March 31st, 2009 by Thomas Fuchs, 4 comments »
We’ve just launched the beta of our Twitter exploration app Twistori Desktop for Mac, that we developed in conjunction with IndyHall Labs.
What’s really cool about it is how it integrates WebKit into the actual Desktop Application, and makes it possible (in the near future!) to have user-styled themes (by means of a set of HTML, CSS and JavaScript files). We ship the beta with a set of several themes. Prototype and script.aculo.us are no longer for web applications only. 
Watch the video and get a free 14-day trial at http://twistoridesktop.com/.
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March 14th, 2009 by Thomas Fuchs, 2 comments »
Amy and me (slash7) worked with PepsiCo to bring you a visualizer of all things going on at SXSW.
We’re using an army of twitter bots to pull in tweets from conference-goers with our very own super-sophisticated natural language processing tools (read: a couple of simple regexps), and present the data in various actually useful forms, including party watch, which tells you what parties are hot and if you’ve to expect to wait in line, a map view of where peeps are going for drinks, popular keywords, topics and trends and, just for fun, stuff that people overheard.
It’s built with all my favourite web development stuffs, which are Ruby on Rails (for the database handling), script.aculo.us 2 (for the effects) and Sprockets for fast, fast JavaScript delivery.
Partywatch is also available as a an iPhone web site—bookmark it for quick and easy access on the go!
Questions? Meet me at SXSW Interactive, I’m around the conference—follow me on twitter @madrobby.
If you like it, don’t forget to digg us!
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February 11th, 2009 by Thomas Fuchs, 7 comments »
Today, it’s the Twestival, a day of local Twitter meetups for fun and good! Twestival participants donate to Charity: Water, a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations by funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.
We’re showing our support by donating of course, and by switching Twistori over to a special version for the occasion:
A $20 donation can give a person in the developing world clean and safe drinking water for 20 years. Show your support!
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January 20th, 2009 by Thomas Fuchs, Comments Off
We’ve created a special version of twistori to spy on thoughts and feelings on the festivities!
http://obama.twistori.com/
Personally, I’ll let the stream roll by on my second monitor while I’m writing up/testing some more things for Javascript Rocks! (mind you, the beta will be out tomorrow, so head over for your $5 discount while you can…).
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by Christophe Porteneuve, which is a great reference book for Prototype and script.aculo.us development.