You can follow me at @annievang if you are on Twitter. I’m just testing out some functionality. Hover over my name @annievang !!

1. You need to have a Twitter account. http://twitter.com
2. Sign up your developer application at http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere and complete the form.
3. Add the javascript to your page.
4. Preview & test.  If something goes wrong, repeat step 3.
5. Done!

The instructions, tutorial, and documentation at dev.twitter.com were not intuitive.  Hovercards worked seamlessly since it requires only “read” access.  However, the follow badge widget was not working since it requires “read & write” access.  As of today Saturday, April 17, @anywhere applications are set to “read only”.

Here’s a link to the Google groups post stating that Twitter is working on a fix:

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/5c96366e2362fe85?pli=1

—- What I had to do to get around that was go to http://twitter.com/oauth and change my application settings to be “read & write”.

I wish Twitter would have updated their dev.twitter.com documentation page with that notice rather than just sending out a tweet.  I missed the tweet in my streams of other tweets and just read it now.  If it was noted on the documentation page, it would have saved me so much time troubleshooting.

I am really excited that I’m leaving to California tomorrow!  San Francisco to be exact!  I’m going to the Twitter Developer’s Conference aka “Chirp”.  I’ve always missed California since I moved away in 1994.  California is full of happy, warm memories for me.  It was the happiest place.

I’m looking forward to the developer’s sessions and hack day.  I’m a programmer at heart, so anything techie … I’m all for it!

I’ll be missing LOST on Tuesday night and my advanced iPhone class on Wednesday night! Oh man, I’m gonna miss an important class.  Luckily, my teacher said if I bring my external hard drive, I can transfer his video on lecture to my drive next week when I return.  SWEET! Can’t hardly wait for that class too!  And for LOST, thank goodness for my iPad ABC app, I can watch the episode from my iPad when I have time. Yay!!!!!

Okay, I better start packing cos I leave early tomorrow morning.  Got a transfer point in Denver.

I so LOVE Drupal   It’s like become my new best friend, aside from Twitter and Facebook.  I love open source technology

My favorite Drupal modules are:

• CCK
• Views
• Panels
• Twitter
• Mollum
• Advanced Forum
• WYSIWYG
• LoginToboggon
• Fivestar
• Front
• Devel
• and many others, too many to list!

I have another community that I built with Joomla 1.5.  I was excited about Joomla at first because there were so many beautiful themes.  But once I started developing, I soon realized there were a lot of limitations.  The admin console was confusing, working with the templates was getting tedious, then managing the modules and plugins through the importer was giving me errors, yadda yadda yadda … the list went on and on.  I didn’t like the fact that there are only a few minor permission roles.  Also, any “social community-like modules “you have to pay.  Sure, there are some free ones out there but they didn’t do half the job I wanted them to do.  I tried Community Builder, but the site itself was a headache to navigate (bright orange/yellow tags all over the place, I couldn’t tell what was clickable vs non-clickable).

Right now, I’m currently building a new community website using Drupal.  My sister and I are working on this as a team project.  She and I have built communities together in the past.  I plan to take social media and mobile technology to the next level.  I’m learning Objective-C for building iPhone applications.  I plan to release an app in the iPhone app store hopefully by the end of this year.  I’ve just been so busy doing so many things and shuffling my priorities.  I’ve got a long term business plan.  Now I just need to fund it.

In case you are wondering, my personal site here is powered by Wordpress.    Hehe.  It’s a single user blog, so hence Wordpress!

Wish me luck!

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a free online tool that you can use to broadcast short messages about anything.  Messages are limited to 140 characters, also being referred to as “micro-blogging.” When you post a message, it’s called a “tweet.”

You can choose to follow or “friend” other Twitter users.  Your updates show up on their twitter feeds (your Twitter home page) and their updates show up on yours.  Simple as that.

Why you should join Twitter:

1. It’s fun!
2. You can connect with other people.
3. You can ask a question, chances are … someone’s listening and can help.
4. You can stay connected on topics that interest you.
5. Believe it or not, you can even find a job.  Twitter is becoming a fast growing place for job seekers and job posters.
6. If you’re a business, you better be on Twitter because your customers are already there and you better be prepared to listen and act upon it.  If you don’t, your competition will.
7. You can vent or exercise your right to announce anything to the world.
8. You can search tweets real time, unlike search engines which wait for data to be crawled and indexed.
9. You can integrate your Twitter posts into Facebook (installing Twitter App in Facebook) and also get it on your iPhone, Blackberry, or any phone that can receive text messages.
10. You can learn alot about yourself and appreciate the value of being able to create content and contribute to the growing power of social media on the internet.

Feel like joining Twitter?  Sign up today!  If you want a friend, add me.  My user name is annievang.