Twitter released an update to the official Twitter API this month and I've updated the SWX Twitter API so that it now has all the latest official Twitter API methods as well as some new custom ones.

Try it out!

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YSlow is a wonderful Firebug plugin from Yahoo! that helps you optimize your web sites by analyzing them according to 13 rules for high performance web sites as written by the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance team.

I just started playing with it on my site and one of the things it pointed out was that the default Viddler embed URL for the SWX screencast was redirecting to a different URL. Removing that redirection should speed things up according to Rule 11: Avoid Redirects and you should be able to apply this to all embedded Viddler videos.

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What is your memorable answer?

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I released SWX Beta 1.3 today and recorded a new screencast to get you up and running with it.

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When I first set up the little bunny wabbit widget on my blog, I didn't know what to expect but secretly feared an endless stream of playground obscenities. Fast forward to a few weeks later and thousands of messages and I'm absolutely floored by how cool people are even when given a totally anonymous channel of communication. I've received some absolutely lovely messages and some of you have even signed your names to your messages (and gone so far as to leave your email addresses.) Thank you! :)

Of course, there is a high rate of xlkjasdkfghjfdldf but even a few of those were followed by short messages apologizing for testing out the bunny (not having realized that it was going to read it out to me!) I mean how cool. Think about it: You have a totally anonymous means of saying anything you want to and you choose to be so nice about it. That rocks!

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