I think I might have fixed it now. I was storing session data on “different domains”. All the Tweekly.fm tweets point to “http://tweekly.fm”. When you return from the authentication, I pointed it to “http://www.tweekly.fm”. (note the “www”). This meant all the session data was stored at the wrong places which gave you the reply that the “session was destroyed”. I simply added a small redirect.

If you signed up during the past week, and you got  a similar message, just try again. You should be able to re-authenticate with Twitter!

There is still one hurdle left… This Saturday, the tweets will run with basic auth and OAuth combined. Hopefully, it will all go according to plan! Because the tweets run so long (an hour), I plan on sending it a tad earlier (round about 11-ish MGT +2).

Also, hands up: Would you rather want Tweekly.fm to send on #musicmonday? If so, what time? GMT?

So basically, Tweekly.fm will from now on support only OAuth for new sign-ups. If you are currently a Tweekly.fm subscriber, simply go through the steps to switch to OAuth. Your Twitter credentials will be wiped. It is now much safer!

If you revoke access, you will have to contact me if you want to resubscribe to Tweekly.fm.

In other Tweekly.fm news. There are still some things I have planned for it, but I first want to work on new website projects.

I am still looking for advertisers to cover the costs. If you want to advertise on Tweekly.fm, let me know! Last month, Tweekly.fm received more than 100 000 pageviews. It keeps on growing and is currently serving about 2800 subscribers.

1. A comedic web series following wannabe Guitar Hero rockstars will rock YouTube.

Nope, haven’t seen anything spectacular in that line. Cmon you video’sters! Create a funny spinal tap-like script for guitar hero rockstars. Do it!

2. People fooled by The Onion will decrease even more.

Yes, The Onion’s traffic rank has risen through the year.

3. Blizzard will send the gaming population crazy with another witch hunt.

Blizzcon is at the end of August, so we shall see when that times.

4. More gullible people join Facebook and send spam mail detailing how your account will be deleted if you don’t send the message to 10 people.

Yes. I don’t want to talk about this. It makes me sad. Really.

5. Global warming sends much needed moisture for cloud computing to create a storm.

Basically, cloud computing will get a boost in 2009. It just DID! With the announcement of Google OS! I also predicted a Google OS back in January 2007. Oh yes, I did.

6. Digg posts a link to itself, crashing the site.

Doesn’t work.

7. World of Warcraft reveals API to get data out of it. (twitter indundated by “orgath dinged lvl 45?)

Not entirely. TweetCraft a 3rd-party WoW twitter client does something in that line. It has a very laborious installation procedure, so Twitter is still safe-ish for now.

8. Google reveals location based ads placed on busses. (ie bus rides past a bar, and an ad pops up showing how cheap the beer is in that bar).

Not yet. The technology doesn’t exist yet.

9. Parents have to start deciding when to allow their young’uns access to their Facebook profiles. Is Young Johnny ready too see mommy in a drunk photo?

Not yet such a big issue, but parents are joining facebook and are making a fool of themselves. <- Great site.

10. dotCommunism gains a few more members.

I think people are beginning to realise that the way things are currently run in the world ain’t exactly working anymore.

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p.s. How awesome is Google Chrome OS? Bring on the cloud!

I’m also considering moving the updates a tad earlier (can’t find the link now, but Twitter slows down on the hour because of automation services). The other option I’m considering is moving Tweekly.fm to early monday morning and affixing the popular #musicmonday tag to it. It is the spirit of music after all.

I’m also thinking about perhaps purposefully lengthening the script that sends all the tweets. The influx of users looking at the userpages is seriously slowing the server. I could always upgrade the server, but I don’t have the money. Which reminds me, I’m still looking for advertisers! This past Tweekly.fm tweet-run, it got 30000 pageviews alone.

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In other news, I’m So Nerdy is going rather well! The nerdy-ness keeps on rolling in!

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On the music front, me and my bro have been cranking out some tunes. You can go listen to them on MySpace!

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That’s all I have to say for now. Cheers!

Out there you’ve always known that there might be people just like you: people that choose World of Warcraft above their friends, people that speak 1337 IRL, people that can name all the Pokemon (including the really new ones) and those that can even recall the day they saw Star Wars for the first time. Somehow you thought you might be alone, and even unique in your nerdy dalliance, but don’t fret young one, there are more out there: some even better at Mario Speed Runs or tapping the Konami code. Here is your home. Say hello. Tell us your nerdy quests!

