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Hi Twitter-fans,

Twitter-buzz from Foswiki is ahead! We just revamped our Foswiki-Twitter-user to connect better with other Foswiki-users on twitter and to give better status updates on Twitter. Basically we added a couple additional RSS-feeds via Twitterfeed. That will lead to even more traffic on our Foswiki-account at Twitter.

What we do with our twitter-account:

• We tweet every single commit in our SVN-system.
• We tweet every blog post in the official Foswiki-Weblog.
• We tweet every change on Foswiki.org’s wiki.
• We follow everybody, that follows us (via TwitterMass).
• We follow everybody, that tweets about Foswiki oder TWiki (via TwitterMass).
• We follow everybody, that tweets about “wiki” and “re”-follows us within 4 days (via TwitterMass).
• We integrate alle Foswiki-Tweets on the Foswiki.org-Homepage

If errors occur please tell us in the comments. He will be happy to help. Please note, that the Foswiki user is not based an human acitivity yet. It might be, that we have trouble with replying and adding you as a follower. But we plan to do it regularly.

What we still need:

• A decent background for our Twitter user?
• A stream of tweets on foswiki.org

Any comments or ideas how to improve that? We are looking forward to your feedback.

By the way: The growing community of Foswiki-lovers would like to warmly welcome you as a contributor for the open-source-enterprise wiki. Wanna know how? See our “How you can help” page. Why not register today on www.foswiki.org and automatically create another tweet on Twitter.

mseibert Support community, foswiki, fun, help, live, twitter

The Foswiki community and another wiki project are joining forces to release a new collaboration tool, FunWiki. “There has been a disturbing lack of fun with wiki tools,” said By-my Prahduhct, senior VP of VayPoorWare Marketing, the developer of [Ed.: you have no developers!] lead contributor to[Ed.: what contributions?] visionary behind [Ed.: in your dreams!] chief marketeer [Ed.: ha ha, like anyone believes your word] product manager [Ed.: OK, that sounds right] of FunWiki. “It’s time to make wikis fun again!”

FunWiki fulfills a long-standing gap in collaboration software: automated directed humour injection technology. Each wiki page can have a “Fun” quotient assigned: as the level is increased, a greater amount of directed humour is automatically inserted into the page text. “Our patent-pending algorithms parse the text and determine appropriate humourous content to be inserted,” said Prahduhct. “Different plugins allow the content to be rendered as full anecdotes, short jokes, parenthetical asides, funny sketches, and smileys. We are currently developing an extension to render the injected humour as links to appropriately themed YouTube videos.”

When asked about difficulties in reaching a détente with the other wiki project, Prahduhct responded, “It’s a natural direction for us to take: we have experienced developers, and they have the letters ‘T’ and ‘M’ that we need to spell ‘humour injection technology’. It’s a win-win!”

FunWiki’s future plans include automated emotional context derivation injection, which will break the three-character emoticon barrier and allow more complex emotions requiring four or more characters to be inserted, and topical calendar-sensitive image injection, which will automatically add images appropriate for the subject matter and season, such as a March hare, or an April fish.

ilin Misc april, community, foswiki, fun, isaaclin