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Would You Pay $200 For A Dedicated Twitter Gadget?



No, me neither… wonder if there really is an unserved market for something like this with all the iPhones & Blackberry’s out there?

You know you can use Twitter on a feature phone via SMS. Am I missing something here?

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Best Buy In 3-D Is Not What You Would Expect



One of the most impressive things about what Best Buy is doing online these days is they are experimenting with a number of emerging technologies. They have an interesting Twitter strategy and their open API initiative called Remix is very innovative. But the experiment that really has me fascinated is their augmented reality play, Best Buy in 3-D.

It seems like 3-D is the next online gimmick but most of what I’ve seen so far are Google Maps mashups. Best Buy in 3-D uses your webcam, now built into most laptops, to make their Sunday supplements more interactive. Hit their site, authorize it to use your webcam and then hold up the ad. Since we no longer take the Sunday paper I have not tested this yet but will do so this Sunday.

Nice innovation, BBY.

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Will Flutter Pluck Twitter?

Not likely, but it doesn’t make this elaborate April Fool’s video any less enjoyable. Probably the best Web 2.0 satire I’ve ever seen:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLZCy-_m3s[/youtube]

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Twitter Is Not Blogging

Twitter logoOver the past year I’ve thought of micro-blogging-communications mashup Twitter as the rough equivalent of a blog post. For some time now, I’ve even republished my Tweets here in place of posting proper blog entries. It just seemed to make sense as my schedule got too crowded to sit down and bang out thoughtful posts on a regular basis.

But Twitter is not blogging. It’s more like archived instant messaging through the looking glass.

So that means no more daily round-up of Tweets here (if I turned off Twitter Tools, correctly, that is) and a return to blogging about things other than Twitter. No, I haven’t given up on Twitter, it’s just not as interesting as a platform as it was to me months ago. But things tend to run in cycles so I’m sure I’ll come back sometime. Or I’ll just wire up all my Twitter friends through my Friendfeed like some have done and move on.

Tim’s Tweets for 2008-06-28


  • on the Minnov8 podcast recording… #

  • @alexkremer i have not heard anything good about Office ‘08 for Mac… so I’m using Office 2007 on Win XP in a VMware VM when I need Office #

  • checking out flock again after more than a year… there is a lot to like here #

  • @alexkremer for me office is not my primary productivity app, just something for client compatibility… #

  • @vmwarefusion so why am i not surprised you use vmware fusion? ;-) #

Tim’s Tweets for 2008-06-26


  • @winecast so what are you going to use in it’s place, dave? anything? #

  • @winecast interesting… will try friendfeed in this context (think of it as just an aggregator now) #

Tim’s Tweets for 2008-06-25


  • seems the twitter api is not up to it today so twhirl is not downloading tweets… guess it’s back to the plain browser for now #

  • @timlemke it may just be my Mac or the fact that I just updated Abobe Air but it doesn’t seem to work; Hahlo does so it’s probably not Twitr #

Tim’s Tweets for 2008-06-23


  • is it just me or does the Firefox 3 address bar stop working after being open for a few days? quit and restarting Firefox brings it back… #

Tim’s Tweets for 2008-06-22


  • Copyright holders of films, please give us 48 hours to watch your contnet; i’m in the middle of a rental which wil be deleted before i f … #