - Nice bit of TJAMC to block out sound of fighting children outside so I can get to grips with Spam Karma 2 on WPMU #
- Tina Turner “River Deep Mountain High” - In my top ten of all time. Even the crappy non-Spector version I’m listening to now. #
- So now I know what journalistic integrity and factual reporting looks like, I think I’ll stick to the wild west of blogs. #
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Tweets on 2007-04-04
Posted on April 4, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- The Jesus and Mary Chain are playing Electric Picnic 07. I felt too old for outdoor gigs at Guns n Roses in 1992, what hope now? #
- it really does look like the non-stop bluescreening on my as-new Latitude D420 was due to Vista. XP rock solid on it. Damn, I like Vista. #
- All Google properties down or Cork routing problem? #
- Woo hoo, back on top for google search of “Conor O’Neill”. In constant war with pub chain of the same name in USA. Blog Awards did the trick #
- Co-incidence? You decide. http://tinyurl.com/y9dchw and http://tinyurl.com/2nd3nk #
- How much does Vodafone Ireland charge you and caller if you set redirect on your mobile to landline? Or to Skype-In? #
- @damienmulley - eircom upgraded exchanges to what? 24MBs broadband for everyone? #
- Courtesy of Sweary: http://tinyurl.com/2qawa4 . This is the “next python” stuff I was talking about recently. Up with this kind of thing! #
- Nice cuppa tea and a biscuit with TSL, TSG and MiniMe. We’re awfully civilised down here in Cork. #
- Looking at world map on kid’s wall. Scranton is marked in the USA. The equivalent of Slough in the US Office. Maybe not so small after all. #
- Bloody chocolate manufacturers. Why aren’t the sweets inside the easter eggs like they used to be? Surely slave labour could do it cheaply? #
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Tweets on 2007-04-03
Posted on April 3, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- @JasonCalacanis - Watching you interview Ev on the phone. And I need video for this why? MP3 please, MP4 is for turtleneck wearers. #
- Does Twitter public timeline contain all updates or only a selection? Was trying to build a Yahoo pipe to find all tweets targeted at me #
- Does Twitter public timeline contain all updates or only a selection? Was trying to build a Yahoo pipe to find all tweets targeted at me #
- Vista laptop arrived back “repaired” i.e they replaced Vista with XP!! Stable so far, will monitor closely. #
- Damn, couldn’t stop myself looking at Heroes page on Wikipedia and ruining some surprises. I’m an idiot. #
- Just realised how weak Thunderbird address book is. Imported CSV into an address book but no way to bulk add all to a mail-list. What can? #
- Just invited all the LouderVoice Beta Testers to start publishing reviews to their blogs. Problem reports already which saves us pain later. #
- Ended up doing CSV->LDIF in TB on XP. Then LDIF->Evolution on Fedora and then drag-drop to mailing list in Evolution. All to BCC a few #
- didn’t think of CRM. Good idea! #
- doh, forgot to use “d” to send that message direct. #
- New design proposal for LouderVoice looks sweee-it! #
- Another awesome US Office and a pretty good Studio 60. Very tempted to get first series of Heroes on DVD and watch all the way through. #
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Tweets on 2007-04-02
Posted on April 2, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- Nice mention of Irish OpenCoffees and Irish start-ups from Saul Klein. http://tinyurl.com/26snpw #
- Might even consider installing iTunes and stop calling Steve Jobs “Damien Thorn” after the EMI announcement of DRM-free music downloads #
- Steve Jobs, Damian Thorn, EMI, Thorn-EMI. Oh no, the apocalypse is upon us. #
- Ulster Bank Online Business Banking still stuck on IE4+ or Netscape 4.7. This level of incompetence shouldn’t be allowed near the web. #
- @PaulWalsh - Ulster Bank has a FAQ page an accessibility. Unfortunately it’s not *cough* very accessible #
- EuroVPS DNS giving me gyp. Normally expect that to work out of the box without tweaking. Need an Ops guy. #
- Thought I had tons of baby leaf lettuce seeds. Don’t. So planted cos, rocket and carrots. Saladini and scallions tomorrow. #
- @donncha - I tried Digging your InPhotos SEO post too and they can’t access the URL. DNS problem at their end? #
- Just registered corkopencoffee.com and corkopencoffee.org. Pointing them both to the upcoming page for now http://upcoming.org/group/2849/ #
- Spent day doing EI feasibility study grant claim. I’ll never be an accountant. #
- Windows Media player can’t play MP4s and Quicktime is a disaster on Windows. Trying Democracy player now #
- So much for that idea. I click on anything in Democracy player and it says “action is not a registered protocol”. Handy, thanks. #
