You've probably seen the twittering cat door, the twittering office chair and the twittering bakery. These lovely examples have one thing in common: they all use home-made devices that connect to Twitter. And while these application may seem like novelty, I do think they represent something something brilliant: off-the-shelf technology that allows anything to be part of the internet.
Standardised low-tech means one thing: it's cheap and simple enough to be spread widely across the whole physical world (see previous post).
A simple schematic shows how this works: most pieces of the puzzle exist today – the only missing link are standardised input-output devices and a community for developing plugins. And instead of using twitter as a frontend interface it can be used it as a backend dataflow that allows for interfaces to be built on top.
The perspective here is not technical (since everything is based on existing ones), but from a user-perspective with one thing in mind: how technology can be packaged for maximum dissemination.
Does this make any sense?
And btw, I'm not a techie, so my apologies for getting nomenclatures mixed up.
Completely agree. We opened doors for User generated content now we need to open doors to allow user generated platforms!
By the way, we recently combined slideshare and twitter and created our own little thing. www.modea.com/share
Let me know your thoughts!
Posted by: Mansi | Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 19:12