Foller.me has got a new home, again! I’ve spent a few days working on a complete overhaul since Google App Engine’s pricing model has changed, which made the app consume over $5/week. It’s not big money but I thought I’d rather host the app next to my own blog for free ;) The (yet another) new version of Foller.me is powered by WordPress, so if you’ve got friends who...
Automated Serverside Tweeting Using OAuth
Great, our Foller.me Rundown account (@fmrd) now tweets via OAuth and has our application name and link attached to every tweet. It was indeed pretty simple. After reading the specs of the OAuth protocol I came up with a fairly simple solution. I’m using this open source Twitter OAuth php library by Abraham Williams which is quite good, and I do recommend you try some basic OAuth stuff...
Twitter API: Moving From Basic Auth to OAuth
As I mentioned earlier this week, with Foller.me beta 3, people now have the ability to follow tweeps directly from the website with a single click, without having to browse to their Twitter profile nor providing us with their Twitter credentials (thanks to OAuth. Read this post if you haven’t: The Importance of Using Twitter API via OAuth). Now, why not take even more advantage of Twitter...
Foller.me Got Coverage On Mashable!
The first thing I do when I wake up on an ordinary day is check my e-mail and Twitter, and today was an ordinary day until I met some strange messages regarding Foller.me in my inbox. Why is everybody suddenly so interested? Turns out that this day is not ordinary at all. Yes, Foller.me gets covered by Adam Ostrow at Mashable! The post became part of the Mashable’s Spark of Genius series via the...
The Importance of Using Twitter API via OAuth
I hope you noticed the latest changes at Foller.me. I’m talking about the new Followers rate section thanks to the TwitterCounter API and of course something I’ve been dreaming about since the launch of the project. You view a profile at Foller.me before making a decision about following that particular person or not, right? And yeah, we had a link at the bottom of the page that lead...
Foller.me Featured on ProgrammableWeb.com
Wow this is so awesome. I received an e-mail this morning and here’s what it said: Dear kovshenin, Your mashup Foller.me has now been published on ProgrammableWeb. You can see it here: <a href="">; It is also our Mashup of the Day for 09/13/2009. Congratulations! It will be on the front page of ProgrammableWeb today. Thank you for submitting your application and sharing it with our...
Foller.me: Almost Ready to Remove the Beta Label
With a few core changes to Foller.me (hope you noticed the performance tuning) we’re almost ready to remove the beta label. I wrote on Twitter a few weeks ago that the beta label will be removed in September, so here we are. I’m not sure if it means anything to you, but it does mean a lot to me. You see, a product in beta is used with caution most of the time, that’s what I do...
New WordPress Plugin: The Foller.me Widget
Here’s a way for you to show what you’ve been tweeting about lately. Right on your blog, in the sidebar. No Twitter passwords required, cause this thing works via the Foller.me API. This is the first ever app (widget, gadget, or whatever you wanna call that) based on our Foller.me API, so I hope we have a great start here, and you young developers out there, dig through this...
And Yet Another WordPress Theme for Inspiration ;)
My brand new creation: The Foller.me Theme for WordPress and I ain’t releasing it public ;)
New WordPress Plugin: Twitter Followers Widgets
Hey, there’s a new widget that can display user pics of people you follow (and people who follow you) on Twitter. It updates whenever you gain a new follower. That’s a new widget for WordPress I wrote a few days ago, and received aproval from the WordPress.org plugin directory today, so it’s the official launch. Go get yours right over here: Twitter Followers Widgets and...