Templates and Twitter

Tomingo and I spent some time tonight updating the template for this blog, and I signed us up with Twitter.

These days, there are many ways to communicate with your followers, so we try to select services that we can easily integrate into other things. We can ride the Atom/RSS feeds to have our blog appear virtually anywhere, and we can use the Twitter API to embed our tweets wherever we like.

For example, using the system we have in mind, we will be able to tweet directly from our web site. That one tweet will go to our Twitter page, anyone following us on Twitter, our blog, Google Buzz, and anyone following us there, other places we havnt thought of yet, and finally back to our own web site as a sidebar item. Neat huh?

That way, we keep the number of places we need to update to a minimum, which helps us keep communication clear and manageable, and our followers can follow us from wherever they like - perhaps even from their phone.

Yahoo Pipes is another invaluable tool for aggregating RSS feeds, and we use that in other projects too.

The web site is coming along. Hopefully we will have something that we can show soon.