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A Twitter Power Users Top Tricks

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 | API, Hack, Tools, Twitter, Unusual, Utilities | No Comments

Here are some twitter tools/tricks that you’ll probably never see in 99% of those ‘twitter lists’ out there. When you have so many applications that do either the same thing but with a different face or don’t really do anything at all, these are some tricks/tools that will actually help you stay productive…especially if you’re a Twitter/data junkie.

TweepML
Before there was twitter lists, there was TweepML. The funny thing is I still use this more than twitter lists because you can easily import/export your lists in csv format. Essentially its simple format designed to help share lists of twitter users. Plus you can auto-follow part or all of TweepML lists directly from within the site. two thumbs up.

TwitPic JSON API
This app was released upon the world by Remy Sharp when he wanted an easier way to pull out all of his uploaded photos from TwitPic (Their API only allows you to upload to the site, not download from your account).Source is available on GitHub.

Twavatar
If you’ve ever developed a twitter app that pulls a users profile picture you’ve undoubtedly run into the problem that occurs every time that they change it, all of a sudden the link doesn’t work and the photo’s gone! Well, fret no more because Damon Cortesi (@dacort) put out an appspot hosted permalink to be able to grab anyone’s updated twitter profile picture. Very useful.

Amy Iris – An AI chat bot for twitter. This one’s a very easily adaptable AI chat bot for twitter. The possibilities are endless for adaption into your projects. Check it out, it’s really a cool framework that they give you.

Now the last one isn’t a tool but rather a Twitter trick:

Want to download ANYONE’s previous 3,200 tweets? Easy! Just fire off the following curl command replacing where it says username with the desired tweeter’s name and you’ll soon have the last 3,200 tweets of theirs all to yourself. This one is also courtesy of @dacort.

curl -O “http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/username.xml?count=100&page=[1-32]“

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The Giant List of 120+ Google Wave Bots

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 | Tools, google | No Comments

Here’s a giant list of over 120 Google Wave Robots that you can add to your account! Enjoy!

Read Onlie readonliebot@appspot.com – Records the original wave content. Whenever it’s edited, the content is replaced with the original. Simple as that.

Seekdroid – seekdroid@appspot.com – You can list Robots, add them and find them out, easy to use. In continuous development. Website with all the information seekdroid.appspot.com.

Taggy – taggy-wave@appspot.com – Recognize #hashtags and add them as tags to the wave.

BingyBot – Bingybot@appspot.com – Answers your questions using the Bing.com search engine

Dr Maps – dr-maps@appspot.com – Updates a wave by inserting a map associated to an address.

Dr Weather – shiny-sky@appspot.com – Gives the weather for a City

Embedded Search Results – wave-sandbox@appspot.com – Web and Image searches inline.

FML Blipper – fmlblipper@appspot.com – displays random FML story from www.fmylife.com

Grauniady – grauniady@appspot.com – Searches the latest items from The Guardian for a given phrase.

Stocky – stocky-wave@appspot.com – Detects stock symbols from a wave and updates it with the live stock price.

Wavedirectory – wavedirectory@appspot.com – a bot for public waves, which adds the wave to a directory and lets it be evaluated.

Wavethingy – wavethingy@appspot.com – Searches Amazon for DVDs and books, and gives the author a cut of any purchases made off the links.

WorldCat-Bot – worldcat-bot@appspot.com – Provides links to www.worldcat.org searches, based on user-defined queries.

Tocgen – tocgen@appspot.com – Table of Contents auto-generated and updated based on the h1,h2,h3,h4 in a wave.

Polly the Pollster ( polly-wave@appspot.com ): Creates and distributes multiple choice poll questions.

Yelpful ( yelpful@appspot.com ): Adds an in-wave interface to Yelp.com

RSSyBot ( rssybot@appspot.com ): Adds an RSS feed to Wave.

TwitUsernames ( twitusernames@appspot.com ): Links @usernames to Twitter.com.

