September 2009
1 post
August 2009
8 posts
Hackable Business Development
giantrobotlasers:
jonsteinberg:
People on the business side of internet software, constantly bemoan their inability to code. I’ve been guilty at times of the frequent refrain, “My kingdom for the ability to code.” However, I’ve found over the past year that the emergence of APIs coupled with eLance (or oDesk or one of the other contractor platforms) have made this expression of exasperation...
Twitter Is Just A Faster, Centralized Yet...
whitneymcn:
Interesting thoughts, considering now.
Also: I suppose I’m dating myself by remembering that the first modem I used (yes, to try to hack into bulletin boards in the ’80s) was my best friend’s older brother’s 300/1200 baud. Good times.
gbattle:
Apparently, on August 22, 1991, at 2:23pm EST (exactly 18 years ago) I was commenting on the newest Metallica album on USENET. Wait,...
re: Tumblr Staff: Introducing Tag Channels →
blech:
Whenever I have a tag field, I use it, and I try to be consistent. So Tumblr finally having some sort of global support for tagging is nice. Because I was away today, I first noticed it when looking at other people’s posts on my dashboard (although this example is one of my own):
My first thought was “why the fuck are they using a hash in front of the tag? This isn’t bloody Twitter;...
Twitter and friend-only searches
IMO, Twitter doesn’t need to fuss with “friend-management”. I could even see Twitter abandoning the friend-management business once interface designers figure out that that’s where the business is… ie. filtering/sorting and distributed privacy/security, as well as providing a nice selection of interfaces for navigating your “one stream” of friend...
Simon Willison's Twitter client
Thanks for doing the research! Interface design is where it’s at.
blech:
I went through pages of history so you don’t have to. Sounds like it’d be pretty easy to copy.
Finally broke down and wrote my own stupid twitter client on the train… it does groups! (July 3rd) @rboulton as a matter of fact I did :) mongodb + about 100 lines of Python (July 3rd) Having your own Twitter client that...
re: Mike Morrow's "Million $$ Idea"
mikemorrow:
Unless this already exists, in which case you’ll tell me, right?
I want a “trending topics” list for just the people I follow on Twitter.
I want to be able to login somewhere and see a word cloud of what my friends are talking about this morning, what memes are going around, whose birthday it is, etc. And variable by time period, so I can see what my friends are tweeting about...
re: URL shortener tr.im is dead →
whitneymcn:
marco:
… all tr.im links will continue to redirect, and will do so until at least December 31, 2009. Your tweets with tr.im URLs in them will not be affected.
We regret that it came to this, but all of our efforts to avoid it failed. No business we approached wanted to purchase tr.im for even a minor amount. There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening — users won’t pay for...
July 2009
3 posts
2 tags
Hey You! Make Me a Better Web!!
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My original article “Why Twitter is the Backbone of Web 3.0” was too long. Lemme simplify.
Round 1: Make a Twitter client that duplicates the functionality of Facebook, but in a massively-distributed way. ie. Make the Twitpics and YouTubes and Audio Streams all show up in the interface right in the feed. This is easy to do, and with competition should provide lots of reasons...
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Why Twitter is the Backbone of "Web 3.0"
akashic-rik:
Just posted to Facebook: —————————————————————————————
#1 Reason Twitter will win you over:
= Full Facebook functionality
with fully customizable third-party interfaces. =
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In fact, “Hey web-designers!”—that’s Web 3.0 right there, starting right now:
• Dynamic Twitter clients
(Old school “passive web browsers” are on their way out. Standardize...
About @illumiNot_i
Ichi Rei (@illumiNot_i) is a handle I used long ago in the early days of the web.
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In the real world I go by “Akashic Rik,” or sometimes, Rik Akashian.
This is Tumblr #4: It’s my “Tech Blog” — the one where I try to influence the web-tech community to cater to my networking needs.
I also use the handle “JolliLama” for straight-up humor...