About 2 month ago I just ignored Twitter, everybody talked about it, but I couldn't see how that would help my Blog, my Business or myself.

But some time ago somebody mentioned that he would like to get the App Store Updates in Twitter, rather than reading the website or using an RSS feed. So I  checked the Twitter API and added a few lines of code to my software. So now immediately when a new App or a price reduced App is found the software will create a Tweet with a link.

I didn't expect much from this and I didn't even mention this in my Blog. But to my surprise quite a few people became my "Followers" with-in the first day. And I also got some referals from a Twitter search. I still didn'ty pay much attention to Twitter but the number of my Followers kept growing constantly.

Well I told my wife about this new Twitter feature and it seems she became more excited about Twitter than me. She told me about this great new web-sites she found using Twitter. Finally we watched this interview between Robert Scoble and Guy Kawasaki which changed my view of Twitter. Finally! Guy says "Twitter is a weapon" and some other interesting things. If you have about 20 Minutes time, it's really worth watching.

Firefox Plugin for Twitter

So now I like Twitter but I don't like following the Twitter updates on the Twitter website. So I looked for a plugin for Firefox that shows the updates in the Firefox Sidebar.

I found these 2 Plugins which I quite liked:

• Twitbin
• Yoono

Both were quite good but not exactly what I wanted.

Website in the Firefox Sidebar

During my search I came along a solution that shows how to view any website in the Firefox Sidebar. Of course most websites are too big to fit in there, but websites which are optimized for the iPhone or other Mobile webbrowsers work usually quite well.

Somehow I liked the TwitterGadget website best for my Twitter needs. It automatically updates the Tweets every 3 Minutes and it looks very clean and tidy. So how can you get this Web-site into your Firefox sidebar?

1. Go to the website of TwitterGadget http://www.twittergadget.com/gadget.asp
2. Add this website to your Firefox bookmarks.
3. From the Firefox Menu choose Bookmarks/Organize Bookmarks.
4. Click on the Bookmark you just added.
5. Click on "More" and tick the option "Load this website in the Firefox sidebar"
6. You can now close the Bookmark Window.
7. When you now choose this Bookmark it will be opened in the sidebar.

You can follow me on Twitter here:

http://twitter.com/thomashk

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paulgotel  - Thank you very cool , also try Eventbox !   |66.91.4.xxx |2009-01-27 00:56:53 Hi thanks for this had no idea firefox allowed this will use over and over ! PS EventBox is a new program that collects all social stuff into one app. facebook flickr twitter google reader etc really cool! Reply | Quote 0   0

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