Jauder Ho's dashboard

jauderho replied on August 17, 2007 23:36 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Dave Winer posted about wanting something similar and I'm reposting my reply to the thread.

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This was being discussed on Satisfaction (http://urltea.com/191i).

It's being described as groups/conference feature there. I personally think that using the "conference" tag is a little limiting. What essentially people are looking for is a way to be temporarily subscribed to an "event" be it a conference or a breaking news story.

The current limitation with Twitter is that someone has to manually create a new twitter account and people have to specifically follow that user and all the associated work that goes on behind the scene to create the back channel. Additionally, it would be fairly silly to create a "real" user for each event.

Having thought about it a little more, I think it would make sense if Twitter was able to introduce a different class of users that would represent different events. For such users, it should be easy to create straight from Twitter.

Imagine the following pseudo flow.

* twitter to eventbot: c event mn_bridge to create event
* eventbot to you: event mn_bridge created
* follow mn_bridge for news updates about mn_bridge collapse
* anyone can d or @ mn_bridge at this point to send updates
* stop following mn_bridge if you no longer want to follow this event

jauderho reported a problem in Twitter on August 14, 2007 06:19:

Please fix direct messages.

Currently, when direct messages show up in email, the from address is noreply@twitter.com which makes it hard to have a conversation.

Suggested fixes:

1) Either use Reply-To: or From: with the sender's correct email.
2) If not sharing the email is an issue (and I prefer this one), set up redirect email boxes to get to the sender. <twitterid>@twitter.com could be an option.</twitterid>

jauderho replied on August 11, 2007 18:50 to the idea "I'd like to be able to add a trip to my itinerary for somebody that isn't me." in TripIt:

I second this idea. As a corporate traveler, someone else often books travel on my behalf and it would be great to have this feature.

jauderho started following the idea "I'd like to be able to add a trip to my itinerary for somebody that isn't me." in TripIt.

jauderho replied on August 10, 2007 01:41 to the problem "Why won't the reply box remember my line breaks?" in Pownce:

BTW, IE cuts off the replies at two lines for me. So I'm not able to read replies in their entirety.

jauderho replied on August 06, 2007 22:37 to the idea "How about support for OpenID in Satisfaction Unlimited?" in Get Satisfaction:

Ooooo. This make me very happy that Satisfaction "gets it" re user signup. We are all inherently lazy and want to minimize such tasks. I can say that my experience with Spock is marred by the fact that my signup experience was fraught with HTTP 500 errors as well other badness.

Allowing people to tie responses to user names when they convert is a stroke of genius IMO.

I like openID but I'll wait and see how far that goes. Ultimately everyone should be able to own their identity and content.

One feature that I find useful is the grok your addressbook functionality that I think every social site should have. It's a quick way to build/rebuild a network.

jauderho replied on August 06, 2007 22:27 to the question "What does starring actually mean?" in Get Satisfaction:

I'm a big fan of being able to do reverse lookups. Currently, I have 3 stars (we all have to start somewhere) but I have no idea which of my responses these pertain to.

Also, when I log into my dashboard, it would be great if there was a recent activities section so that I can quickly scan replies made to my postings.

jauderho started following the question "how do I identify myself as being a company representative?" in Get Satisfaction.

jauderho replied on August 04, 2007 19:41 to the idea "Make it easy to find friends." in Twitter:

Argh.

Satisfaction just ate my attempt at creating a new post. Short request. The ability to invite friends to twitter using addressbooks or email contact lists.

Thx.

jauderho replied on August 04, 2007 19:03 to the discussion "New emoticons are here! Express yourself." in Get Satisfaction:

Cool.

jauderho replied on August 04, 2007 19:01 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Jaiku does this if you have a Nokia. I saw a demo of this when Scoble sat down with the Jaiku guys. That's one thing I think Jaiku has done well is to capitalize on some advanced mobile features but the problem is that I'm still on a stone age Treo 700P.

I think I have mobile envy.

jauderho replied on August 04, 2007 18:59 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

I'm over here at Lane's suggestion from a request that I had around twitter having news events. Which now that I think about it more is a special use case.

http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...

Another way to look at what Lane has described above could be the lifespan of a group. I would put forth 3 possible cases:

1) Breaking news event i.e. MN. I'm not there but would still like to know about it.
2) Conference. I'm there and want local information
3) Groups. Something/interest that I want to follow.

So while I'm usually a big fan of geo and LBS, in this case, I would not necessarily center around it.

I agree with not have multiple levels of security. Twitter is great because of it's simplicity and I would hate for it to lose that.

BTW I would love to see a demo of FireEagle. =) It certainly seems very interesting and I am curious about the implementation.

jauderho replied on August 04, 2007 18:50 to the idea "Twitter for breaking news." in Twitter:

Lane, I agree that it sounds similar but I guess one of the things that would have to be worked out is that a breaking news event could and should be dynamic as it's transitory whereas a group for a conference could have a longer lifespan.

jauderho replied on August 04, 2007 18:46 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Much as I think tagging is good. I think this case, I' would go with the I'm lazy crowd. I do not want to have to work harder than I have to follow events. That's part of the beauty of Twitter right now and part of the reason why I'm more inclined to use it vs. Jaiku or Pownce.

jauderho replied on August 04, 2007 10:52 to the problem "Current bug report list." in Dopplr:

Matt, thanks!

jauderho replied on August 04, 2007 10:51 to the idea "Import iCal information?" in Dopplr:

Excellent! Thanks for the invites and I'll look forward to the ical integration. Being able to download a flight from United to Dopplr would be killer.

One more thing, it would be great if one could specify the time on top of just the day.

BTW Firefox on Windows is confused about webcal:// links out-of-the-box.

jauderho replied on August 04, 2007 01:21 to the discussion "New emoticons are here! Express yourself." in Get Satisfaction:

Awesome! I just noticed this while logging back in to check on my JPG Mag requests.

I'm hoping Satisfaction could turn out to be the best way to get informal feature and bug fixes to the right people.

jauderho replied on August 04, 2007 01:19 to the idea "Flickr integration please!!" in 8020 Media:

Cool, thanks. I guess Satisfaction really works in getting a reply. =)

That said, I'll still look forward to the day there is Flickr integration. I would look to only move certain pics over in any case not a wholesale move.

That said, maybe I could ask for mutiple file upload instead. lol.

jauderho started following the discussion "New emoticons are here! Express yourself." in Get Satisfaction.

jauderho replied on August 03, 2007 22:46 to the idea "Flickr integration please!!" in 8020 Media:

One more thing. Thanks for including me on Issue 10. =)