I launched TwitterLiveAuctions in January of 2010, but after a year without much interest from the web I took it down. I’m posting the video here for posterity.
Twitter live auctions
June 5th, 2011Using the LinkedIn API for Enterprise Knowledge Management
January 19th, 2010A few weeks ago, Chris, author of The Global Human Capital Journal, asked a question on LinkedIn. He asked if anyone had experience using the LinkedIn API in enterprise applications. In response to his question, I created a sample knowledge management application that simulates the enterprise and uses the LinkedIn API to populate user profiles.
You can login to the application to see how the API works from the perspective of a user, or you can view this video that walks through a sample scenario.
mydigitalxpress.com : Digital Xpress
January 15th, 2010A short (6 min) introduction to Digital Xpress, a digital writing platform for the elementary classroom.
Rhinogator.com
January 7th, 2010A short (5min) introduction to Rhinogator.com.
Salesearch.com
December 29th, 2009A quick (3 min) introduction to salesearch.com.
Logging in with a Twitter account
December 29th, 2009Related to the work I was doing on calculatorbot, I just put together an application stub that implements login through twitter. It works great!
The process goes something like:
- user clicks a link on your site to login
- user is taken to twitter for login, if they are already logged in proceed to the next step
- user is asked to allow your application access, they accept or deny (only happens once)
- user is taken back to your site, where your site can ask twitter for information about the user (name, screen name, etc) and create a user-profile based on that.
Some helpful links I found:
First, a document on twitter’s site that describes their API and gives a technical overview of the login process.
Second, a document that provides php source code that you can test and read to learn about how to implement OAuth/Twitter login. Example in Php: using Twitter’s OAuth
Answer to linkedin question – how to scrape thompsonlocal.co.uk
December 23rd, 2009Recently I saw a question on linkedin, where the person asked how to scrape some contact data off of thomsonlocal.co.uk. Several people responded that this was a straightforward thing to do and I agree. I thought it would be good to do a short demonstration of how to approach the problem.
I’ve done a short video series that follows me through the process. These were done “on the fly” as I worked through the problem. FYI – no source code will be provided for download, and please remember to review the terms of service for any site that you scrape.
RhinoGator: Your next, best destiny now
December 22nd, 2009I mentioned several weeks back that I had released a project in the employment space. Well today is the day that I’m announcing the release of that project – Rhinogator – Your next, best destiny now. Check out the site!
Calculatorbot updates
December 22nd, 2009Calculatorbot has received some updates in the last couple of days. Now in addition to handling math problems, it can look up the definitions of words for you.
For example, I tweeted “@calculatorbot define capricious” and calculatorbot responded “http://xr.com/d4es capricious: (2 defns) Adjective: determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason”
Calculatorbot includes a url to the word’s definition and the first definition of the word in its reply. Also note that the url returned is a shortened url.
Calculatorbot is up
December 4th, 2009The first version of calculatorbot is up. It can answer mathematical expressions for you by tweet. For example, I tweeted “@calculatorbot min(pi(),1000.0)” and it answered back with the correct value of pi. This is just an experimental project at this point, more updates to come.