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richardbarley says...
Nov 30, 2009

As Promised - A Very Special TweetDeck Delivery

A while ago we promised you that the next release of TweetDeck would be something very special. Well we have tweaked it and polished it and coated it with a sprinkling of TweetDeck magic dust, and now its ready for you enjoy.

There are so many shiny new features in this release that you may need to wear shades to use it.

For now though, here are just some of the goodies that are waiting for you in v0.32:

LinkedIn gets linked in

As we announced a few days ago, you can now add your LinkedIn account to TweetDeck. This will allow you to interact with your network of professional contacts just as easily as you can with your Twitter, Facebook and Myspace friends. You can add a LinkedIn column to view updates from your network, view profiles and comment on your contacts' status updates. And send your own update direct from LinkedIn, cross-posting to any of your other accounts at the same time if you wish.

Lists at the heart of the application

That's what we promised you, so that's what you've got. Twitter Lists in full, glorious TweetDeck style. Export your old TweetDeck Groups to new Twitter Lists or create Lists from scratch. We'll even give you great suggestions for who to add. Explore your friend's lists, following and creating columns when you find Lists you like. You can even create your own List by copying someone else's and adding your own je ne sais quoi.

Although your old TweetDeck groups are still available to you, you won't be able to create any more. Twitter Lists offer pretty much everything that Groups did, but with the added advantage of being fully compatible with Twitter. We think that you will agree when you see how Lists work in TweetDeck, so expect to see a lot more from us about Lists in the near future. We are very excited about our Lists-based future and we can't wait to show you what we are planning.

Retweets – Which style? Your choice!

Love them or hate them, the new-style Twitter Retweets are here to stay. And TweetDeck now fully supports them. New-style retweets will show up in your timelines, flagged with the retweet indicator and showing both the original tweeter's picture and the retweeter's picture.

But we know that there are many of you who would rather stick with the old tried-and-tested old-style retweets, allowing comments and editing.

So we have given you the choice. Each time you retweet you can choose to “Retweet now” using the new-style, or “Edit then Retweet” which will give you an old-style retweet. Don't want to have to choose each time? No problem. Just tick “Remember my choice” and TweetDeck will default to whichever option you choose.

Location, location, location

Another new feature that Twitter have recently rolled out is geo-location. This allows your tweets to be tagged with your current location, a function offered by an increasing number of Twitter clients.

In this version of TweetDeck, geo-coded tweets are identified by a yellow pin at the bottom of the tweet. Clicking on this pin will reveal an inline map showing the location that the tweet was sent from. Click the pin again and the map disappears. Be aware though, TweetDeck for desktop will not currently geo-code your outgoing tweets. This function will be available in TweetDeck for mobile very soon however.

Smarter and simpler

Adding more and more great features to TweetDeck is all well and good, but we need to make sure you can use them easily. So in v0.32 we have placed a big emphasis on improving the user interface for key parts of the application.

For instance, the standard toolbar buttons for adding columns have been replaced with a slick new Add Column screen which is now a one-stop-shop for managing columns, Lists and Groups in TweetDeck. We have spruced up the Settings window and the Profile window has also had a make-over.

There are lots more improvement to the user interface to come as well, so expect your TweetDeck to become a whole lot smarter in the future.

...and all the rest

Alongside these major new features, there are also a host of other tweaks, updates and fixes to help make your TweetDeck experience even better.

To get the full changelog, head over to TweetDeck Support, where you will also find a lot more detailed information about the changes in v0.32.

v0.32 of TweetDeck for the desktop is available now at http://www.tweetdeck.com

 

And finally..

A huge thank you to the team here at TweetDeck for their outstanding efforts in getting this release together.

Everyone has worked their socks off and all deserve a huge pat on the back:

Tom Woolway (@tomwoolway), James Whittaker (@jmwhittaker), Sol Plant (@lostplan), Reza Lotun (@rlotun), Steve Summers (@pocketsteve), Conrad Oldcorn (@conradoldcorn) & Jon Hatfield (@jon_hatfield) have all done outstanding work.

If you like what you see in v0.32, why not follow these guys and let them know what a great job they have done.

(And of course, you can follow our list too http://www.twitter.com/tweetdeck/team)

Thanks!

 

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imjustcreative says...
Oct 27, 2009

Pioneers of modern typography (Herbert Spencer, 1969) – designers books

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Steve says...
Oct 26, 2009

How to Bring Back the Old Facebook Feed

On Facebook a lot of my friends are lamenting last week's switch to the new new news feed. (It's now split: the news feed shows trends from friends while the live feed is real-time.) Personally, I like the change. You can pick one. You're not forced.

