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BTUB Brisbane Twitter Underground Brigade 31 October 2008October 6

BTUB is happening again on Friday the 31st of October at 6:00pm! This time it’s timed to coincide with the visit of @Alegrya aka Alison Young who will be up from Sydney and it falls on Halloween night, so there is talk of Halloween costumes (optionally, thankfully!).

The Venue is the Ship Inn. All Twitter users, their friends and family are welcome.

You can indicate your attendance over at the Facebook event page or the Upcoming page.

Make sure you follow the BTUB Twitter account for updates about this and future BTUB gatherings.

The BTUB Twitterusergroup page will also have info on future BTUBs.

See you on the 31st!

BTUB Brisbane Twitter Underground Brigade 12 September 2008September 9

BTUB is on again this coming Friday night, the 12th of September. Venue is the Ship Inn and this time we will be joined by Bronwen Clune who is over from Perth!

All Twitter folks, friends, partners and family are welcome!

More details over at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1083138/.

BTUB Brisbane Twitter Underground Brigade meet-up coming up on 29 August 2008August 13

We’re having another BTUB meet-up for all Twitter folk. This one will be at The Ship Inn at South Bank, down near the Goodwill Bridge. We’ll kick off at 6:30pm on Friday 29th of August.

I’ve put the event details on Upcoming http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1007838/

The BTUB blog at btub.wordpress.com will also have the details shortly.

All Twitter folk and friends are welcome!

Picsviewr - web-based Flickr slideshow viewerJuly 8

On Friendfeed today I saw a pointer to a post by Orli Yakuel about Picsviewr, so I thought I’d check it out, seeing that it had a good Web 2.0 name with a vowel missing and all..

Picsviewr basically grabs your publicly viewable Flickr images using the Flickr API and offers 8 templates for displaying your images as different ’slideshows’.  While it doesn’t have many features other than the slideshows which appear within your browser, I was quite taken by a couple of the templates - the ‘Polaroid gallery’ and ‘Tiltviewer’ in particular.  As I store more personal photos privately on Flickr than I post publicly, I couldn’t help think that it would be nice if it would allow you to login to your Flickr account to view your sets etc and use the Picsviewr slideshows to have more fun viewing your images that are marked private for family or friends only. This would likely add another layer of complexity for the Picsviewr folks regarding the sign-in process, so perhaps this is something for the future.

As Orli mentions, there is not much else to the service, but my family and I were quite taken with the ease with which the slideshows were created and rendered so beautifully.

The Pi

Verifying Wordpress.org blogs for Google WebmasterJuly 8

If you have a Wordpress blog you may wish to have it verified with Google Webmaster.  In order to verify your blog with Google Webmaster, Google offers two methods: verification by uploading a specifically named HTML file or by adding a meta tag into the HEAD section of your home page.

Having had some issues with the HTML file upload method (namely that it appears the Verified status drops off if Google can no longer crawl to the HTML file, if, for example, you created a page with the HTML file name and then marked that page as private, having previously had it verified successfully) I decided to try and find how to use the meta tag method on my hosted Wordpress blog. *Note that you won’t be able to use this method if you are on the out-of-the box Wordpress.com blog, as far as I am aware.

A Google search led me to this post by Jalaj on Jalaj.net which got my hopes up. It was in trawling through the comments on the post that I found what I was looking for in this helpful comment from Kim Böndergaard (comment number 24.).

In the Wordpress console go to Design->Theme Editor and edit the header.php Theme File. Then add in the meta tag information which Google