Twitter

Friday, September 7. 2007

So the Twitter hype has finally reached the Amarok team as well. If you want to follow us doing exciting things like washing dishes or eating pizza (maybe in the opposite order), get a Twitter account. Here's a list of Amarok personalities you can follow:

mark_k (that's me!), nhnFreespirit, sebr, apachelogger, Nightrose

And some KDE folks I follow:

aseigo, sebasje, danimo

I'm really looking forward to using the Twitter Plasma applet, once I'm running a KDE4 session permanently. I guess that's like the perfect use case for an applet

Posted by Mark Kretschmann in markey at 11:31 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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What ever you are implementing in Amarok. Don't forget an option in the settings dialog to turn off that "phone to random internet service"-feature. I personally use Linux and KDE because that MS stuff is phoning home all the time... Amarok seems going to follow similar ways. Maybe not phoning home but to different internet services.
- Hitting accidentally the album cover leads to amazon.com
- the "intpret" tab calls wikipedia.org without further asking
- what about magnatune?
- cddb.org is on at default, isn't it.
- last.fm is default off afaik.

IMOH there should be a possibility for all those services to be disabled/enabled.
Not everybody likes that stuff.

Amarok is really a great application, so please don't force that internet services/web 2.0 stuff on anybody who don't want it. Please let people choose what they want.

#1 got tired on 2007-09-07 13:47 (Reply)

Uhm, offtopic? How is this related to my blog? I wasn't talking about integrating Twitter in Amarok

#1.1 Mark Kretschmann on 2007-09-07 13:53 (Reply)

No integration? Perfect! ^^ I just had the fear that you might integrate it and Amarok would try to tell the world which music I'm listening to. Maybe I'm a bit paranoid. Sorry

P.S. But btw an option for disabling calling Amazon.com would be, nice as I sometimes hit the cover being not sure if I want to drag it into the playlist or not. And then that stupid "amazon.com" popup appears...

#1.1.1 got tired on 2007-09-07 15:02 (Reply)

You're the classical Thread Hijacker

And yeah, we don't cater to the tinfoil crowd. Maybe a Twitter applet would be a good addition to Amarok? I'm tempted.

#1.1.1.1 Mark Kretschmann on 2007-09-07 15:15 (Reply)

I didn't mean neither to get offtopic, nor do thread hijacking. I just misunderstood "So the Twitter hype has finally reached the Amarok team as well." I'm sorry for that.

#1.1.1.1.1 got tired on 2007-09-07 15:47 (Reply)

btw, is there such twitter plasmoid in the works?

#2 berkus (Homepage) on 2007-09-07 16:25 (Reply)

Well yes, AFAIK it does already work. I'll post screenshots as soon as I get it working myself.

PS: I'd follow you on Twitter but I don't speak Russian

#2.1 Mark Kretschmann on 2007-09-07 16:56 (Reply)

Yeah, I found Aaron's screencast about it, seems it really works indeed.

You don't have to follow me if you can't read it anyway

#2.1.1 berkus (Homepage) on 2007-09-08 08:28 (Reply)

Can you explain to the uninitiated how it works? I have visited Twiter's web site and don't really get what it does.

Does it IM people whatever you tell them that you are up to on a twiter client?

If so, why not do that over whatever IM client you are already using, which your friends already have.

I'd like to be excited about this, but I simply don't get the concept. Could the enlightened please shed some light?

I am serious, by the way.

Thanks.

#3 KDErocker on 2007-09-07 21:43 (Reply)

Well, it's sort of like micro-blogging. You can send short messages to Twitter (like 140 characters) via their web site or SMS or an IM client, and then the people that "follow" you will see your message.

I'd say it's like a mixture of instant messaging and blogging. You don't use it though to talk to people, but more like to describe what you're currently doing.

#3.1 Mark Kretschmann on 2007-09-08 04:24 (Reply)

So I'm at
http://twitter.com/eean

#4 Ian Monroe (Homepage) on 2007-09-12 01:27 (Reply)

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