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twit.io - from Matt Terenzio who created @locals (a location based twitter hack, see another below) comes another Twitter gem.
twit.io is called a social database, it’s kind of like channeling a tweet, maybe moreso a message board stream.
A bit like hashtags you can post to streams, but these are inhouse streams like: jobs, events, videos, location, and instead of using a symbol like #, you just use text. The awesome part is you can command search the database by tweeting.

What you have to do:
Follow the user Twitio
Send replies to @twitio to post to or search the database
- there are 3 things that have to appear in your tweet before the body of the msg (@twitio post channel)
eg. @twitio post event Meetup tonight at Arthur’s Tavern in NYC. Great Jazz. Starts at 8:30

…and to search, just replace the word “post” with “search”
eg. @twitio search videos mentos diet coke
You should receive a direct message back to your twitter user with some info on your search and a link to results.

TwitterWhere - not to be confused with another TwitterWhere which allows you to post your location, instead with Matt King’s TwitterWhere you can generate a feed that will update with Tweets from a geographic location. Great for a local timeline, or an event…there’s even a TwitterWhere desktop widget.

Here’s an RSS feed for Perth Tweets, graze it here:

vcasmo - powerpoint and video like zentation…Slidecasts are presentations to audio, and webslides is presentations for bookmarks.
See here for regular presentation sites.

Kwout - all in one simple image tool which also has a link to the webpage you got the image from.
1. hit the bookmarklet on a webpage
2. crop the image
3. embed the image widget into your blog post (private or public-has a link to a Kwout permalink)…you can also post it to Flickr and Tumblr.

Example:

kwout | A brilliant way to quote via kwout

Other tools are SnipShot and Pixenate they both capture and edit, and host it on AllYouCanUpload (where you get an instant URL to include in your blog post). Also see thumbalizr.

ControlC - a web clipboard social network (install required), the difference is when you hit CTRLC, what you copied is stored at their website (private, public, encrypted)…log in anytime to find a list of stuff you have copied from the past (now that’s useful).
If it’s public, others can rate, and leave comments, add and msg friends, plus you have an RSS feed.

This last bit pushes blog posting to the extreme, because when you hit CTRLC it means you have just published, in fact your profile is like a blog…each post is time stamped, can have comments, can be rated, you can search archive also by date, and filter by type of item (text, link, image, video). And it’s not a standalone blog, you are in a social network.

Just imagine re-syndicating your CTRLC RSS feed into a blog like SuprGlu, or Tumblr or Jaiku or even Twitter (using Twitterfeed)…you would be publishing from the web or your desktop.

eg. when your in Word or Outlook just CTRL-C some text or an image, and presto, you have posted to your ControlC blog which in turn will re-syndicate the post to Twitter or Tumblr, etc…I HEART RSS.

This is the most extreme edge feed (eg. publi.sh) I have seen, especially that you are able to post from your desktop apps.
[via TC]

Tweetmeme - this does what Techmeme does for the blogosphere, as a matter of fact it looks exactly like it. Techmeme tracks popular tweets in the tweetosphere, and clusters similar tweets. Tweets are considered popular if there are lots of tweets about the same thing, and how influential they are…perhaps using a similar influence method as Tweeterboard.

It only deals with tweets that have links, and it displays the meme so the link is the title, it’s also sectioned into different types of links…blogs, images, video and audio.

Some tweets may be popular with the same word appearing a lot in a small time eg. bushfires, but this won’t appear in Tweetmeme unless the tweet has a “link”…for this we will have to rely on word burst services like TwitStat, Twitterment and others. Not sure why Tweetmeme can’t have a word burst meme section, or even a topical word burst section like Politweets.

There is RSS for each section, an archive that is made every 5 mintes, a river of news view, and Tweetmeme will also notify you through a Twitter reply if you are the first person to post a link to Twitter that leads a popular thread on Tweetmeme.

