The Very Last Thing I'll Write About Twitter. I have an odd mental relationship with my former employer. Clearly, I wouldn’t have worked there for three and a half years if I didn’t care about the product and the community. But then, I wouldn’t have left if I really wanted to see that commitment through. I have an investment of stock in the company, of course, but more importantly I have an investment of time and emotional energy. I’ve walked away from the job, but that investment has made it difficult to truly detach myself from it, as excited as I am to be doing what I’m doing now. Next week our team at BankSimple gathers together in person for the first time to kick off development in earnest. As a disclaimer: nobody at Twitter has read or edited this post, nor am I privy to any insider communication from Twitter and its employees.
#newtwitter Whenever Twitter announces anything, I’m filled with a mix of excitement, resentment, pride, and dread. The Changing Role of the Platform Twitter As A Medium vs Twitter As A Business. Collaborative bookmarking with lists. Earlier this month we added stars in search so that you can easily mark and rediscover your favorite websites. Today we’re debuting lists in Google Bookmarks, an experimental new feature that helps you easily share those sites with friends.
Bookmarks are a great way to keep track of your favorite content across the web and we want to help you share them with your friends. To use lists, visit Google Bookmarks at google.com/bookmarks or by clicking “Manage all” in your Google Toolbar. From there, select the links you want to share and click “Copy to list.” Lists are private by default, but once you’ve created one you can share it with specific friends or even publish it to the web.
For example, if a friend of yours is visiting Seattle for the first time and you have some local attractions bookmarked, you might want to create a new list for “Seattle attractions” and share it with your friend. Sharing lists can help you collaborate with your friends on common interests or activities. All Twitter’s Chirp announcements in one handy list. A lot was announced at Twitter’s Chirp conference yesterday. Whether you missed it or you just want to make sure that something important didn’t pass you by, here’s our list of all the essential news from the event, with links to read more about each. The big stuff Twitter is taking geolocation to the next level and will associate tweets with specific landmarks.
Rather than just a grid reference, it could identify that there are tweets coming from named restaurant, bar, park etc. Read more details and read our analysisFrom next quarter, metadata will be able to added to tweets. Think “invisible hashtags” but with a lot more flexibility. Read more detailsFollowing controversy over Twitter’s handling of its developer community, the company is launching dev.twitter.com, a site that will focus on developer relations. Bits and pieces {*style:<ul>*}{*style:<li>*}Twitter has over 105 million users. Putting email in context with Gmail contextual gadgets. Facebook fait du web (sémantique), et alors ? “Oh mon dieu, Facebook fait du web sémantique, mais c’est horrible !” Se sont écriés à la fois le gros newbe du web et Alex Iskold, CEO de la startup très sémantique et bientôt disparu: GetGlue . Le gros newbe du web dit que c’est horrible car il pense que Facebook va l’espionner pour revendre ses informations aux chinois du FBI.
Et Alex Iskold dit que c’est horrible car il vient de jeter un oeil au code de Facebook et c’est moins beau que ce qu’il a développé en 4 ans, avec $6 M . Donc à part les gens qui n’y connaissent rien et les concurrents, l’entrée de Facebook dans le web sémantique a été saluée plutôt positivement et tous suivent les évolutions du protocole OGP ( Open Graph Protocol ) et son utilisation de RDFa. Le web sémantique c’est le web en mieux Alors si Facebook décide de se mettre au web sémantique c’est normal de s’attendre à de nouveaux bénéfices, de nouveaux services et de nouvelles perspectives de monétisation. Share Uncategorized. Trailmeme and the Web of Intent. The quickened pace of content production and distribution have created a stream of information that we have trouble focusing our attention on, much less our intention. Establishing (indeed, re-establishing) a true Web of Intent will require different interaction with the stream, one that insists on active participation and creative work, rather than passive consumption.
A Web of Intent is a participatory web: a web where we’re active consumers of content. Webs of Intent are an extension of the remix culture that has emerged. Intention is actually taking action, expending some energy or effort to do something. Intention is a lot more expensive, cognitively speaking, than merely attending. The power of collective intention is literally what changes the world, but we don’t have the tools to direct it yet. We need intent-centric products and services that contextualize the stream, and propel publishing in a more meaningful and actionable form.
Trailmeme. The Future Will Be Personalized. When my partners and I joined MySpace, we were lucky enough to be at the leading edge of the social revolution that changed how we use the Internet. A new groundswell is coming, transforming the web once again: the personal revolution. Information Overload Today, we live in a world where we’re constantly overwhelmed by information. There are over 90M tweets per day, 34 hours of YouTube video uploaded every minute, and every Facebook user has an average of 130 friends who are becoming more and more active all the time.
We also experience this with content farms flooding search results and with the thousands of articles available everyday on traditional websites like the New York Times and ESPN: of which only a handful appeal to each of our individual interests. The rampant proliferation of information isn’t a new phenomenon. Their Web: The Early Days of The Internet In the early days, content was created and organized by professionals. Our Web: Present Day Your Web: The Future. Gravity.