Twitter rolls out user galleries, which show every image you've tweeted - Twitter. Today, Twitter announced it’s rolling out “user galleries,” which aggregate the images you’ve uploaded in your Tweets into an organized page for your viewing pleasure. Images are collected from multiple photo services including yFrog, TwitPic, Instagram and of course, Twitter itself for all tweets sent after January 1st, 2010. User galleries will appear on your user profile and will display up to 100 of your most recent images in your Tweets, in chronological order. For the time being, video thumbnails will not be included. To use: Go to any Twitter profile page. How to write Interactive Fiction for Twitter « total cruft.
Abandon all hope: 39 ways to die! [Updated with new insights] Growing up, the first taste I had for interactive media was through “Choose Your Own Adventure” books, which ended each scene with a choice that the reader must make. One choice may continue the plot-line, one might take you on a tangent, and the third would lead to certain doom. Each book varied dramatically in complexity and usually boasted on the front cover the vast number of possible endings… of which, most were death or detention. I loved those books. Given that Twitter limits all content to just 140 characters, how could anyone write a meaningful narrative, much less an interactive one? Planning Obviously the story would have to be broken across multiple tweets and linked by shortened URLs. Then, I needed a way to efficiently write and edit in only 140 characters.
Chapter One--SPOILERS! Enter Apple’s Numbers app. Changing Background Images So that’s what I did. In my case, I wanted seven different backgrounds. Post Mortem. Yahki :: Tell it | Share It | Follow It. Scribd. ¿Qué hacemos con Facebook? Hace poco reflexionaba sobre la impermanencia como característica de Twitter. El twittero lucha para invertir la impermanencia _él o su mensaje_. En Facebook ocurre lo mismo… y a la vez no. Porque Facebook, aun siendo efímero, se basa en dos puntos: el muro del usuario y, sobre todo, el círculo de amistades.
La clave de la conversación es el nodo. Si se fijan un poco, aquí hay mucha información sobre mí Mi wall de Facebook se parece mucho a la pared de mi despacho, donde ahora mismo estoy viendo una foto de mi perro, un calendario del maestro Hokusai, un poster de Star Wars, un corcho con recibos, otro poster de Star Wars, un template de Gary Hayes, otro poster de Star Wars, citas de Billy Wilder y volantes del médico. La palabra muro nunca se usó con más precisión. Lo primero que deberíamos preguntarnos es qué no hacer: FB no es Twitter, no es una red de blogs, ni es un foro, aunque comparta aplicaciones y rasgos con los tres. Se llama Luca Eso es lo que hace en su muro Luca el zombi. Introducing webdoc - a platform to mashup and share any web content - Smarter Creativity. Invisible Cities. By Maria Popova What social media activity has to do with the literal lay of the land. In December, the now-infamous map of Facebook friendships revealed an uncanny cartography of the world depicted purely through social relationships data.
Now, a project by Christian Marc Schmidt and Liangjie Xia is taking the concept ambitiously further: Invisible Cities is a transmedia mapping project, displaying geocoded activity from social networks like Twitter and Flickr within the context of an actual urban map — a visceral, literal embodiment of something VURB‘s Ben Cerveny has called “the city as a platform,” the idea that cities are informational media and living computational systems for urban society. By revealing the social networks present within the urban environment, Invisible Cities describes a new kind of city — a city of the mind.”
Individual nodes appear whenever real-time activity takes place and the underlying terrain represents aggregate activity. Via Creators Project. Ustream’s New Facebook App Offers Powerful Storytelling Potential. Intersect. Intersect FAQ AKA “What happened to intersect.com?” Looking for your intersect.com stories? Confused about why you’re here instead? Click through the questions below for more information: Who are you and what have you done with Intersect? Storyful. HOW TO: Play Recorded Twitter Conversations In Sync With Your Favorite Shows. Watching television shows at the time they air is so 2000s — about 40% of US households now own a DVR and another 40% regularly watch long form video online.
Viewers who want to pair real-time online conversation with television, however, are still left out when it comes to television-on-demand. Startup service TweePlayer, which launched its public beta Tuesday, aims to provide a solution for these viewers that gives the best of both worlds. The product records real-time conversations surrounding television events and syncs them with recorded episodes. Users can select Twitter conversations from shows, sporting events or award shows to play as they watch the recorded event on their televisions.
So far, the startup has a list of about 5,000 events for which it is recording conversations based on dynamic target keywords. Eventually the company plans to give users an option to create more specific conversation channels. [data via NYT and Park Associates] Twitter como herramienta para contar historias. ‘Concision takes precision’: David Folkenflik’s tips for writing mini-narratives on Twitter. Twitter Fiction. Twitter is a rapidly growing social networking platform that allows members to send messages of 140 characters or less to other members who subscribe to, or "follow," their updates. Twitter asks the question, "What are you doing? " but many Twitter users go far beyond the mundane, using the platform in creative ways. A number of writers have started experimenting with using the Twitter platform for "publishing" fiction.
Twitter fiction takes many forms, from microfiction, in which an entire story is told in 140 characters or less, to longer fiction delivered in Twitter-sized blocks of 140 characters. Below this is a directory of fiction on Twitter, of all types. Clare Bell, author of the Named series, is Tweeting a new, original novelette in the series. Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror fiction ezine. Caitlin Twitter | The Social Robot. 09Nov Category: Et cetera, Kelsey Comments: By Caitlin Burns Social Media and New Media go hand in hand in the entertainment industry, but for years what people have seen presented is the same material, be it a commercial, TV program, film or short simply repurposed again and again from big screen to cell phone to YouTube to Facebook.
While that repurposed content may be brilliant and entertaining, it has a fairly short shelf life, easily displaced by the next viral fad. So what is the next step? Create stories using social media - storify.com. Chaîne de UneHistoire. Welcome to Story Chip - a global collaborative history - Story Chip. All Stories. Chaîne de SearchStories.