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An idea who’s time has come

by aaron on August 14, 2011

Of all of the social networking services out there, I like twitter the most. It’s the only one that I constantly use. One of the annoying things about twitter is that when you use two different devices you always have to scroll up to the most recent tweets. Somehow this concept has escaped the folks at twitter. I don’t understand why but it has.

Now, a developer is looking to change this. Manton Reece of Riverfold Software has developed a service called Tweet Marker that will sync your twitter timeline and you’ll always be up to date no matter which device you’re on.

Right now only twitterific from Icon Factory is using the service. I seriously thought about buying the app for all of my devices so I would always be in sync. For the time being I have decided against that since I like the apps that I’m using and have purchased. However it will be interesting to see how many other developers of twitter apps out there will use Tweet Marker in their applications. I know that I’ve already made the suggestion to Tapbots, the maker of Tweetbot (my favorite twitter app for the iPhone). If you want to see this service (and independent twitter clients stay around) I’d suggest making support for Tweet Marker a feature request.

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Thoughts from the subway

by aaron on January 28, 2010

I’m standing on the subway on my way to a meeting listening to a podcast and alone with my thoughts. Here is some if the randomness that is my mind:

  • Twitter needs to improve their API so that develoers are able to use to sync between a desktop application and its mobile counterpart
  • Seeing women reading fantasy books like the ones from Robert Jordan or George RR Martin always makes me smile. Not there is anything wring with it but it’s just so uncommon.
  • I was really disappointed that Apple didn’t talk about iPhone OS 4.0
  • There is no such thing as personal space on the subway
  • The more I think about the iPad announcement from yesterday the more underwhemled I get.
  • I wish MTA would get off the stick and get some sort of 3G service in the subways.
  • I don’t like landscape mode on the iPhone
  • I’m considering switching back to Verizon and DSL although I’d rather have FIOS.
  • I just had my first Nook sighting in the wild

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