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Re: Favicon Kit · get and embed Favicons from any website with this simple API

Chris Messina — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 01:58:34 -0000

Hooray! If you have a specific date in mind, let me know and I'll see if I can bump you up.

Re: Favicon Kit · get and embed Favicons from any website with this simple API

Chris Messina — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 21:57:59 -0000

Hey @Andreas Pizsa — cool service! Would you like me to share it with the Product Hunt community? If so, here's what I need: https://chrismessina.me/hun...

Re: Is this the most powerful innovation in the history of social media?

Chris Messina — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:52:02 -0000

Thanks Mark! I'm honored!

Re: The Surprising History of Twitter’s Hashtag Origin and 4 Ways to Get the Most out of Them

Chris Messina — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:54:41 -0000

I'm impressed by how much you dug in! I hope you also checked out the Twitter Fan Wiki (which I ran) where a lot of the discussion was also tracked (#PunIntended):

http://twitter.pbworks.com/...
http://twitter.pbworks.com/...

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

Chris Messina — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:31:02 -0000

Just want to clarify something about this entry — right now this entry says that I work for Google, but that's no longer accurate (as of August 2, 2013). I now work full time for NeonMob — hence the topic of this talk.

I've asked SXSW to correct this information, but for now it's going to remain inaccurate.

Re: SXSW PanelPicker

Chris Messina — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:30:10 -0000

Yeah — I do see that. As Kanye says, "does anyone make real shit anymore?" But in some ways, we're all making real shit now — but connecting with audiences and supporting the appreciation of that work seems really difficult.

I personally find it very difficult — and would love to try to find a way to add longevity and longer term appreciation to the digital medium. I think people would respond really positively do it, but it's a very tough design problem because it's somewhat counter-intuitive.

Thanks for your thoughts!

Re: Under the Hood: Our Top 5 Apps We Love This Week

Chris Messina — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:27:37 -0000

Thanks so much for the NeonMob shout out! To be fair to the team, NeonMob is the brainchild of our CEO Mike Duca — I'm just an enthusiastic recent addition! We're thrilled to have you collecting and trading with us!

Re: Google UX designer and hashtag creator Chris Messina departs for digital collection platform NeonMob

Chris Messina — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 15:44:04 -0000

Because they work in text-only environments like SMS?

Re: Shelter From The Storm: Why Brainswarming Is Here To Stay

Chris Messina — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 14:54:46 -0000

How is this different than Gamestorming? I couldn't understand anything about how "Brainswarming" is different from brainstorming, except that the architecture of the space you're in needs to be conducive to "writing on the walls and the floors"?

http://youtu.be/MIvApk2I3HI

Re: Google renames Circles icon on Google+ to ‘Find people’, lists who you talk to in Gmail and its other products

Chris Messina — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:43:17 -0000

My name is Chris Messina and #ROUNDHOUSEKICKTOTHEFACE!

Re: What comes next - updates @ m.blog

Chris Messina — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:50:04 -0000

Congrats Matthew. Looking forward to your efforts at Bitly!

Re: Tweeters: I want a witness tag

Chris Messina — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:15:51 -0000

Jeff, I appreciate the sentiment of your proposal and understand how you'd like to harness people's existing behavior to provide a means to bubble up information from people *on the ground* versus people talking *about* it. The ability to do that, in real-time, would be very valuable.

However, I am concerned, as you are, about adoption. As you say, "The challenge in all of this, of course, is inducing millions of people to add this behavior." Indeed, that is the challenge, especially if prepending this character would only be used for journalistic purposes, rather than mundane, day to day use cases. Moreover, I would imagine that in a moment of crisis, most people tweet for one another, and that producing journalistic information, unless they are journalists themselves, is often a secondary or tertiary goal — especially for people who do not already have an audience.

So, in order for this behavior to make its way into the vernacular of the long tail, there would need to be some other kind of motivation to use this form more regularly, to signify something globally meaningful. You'd also probably need to get Twitter to develop some feature that would lead to people being aware of the feature, like a real time index of "witnessed" events, or to provide inline linking of these tokens.

But then we're sort of back to a second form of hashtag, which seems to work against your original goals (i.e. being gamed, etc).

Curiously, the solution seems less about the token of expression, but to encourage everyone on Twitter — or any other social media channel — to simply provide more public information about themselves, their behavior, and who they are connected to so that we (or computers) can attempt to do a better job of vetting the sources of information.

Bottom line I guess is that changing people's behavior is hard, and getting them to adopt a convention that doesn't benefit them immediately or in obvious, transparent ways is going to take a long time to get off the ground, if at all. Not that you shouldn't try, but it's just that you wouldn't be the first either:

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/...

Re: http://chrismessina.me/b/text/12635784

Chris Messina — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:17:12 -0000

Email was designed fir a time period of asynchronicity. An email would be
sent from one server to another, and then someone's desktop client software
would fetch the new mail the next time the user was online or "dialed in".

