SiftLinks: Links sifted out of Twitter and into an RSS feed for you.

There’s a couple of things I’ve been wanting to play with recently – the Twitter Auth protocol (and subsequently the Twitter API) and MongoDB. There’s also been something bugging me about Twitter recently.  I follow a few interesting folk who post a lot of interesting links.  But sometimes I disappear for a few days for work or for fun and despite seeing these links on my iPhone, I don’t really get the chance to properly read the articles.

What i needed was a way to strip out Tweets with a link in them and pick those links up in my feed reader when I get the chance to catch up with whats going on in the world.

And so I combined the aforementioned desire to experiment with new stuff and the need for an rss of my tweets with links in them to build SiftLinks.  It’s still in the testing phase and I’m making various optimisations as I go along – but it works.  If you have a need to extract links from twitter then give it a go and let me know how you get on.

Preview Video of Muxster

As some know I’ve been working on a project for a wee while now called Muxster.  We’re almost at a stage where user testing of the Beta version will begin but for a wee preview of whats going on check out this video that Andy put together.