Tag Archives: twitter

I Miss Blogging

Remember the good old days when you had something to say and you wrote a blog post? If it was a topic you were really hot on it might end up being a few posts. The very act of writing the post would help you form opinions and thoughts. If you were lucky it [...]

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 [...]

Better Support for Replies in Twitter

Twitter has been a little “stressed out” lately. One of the downsides of this is that they have disabled the “replies” tab on twitter.com. Twitter is suggesting that we should use summize.com to check replies.
First off, it must be at least a little embarrassing for Twitter to admit that Summize is better able to query [...]

The Great Twitter Debate of 2008

There is a huge debate going on in all corners of twitter-land. This is not the debate about The Business Model or Rails Is Slow. This is not even the debate about Decentralize Twitter. It is a debate that doesn’t make the front page of TechMeme and you won’t find much about it in the [...]

Looking Back at a Broken Heighday

On July 15th, 2006 I posted the following post titled “Hotlanta“:
Sabrina and I packed up the kids on a whim last night and are in Atlanta. It is going to be a long time before we can take a vacation, but getting away for a night is a nice change of pace.
Lately I have [...]

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 [...]