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  • C Chris Maunder

    It's short, but I can't help thinking Jakob Nielson on Twitter[^] is like asking Martha Stewart to comment on the decor of a typical College dorm. It's just all bad.

    cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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    M dHatter
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    I still dont get the idea of twitter... who cares if your eating at taco bell and then having to take an emergency bathroom visit throughout the day. :laugh:

    "I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein

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      I still dont get the idea of twitter... who cares if your eating at taco bell and then having to take an emergency bathroom visit throughout the day. :laugh:

      "I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein

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      Michael Dunn
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      Well, I care if Alyson Hannigan is eating at Taco Bell. ;)

      --Mike--

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      • C Chris Maunder

        It's short, but I can't help thinking Jakob Nielson on Twitter[^] is like asking Martha Stewart to comment on the decor of a typical College dorm. It's just all bad.

        cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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        Shog9 0
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        HA! Well, I agree with everything i read on that link, so... Good work, Jakob. I still can't help but think that 5 years from now, the idea of a Twitter "community" will be like the idea of a "blogosphere" is today - a joke. Spammers are desperately searching for hooks, while the current "@ reply" conversation hacks have all the robustness of a house of cards in Hurricane Alley. The core idea - putting users in control of who they communicate with - is sound, a natural response to the email spam problem... But the rest of the system is doomed. 140 characters? Heck, the better SMS clients already hide that particular technical limitation - not exactly the best foundation for a next-generation system. Utter lack of standardized metadata? Yeah, that worked out really well for blogs... and they at least had microformat-friendly markup. My money's on something like Google's Wave, although Wave itself may well die from Google's lack of coherent marketing. RSS took almost a decade to really take off, so we're probably staring the Next Big Communications Medium in the face right now, and just failing to recognize it...

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          Well, I care if Alyson Hannigan is eating at Taco Bell. ;)

          --Mike--

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          Ah, Mike... we missed ya. ;-)

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          • C Chris Maunder

            It's short, but I can't help thinking Jakob Nielson on Twitter[^] is like asking Martha Stewart to comment on the decor of a typical College dorm. It's just all bad.

            cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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            Hans Dietrich
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            Oh, man! I thought that H1N1 was a new future API having to do with device contexts! I didn't get what the CDC class had to do with swine.

            Best wishes, Hans


            [Hans Dietrich Software]

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            • C Chris Maunder

              It's short, but I can't help thinking Jakob Nielson on Twitter[^] is like asking Martha Stewart to comment on the decor of a typical College dorm. It's just all bad.

              cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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              Christian Graus
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              Twitter is just stupid.

              Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Please read this[^] if you don't like the answer I gave to your question. "! i don't exactly like or do programming and it only gives me a headache." - spotted in VB forums.

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              • C Christian Graus

                Twitter is just stupid.

                Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Please read this[^] if you don't like the answer I gave to your question. "! i don't exactly like or do programming and it only gives me a headache." - spotted in VB forums.

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                Dalek Dave
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                I am sitting at work reading this and Agreeing! I am now going to open some post, hope there is money there! I have opened a twitter account, how exciting for me... Stephen Fry is following my Tweets, And I am following those of Princes Diana. Oh God, I find the compunction to Bore everyone in the world to death with the minutiae of my life.

                ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                • D Dalek Dave

                  I am sitting at work reading this and Agreeing! I am now going to open some post, hope there is money there! I have opened a twitter account, how exciting for me... Stephen Fry is following my Tweets, And I am following those of Princes Diana. Oh God, I find the compunction to Bore everyone in the world to death with the minutiae of my life.

                  ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                  Christian Graus
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                  It's only a matter of time before some celebrity starts to report bowel movements on twitter.

                  Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Please read this[^] if you don't like the answer I gave to your question. "! i don't exactly like or do programming and it only gives me a headache." - spotted in VB forums.

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                  • C Christian Graus

                    It's only a matter of time before some celebrity starts to report bowel movements on twitter.

                    Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Please read this[^] if you don't like the answer I gave to your question. "! i don't exactly like or do programming and it only gives me a headache." - spotted in VB forums.

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                    Dalek Dave
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                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    It's only a matter of time before some celebrity starts to report bowel movements on twitter Shi..er?.

                    ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                    • C Chris Maunder

                      It's short, but I can't help thinking Jakob Nielson on Twitter[^] is like asking Martha Stewart to comment on the decor of a typical College dorm. It's just all bad.

                      cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                      Nagy Vilmos
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                      If Jakob *did* tweeet, you'd have picked this story up in less trhan 4 weeks. ;)


                      Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                      • H Hans Dietrich

                        Oh, man! I thought that H1N1 was a new future API having to do with device contexts! I didn't get what the CDC class had to do with swine.

                        Best wishes, Hans


                        [Hans Dietrich Software]

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                        Chris Maunder
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                        Clearly you need a CDC so you can draw lots of pictures showing over simplified and alarm-inducing graphics while reporting the spread of the killer virus.