Now all I’m waiting for is the mobile web version, just like Mini-TechMeme, which you can also see on NewsGang-TechMeme (which renders heaps better, but doesn’t show the full post)

Shouting Mat.ch - basically the same as Tweetmeme, only tweets is a channel in a bigger service, it’s also a blogosphere topic memetracker for lifehack, politics (competitor to Memeorandum), tech (competitor to TechMeme), gossip (competitor to WeSmirch), sports (competitor to Ballbug)

Twitter100 - Imagine you grabbed the RSS feed of 100 people you follow on Twitter and entered all the feeds into a startpage, so you had an enormous widget poster of the latest tweets from people you follow. Well you don’t have to go to the trouble, just head over to Twitter100, enter your username, and your done, plus you can click on a users name to see their Twitter100…check out the very similar Gridjit.

Hellotxt - similar to Brabblr, it’s a meta-posting page where you can post to one or multiple services at the same time. The main services covered are Jaiku, Twitter, Pownce, Facebook and Tumblr…now all we need is a desktop widget version.

Heysan - mobile web based multiple IM service (mobile page). I’m already using ebuddy and finding it great…the mobile version is web based and also a download version.

Mike Gotta has a brilliant post on traditional Knowledge management structured systems compared to networks and free form systems…especially in regards to the two kinds of participation; direct and volunteered.

I’m going to highlight some gems in this post…

- Stakeholders (incl. employees) have a greater influence on long term success over products or services
- Informal networks and social relationships have greater influence on long-term success over managerial practices

“…social software is considered a complimentary component for delivering applications that engender greater levels of contributions from stakeholders that have been disenfranchised by outdated human capital management tactics…”

Form follows Function

“…applications (representing “form”) in response to business requirements (representing “function”)…”
“…automate the transactional, informational, and analytic needs of those work functions…”
“…worker contributions can be constrained by applications designed to support formal and structured work tasks…”

I think this paragraph says it all concerning the lack of free form systems up until now, and why email has been so important:

“Systems designed to support functional requirements do provide ways for workers to contribute, however the contributions are part of their explicit work actions and generally known ahead of time. Such systems cannot effectively support contribution scenarios not captured as part of the design process. Those involved in the application design process often place little effort on requirements that address the social and emergent aspects of communication, information sharing and collaboration. Workers resort to e-mail to solve such contribution gaps – a key reason why e-mail remains the most popular tool used by workers to express themselves. E-mail is one of the few universal tools workers have access to that allows contributions in a free-form manner.”

Directed vs. Volunteered participation

There are many reasons why people contribute beyond the task at hand, and the solution to store and share these contributions (knowledge) has still followed the “form follows function” approach…basically a structured system designed to capture knowledge. This hasn’t worked as these systems are rigid and not a natural way or inducive to want to share, plus they are hard work when you want to find stuff related to your needs. I think the most important mistake is that sharing knowledge has been seen as a task, it has been a chore for people to contribute as they don’t see what it will do for them later on.

Just before publishing this post I came across Bill Ives’s post on the Fastforward blog, which echoes my comments on the new KM:

“…when I say workflow or work process I do not mean the static inflexible workflow of old style content management or project management tools. The advantage of these new tools is that they allow work processes that are more organic and dynamic. They allow the users to control the workflow or process, build it up from tasks and make changes as needed. And, to repeat, they allow for transparency and archiving, and thus KM, to be a byproduct of work, rather than an added requirement.”

My past posts on social computing as the new KM (km 2.0 enablers: blogs, wikis, and social networks, CoPs and Informal networks, More on the new knowledge diffusion, and Knowledge sharing in the new KM) delve in this new situation of KM as part of getting things done, in the end it’s not even really KM, it’s just social computing (blogging, social networking, and sensemaking).
In one of these posts I point to a podcast with Andrew McAfee explaining the emergent quality of free-form publishing tools, and since then I have come across another podcast, this time a video clip interview with Andrew McAfee by David Weinberger at the FastForward 07.

