Prototypes
London Weather Forecast
Another Twitter hack - someone in the ideas stream wanted the weather on their mobile every morning, so I hooked up a bot to send the day's BBC London weather to a twitter account every morning at 4am.
It uses Yahoo pipes to strip out a lot of extraneous info from the feed to make it easier for Twitter to read.
The twitter feed is here: http://twitter.com/londonweather/
A neat improvement would be if the BBC's weather feed split out the different data - temperature, visibility etc. into different pieces of tagged data within the feed, rather than just a description, date, link - although if I had more time I'd do something interesting with the geodata in there.
The page includes links to all the tools I used, so anyone should be able to hook one of these up for where they live.
- 18 Apr 2007 10:10 AM
