Jeff Jarvis on the Next Technological Milestone
Jeff Jarvis
Founder, BuzzMachine.com; Columnist, The Guardian
Jeff Jarvis on the power of micro-blogging.
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06:26 AM on May 08, 2008
Question: What new technology will change everything?
Jeff Jarvis: If I knew I’d be rich and so I don’t know. I think that it’s constant surprise, Twitter is a simple little program that lets you put in a 140 character messages from your phone or from the web, it’s micro blogging. I looked at it and I kinda dismissed it but my 16 year old son and webmaster and the genius behind me said “You know Dad no you gotta look at Twitter again, stuff’s going on there” and he was right, it’s really amazing because it’s social blogging, you choose whom to follow and who follows you. It’s public conversation, it captures a kind of zeitgeist of the time. I just saw that Reuters and the BBC are trying to do constant searches on Twitter for words like explosion and evacuation because Twitter becomes the canary in the news coal mine, telling you that people are writing about their lives and if there’s an evacuation right now, they’re gonna tell you that and they’re gonna tell you that before any news reporter would ever know this. So Twitter, this silly thing of 140 characters, what did you have for breakfast, I don’t care what you had for breakfast, suddenly becomes a whole new platform for understanding what’s going on in people’s lives. Who could have predicted that, now the fact that it came from Evan Williams who also was a co-creator of blogger which popularized blogging and changed my life and the world means that I do pay attention to Twitter. But I wouldn’t have guessed it, I think that’s what the internet is about is that when you put out a platform and you see how people use it and when you get surprised you’ve won.
Recorded on: 04/30/2008
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Jeff Jarvis
Founder, BuzzMachine.com; Columnist, The Guardian
JJeff Jarvis blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He is associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor and a partner at Daylife, a news startup. He writes a new media column for The Guardian and is host of its Media Talk USA podcast. He consults for media companies. Until 2005, he was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; reporter for Chicago Today. He is the author of What Would Google Do? (HarperCollins 2009).
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This list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced functional up-time.
general
twitter.com
jaiku.com
pownce.com
beemood.com
twoorl.com
yonkly.com
kwippy.com
microblogr.com
brightkite.com
plurk.com
secondbrain.com
Chinese
fanfou.com
zuosa.com
komoo.cn
Portuguese
gozub.com
Brazilian
telog.com.br
Indian
snockles.com
Singaporean
tiish.com
Italian
meemi.com
Spanish
khaces.com
Turkish
nolyo.com
French
noumba.net
poodz.com
tapioka.ca
Korean
playtalk.net
Japanese
feecle.jp
German
niimo.com
Polish
blip.pl
Dutch
numpa.nl
Portuguese
gozub.com
Russian
smspr.ru
Arabic
watwet.com
Romanian
cirip.ro
Mexican
mexicodiario.com
Czech
http://drbz.cz
special
tumblr.com
hictu.com
babl.nl
floort.com
help.com
justtell.us
talkaboutadate.com
adocu.com
multiple posting
hellotxt.com
The most exhaustive list I know about is the list made up by thw www.thws.cn/articles/twitter-clones.html
Pieter Jansegers
http://microblogs.ning.com
Microblogs are changing the world:
microblogs are the world's first instant global mass media.
They provide an immediate potentially worldwide feedback loop for important information.
Pieter Jansegers
http://microblogs.ning.com
Maryanne Burgos
Start by following someone you know who's Twitter savvy, and the look at some of the folks who they are following, or being followed by. Build your list of people you follow gradually, and don't forget to offer something simple but interesting. A link, a thought, a point of view.