- Did the same moron design all DIY web-sites like B&Q, Woodies, Atalntic? Try searching for cuprinol. Feels like 1995. #
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Tweets on 2007-04-01
Posted on April 1, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- High quality April Fools in our house. “Look Dad there’s a dinosaur behind you” #
- Best April Fools so far: “Eventful switches to an all-Twitter interface”. http://tinyurl.com/ysx2kh #
- Reminded that I was convinced GMail was an April Fool when it was announced. #
- Casino Royale now on equal footing with GoldFinger as my favourite Bond movie. Finally caught it on DVD. Superb. #
- For fun pulling my feeds OPML into RSSBandit. First desktop reader I really like. Have to use it due to Trac protected feeds. #
- Caught up on tech reading. Now to plant some lettuce. #
- Weeding, digging and raking done. Only the seeds to go now. #
- How much did EI/IDA/etc spend making “Responding to an Influenza Pandemic” and sending to every business in Ireland? And why? #
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Tweets on 2007-03-31
Posted on March 31, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- Wossey improved. Gervais funny as ever and John Travolta not bad. FFed throught Gareth Gates and Macy Grey. Wedding Belles good. QOTSA rules #
- Read that O’Leary to be a judge on X Factor. Gutted to find out it was Dermot and not Michael. Now that could have been a great programme! #
- The Read/WriteWeb article on Irish webapps made it to the front page of Digg! Hazzah. #
- Do my blog readers love/hate/not_bovvered about the summary tweets which appear every day over on conoroneill.com? #
- Check out http://aft.donutsoft.net/ for sending tweets from phone using your free webtexts. < 1cent! Ireland only. Way cool. Tested. Work #
- Ach flaw in cunning plan! Twitter number is UK based and Webtexts only go to national numbers. Damn. So close. #
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Tweets on 2007-03-30
Posted on March 30, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- Should be a good day. OpenCoffee followed by a meeting about Coworking #
- Top Irish Web Apps including LouderVoice profiled over at Read/WriteWeb! http://tinyurl.com/2662aa #
- Another super OpenCoffee with a bunch of new faces and a person from Corporate Finance. This is the mix I had hoped for. #
- Badger on The Apprentice after-programme. “You have to do more than step up to the plate, you have to eat too”. Someone tell her, would you? #
- Are local newspapers and magazines the last remaining publications to use the word “swanky” when trying to big something up? #
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Tweets on 2007-03-29
Posted on March 29, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- Up and at them (done in the voice of Rainier Wolfcastle). Slow start to day. One call, tons of specs. #
- AnthonyC having non-stop pop-up blocking on FF and IE7 for GMail. Anyone know why? #
- Baby’s first solid food not rice but Jelly Bear from her big sister. Grin on face says it all. #
- LazyTwit asks if any of our active LouderVoice Beta Testers use Movable Type? If not, any Movable Type users want to be a Beta Tester? #
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Tweets on 2007-03-28
Posted on March 28, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- Worked until 1.30am, now my brain is mush. What can I do? Read a backlog of 20 must-read PDFs? #
- Doing the upgrade from WPMU1.0 to 1.1.1 plus our customisations. Delicate stuff. I should have been a brain surgeon. #
- Looking into Google Apps for your domain. Apart from yesterdays glitch, interested in existing user feedback. Also any news on JotSpot? #
- Any way to get your Google Calendar reminders via GTalk? Seems like an obvious integration. #
- @eirepreneur - I don’t want gtalks for every mail, just the event reminders. Oh and why isn’t Gmaps integrated into location field? #
- On a Google rant now. Why no to-dos in GCal? Playing with “Remember The Milk” integration. Works but kinda obvious hole in the offering. #
- well that took longer than I thought but new WPMU and theme up and running. Hurrah. Dinner time. #
- Google Docs n Spreadsheets growing on me. Tried Zoho for a few mins but didn’t like the default setup on planner #
- Arrgh, I finally upgraded http://tinyurl.com/29jexo to WPMU 1.1.1 today and Donncha just announced v1.2. Long night. #
- Google custom home page not that bad. Have RTM, GCal, GMail and twitter widgets all on one page #
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Tweets on 2007-03-27
Posted on March 27, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- John Allsopp just release microformats book http://tinyurl.com/2b6mbg. Looks excellent but 4-6 week delivery on amazon.co.uk? #
