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…
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A call for twitter clients interoperability
Tagged with: AlertThingy, Client, export, import, interoperability, Seesmic Desktop, TweetDeck, Twitter
Posted in Ideas, Technology
Posted in Ideas, Technology
Change the web, Social Entrepreneurship and a new 80/20
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…
Tagged with: entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, Startups
Posted in Ideas, Personal, Startups
Posted in Ideas, Personal, Startups
Filter this!
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…
I have a dream (of social bookmarking)!
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…
Tagged with: Aggregator, digg, google reader, Netvibes, readburner, rssmeme, social bookmarking
Posted in Ideas, Technology
Posted in Ideas, Technology
A surplus of ideas? Part with them!
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…
Posted in Ideas
Crowdsourcing blogposts
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…
Tagged with: blogposts, crowdsourcing, Idea, Publishing, social web, writing
Posted in Business, Ideas, Social media
Posted in Business, Ideas, Social media
identi.ca: Is there a business model for federated microblogging?
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…
Tagged with: advertising, business models, Jaiku, microblogging, Open source, plurk, Pownce, Twitter, Web 2.0
Posted in Business, Ideas, Tech News
Posted in Business, Ideas, Tech News
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