The real-time web is an emergent phenomenon dependent on many individuals sharing what is happening in moments of personal interest.
The Expectation Gap
Old blog posts about Twitter by Tom Smith and Louis Gray prompt discussion about the gap between user expectation and practice.
Shared Sounds
In his recent TED talk, Julian Treasure treats sound as a material for businesses, an insight that changes the way designers should approach common spaces.
The Impact of Twitter Lists
While official support of Twitter lists will initially produce a bunch of happy campers, lists may also change behavior in unexpected ways.
Testing Ambiguity
In between precision and art, data can be presented in an ambiguous way, so as to force the observer to become a co-creator of its meaning. This is one key insight that informed the Kazomi project, now in Alpha testing.
Crowdsourcing Fiction
BBC Audiobooks America sponsored a Twitter event that featured popular novelist Neil Gaiman and hundreds of short-form writers. The outcome will be a free audiobook produced from the collaboration.
NFL Receiver Catches On to Twitter Power
Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald asked a simple question Sunday night and got 1000 simple answers from fans.