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Open Source Emoji for WordPress 5 Jun 2013 | 02:38 pm
I’m sure there are more than enough emoticon and Emoji plugins for WordPress, but as I’ve written before rendering Emoji with your own assets comes with copyright problems. Short version: Apple and Mi...
Android’s Missing Emoji 23 Apr 2013 | 04:44 pm
I’ve become oddly obsessed with Emoji recently and in examining the Unicode standardisation of Emoji characters I noticed a surprising number of common characters missing. When I say “missing” I mean...
Flamingo Dies 17 Apr 2013 | 02:58 pm
No sooner had I launched a demo version of Flamingo than I get an email from Twitter Platform Operations telling me to shut it down on the grounds that I was “resyndicating Twitter content” which is a...
Flamingo Flies 29 Mar 2013 | 03:28 am
All this recent Twitter API migration business has inspired me to build Flamingo – a hosted ajax service for your Twitter apps. A lot of sites (particularly blogs) have Twitter feeds that are powered...
Emoji on the Web 22 Mar 2013 | 10:30 pm
Emoji characters have been around for a while, but for various reasons I recently took more of an interest in understanding them. I just bought my first Android device and noticed that the OS has its...
Twitter application level authentication 12 Mar 2013 | 04:46 pm
Twitter has announced application level authentication for their API using OAuth 2. For the uninitiated, this means a simpler way to make authenticated Twitter API calls, and doing so on behalf of yo...
Latest Vines plugin for WordPress 6 Mar 2013 | 07:12 pm
After submitting my Latest Tweets plugin to the WordPress directory last week, I thought I’d do another one. My “Latest Vines” plugin displays your Vine videos in a sidebar widget. Clicking the thumb...
Twitter API 1.0 switch off 1 Mar 2013 | 06:06 pm
On June 11th Twitter are permanently switching off off their old API leaving only the new one. But nobody seems to be talking about it. (Except me. I can’t stop going on about it). I suppose in the ...
Google and the World Brain 26 Feb 2013 | 10:47 pm
You have until March 4th 2013 to watch this excellent BBC4 documentary called “Google and the World Brain“. If you live on Earth I recommend that you watch it. (Although you probably have to be in th...
Check your Twitter WordPress plugins 25 Feb 2013 | 04:48 pm
If your WordPress site displays your latest tweets, or uses any kind of unofficial Twitter widget, you should check it supports the new API. You should do this today. If your plugin is not up to date ...
