[OWW-Discuss] Weekend diversion: twitter in mediawiki/OWW

[John Cumbers]

very cool Bill..

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wrote an extension to display a user's twitter stream inside of an OWW
> page via a parser tag, "<ShowTwitter>".
>
> You can see it here:
>
> http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Bill_Flanagan
>
> This is the tag that allows it to work:
>
> <ShowTwitter>wjf42</ShowTwitter>
>
> The extension uses a script written by Remy Sharp (
> http://remysharp.com/2007/05/18/add-twitter-to-your-blog-step-by-step/).
> It's outrageous.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> If anyone has suggestions how to make this more useful, let me know.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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