All posts tagged pownce

In the end, I decided to move my Pownce notes over to Tumblr by hand. They have an API and all, but given that I don’t have much content here, it was a good opportunity to copy things over in a format that made sense, adjusting into Tumblr’s video/audio/quote systems where available.

Tumblr lets you modify the ends of permalinks, so I’ve plumped for a pattern of pownce-123445 for each Pownce note, and pownce-1234563-reply-5 for replies.

I’ve also been adding tags of ‘geo:San Francisco’ to each note to replicate the Fire Eagle location. Not ideal, but at least the data isn’t lost.

Was nice reading through all the old posts. It’s a huge shame that the conversations that came out of them will be lost to individual archives.

I’m afraid if I add a post to twitter feature on my side project  !adactio / @adactio will freak out because I NEED to ask for a password. — Leah Culver

The ideological route is to reject Twitter for not providing a suitable API.

Alternatively, could you leave password authentication out altogether and leave it to the browser to prompt users for the username and password when the API gets called? I think I’ve seen HTTP authentication prompts come from Twitter in the past (Natimon’s Twitter http://tweetersation.com/ does when you try to view a protected stream, I think). At least that way people can choose to use the ‘Remember This Password’ feature of their browser, rather than it being stored unencrypted on your server.

Or, just have a ‘Post to Pownce’ button instead…

In response to Jeremy Keith on Pownce:

Here’s a textbook example of why the password anti-pattern is so dodgy. Because we’ve all been taught that it’s okay to hand over passwords for third-party sites, a service called MyNameIsE feels that is perfectly acceptable to use that sensitive information to post a Twitter message from your account!

If you’re one of the people who signed up to this service, I’d love to hear how you felt when you saw this message (ostensibly from you) show up on Twitter.

I know I was ragging on Pownce for still using the password anti- pattern in parts of the “find friends” feature but man, they would never do anything like this!

You’re mostly correct, although I think you put the emphasis of this argument in the wrong place.

Even if Twitter used OAuth, a service you link would still be able to nefariously post spam to your account. The vital difference, and the part that should be emphasised, is not that they’re prevented from doing it, it’s that you’re able to revoke their ability to do it, without changing your password, and without having to update your other third party applications.

Cyril Doussin posted on Pownce:

I am increasingly frustrated by Twitter’s 140 character limit. It rarely let’s me fully express what I’d like to say. Not that I want to write Bible-like comments, but a couple more sentences would be great sometimes.

So it’s probably time to start using Pownce more frequently, for these personal, not blog article worthy, thoughts.

Link has been added to the bookmark toolbar, iPhone app is installed, let’s see where this takes us over the next few weeks…

http://ben-ward.co.uk/journal/snippets/

— I had a similar thought about Pownce. Though I come at it from the other side. My problem is that my blog has become a place more for longer articles and I don’t want short snippets of ideas end up there.

I pondered getting working on my Tumblr account, but that fell down pretty quick when I realised Pownce has everything Tumblr has, but better, and with social integration and desktop/iPhone tools. For me, it’s much easier to post to Pownce. And whilst I still feel that OEmbed should have built on Atom rather than invent a new vocabulary from scratch, it’s used to excellent effect in posts too.

Which is to say, it’s taken me ages, but I’ve figured out what Pownce is for. ‘Share stuff with your friends’ isn’t the best tagline for it, but really it’s right there at the birth of micro-blogging, which turns out to be a really good idea.

!Pownce Feature Request: Hype Machine music player integration for URLs please.

I’ve lived in my new apartment for 7 days so far. I just put in an order for a dining table and six chairs to go with it. Not sure they’re going to match quite right, but the table shape is worth it and could always be stained later.

More importantly, this means that all the major pieces of furniture required for this place are covered. A sofa will arrive in about a month, a bed frame some time before that, dining table and chairs should come this week and television stand is already in place.

I’ve got a bean bag on order, which should tide me over until the real sofa comes.

With the basics covered, I’m feeling good that the essentials are done, and I can start focusing on less vital accessories.