TwCLI
So, you think you’ve had a lot of fun with twitter on the web and all those twitter clients you’ve played around with? What if I told you that you haven’t seen anything yet? What if I told you that you could use Twitter in a TRUE Command Line Interface with specific commands for interacting with twitter.
Welcome to one of my latest and greatest creations, TwCLI.
TwCLI supports almost everything twitter has to offer, and will soon be expanding to support even more! 
TwCLI includes a long list of commands, help information for each command, a theme-able interface (Specify a Pre-Determined theme, import from your twitter profile, or even specify an external CSS file!), Geo-Location, Retweets, and even Contributor Support!
Go ahead, give it a try and tell me what you think!
Geosense – I’m in Love
I love applications that fill in where hardware fails, but this one is really taking the cake! Geosense for Windows gives you the capabilities of a GPS sensor in your computer (but without the actual hardware!) It uses Google Location Services to triangulate your location and provide your coordinates to applications that request them.
Unfortunately, not many applications use this type of data (yet) but Long Zheng and Rafael Rivera are hoping that with this new default driver for PCs without GPS, that many more developers will embrace the creation of geo-location in desktop applications.
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Rumor: Twitter Close to Unveiling Contributions
Do I know for sure? Absolutely not. Do I have inside information? Absolutely not. Was I randomly observant one night and saw something that seemed to push me to think in this direction? Yes.
Back in December, Twitter blogged about its “feature test with businesses” of a new Contribution API they were adding in to Twitter. One that would allow companies to give users permission to tweet on behalf of the main account, and still attribute that post to the user who wrote it.
If you wanted to see this in action, all you would have to do is look at the main Twitter account, where almost every post and retweet is attributed to one of the employees.
They originally announced that this feature would improve usage of applications like @CoTweet and @HootSuite. But if you look at their timelines, you see very little Contribution API dabble – until recently, that is.
Looking through CoTweet’s posts all the way back through December, none of them have contribution metadata – except for the latest two on February 18th and 19th. HootSuite has only one, posted on February 18th (none earlier, and none later). This brings to mind: Twitter must have recently been rolling out (or testing) their Contribution Feature – or are we really supposed to expect this to be coincidence?
And all of this with the Twitter Developer Meetup Scheduled for Monday, March 1st 2009.
All I’m saying is, I think they’ve gotten much closer to rolling out Contributions. Maybe they’ll announce it at this small developer meetup, since everybody already knows about it. Then again, maybe they won’t.