This short interview goes over the failed KM 1.0 approach of knowledge as objects, systems with pre-defined structures, and how this database approach is restricting as these fields might not map to how a worker might want to share information…so they may walk away.

There is also the personal point of motivation to share information, it shouldn’t feel like a task, people were asking why am I doing this, and what will I get out of it. This robotic method just isn’t effective ie. sharing information in a rigid way as a task, and searching a massive database to find information related to your needs.

The new free-form tools are much more unstructured, information nuggets can be published very easily, this is two fold; one click publishing and a text box to write anything.
Then others can subscribe to everyone else’s “log”, this way information is filtered and flows to you…rather than your relationship with of the rest of the social capital being limited to looking for information only when you need it, you are reading knowledge worker information as daily news (educating each other).
When you do need to discover if a nugget of information exists, instead of relying on search skills in a massive database, and spending all day sifting through results, and finding as Euan Semple says “out-dated documents”, you can search blogs, etc..as these are human interfaces to the filing cabinet. Why search directly in a document management system, when you can search blogs that have filtered the cream of this stuff, and not only that, blog posts are content in themselves.
You don’t have to just rely on searching the internal blogosphere, you can discover content by tags, plus just looking at a tag cloud gives you a picture of emergent patterns, or what people are talking about, and what is important. As I’ve mentioned before blog posts may give you information around the object you are after, more context and peripheral insight.

The third way (after search and tags) is, as mentioned before, subscribing to blogs as your social filter, or asking your social filter (social network) your information requests…a contact in your informal network will point you in the right direction.

Being connected to a network where information comes to you far outweighs being on your own searching the corporate intranet.

Subscribing and networks makes this a perpetual process as part of your daily work life, rather than a task or thing in itself. It enables you to read and converse the daily enterprise worker news…one day you may require a piece of information you read 3 months ago in one of your subscriptions (network contact).

In the old approach we wait till we have a need, and then search for documentation. We can still do this in the new approach, only we are no longer on our own, but the added benefit is that we are knowledge sharing even if we don’t need or require the information, we can tap into the flow of discussion, and be educated by colleagues everyday…a staff generated internal news and conversation market.

See more on search vs networks on Dave Weinberger’s interview with Euan Semple at FastForward 07.

Is KM 1.0 really about a knowledge exchange?

Mike goes on to say: “…form-follows-function applications play a role in reinforcing cultural messages that social interaction, relationship-building and knowledge sharing are not valued.”

Traditional KM tools indeed don’t allow people the freedom to share and connect, creating their own ecosystem…the design simply isn’t geared towards this at all. They are great to streamline work processes, but what about stuff you learn along the way, stuff you don’t anticipate…the tools aren’t designed for what life brings to the table as they are not organic enough. I agree KM 1.0 tools are great to automate, and make things efficient, but they lack flexibility, and when it comes to extracting tacit knowledge, they are just not designed to how humans work…with KM 2.0 we now have tools that are not designed for a specific task, instead they are more open ended tools, that can be used and mashed up for any use case, and most importantly a way to instantly publish personal information and findings.

What knowledge sharing or sensemaking should be about it not an explicit task “you must share knowledge”, it is more simply the way you do work. You are documenting or publishing snippets of stuff you do in your normal day, it’s how you get things done…it’s not a thing in itself, it’s just part of your regular process of doing work.
This in turn becomes sharing knowledge, as others can tap into your daily flow and benefit…and indeed sometimes you may explicitly publish and push knowledge onto certain people, as you know what you have mused is relevant and can be applied right now.

In what environments or circumstances do “volunteered” contributions thrive?

Mike divides participation into “directed” versus “volunteered”, and contrasts this against 4 participation models which have been quoted below:

“Process: A process is a structured collection of tasks that are often sequences in a particular way with workers interacting based on their respective roles and duties within that collection of tasks.

Networks: A network is a social structure comprised of people that have some inter-connecting bond based on a variety of factors (e.g., personal friendship, similar values, shared relationships, common educational or work experience). Social networks are rarely driven by tasks or activities per se. However, people reach out to their network contacts frequently in response to a process, activity or community event. “

Most work is driven by management and is processed based that is supported by tools based around this function.

