Comments for Brian Wetjen http://www.brianwetjen.com think+make Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Somebody Please Build This: Twitter Reader by bathroom furniture http://www.brianwetjen.com/2011/08/somebody-please-build-this-twitter-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-1612 bathroom furniture Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:34:39 +0000 http://www.brianwetjen.com/?p=59#comment-1612 i’d love to share this posting with the readers on my site. thanks for sharing! i’d love to share this posting with the readers on my site. thanks for sharing!

]]> Comment on Somebody Please Build This: Twitter Reader by megan http://www.brianwetjen.com/2011/08/somebody-please-build-this-twitter-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-1459 megan Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:18:34 +0000 http://www.brianwetjen.com/?p=59#comment-1459 If you're not following my thoughts here, here is your final OPML file you can import into Google Reader to follow all your Tweeps (one more comment won't hurt if it's the magic one, right?) - http://reader.feedshow.com/goodies/opml/tmp/OPML_7558960ec2aa34fe444c8f9dd3cb9264.xml If you’re not following my thoughts here, here is your final OPML file you can import into Google Reader to follow all your Tweeps (one more comment won’t hurt if it’s the magic one, right?) – http://reader.feedshow.com/goodies/opml/tmp/OPML_7558960ec2aa34fe444c8f9dd3cb9264.xml

]]> Comment on Somebody Please Build This: Twitter Reader by megan http://www.brianwetjen.com/2011/08/somebody-please-build-this-twitter-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-1458 megan Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:04:30 +0000 http://www.brianwetjen.com/?p=59#comment-1458 sorry to keep flooding you with comments, but this is a good idea, and easy to do with various free services on the internet and a little thought. once you generate the list of URLS to add to Google Reader, you can create an OPML with this - http://reader.feedshow.com/goodies/opml/OPMLBuilder-create-opml-from-rss-list.php - by pasting in that whole column of completed RSS urls - then import into Google Reader using the Gear Icon - Reader Settings - Import/Export tab. sorry to keep flooding you with comments, but this is a good idea, and easy to do with various free services on the internet and a little thought.

once you generate the list of URLS to add to Google Reader, you can create an OPML with this – http://reader.feedshow.com/goodies/opml/OPMLBuilder-create-opml-from-rss-list.php – by pasting in that whole column of completed RSS urls – then import into Google Reader using the Gear Icon – Reader Settings – Import/Export tab.

]]> Comment on Somebody Please Build This: Twitter Reader by megan http://www.brianwetjen.com/2011/08/somebody-please-build-this-twitter-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-1457 megan Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:58:10 +0000 http://www.brianwetjen.com/?p=59#comment-1457 actually, https://export.ly/ is probably easier to generate a list of those you follow, over formulists. actually, https://export.ly/ is probably easier to generate a list of those you follow, over formulists.

]]> Comment on Somebody Please Build This: Twitter Reader by megan http://www.brianwetjen.com/2011/08/somebody-please-build-this-twitter-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-1456 megan Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:50:44 +0000 http://www.brianwetjen.com/?p=59#comment-1456 You can turn any user's feeds (sorry it's not automatic) into an RSS by using the Twitter API http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=meggsie is me, just replace meggsie with whatever screen names you have. or use Twitter Formulists to generate a list of people you follow, paste into Excel and concatenate the URL to the usernames (put people you follow in column b, the partial url (minus my name) above in column a, and then in column c do formula to squish those together =concatenate(a1, b1) to get the full URLs to plug into your subscription part of Google Reader. Shazam! You can turn any user’s feeds (sorry it’s not automatic) into an RSS by using the Twitter API

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=meggsie

is me, just replace meggsie with whatever screen names you have.

or use Twitter Formulists to generate a list of people you follow, paste into Excel and concatenate the URL to the usernames (put people you follow in column b, the partial url (minus my name) above in column a, and then in column c do formula to squish those together =concatenate(a1, b1) to get the full URLs to plug into your subscription part of Google Reader. Shazam!

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