What's New:
The visualize page is a completely new addition (still kind of in beta). It is basically a treemap that displays the participation of different users in each of the three observed topics (i.e. #Moonwatch, #Meteorwatch and #GalileanNights). The size of the colored rectangular boxes is (largely) based on the number of tweeps a user sends as well as how recent the tweeps are. These values are then compared the values calculated for other users and a visual representation of user's contribution to a particular topic is then created.
@MoonWatchPix
I have created a new twitter account @MoonWatchPix that sends a tweep every time a new picture is added to the gallery. @MoonWatchPix makes is easy to keep track of all pictures taken for the #Moonwatch, #Meteorwatch and #GalileanNights events.
As another minor improvement I've added support for the Ow.ly/i service.
The Moonwatch Gallery
The Moonwatch Gallery is another one of my galleries for images/photos posted to twitter. I created the first version specifically for the highly successful meteorwatch. The gallery script searches the public twitter feed for photos and images sent by users from around the world. The first version had support only for the TwitPic.com server. Since then, I've added support for four other popular services, namely:
To have your photo included on this site, all you have to do is to update your twitter status with a message that includes (one or more) images uploaded to either of the 5 services mentioned above and the words 'moonwatch' or the hash tag #Moonwatch, e.g.:
Image of Jupiter (Oct. 20, 2009 22:17 UTC | Teide2 HM Slooh) #moonwatch http://twitpic.com/madoy
The gallery also searches the #meteorwatch and the #GalileanNights feeds; the same as above (for #Moonwatch) applies to them, e.g
UFO Galaxy (NGC 2683) #GalileanNights http://twitpic.com/ksv84
Gallery Live!
When you first come to the gallery live! page, it will display the newest items along with a few latest archive photos. You can click on a particular photo to bring up the gallery view, which will let you navigate through all full-size photos. Clicking on the link underneath a photo will take you to the photo site or Twitpic, yFrog, Img.ly, TwitGoo or Flickr. The gallery live! page updates its content every 60 seconds, so there is no need to refresh the page. Please note that in case your browser doesn't support javascript or javascript has been disabled, only archive items will be displayed and the page will NOT refresh periodically).
Archive
The archive page displays ALL status updates containing images (restricted to the services mentioned above) posted to the twitter feed that at some point appeared in the live gallery. Items are orginazed so that the latest images appear on top. If the size of this page becomes a problem due to ever-growing participation, I may have to limit the number of items displayed (although all items will remain archived).
