I blame all these people making and watching video streams. Like the internet was invented to be just another bunch of TV channels.

adding friendfeed account to twhirl. Twitter is proof of concept but doesn't own the microblogging concept, and lifestreaming is more

Latest blogs at Andy Roberts on DARnet

More proof that people trust people rather than brands when finding out about stuff.

Future aspirations survey from Chartered Management Institute. If you're a "young manager" fill it in.

If you haven't found Groundswell yet. And make sure you follow Charlene Li on Twitter. And read the blog. And if you have any web 2.0 tchotchkes, please send to her for a project. 950 Tower Lane, Suite 1200, Foster City, CA 94403. If you have no idea wtf a tchotchkes is, try this. Look forward to seeing what the project is all about.

I might go to this next week. Anyone fancy holding my hand?

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For those who aren't familiar, Twitter is a 'microblogging' site that is growing rapidly in popularity, despite its instabilities, and the 'at first' impenetrable look of the thing.

Twitter is probably best described as a thought-capture cum presence engine. It something that's highly regarded among prolific bloggers and new-media types, particularly people like Kevin Rose, Leo Laporte and Merlin Mann. It's also increasingly being used by normal people, and the sheer amount of information going through it is incredible.

That's where Twistori comes in. Twistori is part of a whole ecosystem that has grown up around Twitter, apps that scrape the information from Twitter to use in new or interesting ways.

Twistori is probably the best example of this kind of app. It takes something which is used by lots of people as a cross between txt messaging, status updates and IM, and turns it into a community-driven art project - without the community needing to know that they're contributing toward it.

It's a pretty simple concept - when you first open the page you have six verbs listed to the side; Love, Hate, Think, Believe, Feel and Wish. Click the word and you get tweets delivered in real-time that contain that word. It turns what can sometimes feel like an echo-chamber into a community - without any of the contributors having to connect to a community. It pulls togethers common feelings and thoughts into a single place and it's kinda beautiful really.

Since I've been using twitter I've been up to date with Kuwait news thanks to nibaq! The desert storms (a.k.a desertfubuki) , death of H.H Sheikh Saad (Allah yer7ma) , and many more stuff about Kuwait.

What is missing is more people to join twitter but no body seems intrested in micro blogging. Frankly speaking, it isn't a good time to urge people to join in with all the downtime twitter and pownce are facing recently.

P.S. Try http://twistori.com/

Luego ya empezamos a tocar varios temas como el cine, flicker y algo de twitter. Se esta mascando una nueva colaboración al blog de un usuario avanzado en el tema de los sistemas UNIX que pienso que también estaría bien tocar ese tema de vez en cuando.

En definitiva, agradeceros muchísimo a esas personas que han hecho posible las 500 visitas en un mes y que sigáis así, si queréis que tratemos algún tema en concreto no cortaros y dejarnos un comentario.

PD: a ver si para nuestro segundo mes llegamos a las 1000, aunque no estaría mal hacer esas 1000 visitas en un mes, jejejeje

Esta noche, al llegar a casa, Twitter me hizo feliz. Esta noche, al llegar a casa, Twitter satisfizo una más de mis fantasías de Ciencia Ficción: ¡hablar con una nave espacial!

Cómo en las viejas novelas de Asimov (recuerdo The Last Question, una vez más), la sonda Mars Phoenix, que aterrizará en Marte el día 25 de mayo, me lo ha contado en su propio Twitter: www.twitter.com//marsphoenix. Y me ha dicho que está a ¡654 millones de kilómetros de distancia! Bendito seas, Julio Verne.

La sonda robótica despegó en agosto del año pasado cargada de aparatos para buscar vida microbiótica en el suelo de Marte. Cuando aterrice  en el norte del planeta, buscará agua en el Planeta Rojo (con mayúsculas). Y a mi me lo contará en Twitter... 

http://marketingintegrity.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/twitter-me-this/

It's yet another techie time suck, magnifying the dislocation from the real, meatspace , normal, happy, stable world which we would be busy building if it weren't for these fucking things. But maybe you might want to see what it's all about, become addicted and then ditch it like the bags of PCP you used to snort every other day.

