Just saw on Twitter via a couple of tweets by tech luminaries Leo Laporte and Cali Lewis that there is a site called Quotably that allows users to follow Twitter conversations in a threaded format. I can already see myself using this often so the following are two quick Firefox Search plugins to make this even easier.
Yes, I am not claiming the following was brain surgery, but at least this will allow me to easily transfer the files between my Firefox profiles (yes, I have too many of them). It is left as exercise for the reader to determine where their searchPlugins directory is located under their Firefox profile.
I created two files - one for looking up a twitter user and the second for a "topic".
quotably-user.xml
<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"
xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<os:ShortName>Quotably - User</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>Find Twitter user on Quotably</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding>
<os:Image width="16" height="16">http://quotably.com/favicon.ico</os:Image>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://quotably.com/{searchTerms}">
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>
quotably-search.xml
<SearchPlugin xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/2006/browser/search/"
xmlns:os="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<os:ShortName>Quotably - Search</os:ShortName>
<os:Description>User Quotably to search for a term on Twitter</os:Description>
<os:InputEncoding>UTF-8</os:InputEncoding>
<os:Image width="16" height="16">http://quotably.com/favicon.ico</os:Image>
<os:Url type="text/html" method="GET" template="http://quotably.com/search/{searchTerms}">
</os:Url>
</SearchPlugin>
Also - add .rss to any URL to create a RSS feed - a good tip to keep in mind.
Added: There probably is a way to create a link that prompts the user whether to add this right from this page - if I have a chance I'll investigate this. Found the mozdev plugin submission form annoying so I have yet to do that.
Posted by shs4 at March 25, 2008 05:30 PM