Still, if you want the old Facebook back, you can get it- sorta - via this tip which a friend left on my wall...
"To get the "old facebook" back. On your main screen, on your left hand side click 'more' then click and drag 'status update' to the top of the list. Then refresh your page and it should be back to normal."
Easy enough.

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tweetdeck says...
Oct 15, 2009

The Real-Time Web at your fingertips

We love getting your feedback. The ideas which you give us and the requests for changes or new features in TweetDeck really give us a buzz. Especially when we think we can really make ideas work and start to implement them. So imagine the excitement in the TweetDeck office just recently while we have been working on three of the most-requested features over recent months: improved notifications, keyboard navigation and Twitter follower management.
 
To see what we have come up with, head over to http://www.tweetdeck.com now to download version 0.31.
 
See who's new without leaving TweetDeck

We have introduced a new column type - New Followers. This column will display your most recent new Twitter followers and allow you to perrform all the actions you would expect, including View profile, Follow, Unfollow, Block, Report spam and Add to Group...all without having to leave the comfort of your TweetDeck screen!
 
Cut out the noise with configurable notifications

TweetDeck has always been the best way to organise your social networking updates through the use of groups and searches, giving you unlimited columns in which to view your Twitter, Facebook & MySpace updates and more. But we know that there are some updates that are more important to you than others. You might read every tweet in your "All-Star Tweeters" group column without fail, but maybe your "Old School Friends" Facebook column is just one you peruse when you're feeling like laughing at photos of you wearing a school cap and short trousers.

Previously TweetDeck would notify you in the same manner for each of these columns - the famous "chirp" sound and the pop-up notification window. Well, from v0.31 this notification system has been dramatically overhauled, so that it is now highly configurable and features a slick new design.

Some of the new features are:

• New "detail" window shows the full text of an update
• Inline reply, retweet & DM from notification box - no need to open full TweetDeck window
• Position the popup notifications in any corner of the screen
• Define notification options on a per-column basis

This allows you to really take control of your streams and ensure that you get to see your most important updates instantly, without having to filter through the "noise".

 The Real-Time Web at your fingertips

For many users, navigating TweetDeck with a mouse is not their preferred option, though until now it has been the only method available. In v0.31 however we have introduced a series of keyboard navigation options that we hope will help you manage your TweetDeck interactions without having to take your fingers off the keyboard.

 For example, the cursor keys now allow scrolling up and down, left and right. C will open the compose window. Escape will close any menu.

 The most exciting part of this new feature is what we are calling the Heads-Up Display (HUD).  Instead of requiring lots of complicated key combinations and CTRL-ALT finger gymnastics, pressing SPACE on an update will display the HUD, which presents the most common actions for each type of update. Each action is associated with the keys A,S,D or F. Simply press the key for the action you want to perform, or move to it using the arrow keys and press ENTER.

 We hope you'll agree that this gives you keyboard fans out there a great new way to interact with your social networking friends with zero mouse clicks required.

 And there's more!

Thanks to some optimisation work, TweetDeck should now use up to 15% less memory than before. We have also been very busy fixing some outstanding issues that have been reported to our TweetDeck Support site. For full details of what is included in this release, please see the changelog.

You will also find lots of helpful FAQs which will explain the new features in a lot more detail.

Richard Barley, TweetDeck Community Manager

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scobleizer says...
Oct 18, 2009

Twitter Lists; Limitations, bugs, impact, and brilliance

First off, I +love+ the new list feature that's coming to Twitter. Last week more than 1,000 people were randomly added to a beta of the new feature. What does it do? It does a few things (TechCrunch wrote an article about the new feature and has screen shots which show what it looks like):

  1. It lets you put the people you are following into lists. (I have several lists, for instance, one for photographers, another for tech executives, another for my most favorited Twitterers, and another for programmers).
  2. It lets you see a feed for each list. The feed is made up of only the people on that list.
  3. If you are the person who made the list you can delete or add people to the list.
  4. You can block the user of any list.
  5. You can subscribe to any list, which will add it to your home page and other places.
  6. You can later delete any list.
  7. You can later rename any list (that's pretty cool, although renaming does change the URL of the list).
On your home page you'll see a few changes:

  1. You'll see a new "listed" item. That tells you how many lists you have been added to.
  2. You'll see a new "Lists" area on the right side of your page which shows you which lists you've made and which ones you've followed (up to a maximum of 20).
  3. If you click on a list name, you'll see the timeline for just that list and you'll also see "view list page." If you click on that you'll see the people that the list is following and who is following the list. You'll also see you can edit or delete the list there.
I've used this feature extensively now and I've found several limitations:

  1. You can only add 20 lists to one Twitter account.
  2. Each list can only have 500 members.
  3. Your sidebar can only display 20 lists. First it will display your lists, then others but you won't be able to control the order or really anything about the list. I even tried changing the spelling on the lists.
  4. If you click on "listed" on your home page, you'll see a list of the lists that have added you. Unfortunately only the last 20 will be listed and you can't see others. I already have more than 200 lists following me and I can't see most of those.
  5. There is a tab that shows you the lists you follow. However, in my case, it only is showing 39 lists. I know I'm actually following about double that amount already. And of course you can't scroll the list or anything like that. I believe these last two limitations are actually bugs or poor design decisions.
What will the impact be of this new feature?

