Twitter Ultimate mashup

I had this idea a while ago and thought it was an alright idea, but never took the time to make it happen. Then in a chance conversation with Drew, he mentioned something along the same lines as what I came up with. Now that two people thought it might be a good idea, I decided to go for it.

The idea was to put some kind of framework together to use Twitter to collect score updates from Ultimate tournaments. I spent a couple hours today reading up on the Twitter API and hacking some PHP code together to make things work. I think it’s something that could work pretty well, the only problem with the idea is if people are too lazy to sign up for Twitter (and of course if they’re willing to take the time to submit updates).

The result of my Saturdays work is this: you can now send a twitter message containing “@bananacut” and within 2 minutes it will be snagged from out of the interwebsphere and posted here. Now I just need to find enough Ultimate playing Twitter users that are willing to submit updates.

From the photo archives

Took this during Christmas a year or two ago. I just like the colors of the PBR can and the nice out of focus multicolored Christmas lights all together. I think it turned out alright, click on the photo to make it bigger and examine the PBR tall-boy even closer. Enjoy.

Progress of BananaCut.com

I thought I would update everyone on the progress of BananaCut. Its been promising and the traffic has been slowly growing. You can see a graph of the unique visitors above, the nice big spike in the middle is from this (thanks DLK). I still haven’t made the required RSD post for every new ultimate site, but I wanted to make sure everything was in order before that happened. Right now I feel pretty good about it and I think the RSD post is coming up soon.

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