If anyone would like to help withe the development of http://www.thefrequency.tv -- which integrates a focused Twitter search result feed but "adds value above the social layer" -- I would appreciate it. The Pulitzer Center is using the site currently. Allan Hoving
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nigel, > > Other Twitter iPhone clients are now kaput. You cannot compete with > the official Twitter iPhone client, which is given away free of > charge. There are quite a few "valued" developers who are having a > very ruined day. > > Clients like TweetDeck and Seesmic should still be okay, because they > are more general social media clients. > > One would be very disrespectful of the value of one's own time, if one > now starts developing something that's exclusively a Twitter service. > > Please read what Jesse wrote. It is an extremely smart strategy. One > such definition of "your core" might be "multi social services XYZ," > which would describe the "core" of TweetDeck and Seesmic. > > On Apr 10, 1:49 pm, Nigel Legg <nigel.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Surely all twitter developers are getting their success on the coattails > of > > Twitter, rather than twitter getting success on the coattails of the > > developers? > > If you as a user, as a supplier to users, cannot find something that > tweetie > > doesn't do then maybe you haven't got your ear to the ground of what > twitter > > users want to see. My aim is to carry on with what I'm doing, and > > [hopefully] do it well before twitter can do it; if twitter then want to > > come knocking, that's up to them; if they want to replicate my service, > > that's up to them; hopefully I'll have enough users to survive. > > To me, this just ups the ante, and makes the environment just a little > bit > > more edgy and competitive. Which is great, if you don't see the people > > you're competing with. Not sure how I'd feel if I was going to #chirp. > > > > On 10 April 2010 17:21, Zhami <stu...@zhameesha.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Apr 10, 11:44 am, Jesse Stay <jesses...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > I think the more beneficial, and long-term advantageous approach > > > > is instead to make Twitter a "support" for your application. > > > > > Spot On!! > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.- Hide quoted > text - > > > > - Show quoted text - >
