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Comment on One in a million! by Rob

Rob — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:33:23 +0000

You are one in a million! Love your work, and inspired me to join twitter in the first place. Greetings from Florida!

Comment on One in a million! by Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:04:31 +0000

Gracias – that is such a lovely note. Underlines your warmth of spirit. Much appreciated.

Comment on One in a million! by Amos Keeto

Amos Keeto — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:25:04 +0000

Right back at you Mark.

Comment on 7PM Project: 3D TV by safzoro

safzoro — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:23:54 +0000

“the point is, they have to do this cause they need to cover themselves from liability, and it’s about using these things with common sense.” Yes. Common sense certainly helped stave off all those potential problems after the introduction of the combusion engine. Oh, wait–

Comment on Questionaire by kmcg2375

kmcg2375 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:12:05 +0000

Will have to remember ‘mercurial’ as a personality descriptor – I feel/am like this. It’s a hard reflex to condition!

Nice music choices Can’t wait to see the grey afro in years to come

Comment on Both Your Houses by Australian Spec Fic blog carnival, March 2010 – The Word – According To Me

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:37:42 +0000

[...] The fabtastic convention that is Continuum happened at the end of February. This time it was Continuum 6: Future Tense. You can read my report of the con here. One of the guests of honour was the truly inspiring Mark Pesce. Mark wrote a short story for Continuum, called Both Your Houses. You can find that story here. [...]

Comment on Making Twitter Pay by Matt

Matt — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:42:50 +0000

CNN News Anchor Rick Sanchez is using Twitter /Facebook /Myspace on his show at 3pm EST (US)

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/09/08/new-cnn-show-pushes-limits-twitter-literally

Comment on Making Twitter Pay by Stephen Matthews

Stephen Matthews — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:37:10 +0000

I had already thought about the obvious ‘commercial’ Twitter requests-to-follow I had received (and denied). I concluded it was typical that an innovation was followed soon after by someone looking to make money off it. I never stopped to think directly that Twitter itself was left out of the loop, though I had thought “how will they make their money?” The rich media idea is a good one for them, the fact that it’s there would be good for all of us at some point for a specific reason. The fact that it is ‘opt in’ for following a commercial, rich-media-enable Twitterer/peddler (Tweddler?) is the idea’s saving grace.

Comment on Making Twitter Pay by Wayne Meissner

Wayne Meissner — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:23:39 +0000

This doesn’t neccessarily need to involve twitter … so if it is something people want, then a third party can do it.

In a similar way to @name and #blahblah are interpreted as replies and hashtags by popular clients, you could use say a exclamation mark as a trigger to display a url inline in the message stream instead of as a link.

e.g.
Hey, look at my deals: !http://icanhazdealz.com/ab1kdjh2

And the client renders the contents of the url, instead of the original text. It also gracefully degrades for clients that don’t support the new convention, since you can click on the link as normal.

Once you have a web renderer like WebKit in the client, then you get all the goodness of buttons, images, video, animations, etc.

Comment on Making Twitter Pay by Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:14:46 +0000

The challenge here is – show me the content. The key isn’t great writing – hell you only get 140 characters – the key is what can you deliver to a large group of people that they need to pay for, that they really want and will be a product that is useful – there are plenty of gimmicks that could perhaps generate revenue early on…and by rich-media do you mean like what they are doing at 12seconds.tv???