1. Integrated search
2. “Personal Search” — I want to be able to perform a search just within the tweets of people I follow. This is just a filter on my own tweet streams.
3. I should be able to save “Personal” and “global” searches and easily come back to them. Ideally the client should tell me (badge or notification) when new tweets show up under any of those searches.
4. Support for multiple Twitter accounts.
5. The ability to view a combined stream of all tweets from all accounts that I follow through any of my configured Twitter accounts.
6. Simple (2 clicks) Retweet and Reply functionality.
7. URL shortening via bit.ly
8. Autocomplete of people I follow, and ideally those who follow me as well (even if I don’t follow them back). It should search both their Twitter username and their real name. Ideally I should also be able to “rename” or associate a real name with anyone I follow.
9. Groups — I want to be able to associate people with one or more arbitrary groups.
10. I should be able to view a stream of tweets from all members of a group.
11. Ability to “mute” an individual, or an entire group with a single click. A simple UI to show me all current “mutes” would be good as well. Muting an individual/group would remove their tweets from all views except for their explicit (group/person) view.
12. I’d like to be able to get SMS notifications for all mentions (@beaulebens) as well.

If you know of an app that does all of this (in a simple, clean UI), I want it. If not, let me know when it exists

1. Bookmark any page (seriously, any page).
2. Put that bookmark into your Bookmarks Toolbar.
3. Right click it and select Properties
4. Change the Name to something like “Search Twitter”
5. Change the Location to this (copy and paste it):

   javascript:var%20d=document,w=window,e=w.getSelection,k=d.getSelection,x=d.selection,s=(e?e():(k)?k():(x?x.createRange().text:0));if(!s.length){s=prompt('Search%20Twitter:','');}if(s){document.location.href='http://search.twitter.com/search?q='+escape(s);}else{void(0);}

6. Save Changes

That’s it. Now click that link in your Bookmark Toolbar and it’ll prompt you for a search string. Enter anything and hit OK. If you happen to have some text on the page selected, it’ll automatically search for that text. Voila – Twitter Search.

I wanted to get some information out here so that people could see what I am working on, and indeed what is running this site’s search facility. The icon to the right will take you to a PDF document (13.6Kb) which gives some more details about the approximate process flow of the search supplements, as well as a database schema of what’s running the best bets, variants and related terms.

My hope is that this can be developed into a stand-alone product that could be wrapped around nearly any search system, simply adding to the functionality of said search system. So far things are looking good, but only really for something written in PHP. I would need to add other options for systems written in Perl, C etc.

In the near future, I will be posting database schemas, some notes on implementation and other bits and pieces about how I am attacking the whole process. Keep an eye on things if you are interested

I’ve been spending some time on the projects section, getting the project pages up to scratch and re-formatted; it’s looking pretty good. I am taking a few of the old projects offline, because they don’t have any documentation, don’t work anymore, things like that

I’m not going to put a date on when the site will be live, but given the current progress, and the list of things to do still, I would estimate about 2 weeks. Here’s the current list;

1. Projects Sections
   1. Blogger API (functions, classes + meta)
   2. phpMassMail (also requires some work to make it 4.2+ compatible, and re-format documentation to include)
   3. JSSearch (would like to get some more information/documentation/examples included)
   4. JSValidate (want to update this to include the ability to open a popup window rather than an alert – optional)
   5. Client work and websites
2. Contact Form
   1. Layout/design
   2. Contingency design
   3. Processing/handling
   4. Result/output page
3. Search System
   1. Layout/Design (of the results, as well as extra options, defining manual entries etc)
   2. Processing system (integrating my manual results with Google/XooMLe’s results)
   3. Management of my manual entries (and a decent name for them

So there we go. That’s what I’ll be working on in the near future. And for those interested, I will be creating a custom search system, which integrates Google‘s results for within my website (using XooMLe) with a selection of manual “Top Picks” or “Best Bets” which I have selected for certain terms. I have the rough idea planned out already, just need to implement it in code. I will probably make the code available for download once it’s complete as well, so keep an eye out for that

That’s all for now – time to get back to life.