Comments on: The Shrinking Microblogging Market

By: Liver Cancer Symptom

Liver Cancer Symptom — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:14:45 +0000

should give it time and support. I strongly believe in the openness and freedom of the net.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:54:51 +0000

I still haven’t figured out the real purpose of Twitter / microblogging. I’m not sure anyone cares about the funny things my cat did this morning…. or other such silly things I might “micro blog.”

I’d have to agree with Blog Connection – if I Twittered ( which I don’t ), I’d cut it first thing if I was crunched for time. Perhaps fortunately, I’m already super crunched, so I haven’t found the time to even work it in.

By: Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland » F!XMBR

Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland » F!XMBR — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:19:48 +0000

[...] The Shrinking Microblogging Market Identi.ca, which is based on an open source, distributed microblogging project, is in active development, but I don’t see a lot of people joining the OpenMicroBlogging standard… [...]

By: bleeper.de

bleeper.de — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:57:41 +0000

I have to agree that the growth of the OpenMicroBlogging community is not as fast as the growth of twitter, but it is the only real alternative. We should give it time and support. I strongly believe in the openness and freedom of the net. That's why we support this approach and push it in Germany with the largest laconica installation outside North America called http://bleeper.de

Come and join the crowd

By: Markus Merz | Hamburg St. Georg

Markus Merz | Hamburg St. Georg — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:36:35 +0000

> – Collect everything on FriendFeed

Ops, http://friendfeed.com/merz1 would have been the right C&P thingy. Sorry for the confusion.

By: Blog Connection

Blog Connection — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:40:08 +0000

While I have a Twitter account, I’m still not sold on it as a longterm model. It still seems like a fad. When my time is tight its the first thing that I cut out of my schedule.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:55:27 +0000

So with Ping.fm you write what you write and it sends the same message to all services?

By: Brian (required)

Brian (required) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:47:18 +0000

How come nobody ever brings up Yonkly. They have the best micro-blogging service out there. Adsense revenue and my Yonkly updates go on my Twitter too. www.getzooted.yonkly.com

By: Markus Merz | Hambur

Markus Merz | Hambur — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:16:10 +0000

I like my momentary microblogging workflow which is pretty easy to monitor:

- Conversation on identi.ca (http://identi.ca/markusmerz/, http://identi.ca/markusmerz//all)

- Crosspost original messages (not starting with @) to Twitter (http://twitter.com/Markus_Merz)
- Collect everything on FriendFeed (http://twitter.com/Markus_Merz)
- Conversation on FriendFeed

- Crosspost some sources from FriendFeed to Twitter

I like the way identi.ca works and how Laconica is developed (see the server list).

I am pretty new on FriendFeed but this is definitely the direction to follow when thinking about lifestreaming & microblogging + threaded conversation. FriendFeed makes the most sense to me & I am already loving it.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:55:14 +0000

I think critical mass is more important than innovation at moment. Especially when some services thinks that lifestreaming is somehow next big thing and feeding everything possible and music tracks on top makes microblogging experience better.

Unless something that is actually innovating shows up – Twitter is biggest fish in pond for a long time.