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• I’m hesitant to build too much on top of… I’m hesitant to build too much on top of Twitter. Not just because of their historic instability, but because they’re a single silo - and each day brings a yet another silo. With Ququoo.com, I’m relying on Twitter for registration. With the Twittergram work I’m doing, it’s that and a little bit more. Unlike
• Chatter - Friendly Tumble Blogging “Garrick knocks Pownce … what will he think of Chatter?” - Bruno Bornsztein Finally, a web app that knows how to handle a new account - Bruno sends me an invite via email. I click the link. Chatter asks me my name - then emails me a password. That’s it. Beautiful. If you’re building or have built an
• Twittergrams: Guarding the Rhino  (photo CNN) In Swahili the tick bird is named ‘askari wa kifaru,’ meaning ‘the rhino’s guard.’ The bird eats ticks it finds on the rhino and noisily warns of danger. Although the birds also eat blood from sores on the rhino’s skin and thus obstruct healing, they are still tolerated. Take a look at what you need
• Hictu.com Has Audio & Video Twittergrams Looks like Hictu.com already has the Flash-based recorder Dave talked about. Like Jaiku, you can add other feeds to your profile basically aggregating and auto-posting. No, Hictu doesn’t have an API (at least obviously). Ha. Punny. Yes, the ‘micro-blogging’ space is getting as silly as the social network, ’start page’, and to-do list manager spaces. Too many
• Wanted: More Publishers and Better Filters David Newberger and I were talking about information filtering models and much of the thinking behind Feedseeder came though as did a couple much larger issues. The conversation was so good, I thought you’d enjoy it as well. David: I was talking with a few people today and each one mentioned Information Overload in the seperate