I have written a review for my project here: http://blog.jamesmarshall.org.uk/2009/03/se1sa5-programming-project-revi

If required I can post a copy of the contents of the article here.

Following on from our pre-Christmas creation of the RedGloo Twitter account I was wondering what people's preferred Twitter app is?

Personally (depending on my location) I flip between the web, TwitterBerry and TweetDeck - I've banished Twhirl to the recycle bin since discovering how amazing TweetDeck is.

James

Following on from an interesting article (http://takeme.to.it/w6ka4a) I was made aware of through Shirley Williams' Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/shirleyearley) I have been thinking about the potential uses of Twitter amongst staff and students here at Reading.  This is not the first time I've discussed the use of micro-blogging tools however, as the very same thing came up at the recent IT SSLC meeting with Mike Evans on the topic of communicating the late cancellation of lectures to students.

Until recently I didn’t really rate services such as Twitter and Pownce as I believed my Facebook status to be enough but I have since had my epiphany and have been converted.  Since then I have started to follow, and have begun being followed by some very interesting people (most notably Stephen Fry!).

I think that it would be a very useful and perhaps more importantly very topical way for course lecturers to communicate not only with each other, but with students here at UoR, particularly as more and more people have smartphones capable of using Twitter apps such as Tweetie and TwitterBerry.  Web 2.0 seems to be the driving force of a lot of what we do on the net these days so practising what is preached may not be a bad thing?

If lecturers can begin to set this example then perhaps more students would be encouraged to follow and as mentioned in the article I think some interesting discussions would arise; particularly if users begin following events and words, “#SE1SB5” for instance.

It may be worth having an area of RedGloo (perhaps a field in user profiles) where people can specify their Twitter account name?

James

P.S You can, of course, follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamesbmarshall

So, I have seen the increased use of services like TinyURL, most notably through Twitter.  If your URL in your tweet is too long they simply use TinyURLs API to trim it down and save you space. Cool, no?

Well, I got bored of looking at the same hideous screen every time I wanted to use it, so I made my own.  Using phurl, of course.  (Can't expect me to do everything!)

http://takeme.to.it - See what you think?  I'm very open to suggestion, help, critique, etc...  

James