In case you use Twitter on an iPhone using the popular & excellent web based client by Thincloud, you will see ads, strategically placed, as the first post when viewing recent posts. I noticed them this morning. Here are two examples.
I will be in Israel between April 9-13 for Kinnernet, Yossi Vardi’s geek camp & the TheMarker COM.Vention, Isreal’s Internet conference.
In case you are interested in meeting during the first day of the conference, drop me a note at jayblog {at} meydad.com
I will be slow on blogging during my time in Israel and use twitter as my main update too, so incase you are still not following me, now it is the time.
I would like to wish all of my blog readers a Shana Tova (happy new year).
May the coming year be blessed with health, joy and happiness, creation and innovation, prosperity and success, love, peace and harmony.
I will flying with my wife and boys to Israel in a few days to celebrate the holidays with our families and old friends. I will be slow on blogging but you could always follow me on twitter.
Note: This beautiful photo of old fashioned Shana Tova cards was taken by miss pupik.
Technorati Tags: Shana Tova, Happy New Year, Old Fashioned Cards
We have got used to see Twitter go down in the middle of the day. Today it happened again. What was different is the downtime page. Twitter used to have humorous page showing a kitty playing with a server but no more. The new page looks very official. Is that a side affect of the recent development in the company?
Last night I decided to extend my iPhone’s functionality with a few goodies.
The first thing was to hack the iPhone.
Then I added Hebrew fonts to Safari & the built in RSS reader. The lack of Hebrew support was one of my biggest pains with the iPhone and with the ability to read a few Hebrew web sites (not all sites render properly) things are a little better, although I am still waiting for the full native Hebrew support.
The next thing was to add several applications and personalize the device with a custom ringtone. I installed iBrickr on my computer and use it to manage my iPhones apps, ringtones etc.
Among the applications that are currently installed on my iPhone you can find:
Technorati Tags: iPhone hacking, iBrickr, Twitter
I received today an invitation to join Jaiku from Jason. Considering Twitter’s latest outages I though I’d give a try despite the pain in setting up a new online-mobile friends’ network. So, I began the sign up process & immediately liked it:
But then I received the txt message with the activation code and was surprised to see that it came from the number 011467374940501. I then realized that Jaiku currently offers a short code that works only in Finland (17273). Users from all other countries would have to use an international SMS number (cost would be about $0.20 per message). To me this is a major adoption barrier. True, Jaiku offers a J2ME version for Nokia Series 60 phones that uses data plans and not SMS, but how many users have these types of phones?
Beyond the signup process, the Jaiku web site has a few neat features and overall I find the Jaiku product offering much more complete than Twitter. Two things that I like most:
Bottom line - A good looking product with some strong features but a pricey way to broadcast status from mobile & no built-in ability to use an IM client to broadcast status (to do that I would have to use a 3rd party product like Anothr or IMified).
Until Jaiku would offer a US short code I do not see this becoming my main status notification service (and probably this would prevent them from becoming a serious competitor to Twitter in the north-american market), which means I would still have to keep seeing the cat making thingz better.
Or maybe I should use both and monitor them together using Twitku.
Just came accorss this mashup on John Montgomery’s blog. We have seen similar mashups created using Google Maps but this one demonstrates some of Popfly capabilities. I wish there were settings to define initial load state (location, timeframe of twitter messeages etc). But this is very cool.
Update: I had to remove the mashup from this post since it prevented the side bar from loading. If you are interested to see it, visit John’s blog.
What seems to be THE fastest growing services in the history of the internet is now (only) one of the fastest growing services.
Another source posted a very interesting graph with # of daily Twitter messages. I wonder if these numbers are accurate, and if so what led to yesterday’s spike? I have a feeling it is related to Paris (option A, option B)
Ideacodes (Emily Chang) released a new project called Twitterverse. It lets you explore what people twitter about in a time frame (1, 5, 10, 24 hours) and display a tag cloud of the most interesting words. Once you see the list you could zoom in and see the full context inside the messages and the members who sent them.
Twitter is an amazing social phenomenon. It is also a business that I can not really figure out (how are they planning to make money if they have to buy huge amounts of bulk text messages?).
I find the Twitterverse mashup interesting as it provides a unique point of view on the lives of those who use the service especially on thier language:
I am sure one day someone will make this the topic of his Linguistic thesis.
