Over the weekend, we picked up a little stuffed IKEA octopus (technically a pentapus) for C. On the drive back, I remembered of working the strawberry fields listening to the Beatles on a cassette Walkman over and over and over again (an irony I only now see). Discovering and rediscovering each album. As I tried …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
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 …
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 Facebook, …
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For me, it’s numbers
For me, it’s numbers 10, 17, 5 – in that order.
Client Blogging: Joanne Henry
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been setting up a blog for Joanne Henry co-founder of the Henry Schafer Partners marketing. When I sat down to walk her through WordPress, she already had 3 posts ready to go. She’s been steady since. Which is great, her writing style is perfect for blogging – informal, …
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. …
Podcasting as Voicemail 2.0
“Twittergrams, eh, this feels kinda like recording my voicemail message…” – bossplot, aka Ross Plotkin There, Someone other than me says it. 🙂
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.
TwitterGram – Front-end Napkin Sketch
Like ququoo.com, I see Twittergram front-ends existing on-top-of, but for all intents and purposes independent from Twitter.com proper – using Twitter’s infrastructure for authentication, messaging, but otherwise very distinctive from Twitter as it has stabilized. The above sketch is heavily inspired by Twitterific, which is an OK fit. Something is still missing from it though. …
A Middle Man’s a Middle Man
“Apple is no different than Best Buy, Wal-Mart, or RIAA….No modern consumer is going to stop listening to their favorite band because Circuit City doesn’t carry their CD.” – Benn Jordan Benn’s post is one of the many articles online showing how little compensation musicians receive from the business organizations that are said to be …