Thomas Upton

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Twitter Stats

March 30, 2008 at 00.12

Update: TweetStats webifies a version of these Twitter statistics. Damon Cortesi wrote a pretty nifty script to grab some Twitter statistics. A bunch of people modified his script in order to webify it, plot the results using gnuplot, and plot the results with the Google Charts API. This last modification really intrigued me, as I … (Continue reading →)

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Peel OS X Music Blog Player & Reader

April 9, 2007 at 01.10

Peel for OS X is a beta music blog client that aggregates mp3 files from user-specified music blogs, and allows you to view the music blog right there in the app. While it is great software, using it for one day has made me realize that a lot of potentially deal-breaking features are missing from … (Continue reading →)

By Thomas Upton | Also posted in Hardware, Music, Software | Comments (0)

del.icio.us Links

March 18, 2007 at 20.45

I have added a del.icio.us “thingy” that posts my daily del.icio.us links to my blog. I have been trying to add a pithy description to each of my links so as to explain them in a little more detail than is possible with just the page name. Enjoy.

By Thomas Upton | Also posted in Personal | Comments (0)

Q&A With Pandora.com Founder Tim Westergren

September 5, 2006 at 20.45

I just returned from an amazing Q&A session with Pandora.com founder Tim Westergren. Over the course of an hour and half, Tim told the history of his company and what they are doing today, and answered numerous questions from the audience. The questions varied greatly, from dealing with Pandora’s business model to querying about the … (Continue reading →)

By Thomas Upton | Also posted in Music, Software, Webapps | Comments (5)

30 Boxes Todo List

May 4, 2006 at 20.25

Continuing on my endless calendar fixation, 30 Boxes just implemented a todo list to their calendar software. The bottom line? It’s awesome. You can add todo list items with 30 Boxes’ One Box quick add parsing, and add tags to each item. A new menu item at the top left of the calendar view lets … (Continue reading →)

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