You know, I'm just blowing smoke up your ass because I just joined and have not the faintest idea how it will enhance our attempts at finding life on Mars (that's NASA's Mars Phoenix twitter at that link by the way) ; or how it will enhance my or your life on Earth.

So, yeah it seems kind of fun. Remember the Iowa Caucus twitter blatz-down on the Arkansas Grand Old Party dude? Twitter also came in handy during the LA fires last year and now during the earthquake in China so it's not completely reprehensible like you and George Clinton.

Coincidentally, this is a long-ass, boring post and the idea is to keep it short and sweet on Twitter. If you want to follow me or whatever, I'm here; lots of idiotic stuff like this and this.

By the way, do you kids today say "with it"? Thought not.

Camiseteria

Enfoque da estratégia

Promoção: a Camiseteria inaugurou seu espaço no Twitter como uma ferramenta de relacionamento com os consumidores da marca. Desta forma, terá um novo canal para lançamento de novos produtos e relações públicas, assim como uma poderosa plataforma de pesquisa qualitativa. O microblog da empresa foi lançado em abril no site da Camiseteria por meio de uma promoção de vendas: para atingir um determinado número de seguidores em um espaço de tempo delimitado, a confecção se propôs a sortear diferentes volumes de camisetas entre os seguidores. Em complemento ao microblog, foi lançada a Twitteria, ferramenta através da qual os seguidores da Camiseteria no Twitter podem acompanhar as "fofocas" sobre a marca, como afirma a própria empresa. O buzz se encarregou do resto.

Tecnologia aplicada

Microblog: o Twitter é uma ferramenta baseada em conceitos de conteúdo colaborativo, mensagens instantâneas e redes sociais. Como no Orkut, é possível formar redes pessoais com os próprios amigos e conhecidos. Como em um blog, é possível postar conteúdo que fica registrado em histórico, só que com um limitador de 140 caracteres por post. E como no MSN, cada vez que um usuário posta uma mensagem, o usuário (ou, no caso, a rede de usuários) na outra ponta a recebe no mesmo instante. O conteúdo de cada perfil pode ser visualizado publicamente em uma página da web, ao contrário de muitas redes. Também pode ser acessado por meio de widgets, como o Twitterfox, que integra a rede social ao navegador Firefox. Além disso, o conteúdo pode recebido distribuído via mensagens SMS no celular e feeds RSS.

Integração da estratégia ao mix

• Produto: não há relação imediata entre a ação promocional e a estratégia de produto da Camiseteria. O que deverá acontecer no futuro, possivelmente, é a utilização do Twitter como uma fonte de pesquisa qualitativa para desenvolvimento do mix de produtos.
• Preço: também não há correlação entre a campanha de captação de seguidores e as políticas de preço da grife. A única regra da promoção que afeta a estratégia é aquela que rege a premiação do sorteio, tendo em vista que os vencedores receberão diferentes volumes de camisetas da grife, gratuitamente.
• Praça: não há restrições territoriais explícitas em relação ao sorteio. O universo é a própria rede de seguidores da Camiseteria no Twitter e a rede de seguidores de cada um dos seguidores da grife.

Opinião do blogueiro

A Camiseteria é uma confecção brasileira, como deixa claro o nome, que tem desenvolvido seu negócio a partir de uma estratégia clara de enfoque com diferenciação. É uma referência entre o público jovem aficionado por camisetas e que não gosta de usar qualquer camiseta. E é conhecendo bem este público que a empresa sempre adotou estratégias pouco usuais de desenvolvimento de produto (usuários podem sugerir estampas de própria autoria) e distribuição (venda exclusivamente pela internet). Logo, não é surpresa a adoção de uma estratégia de marketing de relacionamento apoiada no Twitter.

