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A call for twitter clients interoperability

Posted in Ideas, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Image via Wikipedia A basic one at least. With the advent of the second gen twitter clients, which support, among other things, groups, users are confronted with higher barriers to entry and exit: In all clients, the painstakingly prepared groups are hardwired in the client. No easy way to get them out. When one desires  [...]

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Change the web, Social Entrepreneurship and a new 80/20

Posted in Ideas, Personal, Startups, tagged , , on April 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Some days ago I got glimpse in twitter of the Change the Web challenge. I took a look at it, to discover the underlying Social Action web site and its API. The Challenge was about using this API for a new innovative web application or widget. For some reason this appealed to me, although I [...]

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Filter this!

Posted in Ideas, tagged , , , , on December 21, 2008 |

Image via Wikipedia Cesar Rocchi of Posty wrote, on a guest post to Luis Gray’s blog,  a simple “Guide to Unfollow Uninteresting Twitterers” In general, I agree with what he says but here I want to elaborate a bit on his first rule, because, although quite natural, it is a bit unfair. The rule goes [...]

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I have a dream (of social bookmarking)!

Posted in Ideas, Technology, tagged , , , , , , on August 21, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Back in the end of 2007, half a year after Google Reader had launched the sharing feature, I had an idea of a new service that would aggregate all the shared items and sort them according to the number of times one post was shared. As it usually happens with the new ideas, somebody else [...]

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A surplus of ideas? Part with them!

Posted in Ideas on August 18, 2008 |

In his blogpost “A brilliant idea at Harvard“, Dave Winer says (bold is mine): Before I started blogging, I held many if not most of my good ideas in reserve because I thought some day I might do them as products. But as you get older, you realize that most of the things you think [...]

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Crowdsourcing blogposts

Posted in Business, Ideas, Social media, tagged , , , , , on August 4, 2008 | 13 Comments »

Smashing magazine is running a contest to find new professional writers and is giving a MacBook Air as a prize. While I was contemplating whether it would make sense for me to participate in the contest, I started thinking about the general issue that a high profile/traffic blog or site encounters: how to find and [...]

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identi.ca: Is there a business model for federated microblogging?

Posted in Business, Ideas, Tech News, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Image via Wikipedia In the past two days a wind of optimism blows over the tech blogosphere: identi.ca, the  microblogging service of Evan Prodromou, made  it’s debut,  throwing the dice for two very important issues: Scalability  and innovation. Scalabitity has been tantalizing twitter to the point of causing a mass user exodus. Twitter competitors (Pownce, [...]

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