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sean bonner

Member since: Aug 21st, 2005

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Five awful sites built on the Twitter API (Download Squad)

Nov 20th 2008 2:53PM Also, OMG http://bacontwits.com !

Five awful sites built on the Twitter API (Download Squad)

Nov 20th 2008 2:50PM Hey Lee!

Thanks for plugging the sites! I know that what you do is super difficult and stuff, so I don't blame you for making a few GIANT errors in your post. First off, tweetwants doesn't pull any post that has the word "want" in it, as you suggest. It pulls tweets that have the word "want" immediately followed by a URL. So it wouldn't pull the example you suggested. It's a minor difference but pulls a very different string of results. Tara and I found ourselves searching for those things all the time, and figured a site that did it for us would be cool.

We didn't know what we were doing before going into this, so it was just as much about learning how to work with the APIs as it was to build the sites. Which brings me to my next point - both sites do not say they were thrown together in 5 minutes. Tweetfails does because it was, we took the site that we spent a few weeks hacking on and changed a few things for that. Again, minor point but something you could have easily checked before spouting off about. I know that it's much easier just to say that something is on a site rather than actually looking at it to make sure it is, but isn't that like your job or something?

Anyway, thanks for the post and the links and the traffic and stuff. Any day I can annoy a dude on the internet enough to make a blog post about it is a win in my book. Keep on truckin!

Keep calling them out... (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Nov 1st 2006 11:07AM Thanks Jason. A lot of info has come out since I made that post (hence the endless updates) and it seems that Krebs was in fact working on the same story as Xeni at the same time and received much of the same information. That said his piece did come out a day later than Xeni's, had a lot of the same info and no links to hers. He posted follow up comments in several places admitting that BB did break the story, and that he even saw it but didn't read past the first paragraph. Take that however you will.

My first office in five years... (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Sep 15th 2006 2:39PM Looks like you need some artwork in that office, might I recommend www.sixspace.com to fulfill those needs?

I acutally used to work on Maple in BH back in the Playboy days. There's a little sandwich shop over there that makes bad ass PB&J

Unlikely Allies (WoW)

Jun 19th 2006 1:37PM I'm pretty sure that's a Tauren in the screenshot, not an Orc.

Why do people contribute? (who is dirtyfratboy?) (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

May 22nd 2006 8:08PM "It has to take 15 minutes--on average--to find and publish a decent story to DIGG."

I think you overestimating this considerably, I'm not a big DIGG submitter but have several friends who are and they spend less than a minute on their suggestions. People aren't out hunting for things to submit to digg, they come across them in their daily routines and then submit them. For instance, I can count how often I've sent an interesting link to a friend over IM and their reply, a minute or so later is a DIGG link where they just submitted the story.

Local blogs--it's about what's on the plate. (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Apr 18th 2006 2:33PM Gotcha - I'm not really interested in compairing achievements so I can't comment on any of what other people are doing but you are right, with http://metroblogging.com it's been part time for all of us for the last 2 years. Since Feb 06 we now have 3 people doing it full time. I don't need to tell you all the cool stuff we've annouced since then, and I can't wait to tell you about all the cool stuff we have coming up. You are also right that local scales entirely differntly and that's one of the main things we've been working on all this time. We're happy with our current growth and excited about where it's all headed. It's definitely a whole different game than tipic blogs, I can't wait to see where you guys run with it next. :)

Local blogs--it's about what's on the plate. (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Apr 18th 2006 12:03PM "the grandfather of the space--Sean Bonner"

Thanks!


"This is a speculative space and NO ONE has made it work yet."

Ouch.

I guess that depends on what your definition of "making it work" is. Or who you are talking to at the time.

BloggingOhio.com: Our first local blog. (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Apr 17th 2006 8:00PM Welcome to the party! Looking forward to cool stuff we can do when we launch Metroblogging Cleveland.

The full state coverage is an interesting approach for sure however I think you missed a huge cross promo opportunity by launching Ohio like this, you could have paired up HackaDay with it and done a How-to build your own methlab which would have been much more expolsive.

How to set up Google Talk on your Mac (TUAW.com)

Aug 24th 2005 10:44AM I can connect in Adium, just not actually talk. I can send one message, or receive one message, and then nothing else gets through.