Viking Hammer

Archive for January, 2010

Emitter Progress: Conversations

I’ve been making fairly solid progress on Emitter lately. Today’s additions were threefold: Mentions Replies Conversations Mentions work exactly the same as they do in Twitter, and aren’t worth talking about here. Replies are similar to Twitter, but for now there are still some limitations. For one thing, I haven’t worked out how to limit [...]

Open Twitter: What would you name the baby of Email and Twitter?

Email is the distinguished, reliable, old man of online communication; Twitter is the hot young coed who draws everyone’s eye as soon as she walks into the room. But what if the two of them met and, say, hit it off? People like the immediacy and openness of Twitter, and the asynchronous follower model of [...]