Blog bot ( blog-bot@appspot.com ): Publishes waves to blog posts.

Aesthetic Bots Emoticony ( emoticonbot@appspot.com ): Turns smiley faces into images.

Sweepy ( sweepy-wave@appspot.com ): Removes empty blips.

Silly Bots Eliza the Robot Shrink ( elizarobot@appspot.com ): Talks to you when no one else will.

Swedish Chef ( borkforceone@appspot.com ): Bork bork bork!

Flippy ( flippy-wave@appspot.com ): Flips text upside down.

Bouncy – ( bouncy-wave@appspot.com ) – Bounces users (bots only for now) out of the wave

Public – public@a.gwave.com – gives a wave the public feature

blog-wave@appspot.com – posts the wave to your Blogger blog

Emoticony – emoticonbot@appspot.com – Turns smiley faces into images.

Flippy – flippy-wave@appspot.com – flips text upsidedown

Kanye West – imma-let-u-finish@appspot.com – Kanye West bot… much lulz: Kanye West Public Wave

last-robot@appspot.com – shows a user’s last played song on last.fm

Polly – polly-wave@appspot.com – Poll bot

Sweepy – sweepy-wave@appspot.com – Cleans out empty “blips” from your wave

Twitusernames – twitusernames@appspot.com – Converts @usernames into Twitter.com urls

Eliza – elizarobot@appspot.com – The Google Wave Psychologist

Hangman – wavehangman@appspot.com – Play hangman with a bot

BotURL – boturl@appspot.com – Converts full urls into hyperlinks (which wave seems to do)

Yelpful – yelpful@appspot.com – Adds an in-wave interface to Yelp.com

RSSyBot – rssybot@appspot.com – Adds an RSS feed to Wave.

Blog bot – blog-bot@appspot.com – Publishes waves to blog posts.

Swedish Chef – borkforceone@appspot.com – Bork bork bork!

Wave Alpha – py-robot@appspot.com – Uses Wolfram Alpha to calculate clever stuff and query Wolfram Alpha.

WaveGroupy – wavegroupy@appspot.com – A browsable group aggregator for public waves

WaveVotely – wavevotely@appspot.com – With a tiny gadget, votely allows you to vote public waves up/down; enabling high-quality content to float up.

Wikify – wikifier@appspot.com – Adds Wikipedia links for topics

MPP – wave-xmpp@appspot.com – Allows you to subscribe to waves so that your receive notifications via XMPP when users modify them (Confirmed that this works outside the sandbox!)

Tweety – tweety-wave@appspot.com – Displays your twitter feed in a Wave

Skimmy – wave-skimmy@appspot.com – Similar to Emoticony, but it turns faces into animated images.

FML – fmylifey@appspot.com – Upon being added to Wave, it will announce its presence by posting a random FML

Piratify – piratify@appspot.com – Converts wave text into pirate-speak

RickRolley – rickrolley@appspot.com – Rick Roll a wave (please do not use this one in public, god will kill a kitten)

Rosy Etta – rosy@appspot.com – Translation bot

Woot – woot@appspot.com -

Wave Moderator – wave-moderator@appspot.com

ICUBots – icubots@appspot.com – Googlewavebots.info’s bot spider

Wave Archive – wavearchive@appspot.com

Embeddy – embeddy@appspot.com

SlashChuck – slashchuckbot@appspot.com

WP Bot – wp-bot@appspot.com

Verse Seeker – verseseeker@appspot.com

Wave Email Notifications – wave-email-notifications@appspot.com

Quran Wave – quranwave@appspot.com

My Wave ID – mywaveid@appspot.com – Creates a blip at the end of the wave, containing the current wave ID, both in “wave” and full url formats. Can just be taken out of the wave afterwards (only works upon being added).

