Archive for June, 2009
Howto Get a 1 Hour Reminder Before Facebook Opens Vanity Urls Creation
Just read on TheNextWeb that Facebook is about to allow users to switch from profile urls like http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1234567890 to http://www.facebook.com/username. Awesome, right? They will open up the registration on Saturday, June 13. On the registration page there’s currently nothing, but a countdown until registration is open.
If you have a common name and you’re afraid that your username will be taken (like I do), you probably want some alert before the countdown reaches 0. Well, that’s exactly why I created the @fbname Twitter bot.
Just follow @fbname and it will DM you 1 hour before the registration of vanity urls is actually available on Facebook.
Enjoy 
Arik
PHP Wrapper for the Mr. Tweet API
The Mr. Tweet people announced their new API to the public and I’ve just published on GitHub my PHP Wrapper for the Mr. Tweet API.
PHP Wrapper for Mr.Tweet’s V1 API
API Doc: http://api.mrtweet.com/v1/docsIt uses libcurl and requires PHP 5 >= 5.2.0 for json_decode.
Of course, you can rewrite to use other json decode funtions (or SimpleXMLElement for the XML response) and something
different than libcurl.While it very straightforward, see MrTweetApiTest.php for example of usage.
Used originally for Topify (http://topify.com/).
Their API is in alpha right now, so you need to request an API key by emailing api@mrtweet.com.
Would love to hear comments and to see people forking it!
Arik