I wrote an extension to display a user's twitter stream inside of an OWW page via a parser tag, "<ShowTwitter>".<br><br>You can see it here:<br><br><a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Bill_Flanagan">http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Bill_Flanagan</a><br>
<br>This is the tag that allows it to work:<br><br><ShowTwitter>wjf42</ShowTwitter><br><br>The extension uses a script written by Remy Sharp (<a href="http://remysharp.com/2007/05/18/add-twitter-to-your-blog-step-by-step/">http://remysharp.com/2007/05/18/add-twitter-to-your-blog-step-by-step/</a>). It's outrageous. <br>
<br>I've not enabled setting all of the variables yet. I added this just so I can keep OWW members abreast of what I'm doing, most specifically if it relates to OWW. I may extend this to update a Wiki page as a log file to keep a long-term history within OWW. I can always retrieve this from Twitter via their API. Making it searchable within OWW may be useful. <br>
<br>If there are server problems, it's yet another trivial way to keep on top of what we're doing to fix it. I already reserved OpenWetWare as another twitter name to make it more official if we ever choose to go there. <br>
<br>If anyone has suggestions how to make this more useful, let me know. <br><br>To set twitter status, there are a lot of different tools. Since I use the Linux shell as much as I do, I have a pretty simple script to send out my current status from the command prompt. We can update this status via php calls as part of using OWW as well. I'm not doing this now but I may some night when I have some time. <br>
<br>Twitter is free. We can create as many names as needed. If you have buddies (friends, tweets, whatever), their status displays along with yours. This has some interesting possibilities for loosely coordinating teams using OWW. Like labs or IGEM teams? Writing projects? Lab exercises? <br>
<br>Thanks.<br><br><br>