Activities are less structured and more dependant on a deliverable…“Joint work dependencies do indeed solicit participation and contribution from those that have a vested interest in the activity but the majority of the participation and contributions remain directed towards the outcome of the activity (e.g., a document or a presentation).”

Communities are a place where people join of their own accord, this is a much more volunteered environment.

Networks are also volunteered environments, but whereas a community has a group purpose or aim, a network is an aggregate of individual nodes, so participation is in a flow environment, where individuals seek and share what they need to get things done…“Networks are almost always informal and based on voluntary relationships.”

People need different tools to participate and contribute, these new tools enhance the ability or drive to voluntary participation, which in turn creates a knowledge flow culture where people are sharing or tapping in to what they need.

I’ll leave with Mike’s summary:

“What excites strategist are social applications that catalyze volunteered participation and user contributions – a long-standing objective of knowledge management and human capital management strategies for decades.”

There are a few ways to interact with “presence”, some are triangulating or motion via cell towers, others are GPS location, and then there are explicit ways by presence-posting your location.

Motion and “location aware” methods are seen by some as too intrusive; it is found very handy, but at other times invasive, so it has good and bad points.

In contrast posting your availability is you letting others know…without you telling them they will not know where you are or if you are available. Since this is a push method it is not intrusive at all. The difference here is also that you’re not trackable (location aware), your recent locations are as frequent as you like to post them.

This method could be annoying as you are often having to update your availability/location settings…if you don’t update your availability often it may be out of date.
A way around this would be to have a few programmed day sequences
eg. choose “work day” setting, this will program your availability and location for the day (like auto pilot)
- 6am wake up (unavailable)
- 7am train (available)
- 8am work (unavailable)…you may want to manually override at this point
- 1pm lunch (available)
- 2pm work (unavailable)…you may want to manually override at this point
- 5pm train (available)
- etc…

Or perhaps it could be a little less programmed eg. set availability to lunch (available), and ask the phone to revert this back to work (unavailable) in 1 hour.

Examples

Cell tower - Motorola, Google
GPS - Loopt
Presence - Groovr, TwitterWhere

NOTE: Meetro is an IM client that is location aware on your PC, also see RadiusIM (requires no download)…this post is focusing on mobile communications.

Iotum Talk-Now (mentioned before) is a little different as it allows others to visit your profile to see what your status is, and leave a message, and this is what “The Swarm” (mentioned before) is all about, as well as being a virtual room.

Iotum Talk-Now

Specifically for the Blackberry, this is a product that augments the availability scenario and hopes to end phone tag ie. leaving messages/voicemails on each others phones. If we could just see the availability of the person we are calling we could save a lot of time and messiness. Also since we know availability and status we may choose not to call as we don’t want to interrupt.

From their website:

“SHARE your availability without losing control.
SEE who is available and who wants to talk with you.
NOTIFY people you need to talk to and be notified when they become available.”

SHARE - personalize your availability (similar to Instant Messaging status) and calendar…you can also show different availability to different people

SEE - able to see at a glance who is trying to reach you and who is available to talk with you, right now. No need to call someone just to ask if they have time to talk or if you are interrupting them.

NOTIFY - If you visit a contacts profile and they are unavailable, put them on a To-Call list, and Talk-Now will let you know as soon as they become available.

You can also leave a message, the receiver logs in to see this, it’s not pushed or interrupting like usual voicemail/SMS.

They have also teamed up with JahJah for VOIP calls.

Talk-Now is now integrated with the phone address book, so you don’t have to go to the application to find availablity of a contact, also some icons have been revamped…see more changes.

The Swarm

“The Swarm” by Christine Satchell is based on a similar way of dealing with presence/status/availability.
The idea is a way for your contacts/network to see your availability from your profile page and choose the lowest form of interruption.
Instead of ringing/VoiceMail/SMS’g a friend, first check their availability, depending on what their icon and/or text note describes, you may decide to leave a note for the next time they login or check in again later…or their note may be detailed enough to follow without having to explicitly contact them.

