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What would you name the baby of Email and Twitter?
- SandB0x 17y agoTweemail?
- SlyShy 17y agoHow about "Emitter", which has all the appropriate negative connotations.
- buss 17y agoInstant messaging?
- chaostheory 17y agoisn't that more like one of the parents of twitter (the other being email)? I always saw twitter as slow IM
- rick_2047 17y agoif email is one of the parents of twitter and is now parenting a child with it, aren't we looking at a live case of....INCEST here?
- witten 17y agoStatusNet: http://gitorious.org/statusnet http://gitorious.org/statusnet http://status.net/ http://status.net/
- secorp 17y agoRSSCloud is similar to this - http://rsscloud.org/walkthrough.html http://rsscloud.org/walkthrough.html
- blasdel 17y agoThat's just a pointless fantasy of Dave Winer's. He has the magical combination technical and social incompetence, that thoroughly poisons anything he is allowed to insinuate himself into. Attempt no landing there.
- talboito 17y agosms
- dutchflyboy 17y agoNo, sms is too personal. I think the point was that you can have several followers.
- thiele 17y agoGoogle Wave! ;)
- blasdel 17y agoWhat he's trying to build already exists (http://identi.ca http://identi.ca), but will never succeed in any form: the only reason Twitter has stayed so constrained is because it's not federated. Only a walled garden can avoid basic features that way -- an open platform wouldn't embraced and extended so shittly. What he actually wants also already exists, and he's using it successfully already. It's a goddamn blog.
- megaduck 17y agoIt seems that a lot of people are looking to extend twitter with email-type features, but I wonder if the reverse strategy (extending email) might be more fruitful. Email has some great properties that make it the ideal foundation for a communication service: 1. You can send arbitrary text with arbitrary encoding. 2. Attachments can be any type, size, or number. 3. Virtually any device on the planet can send and receive mail. 4. Everybody already has a unique ID that they've memorized. 5. There's a boggling amount of infrastructure already in place. 6. Spam filtering is quite mature, and remarkably effective. Where email falls down is that it's stupid and slow. All intelligence is in the mail client, and email clients don't share information other than the mail itself. A smarter mail server (like Posterous) can do some really cool stuff. Couple smarter mail clients with a smarter server and the potential is huge. I love all the new communications platforms and protocols, but I wonder if there isn't some life left in good old email.
- sirsean 17y agoI was also expecting to allow arbitrarily long text, as well as attachments and additional (potentially user(or client)-defined) metadata.
- dutchflyboy 17y agoWell, all the dutch HN readers will agree it would be "Etter". But I personnaly don't think this would change much. For me there are two categories of information: private and public. For the private information email is the only solution and for the public solution I have my personal website. People who don't have their own website/blog won't care on who's server the messages are. * EDIT * I was just thinking, isn't this what sites like blogger are about? You can make a page where you blog, several people can follow you, and they can reply.
- sirsean 17y agoSo ... why do people use Twitter, when blogs already existed?
- dutchflyboy 17y agoWhat I mean is that most people who use twitter don't care at all whether the messages are on their own server or on a server owned by some company.
- sirsean 17y agoThe same is true of most people who use email, but email still wouldn't have become as widespread as it is today if it weren't interoperable with other email servers.
- silverlake 17y agoTwitail