About

Alex Ressi is an independent software developer focused on creating community-driven, social web experiences using the Twitter platform and Ruby on Rails.  
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Vote for my SXSW panel submissions!

Please take a moment to vote for my South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) panel submissions.  I attended the conference last year and look forward to speaking this year for the first time.  My two panel proposals:

Twitter - The next big gaming platform

Twitter - Command line programming for the masses

Tweetwhatyoueat

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Twitter based food diary with the internet's first crowd-sourced calorie database.  Featured on Lifehacker, NPR Marketplace, CBS Morning Show, and ABC News.

Tweetwhatyouspend

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Twitter cash tracker designed to answer the question, "what happens to my money between trips to the ATM?  Featured on LifeHacker

Zeitheist

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Based on the German word "zeitgeist,' Zeitheist is a Twitter trend guessing game where users try and match words in real-time tweets to a randomly generated goal set at the start of a game.  

WineTwits

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WineTwits is an easy to use, twitter-powered community bringing together wine enthusiasts to talk about wine, events and special offers. Developed exclusively for Drink Twits, LLC

Tweetwhatyouplay

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MMO game diary built to allow gamers to track in-game activities through Twitter, or directly through the Tweetwhatyouplay website