Amber MacArther and Leo Laporte talked about our cool Jott/Twitter/Jaiku mashup called Egorcast on their net@nite show.  Amber and Leo have been friends of Big in Japan since the PodServe days ~ thanks for the plug guys!  More about Egorcast: the what, the how, and the why.

Check out this MSNBC article titled, “Twitter Nation: Nobody cares what you’re doing, Then again, if you don’t get it, that must mean you’re totally too old.”

Alex blogged about the casual development effort here at Big in Japan in three posts:

• Part I: The What about Egorcast
• Part II: The How about Egorcast
• Part III: The Why about Egorcast

Check out the what, how and why about Egorcast.  It was a fun little project mashingup Twitter, Jaiku, WordPress and Jott, hopefully you enjoyed it…

Everyone (including us) seems to be creating fun gadgets and mash-ups using Twitter’s API.  Here is a list from the unofficial Twitter wiki:

• BBC News - Get BBC news headlines via twitter. Main news feed, and individual news channels available.
• EgorCast Now you can call in your Twitter posts. EgorCast is a mashup of Jott.com/Twitter/Jaiku.
• TweeTweeT! Now you can Twitter while watching live public Tweets as a cartoon. Finally.
• Twitterment is a Twitter search engine that also provides trend graphs and identifies buzzy and fading terms.
• MoniTwitter Monitors your website, posting updates to Twitter about load times and whether there is a problem or not. Subscribe to the Twitter account to receive updates about your site, notifications if it goes down.
• Twitterverse - a mashup and visualization project by Ideacodes which mines and archives the public timeline of Twitter and provides a visualization of the most commonly used words in a given time period.
• ServerMojo - free server monitoring system now with server status alerts sent via Twitter!
• Twitter Atlas - The twitter public timeline viewed in Atlas by Fresh Logic Studios updated every 5 seconds.
• twittermap - See current updates from Twitter users in a specific local area, and update your location in realtime by specifying L:21012 (or L: + any geocodable location) in a Twitter!
• dealtagger - Let all your friends know what your shopping for with the dealtagger > twitter update thingy!
• MyChores - Keep track of your household chores and send automatic Twitter posts whenever you complete a task!
• Manchester United News - Get Manchester United news straight to your mobile phone for free.
• GeoTwitter - This mashup uses Google Maps API and Twitter API. The most recent updates are fetched from the public timeline and mapped once every minute.
• Twitter Tube Tracker - find out when your public transport route isn’t running (London Underground and SF BART)
• twitterami - Use Frappr to see Twitter friends on a map.
• twittervision - Real-time display of the public Twitter stream on a map. Warning: dangerously addictive.
• Planypus, the place where friends make plans, now has twitter support! From any plan, click Post to Twitter to twitterize your plans
• Twitterholic: Top 100 Twitterers leaderboard.
• Twitter in 3D
• Twitter updates from Pluggd - Pluggd’s podcast player can automatically post updates to your twitter account… Let your friends know what you’re listening to!
• mibazaar - Current Twitter Posts on Google Maps
• Twitter Gadget - A Windows Vista Desktop Sidebar Gadget that helps you keep track of all the sweet tweets! Fetches tweets from twitter.com and updates them every 10 seconds.
• Twitter SpellCheck Bot - Lily program that lets you check the spelling of a word via Twitter.
• Twitget - a Twitter Gadget - This is a Windows Live gadget that can be hosted on live.com or on Spaces. On Spaces it shows your last tweet and on live.com you can use it to track up to 5 tweets from your friends.
• Twitter Planet - This is a Windows Live gadget that shows the Twitter public timeline overlaid on a Virtual Earth map. Can be hosted on live.com or Spaces.
• Viddler has some sweet Twitter integration allowing you to both syndicate your tweets to your account as well as post site updates to your Twitter account.
• Flitter: Flickr stream generated by the Twitter public timeline using this yahoo!pipe and rendered in vvvv.

Our April ‘casual application’ (i.e. an application that can be built in less than a week) release is almost ready for primetime.  We started coding the application on Friday and had our first release this evening (at DemoCampDallas2).  It works for me, but it is not ready for primetime.  Here is the scoop:

EgorCast™ is a simple web service designed to integrate the functionality of jott.com and social mo-blogging (mobile blogging) services such as Twitter.com and Jaiku.com. Jott allows users to dial a predetermined number and record a 15 second message. Jott then transcribes the message and emails the transcription to your phone or email account. EgorCast provides a gateway between the messages from Jott and social mo-blogging services such as Twitter and Jaiku (or both if you want). EgorCast will also send your messages to your WordPress blog with a specific category or tag.