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Interaction Design History - http://www.slideshare.net/mrettig...
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Interaction Design History in a Teeny Little Nutshell is a presentation first given by Marc Rettig in 2003 and then updated in 2004. It's as relevant now as it was then. The historical context is fascinating but most importantly allows us to understand and value how we can work today.
- James Box
If Twitter continues the overhyped direction it's headed, soon, it'll be a community filled with marketers and celebrities with megaphones
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I agree, the spammers and marketers (I'm an Affiliate but do not use Twitter for business as a rule) are poised to mess up a good thing. Why do the best and purest forms of communication always get sullied by greedy, careless people?
- Nicholas Chase
how so? Your twitterverse is limited to who you follow/what you search for. No one can market to you unless you opt in to follow.
- Sameer
It is very much this way now.
- Louis Gray
Unless they upgrade the hardware it is going to crash soon. Slow and too many fail whales.
- Steven Kent
Good question...is what's happening a great awareness wave for the general public? Or a cementing of Twitter's reputation as people broadcasting without value? I'm going with the former on this one.
- Hutch Carpenter
OP: "soon"?
- Carlos Ayala
I agree with Sameer. Just don't follow people you don't want to follow. Unless you are thinking that it will be a put-off to other people.
- Mark Chandler
Twitter: a community filled with marketers, 'life coaches' and celebrities with megaphones. That ship has already sailed.
- AJ Kohn
+1 AJ!
- .LAG liked that
+1 Sameer!
- Atul Arora
I can't imagine how FF could handle noisy marketers. It's much more about conversation here, they would be taken out more easily, wouldn't they?
- Jérôme Flipo
I'll third Sameer and Mark. The beauty of twitter is that you shape your own community. I follow one celebrity, because I actually enjoy his tweets. But it doesn't bother me or reduce the value I get out of twitter when people I'm not connected to use it differently than I.
- Jeremy Schultz
@Jerome: Yes. Crowdblocking happens *very* quickly on FF. And I believe (hello FF employees) that once a certain number of blocks are initiated the FF daemon comes along and gobbles them up.
- AJ Kohn
Soon?
- Alex Scoble
The only way in which Twitter hype can hurt Twitter is in Twitter's responsiveness. For all else, Twitter - like FriendFeed - is much as with blogs. Everyone chooses his own subscriptions. And everyone figures out their own way to use their 140 char text-box.
- Meryn Stol
it's still opt-in..filters baby, filters
- George Dearing
I completely disagree with the idea that how others use Twitter doesn't impact your own usage. If someone you follow starts to follow more and more people then their ability to interact with you diminishes. The social connection between you two disappears. That's if you still rely on Twitter for interaction (which I think many do, though I certainly don't.) So, sure you can unfollow that person, but an environment where quantity seems highly valued will reduce your ability to converse.
- AJ Kohn
And Friendfeed and Facebook is somehow immune to this;-)?
- Brandon Mendelson
Already is
- andy brudtkuhl
As far as Sameer's point goes... I don't want to follow Oprah - thus I'm not opting in. BUT if anyone I follow talks to her then I am pulled into her twitterverse. So it's not 100% opt-in
- andy brudtkuhl
"...filled with marketers and celebrities with megaphones." And of course about 3 million people clueless as to how to handle all the noise.
- Tim
Andy, that's when lists should come on stage to put the noise backstage. Friendfeed to rescue you.
- Jérôme Flipo
ok, so it's not 100% opt-in..so what..being pulled into Oprah's twitterverse thru someone else would be a problem mostly for newbies coming to twitter..they don't follow that many ppl so their stream would be easy to overtake. You have to spend some time tuning your network..it gets noisy sometime but so does the real world.
- George Dearing
@George - that's why they need groups and filters! .... sounds like another service... hmmm oh, ya .. FriendFeed!
- andy brudtkuhl
Andy: not really. They have 3rd party clients for that.
- Matsis
This GUY? Yeah i'm here PC Easy, I do both
- Jeremiah Owyang
to be honest, a loud place with people talking over each other in order to get noticed is how both FF and twitter feel, at times. Goes with the follower model
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I agree... a diluted mess. This isn't another channel, it's a conversation.
- Drew Lucas
Who was it on FF that said twitter is like a Seinfeld episode where everyone is talking, no one is listening? so funny because it's so true.
- Violet Mae Lim
I think it was Bindu Reddy: http://ff.im/2pws5
- Brome
Soon?
- Kathy Fitch
marketers as distinct from social media gurus?
- Christian Crumlish
isn't this what folks said about the web? all the authentic voices would be drowned out by commerce? did it happen?
