More on @Anywhere

By Jake • April 15th, 2010 • 11 Comments

So, Rich (@rmanalan), Anthony (@anthonyslai) and I (@jkuramot) are at Chirp (@chirp), the Twitter developer conference in San Francisco.

One of the many tidbits from yesterday’s sessions was the general release of the @Anywhere platform Evan Williams (@ev) announced at SXSW in March.

If you’re not already familiar, @Anywhere integrates Twitter into any website with only  a few lines of Javascript. Here’s what it supports:

Rich added @Anywhere here, specifically auto-linkification and hovercards. The others features didn’t seem terribly useful here.

Auto-linkification
In the past, each Twitter handle would need a link behind it, but now, simply typing @ and the handle will create the link. Like so: @ppedrazzi, @theappslab. I guess you’ll have to trust me, since you’re viewing the finished product.

Hovercards
I’ve seen several blogs sporting plugins that do this, so I suppose this is an area where Twitter could be filling holes.

The point of hovercards is to serve information about a Twitter handle and allow a quick follow without forcing the reader to leave the site. Launch a hovercard by hovering your cursor over a linked handle.

Clicking the follow button triggers OAuth, asking you to authorize the application.

Given the ease of implementation and the benefit of adding Twitter features without losing traffic, @Anywhere is a pretty slick set of features, nicely done. Rich and I were just chatting about the need for tweet aggregation around specific topics, and the @Anywhere platform seems like a logical place to add this in later releases.

Anyway, enjoy one of the early implementations of @Anywhere. I’ll need to remember to add handles more often to take advantage of it. More observations to come. Stay tuned.

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Update: Those people who got this in a feed reader will have to come here to see @Anywhere in all its glory. Wah-wah-wah.


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  • http://twitter.com/theappslab/statuses/12237532174 theappslab (theappslab)

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  • joel garry

    How do I turn off those hovercards when I find them annoying?

  • http://empoprise-bi.blogspot.com/ John E. Bredehoft (Empoprises)

    So @jkuramot – I wonder if Disqus has implemented @anywhere support yet?

  • http://www.matttopper.com topperge

    Just block the http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js URL with something like ad block plus.

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    You can also turn them off by not mousing over them :)

  • http://theappslab.com Jake

    If you were testing, that's still our implementation that's linkifying and hovercarding. I'm sure Disqus will do something too.

  • joel garry

    Wish I had your strong wrists :)

  • http://rbc-news.ru/ Vip_Girl

    Я думаю что если пишеш по теме и не пишеш всякий бред, а поддерживай разговор, то ничего в этом плохого нет, что люди хотять зароботать какуюто копейку!!!