How to Send Google Buzz Posts to Twitter

As I am sure you all know Google has just released their latest project into the wilds; Google Buzz.

Buzz looks to be an interesting service that is somewhere between facebook and twitter. Who knows if it will be the social network of the decade, but I’m jumping in to try it out.

One obvious thing that is missing is a way to post to twitter from Buzz. Well, you had to know someone would figure out how!

Here is the step-by-step on how to send Buzz posts to twitter:

1. Click the following link: http://reader2twitter.appspot.com/buzz
2. Connect it to your Twitter account using OAuth
3. Click this link again as the redirected page is not the correct one: http://reader2twitter.appspot.com/buzz
4. Add your Google Profile Number ID from the bottom of your profile
5. Make sure “Sync” is On and hit Submit
6. Done!!

In number 4 above you are shown your profile page, scroll to the bottom under “Profile URL” and select the link for “see other options” to show your Google Number ID. Paste the whole number in the box.

The service is powered by Pubsubhubbub and seems to work quite well.

My twitter account can be found here
My Google Buzz profile is here

Many thanks to George Millington for the link to Louis Gray’s post!!

Update: Either this service is choking on all the new content or has been shut down. I am not seeing any content getting to twitter now. Anyone else having success?

Update again: Looks like it is still working but is spotty. Let’s hope there is an official solution from Google sometime soon.

Twikini Updated and Reviewed

I’ve talked about Twitter clients a fair amount around here, including a review of the beta version of Twikini back in May. Since that post, Twikini has seen a couple of releases and there’s another release coming up really soon that adds support for posting a link to your exact location using Google Maps. In my review I listed a couple things that were missing from Twikini that I felt was needed to make it a hands-down winner in the Windows Mobile space. I’m please to say that the most recent version has addressed just about everything on that list. Twikini supports multiple user accounts, skweezer for browsing links, sending Direct Messages, as well as showing TwitPic’s without actually having to open the twitpic website. Needless to say, Twikini has been my Windows Mobile twitter client of choice for a while now. If you haven’t checked it out, I recommend you do. It’s well worth the $5 price tag.

If you haven’t read my past review, it’s right here. For something a little more recent, I also recommend you take a look at the review posted by Clinton Fitch. Clinton does a great job of going over the features and showing you all the screen shots you can manage. It will give you a full understanding of what you can expect from Twikini before you even download it.

Mobile Twitter – The PockeTwit Way

PockeTwit is one of the more popular Twitter clients for Windows Mobile devices. I’ve written about this app a couple times in the past and the developers keep making it better and better and adding more and more features. So it’s worth a re-visit.

PockeTwit works on both touch and non-touch screen devices. When looking at a tweet, pressing left will bring up a menu showing you all the global options you can select. And pressing right will bring up a menu with all the options you have in relation to the tweet you have selected. Over time, these menus have grown to include more and more options. Beyond the normal twitter client features, with PockeTwit, you can easily:

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Twikini – Taking a Look at a New Twitter Client

Do you tweet? Are you looking to tweet from your Windows Mobile device? You can always go direct and use Twitters mobile site – http://m.twitter.com, but today’s crop of applications offer a lot more than the basic web experience that Twitter offers. Over the next couple days I’m going to take an look at a couple of the major players for Windows Mobile. Today we’re going to take a look at Twikini from Trinket Software.

Twikini splashed down on Windows Mobile users around the middle of April. Twikini is currently in beta and is a free download. It has a super small footprint of around 100KB and it has to be one of the fastest Twitter clients available for Windows Mobile. The navigation is simple, pressing left of right on a message will automatically create a reply or direct message to that person. This feature gives Twikini the shortest number of key press’s or taps to reply to a tweet. And, of course, up and down will scroll through messages.

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Pocketwit is Still the Best Twitter Client for Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile has had a hard time when it comes to good Twitter clients. There’s a short list of clients, and a even shorter list of clients worth installing. Pocketwit has been atop of that list for a while and the latest version has helped cement it’s position even more. With version 0.68 Pocketwit has added some really cool new features. The one that really caught my eye, is the fetching of images from TwitPic or other Twitter image hosting solutions. The image isn’t displayed inline, but when you tap on a tweet and select to follow the TwitPic link, instead of having IE Mobile pop up and waiting for the site to load, you instantly see the TwitPic image. Then you can choose to continue onto the TwitPic site if you really want.

