I’m releasing a simple application on CNET / Versiontracker to help Mac OSX users work with their ViralHeat.com social media analytics data.  From the product description:
A minimalist desktop application to download data from your ViralHeat.com monitoring profiles.   The application lets you select which profile to download, and which channel (microblogs, websites, facebook, videos).  Mentions are [...]

Both of our sites are suffering from 400-type status returns from the Twitter API.  That means we are exceeding our 20,000 requests per hour limit.  Sadly, there’s not much to be done about this… they both are analytically heavy, requiring lots of calls.  As these sites becom popular, they are maxing out Twitter’s API maximum [...]

This morning, I gave a presentation that was a retrospective on the Twinfluence application I unveiled at last year’s Barcamp Tampa Bay, and unveiled my latest project: VidSquid.  I talked about how to leverage APIs to build social media applications - specifically, strategy for leveraging these applications to build a social media community.
In short, VidSquid [...]

Well, godaddy grid is continuing to give timeout issues. Rather than sweat out a solution for this, I have established a handshake partnership with a fellow techie to bring twinfluence to its next incarnation - twinfluence 2.0. It should have a much sharper user interface, a simpler toolset, and offer a whole new [...]

I recently looked at my access logs, and found that visitors are down by 60% for July… and checking twinfluence.com, I see most profile requests are timing out.  I haven’t changed anything lately, and *sometimes* the profile requests work, so I believe it’s hosting issues again.  I get a trouble ticket in to the host [...]

This weekend, I had to write an application to download some album sets from Flickr.  A friend sent me a guest pass for a couple of his albums, but none of the downloaders I found could handle guest passes or redirects.   Since it works pretty well, I thought I’d package it up and make [...]

Twinfluence and Twitseeker are very cpu-intensive.  I’ve already used three hosts to support them: Bluehost (still the best for simple, low-end hosting), imhosted (OK, but went downhill fast), and inmotionhosting.com (VPS account - by far the most professional tech support that I’ve received anywhere and great for the price).  Even though together, these two sites [...]

I’ve switched Twinfluence over to the new twitter oAuth protocol using a php authentication library from Jaisen Mathai.  This is a major security improvement; Twinfluence will no longer request, have access to, or store users’ private data.