henry sztul

Radio Twitter
You’re a rabid user of Twitter but you do not have time to read all the messages that follow on the social network? Now you can have them read aloud! So does the U.S. site twejay.com. Simply type in your Twitter ID and voice synthesis will then be debited without interruption all posts by people you follow. It’s convenient. Especially for going crazy on Twitter since it never stops and mini-messages of 140 characters successive day and night. That said, why not imagine a radio broadcast that Twitter only news posted by his friends? And even a car Twitter? For now, unfortunately, the site is only English and therefore favors the French with an American accent is incomprehensible. Try it, anyway, out of curiosity, at: www.twejay.com.

When Twitter gives voice - Chronicles - Find all the chronicles of France Info - France Info 

[translated from French using Google Translate]

#Twejay (http://twejay.com) was the featured mashup on ProgrammableWeb today.  (they sent me an email at 5:30pm telling me it was the mashup of the day on their site… kinda late in the day but better late than never!) #cool

TweJay, my service to make Twitter talk, also made TheNextWeb.com

Not a bad first day!

TweJay made it onto the homepage and got a nice writeup on raxraxrax.com

You can find the write up here: http://bit.ly/dd7g5S

Or just check out TweJay: making Twitter talk (on the web)

Making Twitter Talk to you! #nowplaying

Log in and hear your personal twitter stream or search for something and hear what everyone is saying about it!

Pump up the volume!

I second the twitter app… maybe we should even be able to hear twitter talk through our TV??? vis a vie: http://bit.ly/14WnsU

bijan:

Our portfolio company Boxee is an open source, media center application that runs on Windows, Macs, Linux and even AppleTV. It’s browser that is optimized for a 10 foot experience and a remote control.

Think of it as Front Row or Windows Media Center but so much better. Not only does it support a wider range of services like Netflix, Last.fm, flickr, cnn, mtv, cbs, pandora, youtube (and many more coming)  — but it’s also social. You can see what your friends are watching & recommending.

(I’ve written about Boxee a bunch in the past. You can search for Boxee in the search box on the right side of this blog if you want more info)

A few months back they introduced an open api & the Boxee app store so third party developers can create & easily distribute apps to Boxee users. I think it’s the first App store model for the television.

I’m really excited about the response so far from third party developers. Here’s a few of the apps so far:

-Facebook Photos. This is cool. You can watch facebook photos on your big screen. Photos look great on a HD monitor.

-DropBoxee - Jon Steinberg created an app that integrates drop.io and boxee. the result is a super slick way to get personal media onto Boxee.

-Weather Channel - i use the weather app on my iphone all the time. now i have one on my tv.

Some things I’d love to see in the Boxee App Store at some point:

-Games. Most web games require a keyboard. Boxee uses a remote control. It makes game play tricky but someone is going to build killer games for boxee. social games for the big screen. big idea

-Twitter. i’d love a twitter app for Boxee that filters by keywords as well as the folks I follow on twitter. would be a fun app for parties. or integrated with other web services like music or sports.

-Flickr+Tunes - I want to see a flow of artist pics on flickr when I play my music on boxee.  also great for parties.

-Tumblr. There is so much great content on tumblr, from music in my dashboard to photos to video clips. I’d love to see it on the big screen.

I can’t wait to see what else third party developers will do with this open platform.

The first reaction many people have to Twitter is befuddlement. Why would they want to read short messages about what someone ate for breakfast?
It’s a reasonable question. Twitter unleashes the diarist in its 14 million users, who visited its site 99 million times last month to read posts tapped out with cellphones and computers. Individually, many of those 140-character “tweets” seem inane.
But taken collectively, the stream of messages can turn Twitter into a surprisingly useful tool for solving problems and providing insights into the digital mood. By tapping into the world’s collective brain, researchers of all kinds have found that if they make the effort to dig through the mundane comments, the live conversations offer an early glimpse into public sentiment — and even help them shape it.

Finding Utility in the Jumble of Twittered Thoughts - NYTimes.com

Rails Template: Create a Twitter Application in Seconds - Intridea Company Blog

Rails templates in 2.3 seems to be VERY powerful… The idea that you can get a Rails template for a twitter app and almost instantly have a starting point for a twitter app/mashup is phenominal and will lead to a surge in creativity (i believe).

Vanity Press Plus: The Tweetbook | booktwo.org

This guy made 2 years of his Tweets available in book form… hmmm… there’s something here I think.

Twitter Burglar Alarm | Kelvin’s Thunderstorm

Interesting… and something I was planning on doing!

I am trying to “get” twitter… I am starting to see the potential, but does teh “average” person really follow twitter?

perspective: I still don’t have a facebook account, because I REALLY don’t get facebook!

fred-wilson:

Twitter is where the influential people are because, hey, if you’re going to speak, might as well do it in a place where everybody is automatically allowed to hear you.

Originally posted as a comment by NathanBowers on Phil Pearlman using Disqus.