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Dipity: a great execution of social time

January 2, 2009 in User experience, Web 2.0, flickr, twitter by Stephen | No comments

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Having spent quite a lot of the last two years thinking about timelines, Dipity appears to be a fantastic tool for playing with your social activity across a timeline. The site also allows you to view your activity in other ways, including a map view or a flip-book.

Nice…

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The Cult of the Amateur Professional

November 3, 2008 in Social web, Web 2.0, flickr, twitter by Stephen | No comments

It seems my return to blogging is out of time. The blogosphere is now rife with professional bloggers, online magazines and long-form writers, according to Wired. Instead it’s much easier to post pictures to Flickr and send Twitter updates.

True ‘dat.

But I guess it depends what you want or need out of writing in public…and if audience size ain’t your prerogative or you’re not eking out a living from your bloggy skills then what the hell. It’s not gonna stop me, I tell you…

UPDATE: Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008 seems to point the same way, although it’s interesting that it backs up blogging as being a more reflective approach to writing than many of the upstart microblogging tools allow.

I agree – blogging for me has always been about the ritual of deepening my knowledge in a particular issue. It forces you to critique, to have a position and to enter the conversation…assuming that you have an engaged audience, of course. Otherwise you’re blowing smoke into a gale…

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Exhaust data

December 12, 2007 in Community, Social web, User experience, Web 2.0, digital, twitter by Stephen | 1 comment

This is an interesting and thought-provoking piece on the nature of the communication that flows between people using so-called ‘micro-blogging’ tools. Interesting because of the number of times I’ve heard people criticise the kind of “banal, pointless chatter” that goes on through channels like Twitter or Facebook. Am I really interested in the minutiae of my friends and colleagues’ lives?   Read the rest of this entry »

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Multimap twitterbot

June 21, 2007 in Mapping, Mobile, User experience, Web 2.0, digital, mashup, multimap, twitter by Stephen | 2 comments

Multimap have been integrated their service with Twitter to produce….their Twitterbot.

What is it you ask? Well, to be honest, it is a little arcane, and quite a long way from being natural language. It’s definitely cool, because Colm says so -  but guys, surely you could a better job of explaining what you might actually do with it ;) ?

Where I think this could get very powerful is if someone  builds a mobile app that fires off SMS to Twitter with GPS data – and allows the user to build up a library of regularly used commands. Or would that cannibalise the current Multimap mobile offering?