Comments on: Microblogging Channels - Don’t do it.

By: Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com - Digital Media Engineering ] » Blog Archive » Microblogging - Continuing The Conversation

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:41:51 +0000

[...] we looking for the ability to Filter In or Filter Out? The inability to filter out things we find annoying e.g. ‘dropping the kids off at school’ yet hear ‘dropping into Google office in [...]

By: Paul Sweeney

Paul Sweeney — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:08:47 +0000

Some great points here. Perhaps there could be a “wikipedia of twitter shortcuts” that twitter could plug into via a search discover/ social push . As to bernie’s comment, I think the key difference is “intent”. With a twitter flow I get what comes through and am exposed to wider surface of interests. On the other side, I might actually need a “tip channel” for finance, because my “Intent” is to use that information to help me make trades. The problem with the surface model is akin to the problem with FB mini-feed: how can I blend and present for maximum benefit. I like twitter but sometimes I find the inability to “select out” stuff I don’t want to hear annoying. I don’t want to hear “dropping the kids off at school”, I do want to hear “dropping into google offices Dublin”. Perhaps this is where some of that semantic magic might come in. At the European Contact Centre conference yesterday the head of Ez jet was showing how they monitor online conversations on things like Yahoo Answers to see if they can “enter the conversation” http://www.iqpcevents.com/ShowEvent.aspx?id=67356&details=67402, i.e. enter the stream?. Missed the presentation buy I expect that every customer service person will want to “hear the conversation threads” related to their products or services, and in turn this will have to be provided as a “value added service”, plugged into an Siebel CRM 2.0 system http://the56group.typepad.com/pgreenblog/ …. so….now wondering where this conversation goes! :)

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:05:39 +0000

I still don’t get how a Twitter Finance would be any different than a Twitter Finance channel unless you want to manage friends as contacts instead of themes as content.

We used a Podcamp channel on Jaiku during CreativeCamp in Kilkenny. The channel will stay dormant until another organiser picks it up and populates it with people interested in contributing to the flow. It could be a cluster of people from anywhere in the world and the RSS-powered channel would work elegantly.

By: Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com - Digital Media Engineering ] » Blog Archive » Microblogging Will Be Information Overload.

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:11:55 +0000

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By: Justin Mason

Justin Mason — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:20:35 +0000

and this is why Google’s OpenSocial work may be going the wrong way entirely. My group of “friends” on Twitter may not contain the same people as my group of “friends” on LinkedIn, or any other service, since they reflect different facets.

By: Anton Mannering

Anton Mannering — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:19:08 +0000

You are 200% on the money on this Robin. You may see this happening very soon but possibly not exactly in the way you think. :)

By: Robin Blandford

Robin Blandford — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:15:03 +0000

For sure.

Infact I cut half the post out not to confuse the issue - I reckon that Twitter should do that. Become a realtime ‘anyone can contribute’ wire platform (with plugins/apps) and offer communities different services…

- Twitter Legal
- Twitter Finance
- etc.

By: Eoghan McCabe

Eoghan McCabe — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:07:24 +0000

Very astute observation. Are there opportunities for someone to build a white-label microblogging platform? A microblogging Ning?

By: Niall Larkin

Niall Larkin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:01:59 +0000

If that make sense people would already be writing different blogs representing different facets of their identity. Oh wait…