  1. You'll follow a lot more people. Why? Because you'll find someone who has done a really great list, say, of programmers, and you'll add the whole list. I've already done this a LOT and found that Twitter has gotten way more interesting because of it.
  2. You will spend a lot of time managing lists, at least at first. I went through that over on FriendFeed, which has a similar feature (Twitter's implementation is better, by the way).
  3. I can see a raft of new searching and discovery mechanisms. Already I've been invited to the beta test of a new directory service. Which brings me to the next point.
  4. Directories based on numbers of followers are dead. Yes, Wefollow, I'm looking at you.
  5. Anything to do with numbers of followers is now dead. WHAT KIND OF LISTS you are on will be far more important. Who cares if someone has 145,000 followers if no one will put him on a list because they don't like his Tweet style?
  6. Follow Friday is dead. Lists are FAR superior.
  7. Twitter will have scaling problems almost immediately due to these lists because lots of people will start using Twitter more again.

I'm hitting a variety of bugs, too.

  1. First the technology is very slow. It sometimes takes up to a minute after I click to add someone to a list before it releases the UI and shows that that person has been added to the list (if you visit your "following" list you can click a drop-down menu and then you'll be able to click to add that person to one or more of your lists. Sometimes this is very fast, othertimes it's dreadfully slow).
  2. Sometimes I click to add someone to a list and it doesn't add them. 

While I'm here, I do have one feature request. I'd like to add all the people on someone else's list to mine. For instance, I've found a couple of lists of Rackspace employees already. Why can't I visit those lists and say "add all the list members to one of my own lists?" That would be very useful. Or have a way to add groups of people from your following list instead of forcing us to add people one-by-one. 

Anyway, if you are playing with the new list feature, how do you like it? What bugs are you hitting? Are you hitting any limitations?

Oh, and if you don't like it that I have access to this new feature, sorry, but lets meet after you get it and see if you agree or disagree with me on this.

I say that this is all brilliant because it instantly made Twitter much more usable and interesting again. It will be fun to watch when everyone gets to see this new feature and try it for themselves. I think it'll be VERY popular.

UPDATE: If you have an account that is "list enabled" you can check out my lists on my Twitter account. They are going to need a lot more work, but already you can see the direction I'm heading in with them.

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topolin0 says...
Oct 04, 2009

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garry says...
Sep 16, 2009

Posterous Theming: It's here, it's live, and it's time to make your site yours!

Posterous is proud to announce the ability to change the look and feel of your Posterous blog! It's been a long time coming, and are we ever excited about releasing this feature to you guys today.

Choose from five built-in themes
Including one designed by theme creator Bill Israel. And we've got a whole ton more on the way. We wanted to get this in your hands ASAP, and we'll be releasing more into the system as soon as we create them.

Be able to upload header images
Customize your blog by creating a custom blog header in your favorite image editor. Then just upload it and see it at the top of every page on your blog. No coding experience necessary.

And choose new colors
Want to change the link color? Switch something up? Use our color picker and you don't have to code a single line of HTML.

For people who want to customize to the max...

If you're an advanced user, designer, or engineer, now you can totally change the CSS and HTML layout of your site.

Not only that, Posterous Themes are Tumblr-compatible. We built the Posterous Theme Engine to work great with the thousands of existing Tumblr themes out there! Just drop the theme code into the "advanced mode" editor. Want to add commenting and favoriting? It's just a couple lines of simple HTML away. Read more about it in our theming docs.

Some examples of Posterous Themes in the wild...

Check out what Posterous super-themer Cory Watilo has built with full CSS / HTML customization:

Our friends at Mugasha, Vidly, and Tweetvite have all chosen Posterous to host their company startup blogs. Dustin Curtis is liveblogging his 30 day flight on JetBlue on posterous too!

So what are you waiting for? It's enabled on your Posterous blog now. Go to your Manage page, and click Edit Settings > Theme and Customize to get started.

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kang says...
Aug 10, 2009

First Release of Google Wave Robot for Posterous

This is the first public version of Google Wave Robot for Posterous. It is developed by @lookon with Posterous API and Google Wave Robot Python Library. It is hosted at posterous-robot.appspot.com. Here is its function and problems.

