Sideline App – twitter trend monitoring
Monitoring what is said on twitter can be a time consuming experience. It is also VERY important for brands and companies.
Sideline, from Yahoo! could make it easier. It’s an Adobe Air app where you can see what is being said and track keywords and even make groups
- Advanced search query builder
- Custom search groups
- Automatic refreshing of defined search queries
- Monitor trending topics
- 20% more awesomeness
I’m going to have a look at it over the next few days – I’d be interested to hear your thoughts…!
snowtweet.com launches!
I’m delighted to announce that www.snowtweet.com is now live! snowtweet was a concept I thought up a couple of months ago, and I would like to say a MASSIVE thanks to the legendary Andreas over at nofont.com for bringing it to life! His design, coding and development has been brilliant, so thanks Andreas! (You can follow him on twitter @nofont, and I’m @jonmoss).
Concept
More and more people are using twitter these days, from Presidents to celebs, to Mums and students, it certainly seems to show no signs of slowing down. It even had another slot on Radio 4 this evening! Traditional ski reports have always been ok, but not current, live or with any real detail. snowtweet uses the twitter API to monitor tweets in real time, displaying “snow” related ones in the main part of the site and also showing ski, snowboard and afterski tweets at the top.
If you then scroll down, we have implemented a world map where you can click on a resort, and see tweets about that very place! It also pulls in data from a traditional snow report site and shows the weather too.
Getting real, live info from ski resorts can be really useful – finding out when it is actually snowing, getting to know the best bars and clubs, finding out, in real time, what is going!
Future plans
We are going to be developing and building on the first version over the spring and summer leading up to the 2009/2010 season. We are very interested to hear from companies, brands and resorts who would like to get involved – please email us >> info at snowtweet.com
Here’s to fresh powder and blue sky!
BBC Radio Lincolnshire Interview
By the power of twitter!!! 
Having twittered that I was going to be meeting Steve Jagger from Quickline Communications to test a Wimax signal, I was surprised and pleased to get a tweet from @mrwilliam, the BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s drive time host!
Luckily I saw this, tweeted back by mobile number and 20 minutes later was being interviewed about broadband alternatives in Hull and Hull Digital! Even better, my good friend Jaan managed to record it, so here you go, the first Hull Digital Podcast featuring me on BBC Radio
A new version of tweetdeck
If you use twitter a fair bit, then please do consider using tweetdeck. It’s a superb Adobe Air app (runs on Macs and PCs) and gives you some wonderful functionality to really turbo charge your twitter use.
Check out the new version of it being demoed below:
TweetDeck v0.21.5 from Iain Dodsworth on Vimeo.
Get tweetdeck here >>> click!
My twitter friends rock!
My twittersheep!
My twittersheep!, originally uploaded by JonnyMoss.
“Enter your twitter username to see a tag cloud from the ‘bios’ of your twitter flock”.
