Some of you may remember my post from January 08 about how you could send text messages from your phone to Fanfou.com and then feed them to Twitter. Well now that Fanfou is no more, that’s obviously not going to work. But thanks to John Pasden over on Sinosplice there’s an ever better option:
With that option [Fanfou] closed to me, I decided to check out the other big Chinese microblogging service I was familiar with, Zuosa (??). I really liked Zuosa, where I found a lot of advanced features that even Twitter has held back on. Then I went into settings, where I saw the familiar Twitter “t” next to the ?????? (”Sync to microblogs”) section.
When I clicked on that section, and then on the Twitter “t,” I got this message:
??????????????? zuosa->buboo.tw->twitter ?????
Translation:
We’re sorry, this service is not available. You can go through zuosa -> buboo.tw -> twitter to accomplish the sync!
So I set up an account on Buboo.tw (ah, traditional characters!), easily synced that with Twitter, then synced my Zuosa account with Buboo. And hey… it works.
Very very cool. Awesome workaround John. Incidentally, Sinosplice is one of the first China blogs that I ever discovered and it’s never any surprise to see a gem like this. Go check it out if you haven’t already.
UPDATE: It looks as though some spam somehow got into my RSS feed when this post first went out. Apologies to anyone who had to put up with that. I believe the problem has been solved.
Just a quick note to remind those of you in Dalian that Alex has made some pretty impressive changes to DalianDalian.com over the past year or so. I do want to point out (because some of you might not be aware) that the site does have a blogging platform. So if you’d like to write your own travelogues while living in or visiting Dalian, you can do so for free on DalianDalian’s blog platform.
Even if you keep a Dalian-related blog on another platform (i.e. Blogger, Wordpress, etc) you can use the aggregation feature to have your posts imported. Hopefully it’ll bring you a little more exposure.
I haven’t been very involved with the project lately — seeing as how I’ve moved to Japan an’ all — but Alex is doing more than ok. On a google search for Dalian, the site currently outranks longer-established sites like DalianXpat, Runsky (the local English news site), and even the Dalian municipal government’s website. That’s pretty cool, considering that all of those sites are businesses, and we were just three dudes with some extra time on our hands.
Anyway, drop on over to DalianDalian if you get a chance. If you’re an English speaker in Dalian, it’s the best resource at your disposal.
Run for your M’er Effin’ lives! It’s a two-headed cobra! Ok, ok, it’s just a baby. But when this thing grows up you better run for your M’er Effin’ lives!
A few heads short of the mythical hydra, this is one of the awesomest Chinese mutant animals ever. (See here for my Awesome Chinese Mutant animals list over on Lost Laowai).
source: bzxhw
