Disqus - Friends of jonmaim

Re: Tweetgrid - a tool to make sense of it.

warzabidul — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:16:46 -0000

Testing discuss at the moment.

Re: Screening: Kosovo, the Valley

warzabidul — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:49:23 -0000

Did some quick research and so far no luck but if I find anything I'll let you know.

Re: We Are Social organise le premier Twestival à Paris

warzabidul — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:31:17 -0000

En fait je dois venir, simplement pour filmer avec ma nouvelle caméra, mais faut que je regarde si je suis libre ce soir la.

Re: We Are Social organise le premier Twestival à Paris

warzabidul — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:05:08 -0000

Biensur mais la c'est une caméra HD et je sais que certaines images pourrais servir dans un documentaire sur les media sociaux.

Biensur on peut aussi en faire ce qu'on veut.

Re: UK’s cheapest tariff to launch at £8.99

warzabidul — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:08:31 -0000

Should take into consideration the quality of coverage of all networks where you live. If it's cheap there's a good chance that the network coverage in certain regions is lacking.

You may have the cheapest contract but without a signal you've got nothing.

Re: Screening: Kosovo, the Valley

warzabidul — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:15:50 -0000

I know that the Frontline Club in London screened it, going to see if they can give me more information about how to get a copy.

Re: The Forbes Intern is not wrong about twitter in Europe

warzabidul — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:41:05 -0000

I've written many times about how stupid it was for twitter to cut the sms service in Europe. It discouraged me from using the service. I also commented on how they should have made a better mobile version of their website for non iphone users.

I also wrote and commented about Jaiku and what it promised but that failed to get enough users to be a serious contender.

I see quite a few Europeans playing with plurk at the moment. Europe is a fragmented market with many languages and many interesting services as you point out in your post.

If Facebook is anything to go by then we may have to wait at least another year or two before twitter becomes anything more than a play toy for people like you and those those that we converse with on a regular basis.

Re: What Are You Doing Right Now?

warzabidul — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:56:32 -0000

People have not just stopped saying what they re doing. They have also stopped conversing in the same way they used to. Most conversations are no more than two or three messages long now as people worry more about productivity than friendships.

That's because people see twitter as a productivity tool and this is particularly evident in cities like London. Today for example a lot of English twitter users had ttl in their posts. They were having a wine tasting session and whilst they did send a big volume of tweets they spent very little of that time actually conversing with those on twitter.

I feel that there is a movement away from twitter and certain social media at the moment. As a result it's de-valuing some of these social networks.

Re: Private: Twitter Apps Can Only Grow so Far

warzabidul — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:07:58 -0000

Whilst out on a walk today I was thinking about twitter and how it behaves. A year and a half ago they were struggling with the amounts of tweets people were both sending and receiving. They changed many things around and for a company that has been around for as long as they have (in startup terms) they have done very little to personaly improve the usability of their site. In fact since I started using twitter the biggest change is the replies arrow to avoid typing a name.

Where this will hurt them most is on mobile devices. If you're at a desk you can visit the page and although not as convenient it's not that much of a hinderance. Come to mobile devices though and you see how bad it gets. Several times recently I have hit the api limit on mobile 3rd party apps. As a result I simply didn't tweet as much as I would.

I am moving towards friendfeed, more intersted in more dynamic websites than twitter.

Scoble was speaking about the new twitter for friendfeed api to import friends and how, due to his vast number of followers he was running into problems.

As a side note I must admit to skimming through the post as I am not a developer.

Re: High Definition Pleasure

warzabidul — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:48:46 -0000

Makes a change from the geeky stuff I usually write about :-)

Re: Travian, an online game

warzabidul — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:37:11 -0000

Yeah you did.

Re: Travian, an online game

warzabidul — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:37:23 -0000

Except that I haven't played it in months by now.

Re: Geneva Tweetup during the LIFT Conference - Who’s Interested?

warzabidul — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:02:57 -0000

Glad you like it :-), I'll spend time looking at yours, watching a documentary at the moment.

