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.
this was the @dailytwitter
twitimonials - recommendations via twitter
I recently came across a great little application that @williamkelley had developed for twitter - which is basically a recommendation mechanism/engine for twitter users. I tried it out following a few chats with @williamkelley and found it to be a great little tool that had a lot of potential within the twitterverse.
@williamkelley is a developer working out of the San Diego on a number of ideas and concepts usually to be found at www.tentoeleven.com
Twitter has a great API and the @ev and guys have done a fab job of opening this out from the outset to the development community - who have embraced this and created a range of tools, applications and services.
www.tentoeleven.com is one to watch and bookmark, as i suspect there will be some great little apps coming out of this hub and hive of activity very soon…
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so whats the editorial policy?
I have been thinking over the past few days about how www.dailytwitter.com should position itself as a newpaper for microblogging citizen journalists - assuming such a rare breed exists in this world.
There is a old school of thought that would like to see the newspaper put out its own editorial message to build a loyal audience based on the fact that the audience is lazy and unable to find the information through their own means - now typically every news organisation works on that principle, whether to create its own style, drive political messages/brainwashing into a populous or just control what information they diseminate.
And we have another school of thought that would happily let the reader find, collate and build their own news from a variety of sources which typically is reserved for an elite which
a) are able to find the information they need
b) understand the technology
c) be able to make judgement calls on what is fodder for the masses versus intellectual debate for the literati.
So where does dailytwitter stand on all of this, well as a typical cynic, skeptic and all round troublemaker, i would prefer to provide the basic means for the individual to make their own choices, with a little editorial help in sourcing content and tweets - this isnt to say i would be biasing the news, content or editorial tone - i would rather have a quality approach that removes some of the dross that is evident in a lot of the material i have seen to date.
Now this could be a simple recommendation mechanism, thumbs up or down, to indicate the relevancy of the contributors or sourced material is up for debate - but in esssence i want to be able to provide a means for the user to choose what they read, who they read and where the material is sourced from. This may not be a day 1 thing, but it is on my list of to do’s as I develop the paper.
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wandering nomad - twitters from davao
Big things happening in Davao! I learnt something new today and thought i would share it!
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a wandering nomad!
Davao is the largest city on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It is the country’s largest city in terms of land area, occupying 2,444 square kilometers. It was the city’s birthday earlier in the week and judging by the smiles across all the faces, it looks like everyone had a great time.
Check out http://huneesoinsane.blogspot.com for some coverage of the event and pictures too!
There is also an interesting post on Social Media Etiquitte
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Ping.fm
Managed to grab one of the beta codes from the tweets flying about on twitter - big thanks to @chrisbrogan for this. Ping.fm is one of those interesting sites that at first glance it looks simple to use, then when you actually begin to use it - it not just simple, its ridiculously simple!
In short, you can send updates through to all your ‘micro’ blogging platforms in one go - Tumblr, Pownce, Facebook, Twitter and even Jaiku can receive the same update from a single ‘Ping’. Makes it very consistent way to communicate to a varied audience through one simple application.
You can also send through updates to the AIM Client, and as soon as they maybe add others it broadens the offer so much - and you can also send updates out through email with your own personal ping email address.
Its fast, reliable and really really simple to use.
Tweets from the verse:
Amusing quite from @buzz on Ping.fm
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twitter in the community
twitter in the community - is a great blog posting really extols some of the benefits of twitter in a local community. Take 15 and have a read. dt
dailytwitter homepage first designs
Have spent far too long talking about some of the ideas that i have been wanting to get into the twitter community, so i think its time to start to get some visuals and designs up there with a little annotation. This is the first visual i am posting a first stab at some layout, features and basic styling for the site.
The aim to to get some feedback from the twitter community and to start to share some of the ideas. Clearly I need a willing audience of citizen journalists to kick start this, I have a few at the moment - but i guess more will follow once the ball starts rolling.
The whole idea of the site, for those of you who haven’t been following this blog is to a create daily newspaper with various editions around the globe packed with hot tips, news, gossip, entertainment, secret places, hot places to eat and places to see in a major city. With an active and growing twitter community to help build the content, my main aim is to start to provide some order in the way of channels and themes.
For those of the web 2.0 community who are not as tech savvy as the rest of us, i am hoping www.dailytwitter.com will become a place where i can group and theme all of the social comments, thoughts, ideas and suggestions that are part of the huge social mechanic that twitter is driving.
Here is the homepage as it stands, it needs more work - i need some basic branding and the like, but it should give you a sense of what i am looking to achieve. As ever i am open for comments, suggestions and ideas.
Remember the tweets that are in the draft design are not representative of the channels or themes, i just needed some copy!
HTML version coming soon with some real twitter feeds.
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interview and more so
i have been asked by a fellow journalist to be interviewed for a site call reporTwitters, which is a great site that was launched sometime ago before dailytwitter even was a twinkle in my eye! I am excited at the prospect of being interviewed as this is the first time that i have been asked by a fellow journo to air my thoughts on why dailytwitter started and how i see twitter being a provider of content for the site.
Now in all honesty i have been neglecting my ability to write as often as i would like to this blog and as a consequence i have seen a somewhat negative effect on my site traffic - so with due haste and speed I will be writing more interesting posts and trying to drum up some more interest for the site - first port of call will be a homepage design - which by gadzookes will be the first step towards doing something positive with the site. Clearly i have a day job, night job and sleep job, which means i dont have much time to write, but i will find time…
back soon
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hasta luego!
whoops, i have been neglecting my duties as supposed daily micro blogger - so much for the consistency of my effort. Currently on the south coast of spain taking some time out, so will be back on line shortly with antics and news of the avid traveller and his far flung ideas.
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\yoo-BIK-wih-tuhs\, adjective: Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time.