Attention: the robot addresss -  posterous@appspot.com

Function:

1.Login to Posterous (your login will be cached for 1 day)
2.write blog to your Posterous site.
3.Tags are supported. (just use title((tags:a,b,c)) as your blogpost's title like you do in Email)
4.You will get the post.ly blog url in the wave after publishing.
5.(2008/8/9)Support for rich-text.(Google Wave Robot for Posterous now supports Rich-Text)
6.(2008/8/10)Support for multi-site settings.(Reply '/site'  to choose which site to post.)

Problems:

1.Does not support rich-text now. (I've built a new version that support rich-text now. Feel free to use it.)
2.Does not support Edit. (for Posterous API currently does not support edit)

When the Google Wave api or Posterous API updates, I will update the posterous robot and release a new version.

You can get how to use the robot by reading "How to write a blog using Google Wave Robot for Posterous". 

Enjoy~

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tweetdeck says...
Sep 09, 2009

Bring your Facebook and MySpace friends closer

Friends are important and now you can bring your friends even closer with the addition of MySpace and full powered Facebook in TweetDeck.  Or why not find some new friends who share your passions with the new TweetDeck Directory.  Download the new version of TweetDeck (v0.30) to keep in touch with all your friends on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter all from the comfort of TweetDeck.

Full Powered Facebook

Many users tell us they couldn’t live without TweetDeck groups to break their Twitter stream into bite size chunks.  So we’ve added a little TweetDeck magic to Facebook too, now you can group your Facebook friends and easily see what your ‘Real Friends’, ‘Work Friends’ and even your ‘Oldie but Goodie Friends’ are doing. 

It’s great to be able to see what your friends are up to with your own eyes, whether you’re around the corner or across the ocean.  The new fully powered Facebook stream lets you bring your friends closer by viewing photos, videos, links, wall posts, comments and more in TweetDeck. You can even preview entire albums of Facebook photos and see who’s tagged, without leaving TweetDeck.

Sharing your thoughts on Facebook is just a couple of clicks away too.  Now you can write wall posts, comments and status updates inside TweetDeck and even ‘like’ things that make you smile.  Plus we’re making life easier for Facebook Page owners, simply update your Pages directly from TweetDeck. 

Our new friend MySpace

We’ve made a new friend, MySpace. Update your MySpace status and mood from TweetDeck.  Keep your finger on the pulse with new MySpace columns to stay up-to-date with your friends’ status and moods, comments on your profile and view the full activity stream choc full of photos, events, videos and apps.  

Show and Tell

Tell everyone what you’re doing, simply write once, choose which services you want to update and then post to MySpace, Twitter and Facebook all at the same time.  Job done! 

Showing what you’re up to is also a whole lot easier. Simply drag and drop photos into TweetDeck to post to Facebook or Twitter.  Plus we’ve added a little preview so you can make sure you don’t accidentally share any embarrassing photos with the world!

Introducing the TweetDeck Directory 

We know it can be hard to find people talking about the things you’re interested in on Twitter.  That’s why we’ve created the TweetDeck Directory to make it easier to find and follow your favourite subjects on Twitter.  Think of it as a TV Guide for Twitter channels.  Browse the directory, find a group that takes your fancy, click ‘Add column’ and the column will magically appear in your TweetDeck.

Some spring cleaning 

We’ve also done a bit of a spring clean but don’t panic, all of your beloved TweetDeck features are still there. Simply click the Twitter button in the top left to add new columns or find your synced search and group columns.  We’ve also simplified the update window so you can simply paste or drag and drop a link into the main space and it’ll automatically be shortened and added to your tweet.  The rest of the buttons have taken residence above the tweet box instead of below.  Plus some other little improvements we hope you’ll enjoy including:

• Minimise to tray.
• Post photos to Twitter via TweetPhoto.
• Ability to add a Bit.ly account.
• Quick Profile – Simply enter a Twitter name to view profiles in TweetDeck.
• Better follower management.

It may sound like a cliché but sharing really is good and we want you to be able to share TweetDeck with your friends whoever and wherever they are.  That’s why we’ve made it possible for anyone to use TweetDeck with or without a Twitter account.  Go forth and share TweetDeck with all your friends – Facebook, Twitter and MySpace fans alike. 

Get closer right now with the new TweetDeck, download it for yourself and try it out. 

 

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brett says...
Sep 01, 2009

New Feature: Use Feedburner to track your feed

We made it really easy to use Feedburner to get analytics about who's reading your feed. Just burn your Posterous RSS feed and add the new Feedburner feed address to your site and you're off.

Grab the address from Feedburner:

Then add it to your site settings:

The next time you go to your site the feed icon will link to your Feedburner feed! You can find more setup instruction in our help section.

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