Comments on: Twitter Annotations: Fountain of Creativity or Can of Worms?

By: Twitter Annotations Are Coming — What Do They Mean For Twitter and the Web?

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:01:21 +0000

[...] “It could get pretty hairy with lots of non-interoperable approaches,” a concern that others have raised as well. For example, if more than one company wants to support payments through Annotations but they all [...]

By: Early Bird Rewards | b r a n t s

Early Bird Rewards | b r a n t s — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:09:09 +0000

[...] to any tweet in the system.” You can take a look at the various possibilities here, here and here. The former – Facebook’s Open Graph, unveiled at the f8 conference, and aimed at [...]

By: My daily readings 04/27/2010 « Strange Kite

My daily readings 04/27/2010 « Strange Kite — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:31:17 +0000

[...] Twitter Annotations: Fountain of Creativity or Can of Worms? by @ScepticGeek [...]

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:54:44 +0000

I've got mixed feelings about annotations. I think it's a good idea to keep their format unrestricted but I've recently begun heavily questioning the value of central company social networks. I can easily get real time updates outside of Twitter with as much additional meta data as I see fit, and people can embrace or ignore formats and standards as best fits their needs.

I assume your blog is push enabled, which means I can get it directly & instantly without rerouting through Twitter. We're on one big social net already, we need to work out some standards for information flow and how to follow people (a neutral nonprofit or user hosted Google/facebook profile).

I recently moved the origin of my "microblog" updates to Buzz, not because Google's servers are any better than Twitter, but because I have full access to peoples updates there in real time without requesting API access. I can also follow Buzz users from Identi.ca another promising micro blog implementation.

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:40:52 +0000

Glad to see the Cascaad team moving beyond flowing status updates through semantic APIs (that's where I left off with a project before making a big move out of tweetspace). As long as we restricted ourselves to tweet structure, we were beholden to Twitter to provide additional structure. The semantic tagging of tweets is a great move towards relevance, but the world of real time personal data outside of Twitter is also growing (Facebook and blogs that reside outside of Twitter's index).

By: Radu Panciuc

Radu Panciuc — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:10:57 +0000

It's interesting to see how all the fuss is created around Twitter. It feels like everytime Twitter decides to make one step ahead everyone gets excited about it. Being closed and opening bit by bit has a higher impact than just giving freedom to everyone to do whatever. When Facebook makes some change most of its regular users complain about it, start groups, etc. I guess Twitter is just a more geeky place to be

By: Twitter Details Plans To Become Micro-Google | Regular Geek

Twitter Details Plans To Become Micro-Google | Regular Geek — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:23:26 +0000

[...] at some point this quarter. However, that did not stop bloggers from beating annotations to death. Mahendra at SkepticGeek points to the main concern: Annotations will be app-specific. Annotations devised by Tweetdeck will [...]

By: matthew

matthew — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:31:24 +0000

“Apps may move all links from your tweets to the metadata section, leaving you the full 140 characters for plain text”

LMAO so much for bit.ly ! no need to use Bit.ly if your tweet real estate is as big as you want ….

By: connectme360

connectme360 — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:59:29 +0000

Great move. When it comes to new ideas, official guidance often has a chilling effect on innovation, by anchoring our perceptions of what something is or should be. Think “push” in the 90s or more recently, “web 2.0″.

But just as “RT” found itself part of the Twitter culture, this move makes it possible for entrepreneurs to explore new ways to connect, route, exchange, and translate activity between spheres of influence. For example, X-10 is a robust home automation framework. Twitter annotations would theoretically enable more robust authentication and finer-grained control to be sent via tweets to a home network, responding to real-time energy peak usage notifications from the local utility, acting to turn down the AC.

(I think this is the part of the movie where amazing things are justthisclose from happening.)

By: kaprasanna

kaprasanna — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:28:33 +0000

Hi Mahindra,

Have had a brush with twitter4j, an open-source java based api for twitter about 6 months back. (Just out of curiosity. Thought I'll write stuff that 'sn't available in web based interface. Was successful to a large extent too.)
About the annotations:
What I understand is, since twitter is encouraging developers to add annotations (metadata as rightly inferred by you) then twitter must have be having a plan to create data structures to store this metadata along with every tweet. And over time twitter will for sure make a common api available and then I think annotations need not be app-specific.

Congrats on a brilliant post. Short concise and crisp.