Silent Sunday 18th November 2011

Tech posts from my other blog

• How to get a new twitter widget to fix that broken tweetstream.
  Twitter API upgrade leads to broken twitter widgets At the end of last week, Twitter upgraded API from 1.0 to 1.1. (API is how external sites link to twitter’s code.) The result was that lots and lots of tweetstreams on blogs and sites around the internet broke. It’s likely that if you’re in that situation, [...]The post How to get a new twitter widget to fi […]
• Twitter cards – what they are and how to integrate.
  Twitter cards are the latest upgrade to twitter that allows you to add extra information to your tweet when sharing a link. They come in a number of different formats – the one that is most likely to be useful to a business or personal blog is the summary card, which adds a headline, excerpt [...]The post Twitter cards – what they are and how to integrate. a […]
• The absolute basics of SEO.
  There’s an awful lot of nonsense spouted about search engine optimisation, as if it’s a difficult topic. It’s not. Here are the basics of SEO as I see them. Your mileage may vary. A post should be 300-500 words. Good content is written for people, but works for search engines too. A good post summarises [...]The post The absolute basics of SEO. appeared firs […]