So right off the bat you can see how this is built off the IM status idea, and augmented into a more detailed status indicator and profile page.

There is also an element of publishing content, which hearing these words one would assume a social network akin to Facebook mobile, but it’s more about decorating your virtual room with media.

So it’s a way to avoid unnecessary contact and yet still be connected to availability information, and also a way to spontaneously form a group or hook up.

www.pixelshifter.net/client_login/swarm_2007/

The Study

Nomad
Contextualising Mobile Presence with Digital Images (PDF)
ABC Radio National: The Buzz 8 January 2005 - Swarm Phone

In true research methodology a design and test study was set up to deliver a useful product…these days you would probably have a more marketing 2.0 style and give your test users a social network for feedback.

THE NOMAD

The youth culture are always on the move, and don’t often have regular meet up places, it’s more a individual centric lifestyle, very busy, not always at home, on the go, just hook up as it happens…

The idea of a mobile phone and “The Swarm” is a virtual home, no matter where you are physically.
An avatar in your virtual home will represent what you are currently engaged in.

SELECTIVE CONNECTIVITY

A need to be connected without being contacted.
The ability to not be contacted is as important as the ability to be contacted…with the virtual home, this has an improvement on current mobile phone communications, as contacts can see your profile availability without having to disturb you. This is solving an etiquette issue, knowing whether your call or SMS is going to disturb someone before hand is a handy thing to know for both parties.

COMMUNICATE VIRTUALLY AND IDENTITY

A way both sender and receiver can communicate a message without pushing an SMS/VoiceMail/Ring.
This is the main feature of “The Swarm”, the owner of the phone has a choice of avatars to indicate their presence (activity), you can use different avatars for different people (hmmm, us humans are deceiving), and further to this you can leave a message (voice tags) on your avatar, and even push a message to a contacts profile…when the contact will login to their profile they will see the message.
There are also exploding avatars, which revert back to default mode so the user is not constantly updating their status/availability.

In a further design the avatars were replaced with colour coded icons, the coloured bar reveals a mode (status) of the user. eg. choosing the orange coloured bar represents “social”, it displays all the contacts that this user is conveying this status to.
As seen in the screnshot this user is indicating this mode to Ben, Darren, and Vicki. At this point in time this user may be displaying other modes to other people…if we clicked on green for “work” it may display contacts who think this user is at work.

At this stage it seems a bit time consuming to not only remember to set your availablity, but the fact that you can have multiple availability indicators at the same time. I assume there is a “clear all” button to reset your availability to the same for all contacts…maybe organising people in groups would help.

Here’s another screenshot showing what the users contacts are up to now…in this example the contacts (tiny person icon) are coloured, representing status.
Besides the standard colour bar, users can also overlay extra images over the icons to convey more context.

We can see Kym is “asleep” as her avatar is blue, and we see Ben’s avatar as orange, meaning “social” and is overlayed with a “martini glass”, meaning he is having drinks.

Another screenshot of what your contacts are doing now shows the extra images eg. martini glass, plus also user generated images such as photos, etc…

Kym is blue, meaning she is “asleep”, and she has a camera icon “picture” that brings more context to her current activity. Hmm, Kym is saying to this user she is asleep, and pimped up her presence with a photo (as seen below) of her socialising and having drinks during the day…maybe this represents what she last did before going for a long long sleep

Anyway this visual enhancement describes her activity more vividly, perhaps motivating others to join her, those that cannot can see the great time they are missing…all this without explicitly talking to each other.

This is about logging in to communicate and be connected or in the loop to see the latest, you don’t have to be interrupted in the way we currently use our mobile phones.

From this last screenshot we also see that status and availability have been augmented with more context via user generated content such as photo’s, given more of a presence feel…not just an indicator of your presence, but a contextual publishing of presence, similar to the effect of Twitter…I guess you could even use this feature to ask a question.