O Brasil é um dos 10 maiores usuários das redes sociais no mundo, sendo quase 80% dos seus internautas estão conectados a uma ou mais destas redes. Estas, por sua vez, são os ambientes preferenciais dos jovens ‘multiconectados‘ e ‘multimídia' da Geração C. Terreno fértil para uma marca como a Camiseteria, portanto. E o Twitter é a bola da vez. Tanto é que a meta do sorteio é conquistar 1.400 seguidores até 15/06. Neste exato momento, um mês antes do prazo, já são 1.305. Eles prometem dobrar o prêmio, caso o volume de seguidores obtidos dobre a meta até a data final. Alguém duvida que consigam? Com o buzz que se criou em torno da promoção (eu fiquei sabendo por meio de uma colega de trabalho) possivelmente a meta será até superada.

Além de o Twitter estar em plena curva ascendente no seu ciclo de desenvolvimento de produto, a ferramenta esconde um enorme poder de fogo por trás da sua aparente simplicidade. Para quem vive da produção de conteúdo é naturalmente um canal de distribuição. Mas é também totalmente aplicável no contexto das relações públicas e da promoção de vendas, como prova a Camiseteria. Mais uma ação inteligente de uma empresa brasileira emergente e a primeira ação de marketing relevante que presencio no Brasil utilizando o Twitter (inspirada em um benchmark estrangeiro, como a própria empresa anuncia).

If you are following like-minded people (in my case primarily marketing or technology folks), you get somewhat personalized access into the knowledge and experience base they hold. Not all tweets have to be laced with wisdom, but each day as I have begun following some thought leaders, I have gained insights into their learning circle by reading online articles that they recommend as they encounter the information first-hand themselves. Most people do not pass on links of stuff that is junk. So, I have found that I am introduced to new material in addition to the blogs I have been reading on my own. This is a refreshing learning process and quite cutting edge.

So here's what I like:

• Interesting insights on cutting edge topics on-the-fly
• A glimpse into the person behind the blog or the online persona
• Meeting some interesting folks from around the globe - all sharing their wisdom
• Asking a question or seeking feedback from your followers and getting remarkable responses in short-order
• Participating in brief and focused online conversations and feedback exchanges

Here's what I don't like:

• People who want to follow you to promote their agenda
• Those who tweet too much (tweets every 5 minutes)
• I still don't really care for what people are eating for supper

The simple solution to the things I don't like is to stop following or block those who are irrelevant to my learning experience.

Here is an interesting site to check out for a couple minutes (but it may show you that not everyone is using Twitter the way I am...and that's OK!): Twitter Vision

Please feel free to enhance my introduction to Twitter by sharing your thoughts and usage experiences and insights. I know I am still scratching the surface with this tech-application and I value your feedback fellow twitterers!

Anyone who thinks it is possible to accurately cover a court case without shorthand is a moron.

Unless and until tape recorders or the like are allowed inside a court that will not change.

If you can't do shorthand you're not a journalist - end of story (no pun intended).

The above quote is attributed to a "Gary." While I can see the reasoning behind this mentality I actually agree with Martin Stabe who replied to Gary's quote, basically making the point that shorthand is only a staple of a j-school education in the UK.

As a journalism student in the U.S. I stumbled upon stories about shorthand speed records and was immediately determined to learn shorthand, all by myself no less.

Here's the kicker, it's next to impossible to find a shorthand book in the U.S. I actually wound up ordering a guide online and I'm not ashamed to admit it's been collecting dust on my shelf.

See I just found the entire process too time-consuming to learn -- different thicknesses, sounds over words, dotted vowels ... I frankly got frustrated and gave up.

Unfortunately for my Pitman book, I've since moved on to learning Gregg shorthand. I still think I can function without it, but I can see moments where it would be useful and I've decided to tack it onto my reading list.

Hey, it's something to do when Twitter's down.

