Twitter / euromillions

Ok, ok, I confess ... I'm just a bit bot-feverish, with the twitter bot fever that is.

Here's the latest creation: the euromillions lottery results from lottery24 rss feed. Every friday night, 9 pm lisbon local time, sharp.

The script is basically similar to the twitter/weatherlisbon one.

NOTE: I'm encountering a very strange bug with randomize-lines AND unsort scheduled in crontab: they don't work, they return null values. But when I run the scripts from the command line, they work perfectly.
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Twitter / marvin_bot

Loo and behold, it's Marvin, the paranoid android! What's he doing at Twitter? Find out and add him as your friend.

follow marvin_bot at http://twitter.com

This has got to be the most geeky stuff I made in my whole life! Currently I'm reading "the Hichhiker's guide to the galaxy", a sci-fi comedy by Douglas Adams; and it's great reading. One of the characters is Marvin, the paranoid android; a depressed robot who keeps getting everybody down.

Twitter / weatherlisbon

Twitter is a fairly recent social short messaging system. It allows to send short messages to a network of friends via instant messaging (IM) services, sms-es, and the twitter web-site itself.

Twitter begs for folks to do inventive mashups like twittervision.

Thus I wrote a small script in bash that checks for the weather in Lisbon from a BBC weather forecast feed and sends it to twitter. I called this script a twitter-bot-agent. The agent's name is weatherlisbon.
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Catching loose MP3s with Greasemonkey and del.icio.us

Hello,

Out with the old way (buh! :( ). No more reading boring documents when we want to learn stuff.

In with the new way (yeay!! :D). Here's an interesting video of a lifehack using greasemonkey, del.icio.us and their inline mp3 flash player.

Btw. I know of a way of altering the user script so it works on Opera as well ;)

Ask for it in the comments and I might tell you how.

Google Gears API Developer's Guide - Home

Ok, this news is particularly interesting for developpers. Web-apps developpers.

Google announced last week, at the Where 2.0 conference, it's new offline API for web applications.

It's called Google Gears and it's an extension for your browser (IE or Firefox only, so far).

It allows to download a whole website previously "Google Geared" and to use it offline.

Video: RSS in Plain English | Common Craft - Social Design for the Web

Before, people used an old way to learn stuff. Usually they would go like reading a book about the subject, or reading a document. So uncool! Buuhh! :(

But now there's a new way! Now you can learn stuff just by watching funny and interesting videos on the subject. Yeaayy!!! :D

So here it is, a funny and interesting video from Commoncraft about RSS in plain english.

YouTube - Wikis in Plain English

Hello,

As you all know, the old way of learning stuff was all about reading a book or a document. Buuuhh! :(

But now there's a new way! Now you can learn all you want just by watching funny and interesting videos at Commoncraft.

tagclouds from del.icio.us at Kevan.org

del.icio.us username:

Here's my del.icio.us tagcloud as of June 1st, 2007.

You can check yours here.

Is Last.fm the radio of the futur?

In the meantime, I get to hear the radio station created by a melomane friend of mine. Interesting.
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