Digital by Default

Category: play

  • Trying Twitter Blackbird Pie

    Yesterday Twitter released a tool that creates an embeddable version of individual ‘tweets’ so they can more easily be used for quotes in blogs etc – it is rather oddly called Blackbird Pie. Using Twitter quotes in blogposts is more and more common and I’ve been known to do it myself on the odd occasion.…

  • Playing with Google Search Stories

    Google have released a little app that allows you to quickly and easily create a little version of their Superbowl ad (and the various other similar versions they have) called Search Stories. It is quite good fun and could almost certainly be used to be something educational and useful. I haven’t done that. My little…

  • Tagxedo Wordcloud of Debill

    Having a play with the new wordcloud generator that the Wordle creator Jonathan Feinberg calls; not so much an alternative as the next generation of Wordle, and a “leap forward” in both the layout algorithms and the design of the tweaking interface. It is alot of fun and offers an awful lot of customisation options.…

  • Wordle of 1000 days of Twitter

    Today is my 1000th day on Twitter officially. In reality there were probably 100 days or so at the beginning where I barely used it and couldn’t quite grasp the point. Still it feels like a landmark nonetheless so I have banged out a quick wordcloud of my tweets thanks to Tweetstats and Wordle. I…

  • Joining the Cult of the iPhone

    So after much fuss and nonsense I eventually gave in to the inevitable and got myself an iPhone. To some extent I remain a little annoyed at myself (especially as Vodafone announced both the Nexus One and the HTC Desire only days after I ordered it!). But no crying over split milk, what is done…