We should use this blog more often to showcase the crazy nerdy fun stuff Liipers are building every day. Like Penny with Mahara, Silvan with etoy, Lukas with PHP, and so on – with now over 40 guys and girls there's quite some stories to tell.
In this spirit, today we have Sandro, Sandro and his Tweetr: the Open Source ActionScript 3 twitter API library. Sandro initially built it to work with his phidgets, a hardware collection of USB sensors and actuators (see twitter LED above). From his desk Tweetr found its way around the world, it's now being used for example in:
- The Good Conspiracy (presented at the the 6th edition of La Biennale de Montréal) is “a co-creative event that will transfuse the city with positive energy. Citizens are invited to discover elements of the conspiracy on public grounds and become conspirators themselves by sending positive messages by means of contemporary communication networks, electronic and otherwise.”
- Tweepjob (by Douglas Reynolds), bringing job seekers, organizations and recruiters together using “tweets”.
Sandro is going to present the whole phidget/Flash story (can he bring Flash's rapid prototyping capabilities to the hardware world? What would you build?) at Flash at the Lake (FATL), the fine Flash conference Zürich will see in June. FATL is yet another example of awesome crazy stuff done by a Liiper – will blog about that soon.