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Why I’ve checked out of the Twitter Developer System

August 11, 2010
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I wrote this post on June 30. I’d been reflecting on whether or not I should post it and wasn’t prepared to while I still held some hope that my efforts may pay some dividends.  Since then I’ve concluded that the opportunities for developing around Twitter are for more established and wealthy players only. I [...]

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Will Mattel launch “Tweeting Barbie” to Follow “Puppy Tweets”?

January 25, 2010
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Sometimes I really don’t get it. Why does a toy brand bring out something that might be hot with Mummy Bloggers? Really Mattel and “Puppy Tweets”? How soon will you get bored. Apart from the “tech” knowledge you will need to use it. Is it wishful thinking? Will it drive women to toy stores to [...]

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Fixes & ideas for Twitter | what @scobleizer and I think. #13points

January 11, 2010
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Robert writes in Scobleizer that Twitter’s traffic may be in trouble and offers up some ideas for improvement. I don’t buy all the suggestions, so thought I’d add my two cents. Still half-baked ideas and some great suggestions are better than what usually comes out of Twitter (eg #fixreplies, #retweet, etc.) So my responses spurred [...]

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My Response – #ThreadingBlogs and #TwitterStreams II @stoweboyd @euan #attention

January 11, 2010
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Stowe writes in /Message: Stuart has jumped ahead to thinking of blogging as, more or less, the place we create long format writing (or other creative works, like video, audio, etc.) in order to drop it into the faster stream. The slower stream of blogs is just a tributary to the faster, more social stream [...]

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What’s your mobile location strategy? Twitter and the GPSURL

November 10, 2009

Yesterday @JonHusband (Wirearchy) sent me a NYTimes link on “Refining the Twitter Explosion”. I always appreciate links like this. They are often good pointers and make me think harder about their importance. In a response to Jon I found myself writing more than expected and later thought I’d share my general response below. I don’t [...]

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Jajah @call @stuarthenshall service misses the Phweet spot IMHO

September 16, 2009

Daniel Terdiman of Cnet  reports that Jajah will enable Twitter to talk. There’s a few hints in their announcement. There’s also material differences in what the experience is likely to deliver vs Phweet which was launched 15 months ago and remains in PublicAlpha as we never believed in giving free calls away to grow the [...]

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.@biz Twitter Management should consider new Tweet Button rather than settings for Location Based Tweets. eg, map-it or TweetPlus

August 26, 2009

Adding a location option to each tweet will revolutionize Twitter and in fact any micro-blogging service. However, I’m worried about Twitter’s implementation. The thinking (see content below) suggests that people will have to “turn it on” and it will be off by default. Twitter Blog: Location, Location, Location We’re gearing up to launch a new [...]

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.@stoweboyd see my comment on your Infrastructure post.

August 21, 2009

I left a comment on/Message: Project Retweet: When Ultrastructure Becomes Infrastructure a few minutes ago and the more I think about RT’s the more passionate I become. It’s time Twitter developers took a more empowering user role in Twitter innovation Twitter continues to screw around with defining 140 characters and how we can or cannot [...]

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What You Missed on Twitter by @mrblog – Twitter loss of “real-time” and the “intimacy factor”

May 26, 2009

What You Missed on Twitter is a little program that answers the #fixreplies problem for all those (according to Twitter less than 3% – although that IMHO is a poor statistic) that liked seeing “all@replies”.  If you are following a large number of users then it can take awhile to load. From my perspective this [...]

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TweetDeck gets Facebook Integration – Leaves me with questions.

March 16, 2009

Today I downloaded and installed the latest Seesmic for Facebook app. I tweeted about it and received a quick notification from @rojajimmy about the latest TweetDeck beta. Seems TweetDeck now includes Facebook — or will soon officially. I must admit I have a few questions (below) as a result. I expect there will be more [...]

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Conversational “Bleeting” – The blog + tweet + ing = jazz conversations link

March 13, 2009

In 2003 I wrote a few posts on “Conversational Blogging“. Today my sentiments are similar yet the approach to conversational blogging has changed primarily facilitated by Facebook and Twitter. Today Twitter must be part of your blogging persona, to be successful and part of joining a “jazz community” Conversational Blogging (Unbound Spiral) (April 21, 2003) [...]

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eComm Presentation – No Numbers and My CallerID #ecomm

March 3, 2009

I wrote a post a long time ago suggesting that presenters be prepared to put up their presentations quickly after a presentation.  When I was putting this together I recorded it using Keynote. It’s made me realize the ease and opportunity to do things a little different in future. I’ve done some other demo type [...]

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Twitmart – Sell Your Stuff on Twitter

February 9, 2009

Introducing Twitmart. Trade your stuff on Twitter. Find a #date, get a #job. Write a #wanted ad. Put something up “forsale.  Twitmart.org is a work in progress and is live today. Twitmart demonstrates the impact that Twitter could have on classified advertising. Add in location and mobile Tweets and we will have something really powerful. [...]

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@al3x – Why Twitter Developers Should Get a “SuperTweet”

February 6, 2009

This post is to put the case for a SuperTweet. I’m positing it in response to an exchange I had last night with @al3x who heads up the Twitter API. The example below is a SuperTweet mock-up in the simplest of terms. I also made a related case “Twitter and the Business Model 2009” for [...]

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The TwitterAPI and the Super Tweet

February 6, 2009

I was at the SF Mobile 2.0 Meetup last night where Twitter was the main discussion point. We had short presentations from Twittilator, Twitpic and Twitterfon and then a briefing from @alex who runs Twitter’s API program. I also got to ask a few questions. The answers were candid and from my perspective as a [...]

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