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April 17th, 2008

Are better applications the solution to the information firehose?

The information firehose is something that we all suffer from nowadays. I won’t even use the incremented number of Web x.0, that’s just foolish marketing, but we are beginning to try to tame the information beast by pulling more together. Is that the right course and will it save us?
If services won’t save us, will […]

By Tris Hussey -- 5 comments

April 7th, 2008

Marshall is right, Twhirl and Seesmic do give us a glimpse into the future of communications

The future is the information stream
Last week one of the big news items was Seesmic acquiring the Twitter client Twhirl.  This was bantered around a lot, but Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/WriteWeb really nailed it, I think.  Without hype or hyperbole Marshall saw what I saw as well–this is a glimpse of what we’ll be doing […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

April 5th, 2008

Time for a Victoria Tweetup

After the success of Thursday’s DemoCampVictoria01 and reading Mack’s post today about getting a tweetup going in Edmonton–EdmontonTweetup anyone? at MasterMaq’s Blog–I think it’s time we have one of our own.
There are certainly enough geeks and techies in Victoria and if this Twitterlocal pull of twitter users within 20 miles of Victoria (that’s about 30 […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

March 27th, 2008

Why is Twitter winning when it isn’t the best? It’s the swarm and peeps who win out.

Tim Walker and I were chatting on Twitter this morning about Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce.  It started with my question: “How many folks here also update Pownce and Jaiku? Both have fallen off my radar, eventhough both have more features.”
Sure I could update both Pownce and Jaiku through Twhirl, but why?  I don’t go there […]

By Tris Hussey -- 5 comments

March 6th, 2008

What are you doing? The question that Twitter answers, but it’s more than that

Lee and Sachi posted another of their great “x in plain English” videos and today it’s Twitter–Video: Twitter in Plain English | Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English.

Since Lee and Sachi work really hard at keeping things simple, they missed what I like most about Twitter: fast information and connections.
Like this morning … I […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

February 10th, 2008

Twitter as the new email and killer app. Now is the time to grow it

Twitter.  Ah Twitter, love it mostly, hate it sometimes.  A little experiment that has just grown into something that none of us could have imagined a year ago (remember when Twitter had its explosion during SXSW?).  And now it’s time for it to grow.  Assetbar has an interesting proposal, something that is analogous to email, […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

February 8th, 2008

Twemes takes the clutter from Twitter and makes a meme tracker

I got home and checked out Rebecca’s live blogging from DemoCampVancouver05 just in time to catch mentions of a new Vancouver-based service-site called #Twemes:
6:13There were no winners (and no losers) and no prizes to be given, but the room is now warmed up for the first demo by Rochelle (one of my fellow Tech Women […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

January 28th, 2008

WordPress Prologue Theme could brings what’s missing to Twitter-Groups

Marshall Kirkpatrick and I were chatting tonight and he mentioned the new WP theme called “Prologue” that has some very Twitter-like features.  We were also both musing how we were sitting chatting at DEMO while other folks were blogging it.  Of course if you can’t be first–be smarter (I think Marshall might beat me in […]

By Tris Hussey -- 4 comments