cosinity – Brian Roy's Blog Archive

Is FollowFriday even Valuable?

I’ve been tracking FollowFriday for a while now and using justSignal to power FollowFridays.com – and today it really, really looked like FollowFriday had jumped the shark. Here’s the thing. If you compose your FollowFriday tweets like: #followfriday @joe @mary @steve @beth You really aren’t adding any value to FollowFriday – as a matter of… Continue reading Is FollowFriday even Valuable?

Twitter, @replies and Multicasting

Twitter made a change to how @ replies are handled yesterday and the response has been, well, loud. Essentially you used to be able to see @ replies to everyone you followed, even if you didn’t follow the sender. Under Twitter’s new rules you only get to see @ replies to people you follow IF… Continue reading Twitter, @replies and Multicasting

justSignal Upgrades, or My Lame Attempt to Explain Ignoring My Blog

I’ve gone through another one of those spells where I just didn’t write anything here – and to say I’ve been busy isn’t enough – hell I’m always busy. I also can’t claim lack of interesting content – I could write six really compelling pieces on ASU Startup Weekend alone. So we’ll just agree that… Continue reading justSignal Upgrades, or My Lame Attempt to Explain Ignoring My Blog

There Are Practical Limitations on Real-Time

No one is a bigger fan of real-time than I am. I’ve been working on real-time communications for 10 years, and I intend to continue to work in that space for the foreseeable future. That being said, let me be clear about one thing: There are practical limitations on real-time. FriendFeed launched their new UI… Continue reading There Are Practical Limitations on Real-Time

Another justSignal upgrade. Twitter real-time upgrade.

We had a list of items we wanted improved and added to the justSignal Twitter real-time widget. And since I have no ability to procrastinate we are launching those changes over the weekend. Here is a rundown of the changes: Allow for variable length hash tags to be inserted in the tweets (used to be… Continue reading Another justSignal upgrade. Twitter real-time upgrade.

justSignal Adds More Signal

I’ve been awfully quiet for the last week or so. And there is a reason for that. I’ve been busily working away to fulfill the vision of justSignal. It was never about (just) Twitter – it was about finding your signal wherever someone chooses to talk about it. We launched with Twitter and the real-time… Continue reading justSignal Adds More Signal

Follow Friday – March 6th, 2009 – Tracking the Meme

Well this appears to be my new Saturday morning ritual. Pulling together data from Follow Friday for your viewing pleasure. I want to thank Mashable and Micah for the post on Mashable yesterday featuring a screenshot of the justSignal Follow Friday Tracker. Well lets get on with it, shall we? There were a total of… Continue reading Follow Friday – March 6th, 2009 – Tracking the Meme

Why Twitter Search Does Not Mean Twitter is a Search Engine

Arrington is back. And he dropped a nice post today over at TechCrunch indicating that he believes it is time to start thinking of Twitter as a Search Engine. In general terms I agree… but as always the devil is in the details. There is one major hole in Arrington’s theory, but that hole is… Continue reading Why Twitter Search Does Not Mean Twitter is a Search Engine