October 2009
2 posts
One Lucky Winner
I was discussing my latest project the other day with a friend, who told me about something he heard about where you could win $10,000 in scholarship money, just by tweeting.
It turns out that he was talking about a CollegeScholarships.org offer to award students a little over $1000 in a Twitter-based raffle. (The $10,000 figure given in their press material is inconsistent with what the site...
Playing with Fwix and Twilio (and an App Engine...
This weekend, I had a chance to play with two platforms that have been on my “to-play-with” list: Twilio and Fwix.
The result is a simple app I’ve made called PhoneFwix. The workflow is simple. Call (415) 483-1286. Type in your zipcode. Listen to news. The Python code is only a couple hundred lines, including all of the geocoding, fetching, processing, and little utility...