It works! It works! Well, sort of. »

I actually got the background stuff for fubnub'ing feeds working today!

What that means is that I can now wrap my twitter feeds and rss feeds up into single posts and publish those posts to a blog or email via a twitter post.

Say what?

OK - it's a lot harder to explain than it is to actually use...and that's probably going to be my next challenge, putting together some screen shots, demos, and examples to make it easy to understand (and use) the whole idea.

But since I don't have those together yet, let's see if I can break it down in bullet form for you.

First the orig. problem that prompted me to build this:

1. I want to use Twitter to send quick updates about the things I'm working on - basically as a checked off to-do list. This way no matter where I am or what I'm doing, I can use Twitter to keep my list updated (since you can Tweet from via SMS, email, web, etc it's a nice way to piggyback off their services).

2. Eventually I want to take those one-off Twitter postings and roll them up into one larger list...a "this is what I did today" kind of thing.

3. Then I want that to be published on demand to my blog or sent to me via email as a single post/email.

OK - so that was the initial idea. Of course it expanded almost immediately into a number of 'cool' things I could/should probably do if I'm going to build a system that solves my above problem...all of which I'll share more details on later...for now though, let's talk about how the system actually helps me achieve my orig. goal:

1. I created a template that each of my twitter posts will get applied to when I publish. (eventually you'll be able to pick templates from the fubnub.com web site as well as create your own - but right now I just manually entered a few into the database).

2. I set up the delivery options I wanted for when I publish (ie. I associated my twitter username to one of the templates, said that I wanted the data delivered via email when I publish, and provided the email address I wanted it sent to.) (again I did this by manually entering the information into the database, but real users will do this via the fubnub.com web site).

3. I follow fubnub via twitter (and since fubnub is a twitter bot, it should then auto-follow me as well). You follow fubnub by tweeting this from your Twitter account:

follow fubnub

d fubnub #pt I'm publishing with fubnub!

d fubnub #pr I'm publishing with fubnub!