Tag Archives: standards

Better Message Systems

The internet is changing. thanks to the popularity of destinations like Twitter, FriendFeed, and Facebook. The problem is that a significant amount of communication is taking place on these sites. This is resulting away from web standards for the most valuable aspects of our interaction online. This sucks.
Twitter is essentially creating their own “standard”, and [...]

We Need a Microblogging Protocol

I just read Charlie O’donnell’s prediction that Twitter SMS ads are on their way. Hopefully you are having the same reaction I am. “Oh shit!”
Twitter is not just another Shiny Object. For me, and many other people using Twitter, microblogging is a new and vital communication method. It is a near-real-time, asynchronous, [...]

Reigning in Microblogging

I signed up for Twitter on March 7th, 2007. In the six months since then I have 1159 “tweets”. I have looked at other microblogging tools, but haven’t had a compelling reason to use them (aside from a handful of Facebook status updates). While I am a big fan of microblogging in [...]