David Armano is VP of Experience Design with Critical Mass, a professional services firm with a sweet spot for creating outstanding experiences.
Anil Dash works at Six Apart. The funny thing about Anil’s tweet is the fact that “Dashes” is a clever twist.
According to The New York Times, Michelle Slatalla wanted to keep in touch with her kids via Twitter. But the kids resisted. They said it was spam, pointless and creepy in a surveillance kind of way.
Walter J. Carl, an assistant professor of communications studies at Northeastern University notes:
“The people who I see using it are an older demographic, people in marketing or P.R. or advertising, who use it for work, to present themselves as particular types of people. They’ll twitter, ‘I’m traveling,’ or ‘I’m going to interesting restaurants.’ They’re using it to do identity work.â€
In other words they, or us, as the case may be, are using Twitter as a self-promotion tool, not a conversational tool.
There is a lot of linking to one’s blog post of the hour and that does seem misplaced to me. Followers on Twitter most likely already read the blog in question, so they don’t ned to be driven there.
Eric Rice is a Silicon Valley based artist and designer.
The chumby is a compact device that displays useful and entertaining information from the web using your wireless internet connection.
Even though it’s been around for a while, I just found my way to TwitterLit, a site that offers the first sentence from an unidentified book. Provided that the sentence is less than 140 characters, which is Twitter’s size limit for text.
This offering capitalizes on the widespread like of word games and puzzles. Presently, TwitterLit has 2420 followers on Twitter and offers 541 updates, or posts, each one linked to an Amazon page where one can purchase the book in question. The service is a brilliant use of Amazon Associates and Twitter.
I’m using Twitter today for note-sharing on the panels I’m attending at BlogSavannah Unconference 2008.
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about unconferences:
An unconference is a conference where the content of the sessions is created and managed by the participants (generally day-by-day during the course of the event) rather than by one or more organizers in advance of the event. The term is primarily used in the geek community.
Tim Siedell is co-founder of Fusebox, a highly regarded brand communications studio in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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