Yes, I’m So Nerdy is all about sharing your true nerdy moments. Some of my early favourites:

I’m so nerdy, I named my Female Night Elf Hunter in World of Warcraft after my crush in real life, just so that I could play with her. [link]

Yes, I’m so nerdy, I coded the most of this website from scratch. Well, not entirely. I coded a basic version of such a site some time ago called lolstupids. It didn’t really work out that great. The focus of the site was too broad, and it didn’t have social media to get it into use. Building on the basic PHP and SQL, I added more and more to I’m So Nerdy. I learned a lot from coding ISN. I sharpened my PHP skills and I learned to use jQuery (which is just awesome), cookies and working with captcha’s.

As per usual with website coding, IE meddled again, but without too much hassle, I got it looking okay. Phew. Enjoy!

I’ll need help to sponsor the bandwidth costs and the new domain. I am offering advertising space on Tweekly.fm. It is where the current banner is situated (under the logo).

Here is some stats:

As of today, Tweekly.fm has 40000 pageviews and is expected to hit 80000+ before the end of the month. It could even hit 100000 if Tweekly.fm continues on its trending streak on Twitter.

Mail me at sdlrouviere@gmail.com for rates. Looking preferably for South African advertisers, but contact me anyway if you are interested.

Yes, OAuth is great. But it is not great when you already have userbase of basic auth users. My problem is that IF I do implement OAuth, I’d want Tweekly.fm users to come back and switch. It’s a nightmare, since Tweekly.fm isn’t exactly a service where you use your login credentials again. I’d somehow have to get all the users to come back to switch. The only thing connecting OAuth with basic auth in my system is the last.fm username. Because of the way Tweekly.fm works, I can’t run both OAuth and basic auth. So, if someone wants to switch, I have to delete the basic auth, which is just too much effort for the user. Because the way Tweekly.fm works, I might also end up deleting another person’s subscription (you can choose any last.fm username, not just your own).

All I ask Twitter, is 1 special API method. Use basic auth to get the access tokens. This way, I can easily switch my whole userbase to OAuth without them having to do ANYTHING! You can even deprecate all the other functions of basic auth. Just allows us to get access tokens if we use basic auth.

It will even drop all the hurdles to get authorization in the 1st place (go to site, click, authorize on twitter, come back). Desktop apps will like this too. This way, you keep the ease of basic auth and have the security of OAuth (switching off rogue apps). The user won’t be phased. The developers might have trouble though. Basic auth is much better to learn than OAuth.

So, Twitter, if you want to switch to OAuth, at least make it easier for us to switch existing userbases to it.

Unbeknownst to me, in my slumber, Tweekly.fm was trending on Twitter. I never saw to what point, but it trended none the less! Here is some evidence of another great milestone.

http://twitter.com/twitscooptrends/statuses/2158416986

Tweekly.fm now grows with about +-200 users every week. Now that it started trending, it will probably reach the tipping point. Next time this week, Tweekly.fm will have more than 2000 listeners sharing their favourite music!

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There are still some features that I am going to implement. The biggest one, is adding OAuth support. Twitter hasn’t really made it easy to switch, so instead I must develop a way, to take yourself out of the old database and onto OAuth. Will take some time.

Thanks for using Tweekly.fm.

In short: The highlights section is what gave Facebook a competitive advantage. Yes, there are people who like to read EVERY status update, but most people are casual users. They like to come to Facebook and want see immediately, interesting things that happened, and that’s precisely what the highlights did.

I’m really glad that Facebook rethought their move into Twitter wannabe-land.

I wonder if there are going to be people who will criticize the redesign back to the way it was.

“but but, just as I got used to it, you changed it. blegh. <MAKE GROUP>, <INVITE EVERYONE>… <GO DO A QUIZ>”.

What do you say? Do you like Facebook Twitter or liked the older one?

Facebook saw the success of Twitter and subsequently changed their homepage (which I still think is a bad choice). Facebook also made the status update feed real-time: an inevitable change, considering they also opened the status API. What is this Facebook? Are you trying to become Twitter with photos and quizzes? C’mon now.

Seeing the real-time building, Google saw that they were losing search power and made options available to their search to make it more real-time.

The biggest surprise to the real-time venue is definitely Google’s Wave. Will it change the way we interact on the internet? Who knows. When you see a wave (a real one) approach, it might seem huge, but that might mean it might break before it’s of any use to the surfer. Meh, it’s a bad analogy, but you get my point. Will be really interesting to see what Google Wave can pull off!

So where to now?

I didn’t expect to see this surge into the real-time web. I’m wondering what web services will filter into the real-time environment. The implications are immense to me. It means that people are now even more connected, right now. Within 5 minutes of it happening, I knew about the hudson river plane crash.

What implications it has on our psyche, I don’t know. We are more and more, constantly aware of the world and its happenings…

Where do you think the real-time web will go? What do you think the psychological implications are for being constantly and instantly connected?