I’ve been following the #pubcon conversation with interest, and here is the official announcement :). All I can say… look here. Thanks to Matt and Anindo of Google for their help on this!

Twitter is now officially a part of my life. I find myself checking Twitter more often then my email, and that, I guess, forces me to be smart about how I use it. I’ve been using Twitterific and Twinkle side by side for a while, but both annoyed me at times. They look like this: [...]

Lately I’ve noticed a lot of people using the Digg button in Sociable to submit my posts to Digg. While I appreciate the gesture, the chance of any of my “normal” posts making it to the front page of Digg is minimal. To make it to the front page, you currently need 200+ diggs. Getting [...]

Because of a few bugreports I had to fix some stuff in the Google Analytics plugin, as well as change the directory structure so it would work with the automatic update. Next to that I’ve also updated Sociable to include Wikio and Blogsvine, enjoy!

Note: if you like this post, read my post on Twitter iPhone apps side by side. I’ve been hooked on Twitter for a while now, (I’m @jdevalk, follow me!) and I use Twitterific mostly when I’m at my Mac. Rae invited me and a couple of other people, through Twitter of course, to do a [...]

Several people have noticed, most notably Andy Beard, that the Sociable WordPress plugin is, next to be being a cool plugin, kind of a dead project. I had modified it quite a bit for Mel’s blog, and my own later on, to include Sphinn, Facebook, Mixx, Google Bookmarks, Live and Twitter (the latter inspired by [...]

Sometimes, for instance when you’re building a domain-info tool, you want to know the number of posts on that site that have made it to the Digg frontpage. After playing a bit, I came up with this pretty easy code: [code language="php"] function FrontpageDiggs($url) { $result['source'] = "http://digg.com/rss_search?search=".$url."&area=promoted&type=url&section=all"; $output = file_get_contents($result['source']); preg_match_all("/.*().*/",$output,$matches); $result['result'] = count($matches[1]); [...]

MSN are apparently still unable to fix the bug I found, they seem to have taken down all Reporter sites for a while, yet the Dutch one is working for me right now, and the Belgian-French one is as well… Kind of weak though, don’t you think? It’s still possible to vote multiple times on [...]

SEW reports that MSN Reporter has gone live in Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway and states that it attracts a lot of visitors with some articles receiving up to 10,000 votes…

Recently (I honestly don’t know when), MSN launched a Digg clone in the Netherlands, called MSN reporter. You can submit your story, and others can vote for it or against it. The top stories go to the MSN.nl homepage. Now the boys at MSN haven’t really thought this through, as they store what stories you’ve [...]