Building animated gifs
I’ve recently spent some time on a project that involved generating and sharing some animated gifs and I thought I’d share some insights. Technologies The best tool I found for generating animated gifs is Imagemagick. It’s a well established tool with a command line version and a PHP library that allows you to programmatically create […]
Working with Facebook Live
I’ve spent some time recently working with the Facebook Live API and since this is a fairly new service which is being heavily promoted I thought it might be useful to share my experiences with it. The aim was to build a tool that would pop up a message on the website when a channel […]
Secret tip: retrieve Twitter profile images without using the api
A common problem when creating sites which use the Twitter API is how to store and display user profile images. When you query the API the resulting user data gives you the URL of the user profile image. However this image URL is not a permalink. If the user changes their profile image the image […]
Tweeted Trips used by Peugeot Italy
I always like to keep an eye on which companies are picking up Tweeted Trips and using it on their sites. Some I work with closely, like Gerber to help them embed social media campaigns in their sites, and some I just discover after browsing my referrer traffic! My Italian isn’t too great, so I’m […]
Twitter Changes Its Terms
In March 2011 Twitter announced some upcoming changes to its Terms of Use which would affect developers. This is really an understatement as what they’ve actually done is fundamentally redefined how they would like their service to be used and what developers ought to be using it for. What’s new? The most important changes can […]
Gerber uses Tweetedtrips.com
US Outdoors giant Gerber release their stunning new brand site, including a location map powered by Tweeted Trips
Award Winning
I have just discovered that one of the sites I built has won an award! The Magnum Boots Fieldtesters campaign won the Insider Magazine 2012 award for Best Digital Marketing Campaign in April 2012. Other winners at the awards included top brands like First Direct, NHS, Halfords, Ebuyer, and Belling. Congratulations to the whole team […]
Thumbnails for sharing with Facebook
Facebook’s integration which allows you to post a page to Facebook is really clever. A bit too clever in fact. The integration allows you to pass the url and title though to the sharing window. The sharing window then goes and take s a look at the page and selects the first few images it […]