                        cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                          HA! Well, I agree with everything i read on that link, so... Good work, Jakob. I still can't help but think that 5 years from now, the idea of a Twitter "community" will be like the idea of a "blogosphere" is today - a joke. Spammers are desperately searching for hooks, while the current "@ reply" conversation hacks have all the robustness of a house of cards in Hurricane Alley. The core idea - putting users in control of who they communicate with - is sound, a natural response to the email spam problem... But the rest of the system is doomed. 140 characters? Heck, the better SMS clients already hide that particular technical limitation - not exactly the best foundation for a next-generation system. Utter lack of standardized metadata? Yeah, that worked out really well for blogs... and they at least had microformat-friendly markup. My money's on something like Google's Wave, although Wave itself may well die from Google's lack of coherent marketing. RSS took almost a decade to really take off, so we're probably staring the Next Big Communications Medium in the face right now, and just failing to recognize it...

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                          Fabio Franco
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                          This is off-topic, but I always wanted to ask: What does your hammer simbol means? I know the Gold, Silver, Bronze, etc... But found no info about the hammer... Could you fill me in? Fábio

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                          • C Chris Maunder

                            It's short, but I can't help thinking Jakob Nielson on Twitter[^] is like asking Martha Stewart to comment on the decor of a typical College dorm. It's just all bad.

                            cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                            dujour
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                            What is a Jakob Nielson?

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                            • N Nagy Vilmos

                              If Jakob *did* tweeet, you'd have picked this story up in less trhan 4 weeks. ;)


                              Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                              Shog9 0
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                              "We now interrupt your regularly-scheduled programming to bring you this late-breaking opinion piece!" :-\

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                                "We now interrupt your regularly-scheduled programming to bring you this late-breaking opinion piece!" :-\

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                                Nagy Vilmos
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                                You tease!


                                Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

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                                • F Fabio Franco

                                  This is off-topic, but I always wanted to ask: What does your hammer simbol means? I know the Gold, Silver, Bronze, etc... But found no info about the hammer... Could you fill me in? Fábio

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                                  Shog9 0
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                                  D'ya ever see "The Wall"...? :-\ Actually, if you hover over the icon with your mouse cursor, you'll get a hint. It's a status assigned by Chris for helping with the construction of the site itself in some way. Or, apparently, being a conspicuous nag WRT minor UI issues... :-O

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                                  • F Fabio Franco

                                    This is off-topic, but I always wanted to ask: What does your hammer simbol means? I know the Gold, Silver, Bronze, etc... But found no info about the hammer... Could you fill me in? Fábio

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                                    sketch2002
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                                    If you hover your mouse over the images (at least in my browser, chrome) it will pop-up with what they are, the hammer gives "Site Builder". Edit - Oops, I started to reply before his response was there, but was distracted by work (how dare they!?). Oh well, like he said, lol.

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                                    • D Dalek Dave

                                      I am sitting at work reading this and Agreeing! I am now going to open some post, hope there is money there! I have opened a twitter account, how exciting for me... Stephen Fry is following my Tweets, And I am following those of Princes Diana. Oh God, I find the compunction to Bore everyone in the world to death with the minutiae of my life.

                                      ------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC

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                                      Miszou
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                                      Twitter may not be your kind of thing, but I bet you a lifetimes membership to CodeProject that you could get over 100 followers in a week if you posted a new CCC on there every day... People love that kind of thing. CCC's are short, quick, give people something to think about on the bus and are the perfect daily tweet. Heck, you could even set up a free website (wordpress or something) to show the answers and get a bunch of adverts on it to make a bit of cash on the side. Twitter may be full of bloviating idiots talking about what they ate for breakfast, but there's no reason you couldn't turn it into something financially profitable or use it to build your online reputation... Check out http://twitter.com/twrivia[^] for an example of what I'm talking about. Now, get busy and get twittering some daily CCC's!

                                      The StartPage Randomizer - The Windows Cheerleader - Twitter

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                                      • S Shog9 0

                                        D'ya ever see "The Wall"...? :-\ Actually, if you hover over the icon with your mouse cursor, you'll get a hint. It's a status assigned by Chris for helping with the construction of the site itself in some way. Or, apparently, being a conspicuous nag WRT minor UI issues... :-O

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                                        Fabio Franco
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                                        Hehehe. Ya, I've seen "The Wall". It looks like my nightmares of when I was kid LOL. But in my browser (Firefox 3), it doesn't pop anything, I dunno why. Thanks for filling me in. Regards, Fábio

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                                        • S sketch2002

                                          If you hover your mouse over the images (at least in my browser, chrome) it will pop-up with what they are, the hammer gives "Site Builder". Edit - Oops, I started to reply before his response was there, but was distracted by work (how dare they!?). Oh well, like he said, lol.

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                                          Fabio Franco
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                                          Yea, I've tried that, but for some reason nothing pops-up in my Browser (Firefox 3). Thanks for the tip though. Regards, Fábio

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