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A Google group for Twitter researchers

Wolfgang Reinhardt — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:00:54 +0000

I can’t remember who pointed me to this group, but I already made use of the “Twitter research” google group. Here you can discuss your current Twitter research, get feedback on ideas, pedagogic use cases and practical applications of the most used microblogging service. Furthermore it links to an open and free-to-edit Twitter Research Bibliography managed by danah boyd.

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-research

Using personal tags to aggregate everything

Wolfgang Reinhardt — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:50:12 +0000

Tags are the new classification systems for nearly all current web applications. But how do you keep track on where you posted, linked, commented or uploaded stuff. Florian Bailey posted a simple but effective idea to do this (HT to René Sprotte for linking me to this):

My problem is how to aggregate everything I publish easily. I tried various ways to do this. For comments there are services like disqus but sadly only a few sites actually integrate it, Facebook and Friendfeed are partly an answer to it but even with them I can only add sites where I have an account ( or that allow me to use my facebook account) or a public RSS Feed is available.

At the end, all of these services only work with some sites, the only global services that work on every site are search engines.

So I’m now trying to aggregate everything I publish with google.

For this I created my personal tag, it’s a unique string I will add to every kind of content I publish anywhere on the internet. And Google will do the rest.

My Personal Tag is: #ptfjib80
# – as identifier of a tag
pt – personal tag
fjib80 – as unique string

I like the idea because it so simple, clean and pretty straightforward. I’ll try to use my personal tag #ptwollepb999 from now on. What about you?

Google Wave vs. Twitter as back-channel at conferences

Wolfgang Reinhardt — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:39:50 +0000

The guys at Freshnetworks share their experiences with Google Wave as back-channel at conferences. I like the idea of that approach as the emerging document is a very good summary and social annotation of a given talk. As the usability of Google Wave is rather … not that good at the moment I’d stay with Twitter at the moment, but give it a read:

Google Wave vs. Twitter at conferences