Easy Public – easypublic@appspot.com

ComicSans Killer – comic-sans-killer@appspot.com

BaaS – buddyasaservice@appspot.com

Wavy – wavy-robot@appspot.com

Board Game Geeky – boardgamegeeky@appspot.com – Adds links for capitalised boardgame titles to the appropriate page on http://boardgamegeek.com

Contrepwave – contrepwaverobot@appspot.com – French robot that diplays all the spoonerisms containing the longest word of a blip (if size >5) / Robot listant les contrepeteries contenant le mot le plus long du blip, si ce mot est plus long que 5 lettres.

Eliza – ogenex@appspot.com – An implementation of the Eliza chatbot borrowed from the NLTK.

Rude chatbot – notatory@appspot.com – An obnoxious chatbot borrowed from the Natural Language Processing Toolkit.

TooAngel Wave – wave@appspot.com – A self learning robot, that will respond to a reply in a more humanoid way

Converty – converty-bot@appspot.com – This bot will do in place unit conversions for simple units. Abbreviations not yet supported.

Calcbot – calcbot@appspot.com – This bot will do in place calculations for simple mathematical expressions and allow you to use user defined variables.

Cartoony – cartoonybot@appspot.com – Replaces the text of every submitted blip with a cartoon balloon that contains the text instead. Colors the balloons based on username.

Dice Bot – dice-bot@appspot.com – Dice-rolling bot. Dice Bot will replace XdY (X is the number of dice; Y is the number of sides) with the results of those rolls.

Fnordlinky – fnordlinks@appspot.com – Replaces “PMID ” with article information from PubMed.

Hearty Emobot – hearty-emobot@appspot.com – Replaces ASCII art with wingding characters.

i-cron – i-cron@appspot.com – Evaluates Python expressions. Looks at blips in event, searches for CALC() macros and executes Python code using exec().

IMDbotty – imdbotty@appspot.com – Replaces links to movies/TV shows on IMDb with a gadget that displays basic information (cover, title, rating, etc…).

Inbeddable – inbeddable@appspot.com – Converts links to embedded objects

Insulty – megabytemb123@appspot.com – Information Needed

IPA Bot – ipa-bot@appspot.com – Changes normal letters into special characters used for phonetics.

Plotzie – plotzie@appspot.com – Plots sparklines from your data.

Simlerbot – simlerbot@appspot.com – Does www.simler.com link formatting (@ links to twitter profiles, # links to twitter searches, ~ links to simler profiles, [] links to simler tag page.)

Smiley – Smiley_wave@appspot.com – Replaces common ascii smileys with image emoticons.

Syntaxy – kasyntaxy@appspot.com – Syntaxy does blip-by-blip syntax highlighting for a variety of languages including Python, Java, C, C++, html, css and javascript.

Watexy – watexy@appspot.com – Use LaTeX mathematical language in your Waves!

Bard Bot – bardbot@appspot.com – Play many text adventure games.

Roshambo – roshambowave@appspot.com – Play Roshambo (Rock / Paper / Scissors).

Groupy – groupy-robot@appspot.com – Robot to manage groups.

Groupy2 – groupy-the-bot@appspot.com – Robot to manage groups.

drop.io – mikeswaverobot@appspot.com – Creates a drop and puts the info into the wave whenever the robot is added as a participant.

PlonieBot – ploniebot@appspot.com – Brings wave document editing capabilities to the Plone CMS

Poppy – poppywave@appspot.com – Helps bridge Google Wave conversations to email users outside the Wave.

Starify – starifybot@appspot.com – Lets you star waves, in sort of bookmarking style.

Twiliobot – twiliobot@appspot.com – Transforms phone numbers into click-to-call links. If user clicks a link, a call is placed to his phone and to the number in the link. The call can be transcribed and inserted into the wave as text with a link to the audio.

Wave Live Messenger – wavelivemessenger@appspot.com – Allows you to chat to your windows live messenger contacts from inside a wave.

Rosy Etta – rosy@wavesandbox.com – Translator (40 Languages).

Aunt Rosie – aunt-rosie@appspot.com – Translator bot