The blog of Abraham Williams

Action shot! Twitter Creation Date is a new Google Chrome extension that displays the creation date of accounts on Twitter profiles. Jump over to the Chrome extension gallery and give it a try. Be sure to let me know what you think.

Winner: Intersect by Abraham Williams Williams came up with this cool extension for Chrome that shows additional information about a user’s followers on Twitter — in particular, it shows where you and another user’s social graphs overlap. Install the extension and visit somebody’s Twitter profile page. You’ll see additional grids loading below their stack of followers. You see which of your friends are also following that user, which friends you have in common and which followers you have in common. It’s an excellent social discovery tool for Twitter power users, and the best extension for Twitter’s stock web interface we’ve seen yet. Congrats, Abraham!

CloudCamp Seattle happened last month but I recently ran across the video of the closing discussion. Another video:

Over the past couple of months the Twitter API Google Group has been overflowing with more and more disgruntled developers complaining about lack of bug fixes, slow rollout of promised features, no   mobile interface for OAuth , etc. (The list goes on and on) Well I'm happy to say Twitter appears to be almost done with one much requested feature: browserless OAuth credentials exchange. It was hinted that Seesmic Look  was using said exchange so today I took a peek at how Look worked behind the scenes. To start off Look is using the standard oauth/access_token endpoint on the new https://api.twitter.com subdomain. In addition to the standard POST headers, Look adds several values that include a username and password for the specific user. The return value is an access_token as expected plus x_auth_expires whose meaning I can only guess at. I didn't bother to try the exchange with my own consumer key but I would assume access is limited to ...

After more then Three Months of Vim I've decided to try three months of TextMate. I had fun working with Vim and learned some nice tricks and it is time to try something new. Vim does have some deficiencies and I'm excited to compare the workflows. The biggest change will be going from a hosted style development process of SSHing into my dev box to developing everything localhost . Not only will I get rid of some lag but I'll be perfecting my deploy processes. What are your most invaluable TextMate features or tricks?

Graphic.ly UI Icons , originally uploaded by jakemix . A nice looking set of icons.

Amazon sent me an odd email regarding the cover for my  Kindle . Dear Kindle User, We’re sending this note to remind you about proper attachment and use of your Kindle cover and about Amazon’s Kindle warranty. You can view instructions and illustrations here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200390460 ATTACHING THE COVER To install the Kindle, open the cover and lay it on a flat surface. Then insert the bottom attachment hook on the cover into the bottom slot on the left edge of the Kindle. Rotate the Kindle to insert the top attachment hook. Then slide the switch down slightly to lock the cover attachment hooks in place. Be sure to place the Kindle flat on the cover during installation. Do not tip the Kindle at an angle during installation, as that may cause the cover attachment hooks to bend. USING THE KINDLE COVER When using your Kindle with the cover, be careful to open the front cover only. If you open the back cover and pull the cover awa...

Dear Kindle User, We’re sending this note to remind you about proper attachment and use of your Kindle cover and about Amazon’s Kindle warranty. You can view instructions and illustrations here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200390460 ATTACHING THE COVER To install the Kindle, open the cover and lay it on a flat surface. Then insert the bottom attachment hook on the cover into the bottom slot on the left edge of the Kindle. Rotate the Kindle to insert the top attachment hook. Then slide the switch down slightly to lock the cover attachment hooks in place. Be sure to place the Kindle flat on the cover during installation. Do not tip the Kindle at an angle during installation, as that may cause the cover attachment hooks to bend. USING THE KINDLE COVER When using your Kindle with the cover, be careful to open the front cover only. If you open the back cover and pull the cover away from the Kindle, that may cause the attachment hooks t...

" Storytlr  is an open source lifestreaming and micro blogging platform. You can use it for a single user or it can act as a host for many people all from the same installation." I've been looking for something like Storytlr for a few months now or at least trying to do it with Drupal . While I love Drupal and FeedAPI  I did not want to spend all that time building a lifestream website. So I've been playing around with Storytlr instead and found it very easy. Here is how I got it up and running on a Ubuntu EC2 server. You can also check out the official Storytlr install instructions . Assumptions: LAMP stack installed and running. Domain setup for a directory. MySQL database and user ready to go. Lets get started! Get the code : wget http://storytlr.googlecode.com/files/storytlr-0.9.2.tgz tar -xvzf storytlr-0.9.2.tgz You can find out the  latest stable release  on Storytlr's downloads page. Import the database : Within protected/install is database.sq...

Over halfway to Seattle so I thought I would share some statistics. View Larger Map So far: Miles: 1,100 Start time: 7AM Naps: 3 x 45 minutes Kitten photos: 2 Box escapes by kitten: 5 Tires with air topped off: 4 Red Bulls: 5 Time driving: 19 hours Hours of religious talk radio: 1 Hours of gardening talk radio: 1 Kitten in box Kitten not in box