Category Archives: twitter

WTF Twitter – Interface and Iterative Development

Feb
7
2007

So what happens when we change the interfaces and the things around us too many times, even if it’s only to a small degree? Well we have to relearn it all. We mouse around looking for the same functionality, thinking “where has it gone, I can find it”. This is frustrating. Very frustrating.

Not that much for me, I think, I’m used to change.

Well I was wrong. I hate the changes to an interface, especially when it is starting to make sense and the development team seems to be listening to suggestions.

Twitter Tools and Widgets

Jan
19
2007

We all know about twitter, the online social networking/IRC thing. (got its own wiki now too). Well it’s been around for a while now (it’s been operational since March 2006). So with something as mature as this you would expect an extension of the API onto the desktop and generally outside the browser.

And so there are a range of desktop tools that allow you to access Twitter outside of the browser. What are they like? Some good some not so good. Is there a perfect one? Sadly there isn’t. They all lack in some point or another. Here’s a short overview:

Twitter Tours

Jan
10
2007

If you have not heard of Twitter, where have you been? To some people its mindless noise and a drain on productivity. Kathy Sierra says, it’s raised the distraction factor to new heights. Cameron Adams sees it as a measure of coolness or not. Or maybe its just basically a social networking web / mobile phone / IM based IRC service that allows you to answer one question “what are you doing”.