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Along with today’s announcement that Foursquare’s API has gone live I’m excited to start showing off Last Night’s Check-ins. It’s sort of a diary driven by your Foursquare checkins. It’s super easy to use. You just sign up and it’ll email you a list of your checkins from the previous night, and you can email back some notes about each one. It’s awesome to look back a month after the fact and see what you were up to all those late nights.

The fact that the only interaction you really need to take is via email makes it really convenient to participate. Like Noah Brier said: email is “an interface that allows you to sustain interaction. Everyone checks their email every day (or almost every day) and replying to an email couldn’t be easier.”

So go check it out! lastnightscheckins.com.

My friends Wesley Mann and Luke Simmons have a good thing happening at BlogHammarskjold: “A collection of original short stories and images.” Check it out.

Do you like self promotional blog posts? I sure do. In fact, that’s all I use this blog for. It’s all about me and my projects here.

So, along these lines, check out this site I developed with Zach Slow and Bryan Denman. It’s called Rename the Swine Flu, and it’s about changing the stupid name for this overhyped disease. Even the Indiana Pork Producers Association is down. Go have a look.

Hey, you know those sweet Emoji icons that people have unlocked lately for their iPhones? You can SMS some pretty sweet stuff, like this poo with eyes , or this beer: . Turns out you can also post them to Twitter. So I did some poking and prodding in the Twitter system and pulled out a bunch of interesting data. Check it out here: mytwitterweighsaton.com/emojicons.

I was wondering why Rappers on Twitter was getting flooded with submissions this morning. Turns out the talented Jean Grae tweeted about it:

It’s been about a month since my last Stupid Twitter Trick. Here’s a quick one: twitter.com/probablyTrue

probablyTrue posts randomly select bite-sized facts to Twitter from Wikipedia twice a day.

For my next Stupid Twitter Trick (prev) I would like to present My Twitter Weighs a Ton. It shows you what kind of words you tweet about most. It’s mostly pointless, but it’s not 100% pointless. It’s more like 95% pointless, 5% “Hmm”.

Here are the stats for MC Hammer. That guy loves and thanks a lot. And here are the top 10 words.