Serving up Random Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce and Flickr Updates

I noticed over the Memorial Day weekend that traffic for TwitterRatio.com picked up quite a bit. I've also seen the TFF Ratio auto-responder sending out replies to a lot of newcomers to the TFF party. I'm excited to see the site and bot getting some love. In the last couple of weeks TwitterRatio has...

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In an effort to simplify my portfolio of sites I am considering selling the domains and sites for the Random*.com sites: RandomTweets.com RandomTwitter.com (redirects to RandomTweets.com) RandomTwits.com (redirects to RandomTwits.com) RandomJaikus.com RandomJaiku.com (redirects to RandomJaikus.com) RandomPownce...

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I've added some interesting web services to the TFF Ratio site the last couple of days. Again, I am going to refer to a post on my blog for the details so I don't have to repeat them here: Finally Web Services for TFF Ratio If you have any questions let me know at [dan AT tffratio.com]....

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I explained some of the recent updates to the TFF Ratio site in a post on my primary blog. Rather than duplicate the explanation here, I'll just give you this link to see it for yourself ....

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By now you may have seen a link to TFFRatio on this blog or in the footer of one of the Random* sites. If you've already checked out the site then you know what it's about. If you haven't then here's a little primer. The idea for the site started with a blog post by a co-worker and friend, Dave Donaldson...

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A large percentage of traffic that the Random* sites get is from people on Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce saying "hey my post was on randomtweets.com" (or Random Pownce or Random Jaikus).However, occasionally we (me and the sites) get links and reviews from other sources. WebAware recently did a good...

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Tonight I made a couple of small additions to the RandomTweets, RandomJaikus, RandomPownce and RandomFlickr sites. Most of the changes revolve around usability and SEO. The first change that I made was to break up the listings in the archives modal popup by adding a Month/Year heading to separate the...

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I've been thinking about adding a RandomFlickr.com site for quite a while. I mentioned it in a blog post before. About a week ago I took a look at the Flickr API and wrote the necessary code to being randomly grabbing pics, rating them and storing them just like I do with the rest of the sites. Luckily...

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I've used Twitter for quite some time. I was turned on to it earlier this year by some coworkers. I didn't get it before that. Once several of us started using it was when I thought I started getting it. But I really didn't get it until a bunch of other people from my extended community started using...

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When I first set out to create the RandomTweets.com site a couple of months ago, I knew it would be fun for me, but I didn't know how well the internet audience in general would perceive it. It has of course been a blast for me and while the jury is still out on the rest of the world, there are at least...

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