Last day Ive read an interesting post about 7 lessons Olympians can teach internet entrepreneurs. I believe that these lessons are also valid for other groups or companies. Here there are:

1. Great talent means nothing without great teamwork
2. Endorsement deals are great, but don’t let them distract you
3. Finish
4. When you are injured, you need to work even harder to reach your goals
5. Know your competition
6. Nothing worth accomplishing comes quick and easy
7. Remember what’s really important

Ive been using the python-twitter for some stuff and Ive noticed that the actual version doesnt support the "source" parameter and also doenst support identi.ca. For this reason Ive spent some minutes to do a hack. This version includes a new function named "SetSource" that allows you to define your source "…from blabla" that will be display on twitter and introduces the new parameter "twitterserver" to __init__. This parameter is optional and the default value is twitter.com. identi.ca is another microblogging service based on laconica that supports the entire twitter API. Great step!!

e.g. for SetSource:

# import twitter
# api = twitter.Api(username=’me’,password=’secret’,twitterserver=’identi.ca/api’)     // for identi.ca, default=twitter.com
# api.SetSource(‘dilella’)
# api.PostUpdate(‘it works’)

Download twitter.py!