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Twitter Code Swarm Video

In Technology, Twitter on Feb-8-2010 with
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Twitter recently launched a Twitter Engineering blog, focused on the nuts and bolts and “geeky” stuff. In the first post Ben Sandofsky, decided to share a video he made representing Twitter’s development history using Code Swarm, a software tool used to visualize data, so you can get a feel for what is happening at Twitter server side.

The BCS Hires A PR Firm (Epic Fail)

In Sports, Twitter on Nov-22-2009 with
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The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) has hired Ari Fleischer Communications, run by the former press secretary for President George W. Bush, to help rebuild the tattered image of college football’s postseason system.

One of their first moves was to set-up an official BCS Twitter account. This maybe one of those rare cases where interacting with the fans is not such as good idea, especially when it is so easy for them to respond. They are being torn apart. It’s brutal, and the account hasn’t even been active for 12 hours yet.

The Pursuit of Accidents

In Social Networking, Technology, Twitter on Apr-15-2008 with
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I’ve been a fan of Evan Williams for a long time. Evan is the founder of Blogger (sold to Google), Odeo (ran into the iTunes juggernut), and now the super hip Twitter. The above sketch is neat in and of itself on many different levels, and eventually became Twitter, got me thinking about an article I read several months ago in the Economist called The Accidental Innovator:

Evan Williams accidentally stumbled upon three insights. First, that genuinely new ideas are, well, accidentally stumbled upon rather than sought out; second, that new ideas are by definition hard to explain to others, because words can express only what is already known; and third, that good ideas seem obvious in retrospect.

The article goes on to note:

The irony of trying to plan accidents, and orchestrate their frequent occurrence, is not lost on Mr Williams. So he tries mental tricks. One is to ask “what can we take away to create something new?” A decade ago, you could have started with Yahoo! and taken away all the clutter around the search box to get Google. When he took Blogger and took away everything except one 140-character line, he had Twitter. Radical constraints, he believes, can lead to breakthroughs in simplicity and entirely new things.

Recently On

In Twitter on Apr-3-2008 with
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• Google Analytics now supports hourly/weekly/monthly reports. My gosh this will be useful. Thanks Google.
• Is there a 12-steps program for coffee drinkers?
• How is it already 4:48 AM CST. Oh PowerPoint … let me count the ways I hate yea!

Recently On

In Twitter on Apr-2-2008 with
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• How many search via www.google.com vs. a toolbar?
• Criminal Minds must be one of the most intelligent shows on network TV. Amazing it hasn’t been canceled.
• How do I set a laser printer to stun?

Video: Twitter Explained

In Social Networking, Twitter, Video on Apr-2-2008 with
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