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Why I’ll wait to try Twitblogs

December 14, 2008 By Dan Thornton

There’s a new service, Twitblogs, which allows you to post without being limited to 140 characters, include image tags, embed videos, and include urls of images and audio files – and it also updates Twitter for you. (There’s a write-up on Mashable with some very interesting comments around the legalities of the appearance etc).

But the flipside is that the founder Sam Sethi, has some previous noteriety, after previous startup Blognation closed. Michael Arrington writes about both Twitblogs, and links to his own experience with Sethi, who is a former editor of Techcrunch UK.

While I wouldn’t take anyone’s view on what happened as unbiased, and don’t know the details to comment, Arrington does make a couple of very good points about Twitblogs:

You need to disclose your Twitter username – and importantly your password (something that’s been raised as an issue with other applications)
Although a privacy policy page has been added, the site still hasn’t got any Terms and Conditions listed – the Terms at the bottom of the page isn’t linked. And although most of us may be less than thorough when looking at the Ts and Cs, there are times when they become vitally important.

Personally I’ll wait and see what other responses there are, until I get a chance to use the 140char test account – but in the meantime, you can always see the latest thoughts, as ever, via Twitter Search.

Twitter to provide for internal company use….

September 25, 2008 By Dan Thornton

A really useful article by Laura Fitton (@pistachio) on Mashable comparing 15 microblogging tools for enterprises also reveals an important and interesting quote on Twitter from Ev Williams. ( Laura has kindly clarified in the comments that she referenced the list of tools maintained by Jeremiah Owyang)

‘Private networks that do private or company-internal sharing via Twitter are on the horizon,’

This is big news considering the size of Twitter relative to all other microblogging platforms. I’d suggest their advantage is to create the private areas within the larger Twittersphere, as one of the problems of tools such as Yammer is that for normal businesses (i.e. non early-adopter tech firms), there simply isn’t critical mass.

Allow early adopters to connect within a company, and frame that within the larger Twittersphere, and it keeps the interest up while allowing the company users to grow.

(Then again, if it’s coming at the same speed as restoring IM functionality etc, it may be some way off!)

Mashable gets it’s own social network

June 7, 2007 By Dan Thornton

For ages, www.mashable.com has been a really good news site covering social networks, but now mashable man Pete Cashmore has thrown his hat into the social network provider ring with www.my.mashable.com.

It’s clean and simple to use, and fairly basic at the moment, but the most interesting aspect is that you can join networks for all the social sites you use, such as Myspace, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Pandora etc. New starters like Virb are also included.

My lovely new profile is here.

It’s quite interesting finding out exactly how many social sites I’ve signed up for, and seeing other users, but I’d hazard a guess that this is the first step towards integration across sites.

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