I did something very simple with Twitter that I quite like.
I took the RSS feed from my ‘friends’ page. Then fed it into the Mac RSS screensaver (which is installed as standard on a Mac). Now whenever my screensaver activates I get a rundown of what my friends are doing. I guess if you have updates on it’s kind of pointless, but I don’t so it’s a nice passive way to get a snapshot of what people are up to.
It looks a little something like this:
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Now that is impressive!
Only problem is, when your screen saver activates, it’s likely because you’re away from your computer so you won’t get the updates. Everyone else will though. :-)
you should know that I fall asleep at my computer a lot, when I wake up I see my screensaver ;-)
I saw my name on there. Spooky.
I’m sure someone out there could work out a way to make this a great advertising system – rss screensavers have been around for a while – but what about offering people a chance to promote their feeds to a subscribed audience – targeted by keywords – Twitter would be a great basis – then again I usually walk off when the screensaver is on lol
I attempted to do this by dragging and dropping the friends list rss from my twitter but it didn’t seem to work with mine for some reason. Anybody else experience this? Is it because it’s password protected? Any way around it?
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