Why am I feeling so old? Tomorrow is my birthday. That’s right, I’m officially older. The oldest person alive…in my house. Tomorrow, I am turning…I can’t even believe I have to come to terms with this…32. Yes, I know what you’re thinking…”Goddamn that’s old!” I know, but you don’t have to rub it in, you…you…you young whippersnapper you. I’d kick your butt for being so disrespectful, but I’m too tired and can’t lift my foot past my ankle. 

Having lived all these countless years (well, not countless…32), I have much wisdom and advice to pass on to the generations that follow me. So young ones, listen closely:

·    When you lose the TV remote control, you can still change the channel. It may require getting up and walking to the TV, but it is possible. If you try really hard, you can also increase and decrease the volume and turn it on and off.

·    There was a time when every other word in the English language was not preceded by the lowercase letter “i.” It’s iEnglish for iGod’s sake—speak properly! Now where did I leave my iPhone?

·    Hannah Montana is not the greatest musical act ever. That honor is reserved for New Kids on the Block. Damn right, “The right stuff, baby!”

·    If you want to learn valuable lessons from someone, go talk to them. Don’t go on the internet and read blogs…wait, ignore that one.

That’s all the lessons I have so far. If someday I live to the ripe old age of 35, I may impart more. Unless dementia kicks in even further, in which case perhaps you can come over and change my diaper. Oh, and pay some of my bills, because chances are that I haven’t for a while…might as well start paying them now, if you don’t mind.

Hold on…be right back…

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…thanks for waiting. It’s amazing how age shrinks your bladder. I had something really important to say…damn dementia!

So as I sit on my virtual rocking chair, swaying back and forth on my Second Life porch, I reminisce about years gone by…the good old days without all this worthless technology…oops, out of time. I have to go check my Twitter page, play some Scrabulous on Facebook, play GTA IV on Xbox Live and watch the game on HDTV, so no more time to blog about the good old days.

*Extending album art: What your favorite albums look like beyond the cover... Did no one mock up that one Sugar Ray album? [tobs]

*Bloggers can feature Amazon MP3 tunes on their blogs now thanks to a widget. In boring news, I haven't blogged about widgets in a long time. [coolfer]

*The New York Times writes up Kanye's space alien aesthetic and his ego. Sure, he can pick on Entertainment Weekly, but what will Mr. West have to say about the paper of record?

*The Office's Creed has a platinum album to his credit with his band, The Grass Roots. [earfarm]

*FlyTunes: Add streaming video from the likes of Comedy Central and NBC to your iPhone. [listening post]

*Video: Machinima music video for The Beatles' "I'm Only Sleeping" made with World of Warcraft. [urlesque]

*They may give Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman busted for music filesharing, another trial.

*Also: The RIAA is on Limewire like crazy. WATCHING YOU.

*Off topic. BusinessWeek on Twitter. If you want to understand social media, read this. [buzzwatch]

http://go.butler.edu/cs/

you can check out this blogpost that talks about it

http://squaredpeg.com/index.php/2008/05/15/using-twitter-for-student-bloggers/

De momento, siguiendo el ejemplo de Juan Varela, lo utilizo para básicamente para informar a mis followers de que he posteado algún nuevo artículo o comentario en este blog. Además, he instalado un widget que vincula Twitter con Facebook, con lo cual, lo que escribo en Twitter aparece automáticamente en Facebook, cosa que facilita mucho la tarea de mantener actualizado Facebook. Todos los días, casi la mitad de las visitas que recibe este blog llegan a través de Facebook o Twitter.

Pero Twitter también puede ser útil para una empresa, como explica Fernando Polo en su blog Abladías (el link me lo envió Oscar Espíritusanto): fomenta los lazos emocionales y el networking, ayuda a crear marca y es fácil de manejar y mantener. En Abladías podrán encontrar "Los 10 mandamientos del Twitter corporativo".

Según un artículo publicado por BusinessWeek, propuesto por Enrique Dans a través de Twitter, esta herramienta 2.0 cuenta con entre medio y un millón de usuarios activos, muchos menos que Facebook (70 millones). Además prevée que una amplia mayoría abandone la aplicación cuando surjan otras más novedosas.

