There are a number of third-party Twitter tools that allow you to, as they say, Tweet longer. In other words, they let you go beyond the Twitter prescribed 140 character count. These services will put your full tweet on a web page or break them into multiple tweets. Decent solutions, but now a couple of research students at University Principal have launched a new service that should transform overly-long Tweets forever: TwitJacker.
Like those other services, TwitJacker allows you to go well beyond the 140 character limit—in fact there is no limit. However, TwitJacker posts every 140 characters after the first 140 to someone else's Twitter account.
Grad students Pahil Smith and April Terwilliger built the service last year, but only moved out of beta today. "We had quite a few technical and legal hurdles to clear before we could release TwitJacker into the wild," Smith told PCMag, "but now we have the clearances and servers to support the necessary Twitter API calls."
Here's how TwitJacker works: You post, say, a 420 character tweet in to TwitJacker's Web site or use the TwitJacker hashtag at the end of the Tweet in any other Twitter client. The first set of characters lives on your account. The next set of 140 is posted in the account of whoever last posted onto Twitter (the technology uses global time stamps). Subsequent sections are delivered to the next Twitter posters. Eventually, the entire lengthy tweet is out on Twitter.
When asked about the meaning of the name, Smith said, "Isn't it obvious? Your Tweet is hijacking their Twitter account. You, just for a millisecond, take control." Tweets posted by TwitJacker cannot be deleted from any account. "So Tweet much longer, much more carefully," said Smith, laughing.
Terwilliger admits that there are still a few bugs to work out. For instance, they originally wanted to post the Tweet portions to your followers' accounts, but apparently couldn't tap into that part of Twitter's API. "I remember looking at the follow code and finding a comment from, I think, Jack. I thought that was so cool, that I was touching code from the creator. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out where Jack left the follower hooks," explained Terwilliger.
For now, it remains somewhat difficult to recompile the full Tweet since, as Smith noted this week, "You need to be wicked-fast to catch the next few Tweets after your first Tweet portion." In the meantime, the TwitJacker execs suggest using Twitter's search tools to find all of your Tweet.
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Flickr Adds Individual Photo Sharing
Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing service said Wednesday that users can now share individual photos, a capability that surprisingly the service had never introduced.
Previously, users could only share photostreams, sets and groups to friends and family via email. Now, users can share them to Facebook and Twitter, among others, and share individual pictures on those services as well.
Spcifically, users can share photos on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, and WordPress.
"If you're anything like us, you probably have multiple places out there on the Internet where you express yourself. Maybe you use Facebook to connect to your college friends, Twitter for people who share your interests, or your blog as your megaphone to the world," Flickr's Zack Sheppard wrote in a blog post. "The changes we're releasing today make it easier to upload once to Flickr and get your photos out to other places you showcase your photos on the web!"
Users can also share non-public photos with Facebook friends, so that they can see the content without making them public, Flickr said in a blog post. Users can also share public uploads with a user's Facebook feed as well, Flickr said. Public and safe photos users see on Flickr can also be directly shared to a user's Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Previously, users could only share photostreams, sets and groups to friends and family via email. Now, users can share them to Facebook and Twitter, among others, and share individual pictures on those services as well.
Spcifically, users can share photos on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, and WordPress.
"If you're anything like us, you probably have multiple places out there on the Internet where you express yourself. Maybe you use Facebook to connect to your college friends, Twitter for people who share your interests, or your blog as your megaphone to the world," Flickr's Zack Sheppard wrote in a blog post. "The changes we're releasing today make it easier to upload once to Flickr and get your photos out to other places you showcase your photos on the web!"
Users can also share non-public photos with Facebook friends, so that they can see the content without making them public, Flickr said in a blog post. Users can also share public uploads with a user's Facebook feed as well, Flickr said. Public and safe photos users see on Flickr can also be directly shared to a user's Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Paul Allen Paints Gates as Focused Brilliant Backstabbing
In an excerpt from an upcoming book released Wednesday, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen paints co-founder Bill Gates as a technical genius, but as a ruthless executive who tried to dilute Allen's financial stake in the early days of Microsoft.
In the excerpt from Idea Man, Allen's upcoming book, Gates is characterized as an intensely focused mathematical genius, with a penchant for social quirks. Allen describes himself as the glue that held Microsoft together.
Idea Man is scheduled to be published this month by Portfolio, a member of the Penguin Group. The excerpt was published by Vanity Fair.
The crux of the story seems to lie in the last anecdote Allen relates: a scene in which Gates and Steve Ballmer, brought in to run the company, apparently scheme to dilute Allen's stake in the company. Allen describes Ballmer as looking like "an operative for the N.K.V.D." Allen, then suffering from Hodgkin's lymphoma, recounts the scene:
"One evening in late December 1982, I heard Bill and Steve speaking heatedly in Bill's office and paused outside to listen in," Allen wrote. "It was easy to get the gist of the conversation. They were bemoaning my recent lack of production and discussing how they might dilute my Microsoft equity by issuing options to themselves and other shareholders. It was clear that they'd been thinking about this for some time.
"Unable to stand it any longer, I burst in on them and shouted, "This is unbelievable! It shows your true character, once and for all." I was speaking to both of them, but staring straight at Bill. Caught red-handed, they were struck dumb. Before they could respond, I turned on my heel and left."