Re: Posting and Pulling Comments From FriendFeed

warzabidul — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:17:01 -0000

yep, using it already :-)

Re: Counting follower mass by absolute tweet number

warzabidul — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:53:59 -0000

What makes this idea interesting is that those that attract twitter users get a higher rating :-). Scoble would still do well in this model. Others would do better.

There are a few tweeks I think should be added once the app is working.

Re: Re-tweeting demonstrates that twitter is broken, here’s why

warzabidul — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:59:34 -0000

That's the reason for which I never really used jaiku, felt to once sided. Since writing that article I've been busy with other things so not using friendfeed that much. That one sided feeling does change from time to time.

Re: Ten Days without Twitter

warzabidul — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:37:05 -0000

What makes the first meetups so great is that you spend weeks and months talking to people, you develop a relationship with those people so that when you finally meet them you're really happy. That feeling is made even nicer when you realise you have similar interests to people you had not met yet.

Now the tweetups and other meetings often feel like a formality, nothing fun, nothing innovative. That is not to say that I don't like tuttle. In fact I do like tuttle because there you still have that young entrepreunerial spirit, those innovators and thinkers. There's a lot to be gained from the tuttle meetups. That's a concept that works really well in my eyes.

I'm not leaving twitter, I'm just taking a holiday, a leave of absence until I can look at the twitter timeline without the event I dislike appearing in the timeline.

Re: Latitude

warzabidul — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:35:46 -0000

I like it, had it running for a day now, did mistake me for being in Amsterdam and then London though... now it's correct again.

Re: louisgray.com: Eight Forms of Social Networking Depression: Are You Suffering?

warzabidul — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:57:38 -0000

I will have to read this but watching a documentary at the moment. It's an interesting topic.

Re: Beyond Bloggers: Commenters Rise in Influence

warzabidul — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:29:40 -0000

I'm enjoying commenting more and more now. it's a nice pass time. I like this post. I think disqus is one demonstration as to how important commenting is.

Re: Google Latitude

warzabidul — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:57:16 -0000

You can select to specify where you are by city and country if you like. You have quite a bit of control. I have found a bug though. Sometimes it displays that I'm in another city and country than where I actually am.

For a moment it thought I was in England and in Holland. Haven't changed country though.

Re: The Geekiness of My Lifestyle

warzabidul — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:27:36 -0000

I'm still active on Jaiku, plurk and friendfeed but I need a break from twitter. I played my best game of pool yesterday, possibly thanks to not thinking of twitter.

I'll be back on that network on the 14th of February but there is a good chance that I will no longer follow quite a few twitter users, especially those that do nothing but tweet how great what they're working on.

Re: No more taking pictures of people in public in Europe anymore

warzabidul — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:35:45 -0000

This is nothing new. It's been that way for decades. You just need to get permission from those you're photographing first. Look at Nachtway's photographs. The people being photographed know he's taking the picture.

Re: FaceBook launches his own Twitter and Opens Status API

warzabidul — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:41:06 -0000

I really like that facebook are doing this. I know a lot of friends who are non geeks that are far more likely to comment on status messages on facebook because it's less geeky. It's also already there.

I heard Zuckeberg speak about facebook in a documentary and it was really interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing how facebook helps make social media more social, and not just for geeks like you and I.

Re: The Social Media Echo Chamber Makes Me Not Want to Listen

warzabidul — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:04:03 -0000

How much time you can spend submerged in the social media is related to how many times you can stand seeing the same word and theme expressed day after day sometimes for weeks or even months at a time. When you blog about something original then you will encourage people to read your blog.

The second problem is that whilst the social media is meant to be about real people using technology to communicate most of the time it's not. We see a lot of people blog, twitter, use facebook and other platform to promote their work without taking the time to see what people have been up to. As a result there is an echo rather than a discourse. By that I mean that if people were actively reading and thinking about what others were saying then the social media would be more inviting.