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Launch: tweets.DanielVining.com

September 18, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

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New Website Launch!

I am excited to announce the launching of a new sub site to DanielVining.com today.  tweets.DanielVining.com is now live and running smoothly thanks to the WordPress platform and a couple of great plugins.

The premiss of the site is simple.  I wanted to create a place where I could store all my Twitter posts for archiving.  I searched for a tool or site that could do this for me, but didn’t come up with much.  Then I thought, “How hard would it be to create my own pseudo-Twitter site? Not a clone, but more of a dump.”  The answer came thanks to the WordPress theme P2.  P2 is meant to be the WordPress solution to hosting your own Twitter clone site.  In order to get my tweets to the new site, I am using a plugin called Twitter Tools.  The settings on this plugin allow me to send my tweets to my blog, with each new tweet showing up as a new blog post.  Combine that with the look and feel of the theme, and you get your own personal twitter archive.  Now, I can simply back up my blog, which in turn backs up my tweets as well.

"tweets.DanielVining.com"

"tweets.DanielVining.com"

This website is not meant for mass population.  I am the only contributor, and a wealth of traffic is not expected nor truly wanted.  If, however, you are wanting to learn how you can too back up your tweets, I hope that this site can serve as an example.

The whole point of tweets.DanielVining.com is to back up the tweets from my Twitter stream, which can be found at twitter.com/danielvining.  Check me out, follow me, and keep reading!


Schmownce

August 23, 2009 in Uncategorized with 1 Comment

Do you remember Pownce?  It was a social networking micro blogging site similar to Twitter, but more like Twitter on steriods.  It was a start-up of Kevin Rose, creator of Digg, and in my opinion, was pretty cool.  Unfortunately, it didn’t last long.  After only about a year of existance, the site was bought by a company called SixApart, they are the people behind VOX, Movable Type and Type Pad.  Once bought by them, we lost the twitter that would let you post videos, music and more.

At I thought it was gone.  Turns out a group of people, fans of Pownce, created a replica site with all of the same features and named it Schmownce.  I just created an account, and am still feeling my way through things, but thought I would throw up this post to hopefully entice a few more people to sign up.  I will meander around the site for a while to see if it will catch on with me.

In the process of finding out about Schmownce, I also took the time to start up a VOX account to at least reserve my name for later use.  You can check out nothing at danielvining.vox.com