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Tim Berners-Lee joins Twitter, complains of "confusing" UI

23 points by waderoush 17y ago

mahmud 17y ago
His name was "reserved" for him by someone: http://twitter.com/timbernerslee http://twitter.com/timbernerslee Easily, the most noble name-squatting I have seen. But it seems like he went with timberners_lee.
- the_real_r2d2 17y ago
  He could have use "the_real_timberneslee". Nevertheless I do no see why the fuss. Yes, it is the inventor of the WWW but people is seeing this like "the blessing" of Bernes-Lee to the now-omnipower twitter. I think is not, it is just another user that has been catch for the wave.
  - jackchristopher 17y ago
    One problem with that is long names kill @replies.
    - the_real_r2d2 17y ago
      Yes, you right. Never thought about it
    - bmm6o 17y ago
      That's a problem with Twitter. Why do they force you to markup metadata within your data?
petercooper 17y ago
Ooops confusing user interfxce. And no phones on on stage with radiomikes. He appears to be finding the keyboard a confusing user interface too. :-) More seriously, he seemed to be using Tweetie to post (then identica, now the Web interface). So perhaps he wasn't really commenting on Twitter's user interface, as the article implies, but Tweetie's (which is great for experienced users but could suffer from the "too simple" effect for others). Despite trying many clients, I've always gone back to the Web one too..
mpk 17y ago
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Notice that the author refers to him as "Sir Berners-Lee". The title goes with the first name so it should be "Sir Timothy".
- omouse 17y ago
  That's how you know it's not serious journalism. Wanna pitch in and get the writer a copy of The Economist Style Guide?
aaronsw 17y ago
This is ridiculous. TimBL has been using identi.ca instead of Twitter for a long time because he supports free network services. No mention of that in the article. http://identi.ca/timbl http://identi.ca/timbl
papachito 17y ago
Actually, he uses decentralized identi.ca which mirrors his dents to twitter, this is the original identi.ca account he actually uses: http://identi.ca/timbl http://identi.ca/timbl If you check his tweets, they’re all “from identi.ca” http://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/5097026255 http://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/5097026255 except for the first ones.
hussong 17y ago
“...the man who came up with the idea for a network of hyperlinked, consistently formatted electronic documents” Actually, Ted Nelson came up with such an idea decades before TBL.

23 points by waderoush 17y ago

His name was "reserved" for him by someone: http://twitter.com/timbernerslee http://twitter.com/timbernerslee Easily, the most noble name-squatting I have seen. But it seems like he went with timberners_lee.

the_real_r2d2 17y ago
He could have use "the_real_timberneslee". Nevertheless I do no see why the fuss. Yes, it is the inventor of the WWW but people is seeing this like "the blessing" of Bernes-Lee to the now-omnipower twitter. I think is not, it is just another user that has been catch for the wave.
- jackchristopher 17y ago
  One problem with that is long names kill @replies.
  - the_real_r2d2 17y ago
    Yes, you right. Never thought about it
  - bmm6o 17y ago
    That's a problem with Twitter. Why do they force you to markup metadata within your data?

petercooper 17y ago

Ooops confusing user interfxce. And no phones on on stage with radiomikes. He appears to be finding the keyboard a confusing user interface too. :-) More seriously, he seemed to be using Tweetie to post (then identica, now the Web interface). So perhaps he wasn't really commenting on Twitter's user interface, as the article implies, but Tweetie's (which is great for experienced users but could suffer from the "too simple" effect for others). Despite trying many clients, I've always gone back to the Web one too..

mpk 17y ago

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Notice that the author refers to him as "Sir Berners-Lee". The title goes with the first name so it should be "Sir Timothy".

omouse 17y ago
That's how you know it's not serious journalism. Wanna pitch in and get the writer a copy of The Economist Style Guide?

aaronsw 17y ago

This is ridiculous. TimBL has been using identi.ca instead of Twitter for a long time because he supports free network services. No mention of that in the article. http://identi.ca/timbl http://identi.ca/timbl

papachito 17y ago

Actually, he uses decentralized identi.ca which mirrors his dents to twitter, this is the original identi.ca account he actually uses: http://identi.ca/timbl http://identi.ca/timbl If you check his tweets, they’re all “from identi.ca” http://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/5097026255 http://twitter.com/timberners_lee/status/5097026255 except for the first ones.

hussong 17y ago

“...the man who came up with the idea for a network of hyperlinked, consistently formatted electronic documents” Actually, Ted Nelson came up with such an idea decades before TBL.