Robert Scoble, on what he wants to see in future editions of Windows:
I want everything I touch to be socialized. Why doesn’t Outlook know anything about Facebook? Why don’t my photos automatically get pushed to Flickr? Why don’t I have a news app on my desktop that brings in Tweets from Twitter? Why aren’t notifications [...]
Wired highlights some of the widely-spread, widely-believed, totally untrue statements made on Twitter this year:
Bill O’Reilly is gay (Jan.) // Rick Sanchez is high on crack and might not be coming into work today (Jan.) // Britney Spears is dead (March) // Pork gives you swine flu (April) // Google is buying Twitter (April) // [...]
It seems that Apple is having employees — retail employees, at least — post some fine print on their Twitter accounts.
Here are a few examples I’ve come across over the last few days:
The comments and views shared on this or any other site are not shared by Apple or any affiliated parties…They belong to [...]
With Twitter’s 140-charcter limit on updates, several URL shortening service cropped up in the last 18 months out of nowhere.
A few months ago, Twitter added bit.ly support to its homepage, effectively making it the most popular URL shortener out there.
It didn’t help rival tr.im:
tr.im is now in the process of discontinuing service, effective immediately. Statistics [...]
Yahoo News:
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales is concerned that excessive use of emails and mobile phone text messaging is creating shallow friendships and undermining community life, according to an interview published on Sunday.
Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, also said that popular social networking sites led young people to [...]
CNN, quoting AOL:
Today was a seminal moment in Internet history. We’ve never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth.
Twitter, AIM, Google News, TMZ, the LA Times and other sites all suffered outages as news broke about Michael Jackson late yesterday.
John Welch:
All this shit, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, DoucheBlog, all of it, is just people talking to each other, in a fairly direct way. It’s analgous to a telephone. You don’t really think much about the phone system, it’s only there to allow you to talk to someone far away. Same thing for online shit. [...]
Time has posted a piece about a service I never knew existed:
Presto and Celery, which both launched in 2006, deliver e-mail printouts almost in real-time because they require subscribers to purchase hardware to handle incoming messages. (In addition to personal updates and interesting articles, caregivers can send reminders about doctors’ appointments or family functions.) Celery [...]
From Open Press Wire:
Are you tired of hearing it yet? I sure am. It seems Twitter has fostered an extreme steroid fed bacterial growth of social media experts, social media gurus and super follower magnates. Unfortunately there isn’t much of an antibiotic floating around to separate the experts from the idiots. If you weren’t aware [...]
Oh brother:
Even if you’re not the type of person who uses Facebook or Twitter yourself, there’s no denying that these new forms of connection and communication are powerful and becoming increasingly important. That’s why your business should be on Twitter now.
Haven’t we already covered this?
Twitter tips are not included in the list of reasons I read [...]
