dailytwitter at #FOWA
Ok I made for the first time to the FOWA big gig of the year, just like every other tom, dick and harry is probably writing a blog from the event.
So to try and differentiate and spice things up, I thought I would do something a little different…
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dailytwitter explains the sub-prime mess
Ok, i had this little gem passed to me from a colleague in thailand, some Canadian dood - am sure he will warm to that - if he reads this. Anyhow, i digress. Its a quick powerpoint comedy slide that explains in plain english the whole US Sub prime mess - after 2 mins you will understand why the Wall Street Bankers - are laughing now at the prospect of $700billion bail out.
Download the preso here its about 2.4Mb and is a Powerpoint PPS - so it should run across Macs and PC’s
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dailytwitter investment analysis…
A colleague of mine sent me this interesting analysis on investment following recent turmoil in the Money Markets. I like his thinking, its quite thought provoking. This is also supported by @gapingvoid tweet on alcohol in NYNY…
- If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago they would now be worth £4.95
- With HBOS, your £1000 would have been worth £16.50,
- £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5,
- but if you bought £1000 worth of Tennents Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would get £214.
So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle.
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iphone and wordpress
iPhone and wordpress let’s see what we can do. So here I am with the worlds smallest keyboard, writing a few words to see how simple it is to post a blog and a couple of pictures. Hmmm ok so far, took less than I thought!
Now to a picture!
Oh yes, the picture… That’s the view when your busy writing a blog post using your iPhone. So be careful walking into lampposts becomes second nature.
iPhone + Wordpress = Easy peasy!
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dailytwitter is still alive n breathing
holy smoke, its been far too long since i wrote on this blog, so i am just doing my little update to say howdy and yes i know i have been lazy and shall be doing something about it very soon - renewed vigour and all that.
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make up! make up! now how do i look?!
i think using seesmic is much more fun than i thought, besides needing some lighting, and a better set up - it’s something i will be doing a lot more often - have a look see and let me know how bad i am on camera! hmmm maybe i need script writer and makeup!
have to take my hat off to @loiclemeur seesmic rocks!
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its all gone custom these days… your own dailytwitter
I have been giving some thought to the concept of extending the tools i am building into the public domain - so they will enable the user to create their own dailytwitter page.
In such a way that a user can create something such as london.dailytwitter.com, or davao.dailytwitter.com - the concept is simple, give an audience the means to create their own newspaper - its not a new concept, the whole blogging scene created this capability, so i am not bring anything new to the party. The exception i feel is that i am able to provide the users with the means to filter and build their own view of the twitter social network.
Make sense? I hope so, as i am excited at the prospect of being able to provide the means to potentially create a new focus for twitter.
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alive and kicking
Its been a while since i took out wordpress from the dusty corner of my Mac Book Pro and decided to write a few words for my blog. In fact its been far too bloody long - however, i am still active and still working on this project - having lost focus for a while, progress has been made.
There have been quite a few sites springing up here and there that i have noticed that are beginning to offer some semblance of order around the tweets that emanate from twitter (during the up time) and these appear to be basic sites that lack many of the features that i was hoping to see - such as recommendations, customisation and effective filtering.
Filtering is key to removing half the dross, in fact three quarters of the dross that appears in the public timeline - this is not an easy task.
Twitinks is making good steps in that direction, by editorialising the content - not scaleable, as you run in to deep water when you branch out in to other content genres.
Tweetwire.com appears to be some form of syndicated RSS from Summize.com. just a dump of tweets that need a little tweaking - nice one - check it out - tad US centric, but is interesting concept.
Oh and i found this thing called Scoopler - a blog, with the site in the making - hasn’t got far yet - but sounds interesting - think there will be some cross over with www.dailytwitter.com once it launches.
Summize i find interesting in that it is bringing together the conversations, and you can search on a key word - but yet again the filtering is pretty awful and searching for say ’scuba diving’ just brings back a whole heap of content that is intelligible and lacking context.
So my point is that there is a better way to filter the conversation, and it isn’t about trying to filter the conversations - it is about identifying which conversations to follow - that is the key here. So think a while on that notion, that rather than trying to filter all the noise, just listen to a proportion of it.
I hear you say ’so how do you find the right conversations’?
Well besides making sure you have your ear to the ground in the right places, its more about asking everyone in the conversation who they recommend - that way you get to crowd sourcing. Gedit? Hmmm….
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groovy design, nice GUI, easy to use
I came across digsby on twitter recently from a post from a tech geek @pk2004 - have a look see what you think - its interesting little widget that lets you do a heap of things to keep in touch with your friends. If i get time i will have review later today and update this post.
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out with the old - new dailytwitter designs
Having spent a little too long away from the likes of Photoshop and Illustrator i took to my Mac Book Pro recently and have found new vigour and drive to build this site and start to put into place some alpha code which will bring about the creation of a working site. Having found a potential developer in San Diego to help out on a mutual favour basis, i should have this up and running in the next few weeks.
So without further a do, here is the mockup of the homepage - one thing i am missing, and i have the designer in mind to help me create this, is the brand/identity which it will surely need.
The design is based around a simple modular approach of having discrete channels for collection of tweets. Whole principle has now also included the idea of having each user create and add their own tweets, as they see fit rather, than have the editorial picks. This makes for a much more interesting set of options not only for the user but for dailytwitter…
Am not going to write bucket loads about the design, just take a look see your self and drop a comment, with ideas, thoughts and banter. HTML version coming out soon, so watch this space.
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Word of the day
ubiquitous
\yoo-BIK-wih-tuhs\, adjective: Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time.
