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 27th 2009 – How big will this get?

You’ve got to wonder – how big is this thing going to get? As always, all this information is based on midnight to midnight Pacific time. There were a total of 67,134 Follow Friday Tweets this week. That is a 9% increase from last week. Here is the chart of Tweets per Hour: The peak… Continue reading Follow Friday – March 27th 2009 – How big will this get?

Follow Friday – March 20th 2009 – The Meme Keeps Growing

Astonishingly, the Meme that is Follow Friday keeps growing. As always, all this information is based on midnight to midnight Pacific time. There were a total of 61,739 Follow Friday Tweets this week. That is a 12% increase from last week. Here is the chart of Tweets per Hour: The peak hour was from 10-11AM… Continue reading Follow Friday – March 20th 2009 – The Meme Keeps Growing

Follow Friday – March 13th 2009 – Follow Friday the 13th?

Good Saturday morning to everyone. These posts track the meme that is Follow Friday. Today I’m in Austin Texas for Ustream Studios at the Belmont during SXSW (that is South by Southwest). I was on last night live discussing how technology and the real-time web enables Government 2.0 with Francine Hardaway and Tom Serres, C.E.O,… Continue reading Follow Friday – March 13th 2009 – Follow Friday the 13th?

How to Use Twitter and Asterisk for Call Notification

I’m still old school enough to think that voice conversations still matter. So I call people, and they call me. When I’m out and about I like to know who has called me back at my office (no I don’t want my cell to ring EVERY TIME someone calls my home number, my cosinity number… Continue reading How to Use Twitter and Asterisk for Call Notification

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

I LOVE Statistics – What is Great on Twitter? Apparently Watchmen…

I was poking around in the data coming back from What is Great On Twitter – because, well I’m a geek and I love statistics. I looked at iPhone vs. Blackberry; Apple vs. Microsoft; and TweetDeck vs. Twhirl. All very interesting, I assure you. But then I decided to see the buzz about Watchmen –… Continue reading I LOVE Statistics – What is Great on Twitter? Apparently Watchmen…

What Do People Think is Great? A justSignal Experiment

More than any other word “innovator” describes me best. I’m not saying I’m Steve Jobs – I’m just saying I’m constantly fascinated by new, interesting combinations of ideas that add value. This morning – as I watched the Follow Friday Tweets FLY by on the justSignal tracker I began to wonder… Wouldn’t it be great… Continue reading What Do People Think is Great? A justSignal Experiment

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

justSignal Demo 09 Demo – Have your data and eat it too!

On February 25th I put up a justSignal Tracker for Demo 09. I had fun today watching the tracker (you can find it here) reel off all the tweets about Demo and the presentations as they happened. With all due respect to Demo and Facebook the experience with the Facebook Connect widget was, by comparison,… Continue reading justSignal Demo 09 Demo – Have your data and eat it too!