Gates did not comment on the excerpt via his Twitter account or his blog.
Allen described Gates as a "brillant," but illustrated his social awkwardness with an account of dinner with Allen, his girlfriend Rita, and him.
"Rita had roasted a chicken one night for dinner and couldn't take her eyes off him," Allen wrote. "'Did you see that?' she said after he'd left. 'He ate his chicken with a spoon. I have never in my life seen anyone eat chicken with a spoon.' When Bill was thinking hard about something, he paid no heed to social convention. Once, he offered Rita fashion advice—basically, to buy all your clothes in the same style and colors and save time by not having to match them. For Bill, that meant any sweater that went with tan slacks."
Allen also claimed that he and Gates originally agreed to a 50-50 split of the company's equity. But then Gates later argued for a 60-40 division, which Allen agreed to. After Microsoft had established itself as the creator and vendor of a version of the BASIC operating system for the Altair 8800, Gates then asked for 64-36.
"Again, I had that moment of surprise," Allen wrote. "But I'm a stubbornly logical person, and I tried to consider Bill's argument objectively. His intellectual horsepower had been critical to BASIC, and he would be central to our success moving forward—that much was obvious. But how to calculate the value of my Big Idea—the mating of a high-level language with a microprocessor—or my persistence in bringing Bill to see it? What were my development tools worth to the "property" of the partnership? Or my stewardship of our product line, or my day-to-day brainstorming with our programmers? I might have haggled and offered Bill two points instead of four, but my heart wasn't in it. So I agreed. At least now we can put this to bed, I thought."
In Feb. 1977, however, the formal partnership agreement that Gates and Allen signed contained a clause that would force Allen out if "irreconcilable differences" divided the two. While the clause was nullified when Microsoft incorporated in 1981, Allen said Gates still tried to force him out for $5 per share.
"As it turned out, Bill's conservatism worked to my advantage, Allen wrote. "If he'd been willing to offer something close to my asking price, I would have sold way too soon."
In the excerpt from Idea Man, Allen's upcoming book, Gates is characterized as an intensely focused mathematical genius, with a penchant for social quirks. Allen describes himself as the glue that held Microsoft together.
Idea Man is scheduled to be published this month by Portfolio, a member of the Penguin Group. The excerpt was published by Vanity Fair.
The crux of the story seems to lie in the last anecdote Allen relates: a scene in which Gates and Steve Ballmer, brought in to run the company, apparently scheme to dilute Allen's stake in the company. Allen describes Ballmer as looking like "an operative for the N.K.V.D." Allen, then suffering from Hodgkin's lymphoma, recounts the scene:
"One evening in late December 1982, I heard Bill and Steve speaking heatedly in Bill's office and paused outside to listen in," Allen wrote. "It was easy to get the gist of the conversation. They were bemoaning my recent lack of production and discussing how they might dilute my Microsoft equity by issuing options to themselves and other shareholders. It was clear that they'd been thinking about this for some time.
"Unable to stand it any longer, I burst in on them and shouted, "This is unbelievable! It shows your true character, once and for all." I was speaking to both of them, but staring straight at Bill. Caught red-handed, they were struck dumb. Before they could respond, I turned on my heel and left."
Gates did not comment on the excerpt via his Twitter account or his blog.
Allen described Gates as a "brillant," but illustrated his social awkwardness with an account of dinner with Allen, his girlfriend Rita, and him.
"Rita had roasted a chicken one night for dinner and couldn't take her eyes off him," Allen wrote. "'Did you see that?' she said after he'd left. 'He ate his chicken with a spoon. I have never in my life seen anyone eat chicken with a spoon.' When Bill was thinking hard about something, he paid no heed to social convention. Once, he offered Rita fashion advice—basically, to buy all your clothes in the same style and colors and save time by not having to match them. For Bill, that meant any sweater that went with tan slacks."
Allen also claimed that he and Gates originally agreed to a 50-50 split of the company's equity. But then Gates later argued for a 60-40 division, which Allen agreed to. After Microsoft had established itself as the creator and vendor of a version of the BASIC operating system for the Altair 8800, Gates then asked for 64-36.
"Again, I had that moment of surprise," Allen wrote. "But I'm a stubbornly logical person, and I tried to consider Bill's argument objectively. His intellectual horsepower had been critical to BASIC, and he would be central to our success moving forward—that much was obvious. But how to calculate the value of my Big Idea—the mating of a high-level language with a microprocessor—or my persistence in bringing Bill to see it? What were my development tools worth to the "property" of the partnership? Or my stewardship of our product line, or my day-to-day brainstorming with our programmers? I might have haggled and offered Bill two points instead of four, but my heart wasn't in it. So I agreed. At least now we can put this to bed, I thought."
In Feb. 1977, however, the formal partnership agreement that Gates and Allen signed contained a clause that would force Allen out if "irreconcilable differences" divided the two. While the clause was nullified when Microsoft incorporated in 1981, Allen said Gates still tried to force him out for $5 per share.
"As it turned out, Bill's conservatism worked to my advantage, Allen wrote. "If he'd been willing to offer something close to my asking price, I would have sold way too soon."
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