the future is awful and useless
― buzza, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
caek, getting/posting links is a lot of the value of twitter for the many, many non-geeks who use it.
i think facebook will die before twitter does. it's just trying to do too many things at once.
i sort of always wondered how exactly rss readers would take over the world. barring some iPad-based miracle it looks like they won't for a while. twitter has that space locked up.
― just woke up (lukas), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
all been downhill since the glory days of compuserve imo
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i was just lolling at the idea that twitter users are somehow representative of "real people"
― caek, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
love twitter but trying to rationalise this is a waste of time really. i'd expect it to eventually allow longer tweets just via a 'read more' option anyway. would probably quit facebook if it wasn't for its usefulness just as a social diary.
― blueski, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it would be cool if they allowed longer tweets and also had a 'like' button but then wait it would just be facebook minus everything else facebook can do
― iatee, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm lolling at the idea that a usable forum for public communications is some fad
maybe facebook will own it, i dunno. but it's not like twitter is surviving on novelty value.
― just woke up (lukas), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently the future of the internets is some twitter fbook grudge match
who will survive and what will be left of them
― it made me wish batman had written an article on mfas (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
forums for public communications can not be a fad or die ever
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah seriously, it's possible that in ten years ~neither~ will be around, and what "replaces" them might not look like either.
how will the revolutions organize then though ?! rip political change and human communication : (
― caek, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
will html be around in 10 years
― it made me wish batman had written an article on mfas (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i previously summarised my feelings abt twitter btw
its like i dont understand the conventions, and it feels like boring middleaged ppl figured it out quicker than i did and i'm sick of watching the news and they do their twitter bit and i'm like what? why do ppl on twitter matter. And the stupid fake words its generated are uniformly irritating like what retweet? idk then theres this thing where you're supposed to follow things in realtime now and i'm like what i cant keep up and all of this is gibberish to me.― plax (ico), Friday, February 4, 2011 9:58 PM (2 weeks ago)
― plax (ico), Friday, February 4, 2011 9:58 PM (2 weeks ago)
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
so the future = centralization then? apps just become UI shells that do all the dirty work via cloud computing, media is all delivered via streaming services from a central server (ie spotify, netflix's on demand thing, etc). nothing is decentralized except the actual device (phone, pad, whatever you want to call it)
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
haven't said a word about revolutions
"may not look like either" - well, duh. but the point is that twitter and facebook actually provide value to people, and will not die until something else emerges that can provide equivalent value.
― just woke up (lukas), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
tamagotchis provided value
― caek, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
First, anyone who thinks that twitter is a substitute for linear conversations like those on facebook wall posts, ilx, etc. is nuts.
Second, twitter is useful because of its limitations, and what you can build off of those. The entire idea that you've got this activity stream that you can zoom into for further content (iPad app actually lets you pinch-zoom user info, and slides in a web browser window) or view as low-bandwidth text is pretty neat.
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, don't know if anyone noticed or cares, but facebook uses xmpp chat now, so you can use the same programs to connect to google talk or facebook chat.
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
there are a million substitutes that provide roughly equivalent value as tamagotchis
― just woke up (lukas), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
after about 3 1/2 yrs with one, finally entirely deleted my facebook account and after getting over initial withdrawal (erm, yes) that included a lot of logging back in (mostly to look at picture's of my best high-school friend's new latina girlfriend), i've hardly ever think of it - and have an insane amount of free-time i never actually thought i had in the first place.
it rly doesn't help that there is no "insta-delete" button, but a 2wk ~necessary~ wait period in which they wink and tell you your account will be deleted after then.
but god what a relief it is to not meet somebody and know they'll not be going home tonight to browse through "my life" and judge what music/whatever taste i like. i feel human again or something.
― The previous message has been brought to you by (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
can we get back to talking about the semantic web
― it made me wish batman had written an article on mfas (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
― just woke up (lukas), Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:06 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
babies
― max, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
future of internet isn't just the semantic web
sometimes it's tamagotchis
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
core facebook/twitter services
status updatesocial graphprofilelocation
now facebook and twitter may not be the leading companies providing these services in ten years but the demand for them isnt going away
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
twitter's main service is being a top notch celebrity-trolling vehicle
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
fad-monger
xp
― just woke up (lukas), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i kinda think that via the emergence of the internet of things that profile and location will be more valuable than status and social - so facebook and twitter could remain at the top of their current markets while being simultaneously rendered somewhat irrelevant
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
also im know im way behind on this covo but i dont think the future of the net is walled app gardens - i dont think theres much demand for the most basic function of the web to be wholesale taken away
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:03 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha yes it has allowed us to get closer to our idols than ever before
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
jordan is engaged to jose cansecos daughter iirc
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
let us not forget ~solar panels~
timoreilly Tim O'Reilly Solar rooftops as social network? Why @sungevity’s New Hire From LinkedIn is No Surprise http://bit.ly/gZqlsJ53 seconds ago
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
twitter is like seeing thousands of headlines to articles I never want to read
― it made me wish batman had written an article on mfas (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
lots of tweets are headlines, maybe follow diff people idk
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't "get" twitter
― ullr saves (gbx), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
lol u old
― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
thats maybe the biggest barrier to twitter mass adoption, when you look at it its doesnt necessarily make sense, all the RT # @ nomenclature particularly isnt doing them any favors
i do think their new thing of calling themselves an information network is a pretty good pithy explanation
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
the advantages twitter seems to have over facebook: asymmetric relationships, simplicity
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
the word "tweet"
― unusually tight body for a comedian (Matt P), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont even know wth twitter is but i will find any excuse i can to say "retweet" out loud
― unusually tight body for a comedian (Matt P), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
twitter is broadcast, facebook is ephemeral but concentrated
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that sounds abt right
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
on the other hand: facebook is a book w/faces in it, twitter is a bird
It's weird, I say random one-off stupid comments on twitter and people who have met me from work will follow me there, but I will say a completely different set of personal things on facebook.
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
main advantage of twitter over fb = people use it as an actual breaking news source mainly due to the effectiveness of the trends feature (altho obv trends gets swamped with trivial shit too) and that legitimises conversations/rants to actually take place within twitter where stuff is so often first learned.
― blueski, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
twitter is more about timely delivery, facebook is more about standing relationships
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
classic comms theory is engineers trying to be sociologists, like it describes the shape of something but that's it. "this room is square," well yes, i might behave a little differently because it's square but... not really.
i for one think tombot and tracer hand have been otm so far to which i might add, future of the internet is all about 1) abstraction as a method of control and 2) means of profit 3) around ownership of content and that the biggest semantic developments are going to be about describing ownership of ideas. if u really want to affect / fuck with the future of the internet, affect / fuck with copyright law. but make sure u get lots of money first.
xposts
― unusually tight body for a comedian (Matt P), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link
ehhh it just seems like a blatantly pessimistic/misanthropic forecast not really founded on anything
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean so far the story of the internet re copyright of content is a weakening trend
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Ive tried so hard to find twitter useful and engaging and I just dont. FB sucked me in though even when I didnt want it to. I've always been more of a blogger I guess, so there's that. Heck I still use my livejournal.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
On aother branch of the future of the internet though:
IPv4 vs IPv6. When's this going to happen? It must be at the point of happening by force now, what with IANA or whoever saying "hey guys we're running out of IP addresses btw" recently.
― Trayce, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i use google reader prolly how ppl use twitter but i mean i dont want all this information ppl are telling me twitter is too fast slow the f down imo
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link