Cool, I'll have to give this a try. While the microblogging space is pretty crowded, I think the basic microblogging framework (short messages, ability to follo

Cool, I'll have to give this a try. While the microblogging space is pretty crowded, I think the basic microblogging framework (short messages, ability to follow friends, mobile support, etc) could be re-purposed to do some other cool stuff. Having open source code to play with (whether it scales or not) definately makes it easier to get an idea off the ground and see if it sticks. A few ideas: - An interesting story telling format where people can "follow" a story and the author periodically posts updates from the perspective of the story protagonist. Isn't part of the appeal of twitter to follow the lives of friends? Could this same format be used for fictional story telling? - Mash-up w/ Yahoo Fireeagle and Google Maps and you could have a mobile service for commenting on real world places / businesses and getting mobile updates when friends comment on something or someone comments on something that's near you. - A twitter for images/photography (make a firefox extension so that users can easily favorite a photo on any website with one click and it automatically gets added to their stream). Open source apps like this are great because they make it easy to try out an idea without investing too much time in it. Then if the idea then takes off you may want to think about re-coding a more stable version from scratch...