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Listed below are comments made by ColtSeaversPS between Wednesday, 8th July 2009 and Thursday, 9th July 2009.

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Twitter - too corporate by half? 00:50am on 09 Jul 2009 yeah but you've got to admit - this 'amuse ourselves' web app me and my mate stuck up is vaguely compelling - for a second....>? well, maybe not - purposely pointless was the idea - and to chuckle a little at the reponses we get http://sandvich.org :P
Twitter - too corporate by half? 05:34am on 08 Jul 2009 on point though - i'd add that in my opinion, largely self moderated social hubs like Twitter are unlikely to be sucessful marketing tools. They're networking tools. It is, for me, liberating and empowering. Simply great that the old boy networks have something to compete against them, at last!

The 'spaceapple' story - well, I wanted a new MacBook too - and admit I tweeted the name once or twice. On reflection, it was rather like sending my entire address book unwanted catalog spam - and I won't be repeating it. I'd expect a backlash. There's plenty of services doing what this current 'noise maker' does - that still have the respect of their user base.
Twitter - too corporate by half? 05:29am on 08 Jul 2009 I don't understand how people can attack and rage at 'tools'.

Twitter is a tool. Ignore the 'What are you doing?' stock question. It's not about status updates necessarily- just communication. Sharing with an extended network of mutually interested people.

There's alternatives, for sure - I've used Laconica and others and they are all good - but only as god as the friends you follow on there. So you tend to use the service they are using.

It's not hard to make a microblogging platform (in learning web dev i made a fully functional one at http://www.woofday.net - just pretty useless without alot of microbloggers - in my example I hadn't counted on Dogs not using computers ;)

It's natural for there to be an ultimate winner as the 'micro blogging format of choice' simply because - unless Laconica and Twitter netorks we're combined (easy to do - and something some TP apps allow), a choice is required. Twitter has a superior API and is therefore, in my opinion, the superior product - but both fall flat without people. More importantly, Twitter is news - whether you like it or not. 80% of it's members joined in the most recent 20% of it's lifespan, so it's blowing up - same story with the iphone. It's natural the BBC Blog and report about these significant tech success stories.

Twitter is clearly just an irritant for some - as are long phone conversations or text messages to me.
It's made me feel socially connected again after illness. I get lots of interesting links to informative content. I share people's days. I browse news or listen to a friends new music composition through a quick link.

The people I follow aren't 'mundane' - they're fascinating - they are people after all. People that over time you 'get' - and in some cases get to know.

So, if you find twitter irritating and useless then that seems absolutely fine. Don't use it. It's really not worth getting so fired up. Seems a surreal situation. Looking back 'several' years, I wonder if people ranted at each other for using the telephone....well of course they did. Tech's moved on. Society has moved on. Either enjoy it, or ignore it.
The audio revolution gathers pace 00:15am on 08 Jul 2009 I've used AudioBoo extensively since it's launch as a life diary.

It has been a huge assistance to me in recovering from agoraphobia. It provided a focus whilst leaving my house - a distraction; allowing me to get a little further each time - and then have a log to listen to (tagged and archived) to make sense of how I was feeling after the anxiety had subsided. It was hugely significant to me that here was a company making a product that seemed designed for one thing - Top Quality Audio recording publishing and archiving, available to listen to from any device, in a superbly simple and robust app.

I could make this an essay - as I feel this 'product' has changed my life. I have started exploring the possibilities of it as I play with web app 'mash-ups'. I've set up http://audiobooth.net to encourage it's use for a less polished publishing of musicians 'work in progress'.

I've tried the other products : and they have their uses. Tweet Mic is good for throw away audio - a quick tweet. iPadio is great for areas without 3G - and on boats and mountains. But for me, there's no contest - and that's because AudioBoo also, suprisingly for this sort of thing, has a superbly friendly, genuine and supportive community. Good luck to them.

By the way: I can't comment on AudioBoo without mentioning some of my favorite people to follow : check out @documentally (superb journalist) @philcampbell (lead geek/tech) and @tarabusch (synth godess).

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