DISQUS

Sanji (Jean-Daniel) · 1 year ago

You're right.
Even if Twitter is often down, and doesn't have the best features, I use it because everyone is there. I often say that I like to eat a pizza with good friends, more than going in a great restaurant alone.
Maybe we could get everything with identi.ca...

Loic Lemeur · 1 year ago

people don't care about the services Sanji, just about their friends!

Edwin Khodabakchian · 1 year ago

loic: this makes a lot of sense. The challenge I think for you is to position next to friendfeed and facebook, both of which have the very similar "it is all about connecting and sharing with your friends" motto. You are very smart and probably have a vision of where all this is going. The reason I am saying this is that I think that the initial vision of seesmic as a video conversation tool among a trusted group of person is genius - mainly because it was one of the few web 2.0 ideas that as clearly a mainstream reach - and I am hoping that twhirl, xpmm, identi.ca, etc.. is not too much distraction (mainly driven by a small tech crowd): facebook is starting to offer a more central role to video recording in the new UI so although you create the concept, the clock is ticking. Looking forward to seeing what your next move will look like! -Edwin

Loic Lemeur · 1 year ago

thanks Edwin, do not worry this is not distraction and I really appreciate you saying the Seesmic idea is genious. As I said it is growing months after months. It is not as mainstream as Twitter but I believe it is actually much less geeky as anybody can reply to anybody using video. We will see if you and me are right on that vision very soon! so far so good.

ppmartin · 1 year ago

Saw the headline from Loïc (about this post) on Identi.ca via Twhirl and landed here ... which shows those systems work as advertized ;) As you rightfully stress, the whole point is people, rather than pipes: we want to keep in contact with friends and family via social networks, we also like to meet and be-friend interesting new contacts, both learn from them and to share with them. That's the spirit, but ingenious tools like seesmic & twhirl do help "make it happen".

jerry schuman · 1 year ago

spot on and it's the reason why we need to put data control back in the hands of end-users. I will continue to argue that all microblogging systems are nothing more then ephemeral presence messages. Those messages should be attached directly to your identity. Just to be clear you have more then one identity and it's supported in OpenID as personas. Our microblogging clients should be attaching our identity/context presence messages to our own profiles. They should not be dependent upon a third party service offering like Twitter or any other microblogging engine. - You via twhirl

Duncan Riley · 1 year ago

I'll play killer app when you launch the new UI and Twhirl takes up less screenspace.

Loic Lemeur · 1 year ago

Duncan, you will get that I promise. But it's a lot of work to get it right. And Twhirl is great engineering so we don't want anything crap up. We will get it right.

Peter Urban · 1 year ago

I absolutely agree that integration is key in the micro blogging space but I think for all this to go really mega mainstream the integration has to go one step further then a client connecting to several 'publishing' or network services, it has to be integration between the back-end systems of those services. For instance if I m on one service or network and I want to use video to answer to someones message I (as a mainstream user) don't necessarily want to have to go and create an account with that video service first (i.e. just to leave a video comment on TC). So a back-end integration through API's where services can plug into each other without requiring the user to create a gaziliion accounts will be the real killer app. To use one of the confusing phrases - don't get me wrong - I think twhirl fits nicely into the concept but it;s just the beginning (as you probably know :)