An Experiment: Breaking into the Tweetspace
Recently I've starting using Twitter, and I see the usefulness of microblogging. I also decided to try an experiment with pushing door64 updates on Twitter for those who are interested. The tweets happen in real-time.
If you're already a Twitter member, you can follow door64_Texas. You will start seeing updates when new information is posted on door64. I'm prefixing tweets with hashtags to categorize updates, as follows:
#EV: Event calendar
#DF: Discussion forum
#BL: Blog
#JB: Job opportunity
#SK: Skill set
Comment below if you find this useful, and/or have any suggestions!
Sounds like an interesting idea... I may have to sign up for Twitter just to check it out.
Have you checked out Ping.fm? I think you might find the triggers and custom triggers interesting. While kind of working in the other direction from what you're doing with hashtags, you could set something up so that posts to Ping.fm by you with particular hashtags would go to certain places. With their API you might be able to feed hashtagged items from your site to their service and it would go out however you'd want it to.
In any case, cool choice to standardize on prefixed hashtags output from your site. You're opening up your taxonomy in a pretty seemless way.
I have not heard of Ping.fm - I will check them out. Thanks for the heads up. The name of the game here is to leverage and integrate existing technologies and build upon them instead of recreating the wheel, so I like to hear about what people use already (and works well).
Thanks!