PUBLISHING CONTENT

Text, images, video can be posted to the walls of your virtual room where others can visit to see, basically a social network type thing like Facebook (but more decorative).

The Scenario

Jade is always on the move….. - Swarm scenario

A mobile phone owners “virtual home” is always on.

- Jade looks in her room
- there’s a note from Sarah
(Sarah would have seen a lecture avatar, signifing that Jade was in a university lecture)
- Jade clicks note and sees a business avatar of Sarah
- Sarah’s avatar has a note tag for Jade
- Jade selects a shopping avatar of herself
- Jade attaches a note tag for when Sarah logs in to “meet her on Collins St”
- Jade then pushes this shopping avatar and note to Sarah’s room
- Jade leaves a lecture avatar in her room, so when others visit her profile they see she is busy

At this point if anyone visited Jade’s room, other than Sarah, they would choose to not bother her as her avatar signifies she is busy in a university lecture.
But Sarah has been pushed a message by Jade, so when Sarah logs in to her own room she will see this note from the Jade shopping avatar…if Sarah looked at her contacts list she would also see a shopping avatar for Jade.

cont…

- Sarah rings Jade to get the exact location
- later on Jade logs in to her room
- 3 friends have left notes

I really like this idea of a non-interrupting type of SMS, only it’s web-based…ie. you login to see your messages rather than be interrupted to view the message.

- Jade clicks on her friends avatars and reads that they want to party.
- Jade changes her avatar to “party” so whoever visits her profile knows her status
- Jade notifies friends she really wants to see by pushing her party avatar and note tag ” come to amber bar” to her friends rooms.

During the night, from what I can gather, Jade is looks at her phone and see’s visitor’s in her room, she is able to hang out with them virtually.
She also decorates her room with pictures and video’s stored in her phone.

Questions

What about inviting contacts into your room for a virtual synchronous chat.

What about if one of your contacts is ringing from someone else’s mobile phone or what about if someone who isn’t your contact rings you…would it be possible to set your phone to not answer and instead send an automatic SMS availbility report. The caller would have to pay for this.

I wonder if a contact has a news activity feed of what their friends have been doing…not only for their publishings, but also a log of their avatar status…at a glance you know what activities your contacts have been doing.
If your contacts are doing something to you, then this would also appear in a Notification stream, a la Facebook.

Instead of SMS/ring them, could I poke/nudge/buzz them to look at my profile, as in Facebook, Twitter, Nimbuzz. But then if I’m nudging them (vibrating their phone to get their attention), I might as well SMS, as this communication costs money just the same.

What about being able to check a profile from the web, so you can check or set availability, send or set a note tag…and also be able to VOIP call from web to mobile phone.
Further to this, what about a web widget, so I can use either of these services in Facebook, or elsewhere.

The way the icons augment presence reminds me of Jaiku…as well as a micro-post you can add an icon to the post to enhance your presence.
Hmmm, what’s Google up to with Jaiku, perhaps a presence network with an availability or status component, just like “The Swarm”.

How is “The Swarm” (TS) different to Facebook mobile (FB), and Instant Messaging (IM)?

Availability indicator
- IM yes
- FB no
- TS yes

IM can only have a colour that says “yes or no”, accompanied with a status message that is “one to many”.
TS has a choice of colours to cover varied availabilties and also an accompaning icon and message, plus you can set multiple statuses at the same time to apply to different people.
FB has a status message, but this is more like a micro post or presence post, it’s not specifically an indicator for availability.
The regular FB on the PC does have a “friends online now” feature, this could be applied to the mobile version and turned into an availability indicator.

Interrupt
- IM no
- FB no
- TS no

IM and TS can first see availability before interrupting.
TS and FB can leave a message without interrupting (FB has both private and public messages).
FB has a “poke” feature which is very non intrusive.

Profile/Publish
- IM no
- FB yes
- TS yes

FB is more about publishing.

