Twistory launched during Mobile WebCamp
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On 27 April 2008, 15.19 h - Four comments
Tagged with Twistory, Twitter, Mobile Webcamp, Mobilewebcamphasselt and Barcamp
Yesterday was Mobile WebCamp Hasselt, Belgium's very first mobile-only barcamp edition. To me, barcamps really are one of the most inspiring conferences to go to, and so was this edition. Kirsten and Dorien really did a great job setting it all up.
I took the opportunity to present (check the presentation) a new project I've been working on the last two weeks. It's a kind of Twitter calendar mashup tool called Twistory that basically allows you to subscribe to your Twitter backlog. That may sound fairly odd at first, but once you've actually loaded your tweets into your calendar application, the result is pretty interesting. I'd expected some positive reception (it's a Twitter tool after all), but the reaction was pretty overwhelming. Twistory was actually featured on TechCrunch (thanks Robin) before the presentation even started, resulting in an aweful lot of website hits and beta user requests while I'd only planned to find a few people to try it out.
Anyway, that's great news and I'm now continuing to work on a public beta version which should be available somewhere next month. Check this blog for more updates. (photo by Filip Bunkens)
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Development time was pretty limited for this first release (something around 2 days). The code (php) still needs some optimization though.
It's nice to see how a nice design can level "yet another Twitter app" to somehting that tiny bit more attractive. Something else: there is a lot of fuss about the Twistori thing the last few days, it gets confusing like that.
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Seems a neat application! Can you provide some insights like how much time you spend on developing this application (off-hours?) and which programming language you used (RoR?)
Posted on 28 April 2008 at 12.56 h by Bart - Permalink