We have just released Birdpie, a small twitter application for storing and managing the urls that you tweet. Birdpie utilises Twitter auth in order to simplify the sign up process and is Dynamic50’s first experimentation with Rails 3.0 pre.
Once a user is signed up, Birdpie fetches all previous bookmarks (or as many allowed by Twitter). This can take up to 15 minutes, but once completed Birdpie watches for new links and updates every 12 hours. However, a user can “reheat in” order to fetch the latest links if desired. Background tasks are handled by a Redis & Resque based queuing system for improved performance and scalability. Links that are retweeted are also stored and it is possible to view users who have tweeted the same link. Birdpie uses many HTML5 elements and CSS3 styles for its presentation and markup.
This is the basic alpha release which allows users to catagorise and manage bookmarks. In future we will add #tagging for automated categorisation into predefined “pies”, and further down the line we will release a Firefox plugin to dump saved links into the browser’s menu.
Check out http://www.birdpie.com and follow @bird_pie on Twitter for the latest news 
Jamie — January 15, 2010
Nice one guys I’ve been looking for something like this for a while…
Darragh — January 15, 2010
Cheers Jamie, feedback and suggestions welcome!
johan — January 20, 2010
Well done guys
nogeek — January 20, 2010
Cheers Johan!
Steve — January 25, 2010
Nice one chaps. I’ve also been investigating Rails 3.0 and Redis for a couple of webapps. Great tech
nogeek — January 25, 2010
cheers!
Ruby Developer — January 26, 2010
The app looks very nice. Ive been looking to dabble in rails 3 myself – but will be waiting until it is a bit more stable. On another note – the font on the birdpie site isnt very easy to read – you may want to change it to make it more readable.
simon.tsang — January 29, 2010
Hi there, glad you like the app
Can you be a little more specific about the font that is unreadable? Is it all of the site in general or just some specific areas (headlines, body text, pie meta data, etc. )?
Along with the Rails 3 and HTML5 newness, we’re also trialing the Typekit web font delivery service. It’s a pretty good service, but some fonts unfortunately don’t look that great on machines without or with very light font-smoothing. We are aware of this, but more feedback is always welcome!