Notifications (must look at your profile to see if you have any)
- IM no
- FB yes
- TS yes

TS profile page may show an availability icon and message pushed to your profile by a friend.
TS contacts page allows you to see latest availability of all your friends.
FB home page will list notifications of what people have done to you eg. public or private message, message blasts.
FB Newsfeed informs us of what our friends have been doing to each other, TS could do this with a virtual room update, telling us what friends have published text or media to their room, and what friends have done to each other (not sure if this last one could be applied).

More on presence
Social Presence: Time To Push The Reset Button
Proximity dating is HOT!
Fluc: Put Your Mobile Phone to Work For You
Otetsudai Networks
Mobile motion presence and location awareness
The Mobile Phone as the Globalizing Icon of the Early 21st Century
CityFlocks: Designing Social Navigation for Urban Mobile Information Systems
3G Multimedia Content Production as Social Communication
‘Sharing Places’, Digital Content and Lived Life

[ADDED 7/2/08: From the Jaiku website:

Jaiku Mobile works like the phone’s regular phone book, and enhances the standard contact list with presence information. It displays the buddy icon, availability, latest Jaiku message, and location for you and your Jaiku contacts in your contact list. It enables you to:

- Browse and post Jaikus
- Add comments
- Share your availability based on your ring profile (green light = ringing, yellow light = vibrate, red light = silent)
- Share your location (neighborhood, city, country) based on cellular network towers
- Share your calendar events (if you don’t want to share your calendar, Jaiku only displays your status as “busy” when an event is active)
- Share who you’re with based on nearby Bluetooth devices]

Ideajam - similar to social bookmarks but for ideas, seems more focused on products, as you select an IdeaSpace to post to, and it’s very focused on IBM, must be similar to ThinkPlace…see more idea sites like Bank of Ideas, Acorn, and IdeaWicket.

SHOULD do THIS - similar to an idea network as above, but focused precisely in a few words (micro-blogging style) towards what a service/product should do. Wish I found this earlier, as I’ve been posting these product wishlist type of posts to Twitter and tagging them #Qjt via Twitter Hashtags…but then again Twitter has a great community.

Here is a product page for Twitter…it has a feed and a widget.

Here is an example of an entry, people can leave comments, cheers and agree.

Here is a user space.

I’m not sure if the staff from these products are listening like Satisfaction (a forum for web 2.0 services), I know CommonCraft does as they have integrated SHOULD do THIS into their own website.

digFoot - yet another profile aggregator service, not sure if streams your stuff. It also acts as a social network directory as you can submit sites.

Tweeterboard - has indexed a slice of Twitter users (2600) and tracks conversations by monitoring @replies to a person, and @replies from a person.
There is a ranking system for users based on the frequency of conversation ie. replies to you, and I guess if people replying to you have lots of replies given to themselves, this makes you all the more popular. Brass tacks, if someone popular replies to you over a rookie, then this gets you more juice. Check out one of the 2000 users, and the Top 100.

I like the idea of trends, to see who you talk to the most, and who talks with you the most…at the moment on our Twitter homepage we just have a reply stream and that’s it, but visitors to your site cannot see your reply stream.
This is unlike the blogosphere where for any given post you can see comments. This is not exactly the same as a stream of all comments on your blog, but you can get this via the comments RSS feed, and even re-syndicate it to a HTML page.
I’d like to see TwitterBoard or Twitter itself allow me to organise my reply stream by user.

Here is an example user, here you can see the reputation score, frequency of posts, a list of users they talk to, a list of users who talk to them, and a list of links from their tweets with an RSS feed (also see Twitterbuzz).

Similar Analytics:
TwitStat - wordbursts, replytweetsphere, replies to user…filter by user
Twitterholic - top 100 Twitterers based on followers.
TwitterPoster - similar to Twitterholic
Twits like me - similar people.
Twitterment - wordbursts, trends, search…see more search and wordbursts.

Gridjit - a layout view for a Twitter user rather than a stream, this should really be an available alternate view on the Twitter website.