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Automatic Twitter ‘Tweet This Page’ Button with Bit.ly URL Shortening

By Jim | January 19, 2010

I have been helping out a friend that needed to add a Twitter button to a number of different pages. I could find lots of complex ways of doing this but not much in the way of reliable copy & paste solution that would capture the page title and also shorten the URLs.
I decided the [...]

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The Poker Tree are launching a brand new concept for Pub Poker in the UK

By Jim | July 14, 2009

The Poker Tree is launching their national pub and bar poker gaming concept throughout the UK in July 2009. With hundreds of pubs already on board and more signing up every day, the poker league will be reaching all corners of the country over the coming months.
By operating a national points driven league system The [...]

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Kleenex Twitter Hayfever Mashup

By Jim | June 3, 2009

A great use of social media here from my friends at AD, done in a similar way to the #uksnow map we saw earlier in the year.
When a user on Twitter tweets #atishoo + postcode + score out of 5 it gets aggregated on to a map plotting the level of hay fever agitation in that area.
Good work [...]

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Asp echo()

By Jim | October 3, 2008

This could be seen as a slightly lazy piece of classic asp code but it works for me.
Php coders should understand this one.
sub echo(input)
response.write(replace(input,”‘”,”"”"))
end sub
The single quote is now essentially being used an escape character similar to php echo which saves having to do double quotes when using response.write to output html.
Enjoy

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