Verizon Fios Twitter Widget Displays Tweets on TV During Shows

This is a picture of my TV with the Fios Twitter Widget on during Jon and Kate plus 8.

Notice the Tweets on the right.  I assume the names to the right of the profile images are twitter account names.

The idea of Twitter on Your TV

“will be able to see tweets from the entire Twitter community based on either a category or topic they’ve selected or based upon what they’re currently watching on TV” Read the full story.

Lizzar

The first Twitter account in the picture above looks like @Lizzar

Here is a screen shot from @Lizzar

natura

The second Twitter account in the picture above looks like @natura

Here is a screen shot from @natura

shelle

The third Twitter account in the picture above looks like @shelle

Here is a screen shot from @shelle

Why are these Twitter Accounts so different?

Is there more than one Twitter?

Are the Verizon Fios Twitter Widget Tweets Fake?

Maybe the widget tweets are just a “proof of concept”.

I am kind of slow at understanding some things.  Can you explain?

Happy Fav Five Friday!

Do you love twitter, yammer, & other microblogging services?  Would you like to expand your communication channels?  I believe we need to communicate with people where they are and twitter is a very good place to build relationships with people.  You and your team may not always have access to public services like twitter or yammer.  You may be thinking about adding a micro-blogging service to your Enterprise 2.0 platform.  There are several twitter clones across the internet.  I believe most of these clones were created because of the huge success of Twitter.  I love twitter and their API has allowed many creative people to create some amazing applications for twitter to use on your desktop, iPhone, & other devices.

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Open Source twitter-clone and microblogging platform

Laconica (pronounced “luh-KAWN-ih-kuh”) is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which people to “follow” and receive only their friends’ or colleagues’ status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, Jaiku, and Plurk.

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Open Source twitter-clone and microblogging platform in Ruby

The design goals for Chirp-Chirp are very simple. They built a reasonably feature complete Twitter clone in the simplest way possible. The code is minimal and easily understood. The user interface is usable without additional extensive instructions.  You should really take a look at this one for all the very detailed comments about the code and the approach to the architecture is very impressive. Check the link for a huge list of twitter clones.  There is a lot to learn here! Impressive approach!

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Buy twitter-clone and microblogging platform in PHP

Starting your own site like twitter has never been so simple. Revou is a revolutionary PHP driven social network software that allows you to run your micro blogging site just like Twitter & Jaiku. Revou is fully customizable and feature pack including SMS integration, custom API and more!

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Twitter-like Theme For WordPress

P2 is the perfect theme to use when you’re collaborating with remote teams and far-flung friends. It’s also a great tool for school projects, as a class or as a group.

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• I would love to hear your thoughts about Twitter.
• Add your twitter / micro-blogging clone resources.
• What do you think about using micro-blogging in your Enterprise 2.0 Solutions?

Happy Friday! Twitter is my new addiction and I find this tool very helpful, it helps me connect with friends and find new friends. I have found that Twitter is also very helpful as a business tool.

Take it for a spin at Twitter.com.

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Happy Tweets!

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You can quickly create your customized twitter theme and badge.

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microformat diagram http://microformats.org

Learn more at http://microformats.org/about/

MICROFORMAT PLUGINS FOR WORDPRESS

There are several microformat plugins already created for WordPress. You can find microformat plugins by searching Google for “WordPress plugin microformat” or you can see a list of the stored plugins at WordPress here http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=microformat

Here are a few of my favorite microformat plug-ins for WordPress.

Events Category

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-category/

This plugin is developed at Shepherd Interactive for the benefit of the community.

Seamless event calendar solution which extends the basic WordPress functionality to enable future-dated posts to be listed within the blog chronology when they are assigned to a particular post category. The a future-dated post’s timestamp is used as the time stamp. Upcoming events widget included; includes iCal feed. HTML output contains hCalendar, hCard, geo, and adr microformats.

Addressbook

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addressbook/

Author: Sam Wilson

A simple address book plugin.

You can view and edit addresses (names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, etc.) in the administration interface (under Manage > Addressbook or as its own top-level menu item), or embed a read-only list of addresses in posts and/or pages.

Addressbook features:

• Gravatar support for both address lists;
• hCard microformat support in the address list.

Micro Anywhere

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/micro-anywhere/

Author: Alex Willemsma

Micro Anywhere is designed to allow anyone to make use of microformats on their blog, even if they don’t know what microformats are.

When the plugin is activated it adds two buttons to the WordPress WYSIWYG editor — one to insert event (calendar) data, and one to insert contact information (vCard) data. Each button opens an easy to use dialog box that prompts the user for information about their event or contact, and then outputs a human readable paragraph, fully marked up with a relevant microformat. When possible, relevant HTML tags are used to make interacting with the event easier. For example, if a URL is given, the event or contact’s name becomes a link to that URL.

GeoPress

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/geopress/

Author: Andrew Turner & Mikel Maron

GeoPress adds geographic tagging of your posts and pages. You can enter an address, points on a map, or enter latitude & longitude using the post interface. You can also include the post location within the body itself to make it easy to geotag using emailed posts and desktop clients. Maps can be Google, Microsoft, OpenStreetMap, 3D globe, or any major mapping provider by using the Mapstraction mapping library. Makes your feeds GeoRSS compatible, and also adds KML for viewing in Google Earth.

Get more information at: http://georss.org/geopress

WP-Oomph

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-oomph/

Author: Meitar “maymay” Moscovitz

Adds the Oomph Microformats toolkit‘s microformat overlay to any WordPress-generated pages (as long as the page has a microformat in it, of course).

This plugin is pretty idiotic (by which I mean brain-dead simple), but it does enable anyone to full microformat-enable their blog with purely point-and-click operations. It’s recommended that you start with a WordPress theme that already has built-in support for microformats, and then add this plugin to the mix.

I was going to write some more details about how to use mircoformats, but I found this very nice post about microformats already done, check it out http://mysaves.com/community/bookmark/visit/Getting-Semantic-With-Microformats-Introduction-~-A-Blog-384.html