In time when many people are "online" constantly through their cell phones,
the email model — and form of discourse — may wane.

I agree with you that the long form model of content won't be going away,
any more than blog posts or articles will. But in terms of communication
mediums — those that approximate original human interaction — as in, those
that approximate real-time conversation — will surely grow alongside
longer-form mediums.

Re: The First Hashtag Ever Tweeted on Twitter - They Sure Have Come a Long Way

Chris Messina — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:44:01 -0000

Stowe started a project called "Microsyntax", which I was an advisor to:

http://microsyntax.pbworks.com
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/...

Alas, it doesn't seem like Stowe is promoting that effort any longer.

Re: New features: Pop Quizzes! Public reviews!

Chris Messina — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:12:45 -0000

Re: weight tracking... I'm finding that doing this manually is kind of annoying, especially now that I have a Withings WiFi scale and could just hook up my Withings account to HealthMonth (or resyndicate data from my Google Health account, where I track my weight using my Withings account as well).

Any thoughts on importing this kind of data from elsewhere (i.e. fitbit.com would also be an awesome source of data!)

Re: http://chrismessina.me/b/text/12635784

Chris Messina — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:00:52 -0000

;)

We'll see!

Re: http://chrismessina.me/b/text/12635784

Chris Messina — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:27:15 -0000

Wish I knew! ;)

Re: http://chrismessina.me/b/text/12635784

Chris Messina — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:04:55 -0000

You'd be surprised — no, shocked (or really, really depressed) — at how many people LOVE their HTML formatting in emails.

But then again, that's because people spend far too much time in email...! But yes, I agree with you — but that's only a start. You have to change people's mindset about how they approach, consume, and use email. It should be used as a fast communication tool — not as an art form unto itself.

Re: Facebook Messages challenges traditional email & portals

Chris Messina — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:57:26 -0000

Thanks for writing this post Charlene. I agree with you on your analysis.

I also think it's critical to consider how the next generation is growing up in a 24-7 connected world (as you've discussed before) and that their norms and expectations just don't work with email's asynchronous-by-design behavior.

For more, see Pew's recent report:

http://pewinternet.org/Comm...

If we changed the form factor of email to look like this:

Recipients: [ ]
Message: [ ]

...we'd be closer to how people use chat and IM and we'd like change the style of conversation that occurs.

With sites like http://three.sentenc.es, evidence suggests that many of us struggle with email overload. As a result, we just don't have enough time in the day to respond to longer messages with long messages. Restricting message content with Twitter-like brevity is the only way to multiplex our communications without having to reduce the number of people with whom we interact on a regular basis.

I think this is Facebook's realization, and the key insight that drove the design of Facebook Messaging.

This new modality â of "continuous partial conversations" â means that we can keep talking even if we change devices or are in a computing mode that's not synchronized with our friends.

Re: Email Overload Fix: 3 Sentence Emails

Chris Messina — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:51:55 -0000

tl;dr

Re: Debate Around Password Security Overlooks Universal Logins

Chris Messina — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:47:45 -0000

The reason why centralizing your credentials can provide additional security is that it puts YOU in charge of authenticating YOU!

Instead of using a password with a site that may itself become compromised, or may have an API that doesn't use protection like OAuth causing your to reveal your password to yet another entity, YOU get to decide how much you care about your credentials.

That means that you can pick a more secure identity provider that affords you additional protections, like one time passwords or second factors, to protect your account.

Even if a keylogger existed on my machine, without that second factor, my password would be useless to the attacker.

Re: Scripting News: Kick back Google

Chris Messina — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:12:45 -0000

Yep, that's how it happened. I believe Mathew excerpted my comment from a longer email, but I certainly wasn't negative about their approach.

Re: Scripting News: Kick back Google

Chris Messina — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:11:54 -0000

Indeed, I stand by my assertion that Twitter Annotations may become a mess — but that's not a bad thing — it's simply the organic and chaotic process that may, over time, give rise to order.

Furthermore, having attended the Twitter Annotations Hackathon, Twitter's approach of reaching out to existing *communities* of interested parties who are working on schema for different applications is the right approach. Obviously they can't get everyone to agree to use the same schema for everything, but Twitter seems genuine about providing guidance towards existing formats (where they exist) but not being dictatorial about the ones that "win".

This, on the whole, seems like a sane and rational strategy AFAIC.

Re: Activity Streams

Chris Messina — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:34:24 -0000

Great news Jud! It's been great to have Gnip's involvement in this effort from the beginning — and to finally come full circle to the point where it's finally meeting your business needs.

Re: The future of mobile is open and smart.

Chris Messina — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:40:06 -0000

Actually, the idea of disposable computing devices is something that I think may happen in the future — if the devices get cheap enough and bandwidth is plentiful (and people's expectations are different).

In the work that I did on the Social Agent (http://factoryjoe.com/socia... I outlined a situation quite like that:

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/...

It's a little lengthy, but you might find the vignette somewhat useful to consider.