After looking at Dave Winer’s Top 40 links on twitter app, I wrote my own version of it called TopLinks

It displays the the top links (sorted by number of visits, like digg) shared by me on twitter in last 400 tweets. Its been scheduled to run once every hour.The logic is little different from Dave’s app. He displays latest top 40 links. Since I am not a big link sharer, I choose to display all of them present in my last 400 tweets.

The app uses twitter and bitly APIs. I want to release the code, but I hacked it in 2 hrs, so its not very pretty. Let me clean it before releasing it .

What next? May be a wordpress plugin to show your top links on twitter. Any other ideas?

BTW I am @thej on twitter.

Update: Opensourced

Digg recently introduced url shortener. This is not your standard url shortener where the shortener does a 302 forward. Digg shortener displays destination site in a frame. Which means the reader still stays on the Digg.

Most of the modern web analytics software will be able to record this visit, but it will problem in finding out the actual referrer.  Also standard traffic counters like alexa don’t count this visit against your site.
So if you don’t like to that DiggBar to be displayed on your blog.  You can add this one line code to your site. Add it to your webpage’s head section.

<script type="text/javascript">
if (top !== self) top.location.href = self.location.href;
</script>

This code in fact doesn’t allow anybody to display your content in their frame. Here is the demo url http://digg.com/u1BSW to check. It should work on all browsers.
Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

As you know earlier I had parsed Aamir Khan’s Blog to create a feed. It was custom screen scraping code to generate the feed.Today, after reading Anand’s blog, I did the same using YQL and Pipes. Using YQL/PIPE is much easier than writing custom code and is less buggy.

If you have subscribed to http://feeds.thejeshgn.com/aamirkhan then, you don’t have to worry. The feed url remains the same only the technology behind has changed. Now we have a better technology. If you have not subscribed, I guess its a good idea to subscribe.

The post below is for fellow hackers. I have tried to write a detailed post on the process I followed and technologies I used. Read the rest of this entry »

OK. I was getting bored on Saturday and a friend of mine’s father went through heart surgery on last Thursday. Both events inspired me to code tweet4blood

So here it is

tweet4blood is at http://tweet4blood.com

From where you can tweet your blood requirement with out logging in. It tweets it to @tweet4blood. If you are a blood donor I request you to follow @tweet4blood and of course RT.

Thanks to VSR for the logo and design input. I owe you a coffee/beer dude.

Suggestion are welcome.

I have been using 12Seconds (aka video twitter) for a while now. You can send your 12seconds video to them by mail or record one on their website. If you already have a video there is no direct way to upload. But you can send it as an email attachment. But when I am public m/c I wouldn’t like to open my email. So I wrote a simple app to upload the video to your 12seconds account from web.

Watch the 12seconds how-to tutorial for the same uploaded using the same app :)

How to upload video to 12 seconds from web on 12seconds.tv

Your suggestions and comments are welcome. BTW dont forget to follow me on 12seconds.