http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2007/06/they_are_live_t.html Wireless mobility - Innovation - Digital convergence - mobile web 2.0 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2007/06/they_are_live_t.html/comment-page-1#comment-1120 Ian Delaney Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:37:20 +0000 http://dev5.indigocontenthost.co.uk/archives/2007/06/they_are_live_t.html#comment-1120 We had live Jaiku commenting at NMK Forum. Embrace the European alternative. ;) We had live Jaiku commenting at NMK Forum. Embrace the European alternative.

]]> http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2007/06/they_are_live_t.html/comment-page-1#comment-1119 Richard Smith Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:04:36 +0000 http://dev5.indigocontenthost.co.uk/archives/2007/06/they_are_live_t.html#comment-1119 Live twittering is really a variant on something that has been going on for quite some time - an open IRC channel during a conference. The Association of Internet Researchers conferences (we're at #8 this fall) is one place where I have seen this. Like so many "new" ideas, Twitter, is really more of an evolution of existing technology. In this case, a AJAX/Web version of IRC, with a much more fractionated set of channels than was ever manageable on IRC (and that was, of course, pretty fractional...) Live twittering is really a variant on something that has been going on for quite some time – an open IRC channel during a conference. The Association of Internet Researchers conferences (we’re at #8 this fall) is one place where I have seen this. Like so many “new” ideas, Twitter, is really more of an evolution of existing technology. In this case, a AJAX/Web version of IRC, with a much more fractionated set of channels than was ever manageable on IRC (and that was, of course, pretty fractional…)

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