Another really awesome addition, is the ability to email a Tweet. When you select “Email Status” you can pick which email account you want to send this message from and then you’re presented with a standard compose screen for email. I’ve just installed the latest version of Pocketwit and I’ve already used this feature a couple times.

As you use Pocketwit, it tracks the people you receive tweets from and then displays them in an auto-complete fashion when you’re typing a message. This is simply great when you’re on a mobile device and you’re trying to recall the exact spelling of someone’s account name. Not everyone’s address is as easy as MobileJaw. [ ..Read More.. ]

CntrStg, CES 2009 and Twitter

I’ve written about CntrStg here in the past. This past week I’ve been down here in Vegas for CES and running CntrStg. It’s been such a busy weekend that I haven’t had a time to make any posts.  CntrStg was a huge success and we’re definitely looking to do it again and maybe even at other trade shows besides CES. I’ve made a lot of connections and talked with numerous companies.  As a result, you’ll be seeing a lot more reviews and in-depth articles about various products. I also have pages of notes that I took at various sessions and events. I will be writingt them up over the coming days. So stay tuned!

As an aside, I’ve setup a Twitter feed for Mobile Jaw. If you’re looking to get the latest Mobile Jaw posts in your twitter feed, simply follow http://twitter.com/MobileJaw

Finally An Excellent Twitter Client for Windows Mobile – Pocketwit

I’ve talked in the past about how there are no good Twitter clients for Windows Mobile, especially on the Standard or Non-Touch Screen devices. That’s all changed thanks to Pocketwit. This is hands down, the best Twitter client I have seen. The user interface is unique and stylish, yet still very easy to use. It fully supports both touch screen and non-touch screen devices. And while those things are nice, it’s just the tip of what makes Pocketwit such a great Twitter client. When you post a reply or an update, Pocketwith will automatically grab your GPS co-ordinates and update your location information to reflect that. As well, it fully supports TwitPic allowing you to either include an existing image or snap a quick shot with the camera while typing up your post.

If that wasn’t enough, Pocketwit will automatically check for updates on startup and ask you if you want to download and install them. I’ve been running Pocketwit for a couple weeks now, and I’ve seen 4 or 5 updates in that timeframe that add new features and fix the odd bug too. My point is this, the guys behind Pocketwit are working hard at updating and improving this app. Which hopefully means that this is only going to get better as time goes by. Pocketwit also has support for multiple Twitter or identi.ca accounts. This is great for those of you that are managing a personal twitter account along with a company or blog account. [ ..Read More.. ]

Trying to Go Mobile with Twitter

I’ve been using Twitter for the last couple months as a good quick way to stay in touch with friends and to provide quick updates about what in the world I’m doing. I started out using a Windows Mobile app called TinyTwitter that would allow me to read and post from my account. But I’ve so many problems with it that I think it’s time to try out another app. Mauricio from GeekZone suggested I take a look at Fring. I had used Fring a while back, but after downloading and installing the current version, it’s clear that things have changed and been improved. It appears to handle a number of communication protocols – from MSN Messenger, to AIM, to Skype, to Google, to Twitter and even a couple more. Overall I would say Fring is packed with features. Unfortunately, there’s a couple negatives as well. First, I found it to be very cluttered and confusing to navigate. That’s not terrible, but it’s a little annoying. I’m sure over time I would get used to the layout and better understand things. The other problem, which is more of a showstopper in my books, is the power usage. My battery went from about 80% when I went to bed last night, to just about 10% when I awoke 5 hours later. That’s pretty bad in my books. I need better battery life than that. I didn’t even realize that it was running, but it was and it chewed through all my power.

So now I’m back looking for different Twitter apps for Windows Mobile. If you have any suggestions, please share them with me. Until I find something worthwhile, I’ll just use the mobile version of their website. It does a pretty good job by itself!