06/06/2009

Twitter on TIME Magazine Cover

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"I've written this week's TIME cover story about how Twitter is changing the way we live--and showing us the future of innovation. Buy a copy!"

I think it's significant that TIME chose iPhone as the Twitter platform. If you don't see strong relationships between Twitter and mobile, put it this way, you don't blog on your mobile but you tweet on your mobile. And you know why.

By the way, Oprah has been on Twitter for a while too. (Visit Oprah's Twitter)

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"It's entirely possible that three or four years from now, we'll have moved on. But the key elements of the Twitter platform will persevere. Every major channel of information will be Twitterfied."

"Twitterfy" is another new English verb.

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"Although Twitter trails over Web giants, its explosive growth over the past year means it could soon catch up"

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"Websites that once saw their traffic dominated by Google search queries are seeing a growing number of new visitors coming from "passed links" at social networks like Twitter and Facebook. This is what the naysayers fail to understand:it's just as easy to use Twitter to spread the word about a brilliant 10,000-word New Yorkers article as it is to spread the word about your Lucky Charms habit."

"In short, the most facinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it".

P.S. I took all of the photos at Borders and had a second thought and bought a copy.:P

Read more...

How Twitter will change the way we live.


02/16/2009

Social media, mobile phones, and the Borg... A human evolution?

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As I look out over the landscape I can’t help but notice we might be evolving into another lifeform...  The Borg.  The ability to communicate around the world in real time with as many people that are willing to listen is incredible.  FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, texting, IM, mobile calls, emails... zzzt zzz zzzt (electronic) snap!  I think this will continue to evolve in as many different ways as the human psyche is different (this could get even more scary people).  But the fact that we can communicate what we want with anyone we want from anywhere (literally) is truly amazing...  I know we’ve all incorporated this into the routine of our modern lives but think what would happen if you handed Caesar an iPhone...  It would blow his mind.    But I wonder with all this being ‘connected’ if there will be a breaking down of the things that define our individuality... Our languages, cultures, music, and traditions.  Will we loose our beautiful shades of color and evolve into the one all-knowing shapeless consciousness that is the Borg?  Only time will tell.

02/13/2009

Random thoughts on Lifecasting.

Mobile's ability to connect anywhere makes it the obvious tool for Lifecasting. In the next few years, the number of people Lifecasting is going to increase. It has to do largely with more advanced technology and faster network speeds. But it also has a lot do with our (peoples') comfortability with mobile technology and social media. Twitter, Facebook and other social media services continue to grow in popularity and therefore create broader awareness and acceptance of innovative uses of media and technology.

Here are a few interesting ones...



01/12/2009

TwitterBerry.

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TwitterBerry is awesome. Created by Orangatame Software, TwitterBerry is a native mobile app for posting updates to Twitter. It works over the data network, so it doesn't require SMS.

Supported devices:
  • BlacKBerry Storm (garbage)
  • BlacKBerry Bold  
  • BlackBerry Curve (8300, 8310, 8320, 8330) Series
  • BlackBerry 8800 Series
  • BlackBerry Pearl (8100, 8110, 8120, 8130, 8220, 8230) Series
  • BlackBerry 8700 Series
  • BlackBerry 7130 Series
  • BlackBerry 7100 Series
  • BlackBerry 7200 Series
  • BlackBerry 7520