- Christian Crumlish
Yes, but I think the spammers and others who don't engage with their followers/friends will soon find they're not getting the results they want. We still have the capability of creating the "communities" we want to converse with on Twitter. I'm surprised more celebrities didn't find Twitter earlier, and some of them are doing fund-raising for good causes. We can choose which ones we include in our own conversations.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Isn't it already full with crappy, cheap marketers?
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge: It depends who you're following but yes they are already there.
- Nicholas James
Blame Ashton, Oprah and Britney. A complete waste of space.
- David Eedle
I agree. Saw yesterday that "Twitter Quitters" was trending on Twitter. Let 'em quit.
- Rick Cogley
unfollow the marketers & celebs.
- tarafireball
It already is! Of all people, I would have thought you would have recognized this long ago! ;-)
- Brad Williamson
I seldomly use Twitter anymore due to the noise level. I see more and more advertisers and product spammers. It feels less personal whereas FriendFeed has a better system for that.
- imabonehead
It's unfortunately the nature of the beast - greed concurs all. Hell look what it did to the good old USA, then the world.
- Brent - Long Live Rock
Everybody involved in social media is a self-marketer. Besides, Twitter has had the spammers and MLMers since day one. The celebrities are relatively new, but who cares? Therein lies the power of the unfollow button, Twitter's protective shield.
- Shéa Bennett
Yes, it will but the beauty of Twitter is that we don't have to follow any of them. We can still make it what WE want. That's the difference. The other stuff will die if it is truly of no value. It always does. We'll be left with something useful.
- Michael J. Pratt
You mean, like Facebook...? :-)
- John Blossom
People who like the "cool" things are now a little distressed that MSM has discovered Twitter, but its very nature seems to inoculate one from mass media hysteria. Just ignore these folks. The main problem with Twitter is that it's very generic - needs 3rd party apps like FF to really bloom.
- John Blossom
I agree it's at a point where newbies have less of a chance of adapting to the culture long-term because of all the noise/spam, but for those of us who have been here for the long haul, things are much the same as they always were. If a contact doesn't bring value, unfollow.
- Amie Gillingham
It seems the resounding opinion of FriendFeeders that Twitter Already IS " community filled with marketers and celebrities with megaphones" -And the number of followers I get who have bot-based auto-spams and names like @TheMLMGuy and who have 10,000 followers in their first week prove the FriendFeeders to be correct.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Twitter is a real-time broadcast medium in its essence, with receivers (follow mechanism) that enables people to aggregate their own channels. So it's not surprising that it attracts MSM and MSM marketers. There's a place for broadcast - and, like, CB radios, a broadcast medium can support very focused and highly scalable conversations also.
- John Blossom
Steve Wiebe Sets Donkey Kong Jr. World Record - http://links.laughingsquid.com/steve-w...
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watched king of kong the other day -- great movie
- MG Siegler
This just in: Billy Mitchell Fed-Ex'd a DVD of him scoring "whatever Wiebe scored plus infinity no tags back"
- Paul Reynolds
@paul - ha!
- MG Siegler
WILL THIS EVER END
- Mike Nayyar
love him.
- Veronica
Love it. Thanks - http://www.backtype.com/ricmaye...
- Ric Mayer
Photo op with the Prez
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RAWR!
- Michael Forian
Digital camera $300. Trip to meet Obama $400. Having a picture of you and Obama go viral... priceless.
- KyleHase
The Utility of the Unfinished - http://schulzeandwebb.com/blog...
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A recurring theme and an awesome augmented reality video
- Richard Marr
best blog I've come across in ages, thanks Rich!
- Simon Doggett
Last.fm blogs their response to the false Techcrunch rumor - http://blog.last.fm/2009...
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I love these guys; the original article was updated with some weak backpedaling
- Andy Baio
I'm so tired of how blogs want to be treated like press but can't be bothered to act in a professionally responsible manner.
- Kevin Cheng
A lot of the press can't either; the nice thing about blogs is that the conversational aspects of the medium make it easier to respond publicly. (The downside is that page views count for more than a reputation for accuracy.)
- Jim Norris
Re-read the headline: "Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?" <sarcasm>Since the headline ends in a question mark, everything is clearly fine. It's a question, not a statement.</sarcasm>
- Matt Cutts
Matt - it is called link bait... and TC should know better/try to be better than that. The upside for Arrington is that it is still happening in his absence. See Mike - it wasn't you... it was TC's attitude that caused the invective - not that anything TC did made what happened to you OK.
- Brian Roy
Twestival.fm: Live Aid for Twitter - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Starting a blog? 12 ideas for blog posts >> Online Journalism Blog - http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009...
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Flickr Celebrates Their 5th Anniversary + The Oldest Image On Flickr - http://laughingsquid.com/flickr-...
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