Twitter Developer Nest: August 2009 @devnest
August 28th, 2009. Published under Development, Talks. No Comments.
On Wednesday I headed on my long train journey from Poole to Monument underground station. Why? Well you have read the title haven’t you? Yes, the 4th Twitter Developer Nest was taking place.
What is the Twitter Developer Nest?
It’s a great place for Twitter developers, potential developers and Twitter enthusiasts to get together, hear what each other is doing, drink lots of free beer and eat lots of free pizza!
Why do I like it?
Anyone that knows me knows that I am a bit of a serial Twitter app developer. Just look at my projects page to see what sort of app I develop. Most of my friends don’t really know much about what I do apart from “being a geek”. So coming to an event like this where everyone is on the same page and being such a niche group of UK (mainly) Twitter developers, its great to be a part of.
Highlights
All the talks were great and it is a bit bad of me to only choose a couple of presentations, but to hell with it! Here are my favourite 2 apps.
@picfog
Think the Live TweetMeme stream of links, but for photos instead. Just visit picfog.com to see exactly what I mean. I was very impressed with the speed and realising that noone has done anything similar, imagine the possibilities of breaking news from a photo (like the Hudson plane crash) but you see it straight away rather than waiting for the viral effect of Retweets. See photos from the Developer Nest on picfog.com
@twase
@jchivers presented Twase, the awesome Twitter Spam engine. It’s along the lines of what Akismet is to WordPress (except Akismet is owned by WordPress and installed by default!). Twase is a developer tool for checking to see if a user is full of spam! Ok its a lot more complicated then that, but check out twase.com for more info. Check out the presentation.
@twfeed
I was looking forward to this talk from @mario, the creator of TwitterFeed as soon as I saw the schedule. Check out the presentation for more.
HootMonitor
Amongst all the presentations going on there are 8 “show and tells” these are 140 second demos/presentations by anyone who wants to showcase what they have done. I chose to do a quick demo of my latest Twitter app caleed HootMonitor. It’s almost ready and you can see more at HootMonitor.com or follow @HootMonitor on Twitter.
Live stream!
There was a live stream up on Ustream.tv that I have included below. If you want to see my HootMonitor demo, skip to the last two minutes of the video!