Everybody is innovating on the Twitter experience but Twitter
My post yesterday about the Microblogging Conference didn’t really say much, and to prevent conditions to go worse I stayed at home today. While following a discussion on the livestream, where journalists discuss there predicaments with the microblogging environment, I can’t help but be astounded. Cem noted yesterday that two popular twitter apps, twhirls and twibble, have there originis in or near Hamburg, and both innovators where present yesterday. Even more, while Tilo presented the new twibble on stage in the afternoon, Marco from twhirl enjoyed his panel a lot and as far as I was watching, didn’t say anything about a new release. Then this morning I woke up to a flood of messages in which Loic discussed the new twhirl release. Factor in Friendfeed’s continous technical innovations and, what’s more, Steve Rubel and Steve Gillmor’s habitual innovations, it seems that everybody is leveraging the twitter experience to new heights, except Twitter. I am not even talking about track, and of course I am glad the service is some what stable at the moment. But, with the media exposure from Mumbay, Gaza and the Hudson River landing, now would be the time to re-new the contracts with the users. Make the service really usable, introduce the business model even.
But no. Just the static everybody is so used to.
(cross-posted to sebastiankeil.de)
Taking the phone off the grid: I’m in
Kevin over at jkOnTheRun has issued a challenge to himself, and asks who’s with him? The challenge is to keep the iPhone of the power grid aka not charging it with neither power adapter nor computer, instead using a solar charger.
I love it and I’m game, just had to get the tool. I can’t stay completely off the Mac I think, due to my podcast consumption, but I’ll try to download those too, let’s see what it will do to power supply. Usually, I get around 3 days out of the iPhone, that should be enough for the solar charger to reload, the manual says maximum 10 hours of sun shine. All I need to do now is get some rechargable batteries tomorrow, load up the iPhone once from the grid, and come January 1st we are good to go.
Chippy on the Solar UMPC blog has made some calculations on how much usage one might get from one charge which I will happy to confirm or not. We’ll see.
Join in Presentation Anarchy
Marcus Brown has written up some “rules”, or helpers, with which mind-numbing and boring use of PowerPoint can be countered. Pass them on:
- When the presenter says “this is interactive, please ask questions
if you have any” I’m going to stand up and ask him/her why he’s/she’s
here. In fact I intend to question everything. - If he/she starts using words that I have banned or don’t understand
I’m going to stand up and ask what the word means. I will do this
because I am convinced that they do not know what the word means. - If the presenter is boring me I intend to tell them (not show them), and I intend to tell them why.
- If the presenter reads the bullet points word for word then I will
join them. I will read their bullet points word for word too. In fact I
may sing along. - If the terms “ducks in a row”, “pushing the envelope” or any other
bullshit terms are used in the presentation I will stand up and turn my
back to the presenter and wait for an apology. - If the presentation reaches slide 32 I will leave the room.
- If the presenter has slides with more than twenty words I will stand up and demand pictures and a hand book.
- If the presenter shows me a list of clients, or worse a slide full
of client logos I will stand up, take out my wallet walk to the
presenter and show him pictures of my children. - If the presenter hasn’t managed to make me laugh within the first 2 minutes I will start laughing.
- If the presentation is a corporate template I will leave the room before the presentation starts.
(as an addendum I’d like to throw in this link to a ChangeThis manifesto by Scott Schwertly on Presentation Revolution)
Service: O2 hilft dem Handyverlierer
Irgendwie. Zumindest der Wille ist da, allein, es mangelt an der Umsetzung. Aber man kann ja den Finder/Dieb bitten, die SMS zu schicken…
Speaking English Podcast Media kit
Using the own blog to pimp oneself, well, that will never get boring, will it? As announced I sat down and wrote a preliminary media kit for the Speaking English Podcast. Now you have two options:
1. Leave a comment and offer advice or criticism.
2. Send me an email and inquire about your options to advertise in the podcast.
Both are very welcome. Have a look:
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin: Tom Raftery – Electricity 2.0
Thank you Andrea Vascellari, for taping and sharing this:
