TrackThis on Twitter

Using a server-side bot, @TrackThis allows you to send a Direct Message with a waybill or tracking number, and you get sent back a Direct Message each time the package changes status, or location.

Luckily, it has a web interface too, to manage your packages and tracking(s). Otherwise, you might end up frobbing the bot trying to get it to forget about your Omaha steaks: and that’s just going to get in the way of your tweeting.

This is a bot (/API) using the APIs of the major package delivery systems, and frontending onto the Twitter API.

Qipit mobile image API

They suggest you could build a document scanning, or whiteboard capturing, or barcode reading application by submitting images into the API, and then using the returned result.

Why not use this as a a method to create a mobile treasure-hunting game?

Use the API to help verify whether or not you found the treasure, or if you just picked up someone’s garbage from the street? First finder gets maximum points, subsequent finders get lower points, and the found and still-to-be-found objects become overlaid on a real, or imagined, map.

This is a 2.0-style API, using REST, with sample code, tiered pricing and they are looking for even more developers.

Sgt Major Scott Peterson

Until a day or so ago, there was only a single reference in Google for the phrase:

“Sgt Major Scott Peterson”.

So, if you were on the ball you would have followed that Facebook link, become his friend, and embarked on the social/marketing game.

It’s a mashup of viral, faux-viral, astroturf, social marketing, treasure hunt and straight-line campaign.

ScreenToaster

With a near-zero installation requirement, you can do screen recordings on your Windows, Mac or Linux PC.

It’s a code mashup of VNC and Flash, with all your videos hosted with categorisation, tags, social-networking widgets and straight Flash embed code snippets.

Have a look at BumpTop via ScreenToaster here.

In-tar-sec-tion

Yes, the intersection of “the webs”.