Random Articles

• Twitter Ends Friendship In a move that should rock the ’social network space’, Twitter just removed the vague, confusing, juvenile label of ‘friend‘, replacing it with the more descriptive ‘following‘ 1. Aside from the label being more accurate 2 it creates a nice symmetry with ‘followers‘. You and I could say ‘friend‘ is the overlap between the two, but
• Short Message Silo  Jaiku’s growth strategy is getting Twitter’s overflow. But only if you look at it from a winner-take-all, one-silo-for-everyone, perspective. Look at email. I like Apple’s Mail.app. Lots of other people like Gmail. I still know people that swear by Eudora. Despite the different applications, we all still get the messages from each other. The short
• …And They Asked 4 Followers, And They Asked 4 Followers Something I wrote on Twitter a couple weeks ago: “…2 questions: a) What if there was an open source, more effective alternative to Google search? b) What if Twitter is that alternative?” Today, Four Reasons Why Twitter is the Next Google writes: “Not only has Twitter inadvertently taken crowdsourcing to search, it has actually taken it a step
• Introducing the TwittergramHijacking Script TwittergramHijacking is a little Applescript glue that makes it easy to send Twittergrams by connecting AudioHijackPro to Dave Winer’s Twittergram service. More info at the TwittergramHijacking page. Thanks to Adario Strange at the Wired Epicenter blog for the link.
• QSPress - Quicksilver and WordPress Make Me Twitter I’m with Aaron, I don’t quite get Twitter. If you want to know what’s on my mind…read this blog. What I do get about Twitter is really, really fast publishing. The faster, the better. So, I cooked up a little script (11 lines) to post directly to this blog from Quicksilver. If you’ve got a WordPress