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I have been using the new Brightkite location-aware social network (invite-only at this point) a lot over the last few days, and one of the very common questions I hear is how I do check-ins from my mobile phone, since at this point only U.S. carriers are supported for their SMS service. The (not so) [...]

Read about some changes and updates. The general response to my hesitation on the release of my Twitter timeline export tool was that I should, indeed, release it. So I have. The tool now carries one of the most attractive names around: TweetDumpr. With it, you can export your entire Twitter timeline to a CSV [...]

Update: I have now released the tool. As part of developing the Twitter Stats application, I created a standalone script that will dump a user’s entire Twitter timeline to a CSV file (comma separated value, readable by spreadsheet applications such as Excel), including the tweet text and the post time. Initially, it was my intention [...]

Note: This is skewed toward computer science courses. I’m interested to see if it is the same in other subjects. I have long had a belief that universities are, by and large, completely out of touch with the real world. This may not count for all universities/colleges or their staff, but in my experience most [...]