Dort (hier,hier und hier) wurden meine Tweets (so nennt man die kurzen Nachrichten,die man bei Twitter abschickt)  von Twitter auf meinen Blog übertragen.

Hat mir aber nicht so sehr gefallen;unter anderem,weil es zu sehr vom anderen Inhalt ablenkt... deshalb habe ich das Projekt auch wieder beendet.

LoudTwitter

kwiry is a free service that turns text messages into reminders you retrieve online. When you text a reminder (a product to buy, movie trailer to watch, bill to pay, etc.) to 59479 (kwiry) we store it on our website. The next time you're online you can log in to kwiry.com to manage your reminders, see search results for each one, and easily share with friends. See it. Text it. Get it.

Kavinda explains in detail how to get this setup the right way.

Here is the executive summary:

Unlike what is probably thought by some (like me earlier)Twitter is not logged into Gtalk to talk to you. It uses XMPP/Jabber to talk to you. If you have logged into gtalk with your own domain name, how do you think twitter knows that it needs to send the message to gtalk's servers? As Joe Beda explains, it is almost like SMTP. So instead of MX records, Twitter looks up your SRV records from DNS. So to talk to Twitter (and other such apps that will be using this mechanism in the future), you need to setup SRV records for your domain. And that means you need to have complete control over your domain's DNS records.

Unfortunately, that leaves me out of the Twitter-via-IM scene. I use a managed DNS service from ResellerClub, which uses the otherwise wonderful Logicboxes interface. However Logicboxes doesn't allow you to edit SRV records for your domain yet. :( I hope someone high up in Directi sees my plight and makes this one of the highest business priorities in Logicboxes. Not likely. :P

Sigh!

Not only am I now a Twitter addict, but I've started using Twitter add-ons! Here's an overview of the ones I know something about.

TwitBin is an extension for Firefox that allows you to send and receive messages via twitter in your Firefox browser. It's a quick download that shows as an icon in the top bar of Firefox. When you click the icon a window opens on the left-hand side of your browser & you can post a Tweet without leaving the site you're on. I'm using this one & like it - great if you want to post a link.

twhirl is a desktop twitter client, based on the Adobe AIR platform. It allows you to post short 140-character updates about what you are doing, as well as following your twitter friends and read all their updates, replies anyone sends to you, and direct messages to your account. You can also answer to another user by replying or sending him/her a private direct message.

twhirl has a lot of other features, for example looking up other user’s profiles, searching public tweets (powered by terraminds)

The latest version added support to post your updates to two other services, Pownce and Jaiku.

I'm not using this one - but some of my Twitter buddies are & seem to like it.

Summize allows you to search for keywords amongst tweets. You can just type in a word & hit 'search' or you can do an advanced search that allows you to:

For an overview of a whole lot of twitter tools see this article and more at this article.

• I can't connect to it with Twhirl
• I can't connect to it with Firefox
• When I ping www.twitter.com I get 100% packet loss

If only there was some kind of nearly-instant messaging service that could inform me of such outages. ;)

Twitter sure knows how to grab defeat out of the jaws of success. Twitter was featured on BusinessWeek today.

We're talking about this on Gillmor Gang right now, the audio will be up later.

Long-time readers will recall that I went through the same process with Facebook last year. Even though I found some things that Facebook is good for (Susan compares it to collecting one's friends like Hummels), and find it fun to play games with my friends, professionally I've done zilch. Seemingly the moment I was convinced to sign up with Facebook was when Facebook-backlash began. Now people frustrated with Facebook offer plaudits for Twitter instead. So maybe I can be ahead of the curve, or at least on the curve this time. So far I've found that Twitter is a good forum for writing Haiku and publishing Overheard-type comments. If you want to follow me you can find me at http://twitter.com/Othemts.

Here's a typical article Why Twitter Matters from iLibrarian.