- Interested to know how any Wordpress users have Rich Text Editor turned on? We need it turned off to stop the RTE converting div’s to p’s #
- Google = Global. Google Blog = Valley. “Simply text your flight number to 466453″. Hmm, wonder if that works in Cork Ireland……… #
- @imeallach - I know the technical angles on the editor (I’ve hacked it). I’m more interested in actual usage. Who enables/disables? #
- I’m a huge WP fanboy but the Six Apart products are all far superior at preserving user markup in posts. And Windows Live Spaces? Arggghh. #
- Roos says that Martin Carey in Bandon sells rabbit. Excellent. Never gutted one but should be fun. Lovely meat. Ah pretty bunnies. #
- @PaulWalsh - We want to know what editor our potential customers use on WP. If many have RTE turned off then we have no issue. PollDaddy? #
- Anyone doing Supernova in June or Innovate in May? Both look good. #
- Wordpress Rich Text Editor usage poll on LouderVoice blog. http://tinyurl.com/2uk3qj #
- I sooo wish Google would release JotSpot. Using Docs n Spreadsheets to do some mini-specs. Prefer Wiki. Socialtext impressed yesterday. #
- Julian suggests a combined streaky bacon and rabbit come-back. He may be on to something. Martin gave ratatouille recipe. The 70’s are hot! #
- @PaulMWatson - I believe there are several places around Ireland rightly looking at replicating the it@cork idea. #
- Harsh, but anyone driving fast in peasoup fog in Kildare today without lights got what was coming to them. I pity their poor victims. #
- Wife and kids love The Killers. Until now they’ve done nothing for me but goddammit they’re growing on me. Gotta love that last.fm #
- @damienmulley - Blogger Code of Conduct my ass. I have manners, others don’t, you can’t regulate for that. One for emailers too? And SMSers? #
- 3-year old announced she wanted heelies. Got her the old Fisher Price roller-blades with stabilisers out of attic. One happy child. #
- @mattverso - not forgetting Twitter! We could use up 130 chars in each tweet with the appropriate code of conduct byline. #
- No binary of PyLucene for Fedora Core 6. Used to love building from source. Now it’s just a PITA. #
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Tweets on 2007-03-26
Posted on March 26, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- Brutal nights sleep with the sore elbow. Allegedly slept with arm in air for part of the night! Quiet night on twittersphere. #
- Great way to do Twitter Technorati claim via Mr Messina http://tinyurl.com/2aqbtm. Pity T’rati bombed out 4 times before working. #
- Health Board does it again. After “Sibín O’Neill”, then having TWO children called “Sibéal” they now name Catherine “Mrs Grainne Sheehy” #
- @fergusb - WIll there be a red carpet in Cannes? Madoona? I’d be very surprised if you didn’t find a Shoarama down a side-street #
- When did Calacanis start using MP4s for his podcasts? 185MB transfer to Nokia N70 via USB fails regularly and doesn’t play anyway. MP3 pleas #
- Argh. Spent most of day trying to get to bottom of email issue on loudervoice to discover 5 mins ago that it is a DNS problem. #
- Slaps hand. Non-creatives should not “have a quick look” at an icon problem for four hours. As you can see, a very productive day for me. #
- @tommorris - Started programming aged 14 in 1982 on a ZX Spectrum. Pretty much stopped in college (Electronics). Always done a bit since. #
- @tommorris - even when I shouldn’t be programming. Never do anything big any more but like to do the odd script for efficiency. #
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Tweets on 2007-03-25
Posted on March 25, 2007, by , under Tweets.
- Just watched the departed. Superb. Which Hong Kong movie was it based on? Infernal Affairs? #
- @tomraftery - Hope babba is recovering well. Kids and hospitals always scary. Shout if you need anything. #
- Hmm, none of my kids like “Happy Feet”. First half an hour comes across as subtle as a sledgehammer. I also rate “tap” down near “mime”. #
- Fair weather gardener. Set foot out there for the first time this year. Weeded the raised bed and replaced rotten wood on shed. Need a nap #
- Oh never got that nobile twitter app working on N70. Complains about incorrect credentials. Pity. Looks good. #
- I ruined a lovely chicken in white wine, olive and caper sauce by burning the f**ker cos I was pulling weeds. Speedy tomato n garlic instead #
- Drive Manchester to Nordschleife and then last 7 seconds on Nurburgring before crashing. Clip of the month! http://tinyurl.com/328ssv #
- Oh dear, first episode of new series of Jonathan Ross rubbish. Harry Potter, Thandie Neton and some boxer. Yawn. FFed through it all. #
- Elbow paralysed after weeding. So much for Udo’s oil cure. Voltarol and Sauvignon Blanc seems to be helping. Another great “House”. Bed #
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