var term = $('.twitter-anywhere-tweet-box-editor').val();
$(".stream-item:contains('" + term + "')").css('display','none');


If you save it as a bookmarklet you can use this by typing the term you want to disappear from your timeline in the search box and then clicking the bookmarklet.

javascript:var term = $('.twitter-anywhere-tweet-box-editor').val();$(".stream-item:contains('" + term + "')").css('display','none');

That has no practical application really as it doesn’t persist over page reloads and only lets you do one phrase at a time, but it helped me vent some frustration at dumb tweets!

That is mental, I shouldn’t have to think about being social online and where I should be doing it, something needs sorted.

I think the reason I have issues with where to put stuff is because up until now I pretty much post to whichever networks I find the most convenient at that time.  Which is messy to say the least and leaves my Facebook friends with a stream of tech articles when (most of them) aren’t techie types.

Some people link all three together, so you post to one place and it posts to them all.  I used to do this but have grown to dislike it, a lot of people have profiles on all three places and if you see the exact same thing posted three times at the same time in three different places it starts to look like spam.

So, as from right now this is how I am going to break my usage down.

Twitter is going to be used mainly to find interesting links / snippets from people in my industry and people with similar interests to me and to post (hopefully) interesting links / snippets to my followers.

Google+ is going to be used for personal rants and to keep in touch with most of the people I know online, also for sharing interesting content I find from other people on Google+

Facebook is going to be used to keep in touch with friends who aren’t on Google+ and to maintain the Pages I administer on there.  There are also a couple of groups I want to be more active in on there, so I will maybe start doing that.

I think that makes sense.

By the way, did you know you can follow me on Twitter, add me on Google+ and friend me on Facebook? You do now!

Has anyone else put thought into what they post to what social network? Would love to hear your thoughts.

The site now redirects to this post, when the domain expires I will not be renewing it.

Google’s +1
Twitter’s Tweet
Facebook’s Like

All really easy to install, basically pick some options and copy and paste some code.

Job done!

• How to Protect Your WordPress Blog From Getting Hacked – Pretty self explanatory, unlike a lot of WordPress related posts, this isn’t just a list of plugins that are flavour of the month (although it does suggest some). An excellent read and essential if you have a WP blog.  I will definitely look into actioning some of the points. (via @designfollow).
• 5 WordPress Security Plugins To Check Hacked WordPress Blog – Along the same lines as the first post (although obviously just a list of 5 plugins to checkout) but it covers more about what to do if your server is compromised as opposed to stopping it from getting compromised.  Again, something I should really look at. (via @UCTweets).
• 40 Essential CSS Templates, Resources and Downloads – Not much to say about this, the title really sums it up, a fair bit of filler in the list but also some gems including a nice rule generator that will work as a shiv for IE when playing with CSS3 (via @designfollow)
• Essential JavaScript and jQuery design patterns – This is an article about a free ebook that I have just downloaded and skimmed through, at first glance it looks amazingly useful.  It explains many of the core design patterns and when to use them.  It also comes with printable materials. (via @elijahmanor)

The first talk was by Twitter‘s Raffi Kirkorian, he is the lead developer of the Twitter geospatial APIs.  I felt he delivered his content well and I enjoyed the presentation a lot.

I have done no work involving Geolocation, but from what Raffi was saying there is a lot of potential that can be unlocked without too much effort on the developers part.

He first of all gave a definition of location which is context plus relevancy, which was interesting for me because I had never really thought of location as anything other than a little bit of extra meta data for refining searches and categorising content.

We learned that with geolocation things like tweets and articles can become globally applicable but locally relevant.  Basically this means that whilst information such as “Belfast airport is closed due to ash clouds today” is globally applicable it is really only relevant to people who live in or wanted to travel to Belfast.

One of the examples used in the presentation was yaketee.com, this is a chat service based on location.  In my personal opinion the site serves only as a proof of concept because there are more effective ways to talk to people in your local community without going online and remembering a fairly odd sounding URL!  That being said it is an excellent proof of concept, very slick and with some excellent fallback measures.  You should check it out.

One of the issues raised by the talk was that when considering location we have to remember that people have different names for different things, an example given was language barrier where Rome and Roma are the same place.  I am guessing that from this we could also give the example of different groups of people referring to the same thing in different ways even in the same language, for example Lavery’s Bar is better known to the locals as Lav’s (or to some as just shite!).

Two examples given which would allow you to combat this are to use geolocation tables in the form of either WOEID and TwID.

Where On Earth Identifier is stable and language agnostic.

Twitter geoID is simple at the moment but getting better.

These can be accessed by passing in your longitude and latitude into the tables and getting back a unique code for that one place on earth.

Different ways were discussed to get someones location from their web browser, the two I have notes for are IP-Based location which is dead easy, is server side but not really that local so only useful for area/country and W3C Geolocation which is done in JavaScript and works in most internet browsers.

The last example of the day was fireeagle.yahoo.net this is a pretty cool service for updating your location around the web from one easy to use place.

To sum up, this was a really useful talk about something I had very little exposure to.  There are already people doing some really cool stuff with Geolocation but I think we have only scratched the surface.  Cheers to Raffi for giving it!

Janko wrote about how he feels twitter needs another redesign and goes on to highlight the different sections he thinks just don’t work.  Now you may not agree with him (indeed a quick read of his comments tells you that a fair amount of people didn’t) but it was the fact he was able to pick up on these issues and to ask questions about them.

Personally speaking I saw the new layout and the only thing that annoyed me was the login on the main page is different from the login when you are on a profile page, I wasn’t looking at it critically enough to notice the things that he noticed.  And if I can’t look critically at an interface I use all the time yet have no real vested interest in, how I am supposed to look critically at the design of pages I do have an interest in?

Can you ever really look at a design with complete objectivity and highlight shortfalls? I don’t think you can, and what is the next option? You could get friends or co-workers to look at the design, they will be more objective than you could be but they still won’t be completely critical, human nature dictates that they just can’t be.  So do you pay for someone’s design services and let them cast an eye over your work?  If you do that then do you not stand a chance of getting back a list of changes that are only there to justify someone’s fee?

It is all a bit complicated if you ask me.