links for 2009-08-20

When we think of mobility it is too easy to get hung up with the features and the methods rather than the behaviors. This little scenario is a little to "automated" "notificated!" for my liking focusing me on what the device looks like rather than how I feel. As a future I'm not sure it is better or worse than now. I do think many of these things we can do today. However it is broad and mass scale adoption that will really change the world. That's what we really need to get at.

Is the tide turning against Twitter? Seems it is. Where to next? Back to upgraded blogging platforms? New challenge is the mobile social updating capability. Advice to Scoble. Use FeedWordpress and CategoryExcluder to add tweets back into your blog database.

Don't read this article without reading the comments. If you follow Nokia it is worth the read even if just to register that Nokia produces a new cell phone every 13 seconds and currently has 1.1billion customers. I believe the challenges that Nokia faces are much greater than what is glossed over here.

A few years ago I was present at one of the NPR strategy sessions. Rob writes of "they overcame the huge natural resistance by investing in a shared and deep exploration of what confronted them. What they have done since has come from the genuine emergence of ideas and of a language that they created for themselves." Yes they did. More importantly they stuck with it even when the results were slow to emerge. I think NPR could be a much larger strategic case study and yet it probably won't end up in HBR or the McKinsey quarterly; as it has been nurtured by a small group of people internally and externally that let go rather than prescribed strategy.

"With the planned system from Twitter, your credit for the retweet is somewhat subdued. Not a big deal, but trust me, there are enough retweeting fools out there that will be upset at this move. One concept that Twitter is kicking around is that you’ll be able to turn off retweets that are annoying–hopefully at the user level."

Will it be yet again harder to find people as a result of this change?

Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised that Twitter is again messing with what people see and can do with 140 characters. This is unfortunate for increasingly the "content" is structured which in my view will lead to a reduction in innovation and additional development risks for developers. Ask yourself is Twitter closing down the potential for Innovation?

I personally like adding something to ReTweets where possible. I usually use a | to differentiate where my comment come in. I'd be happy with italics too used in some way. I also like the current way which a retweet recognizes who has retweeted it. I suspect that the growth in RT's has something to do with the elimination of #fixreplies.

Great to see data like this. When mobile devices start to swamp "occasions" online then we also know behavior is materially changing. I'd like to see the data for in-home use too. My guess is iPhone household have more iPhone WiFi access occasions than laptop/PC although for much shorter durations. I'd also bet it happens in many more places!

Re Om I don't think he uses his iPhone/iPod as his phone anymore. What's important is he is using it for reading. Overall as he's no longer using it as a phone WiFi is useful . However for the majority it is connectivity and access rather than WiFI. We don't care – as long as the handset being used provides the fastest connection. As always even better if there is no fee.