Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category

RANT - What Twitter REALLY is missing Part 10 - No Mind-to-Twitter Mind-control Ability

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Mind Reading Twitter!

10 days ago I wrote my first Twitter rant over here.

It’s time for my 10th and last Twitter rant!  I’m positive you’ll agree that 

No Automatic Mind-To-Twitter Ability

is disheartening to the max, right?

I mean, consider the following.  There I am with my utterly magnificent blog postings about, oh, hmmm, lessee: (more…)

RANT - What Twitter REALLY is missing Part 9 - Automatic Coffee Apparition!

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Twitter Coffee!

9 days ago I wrote my first Twitter rant over here.

It’s time for my 9th Twitter rant!  I’m confident you’ll agree that 

No Automatic Coffee Apparition

is depressing in the extreme, wouldn’t you agree?

I mean, let’s take this seriously.  How on earth can I be expected  to (more…)

RANT - What Twitter REALLY is missing Part 8 - On Site Tech Support

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Onsite Tech support

8 days ago I wrote my first Twitter rant over here.

It’s time for my 8th Twitter rant.  I’m confident you’ll agree that 

No On Site Tech Support

is supremely baffling!

I mean, no matter how idjut-proof a web application is made, the world will simply build a better idjut!  Consider those poor individuals who panic when the computer displays (more…)

RANT - What Twitter REALLY is missing Part 7 - Twitter Translator!

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Twitter Filter

7 days ago I wrote my first Twitter rant over here.

It’s time for my 7th Twitter rant.  I’m positive you’ll agree that 

Condensing a Homeric Epic into Less than 140 characters

is a sure-fire recipe for major writing angst, right?  One of my blog readers, Elizabeth of Table4Five, alerted me to this very serious restriction….and of course, I just had to (more…)

RANT - What Twitter REALLY is missing Part 6 - XMPP

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Twitter XMPP

Six days ago I wrote my first Twitter rant over here.

It’s time for my 6th Twitter rant.  I’m sure you’ll agree with the fact there’s

No XMPP

frosts not only your petunias but the whole garden as well, eh?

Think about it.  XMPP is the protocol used for Instant Messenging thingees like:

Polling is not required!

Would you believe (more…)

RANT - What Twitter REALLY is missing Part 5 - iPhone Timeline Paging

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

iPhone Twitter No Paging!

Four days ago I wrote my first Twitter rant over here.

It’s time for my 5th Twitter rant.  I’m sure you’ll agree with the fact there’s

No way to page through friends’ timelines via the iPhone

really just gets your domesticated cloven-hoofed animal, right?

Think about it.  There’s lots of iPhone Twitter apps already like (more…)

RANT - What Twitter REALLY is missing Part 4 - Groups!

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Twitter groups!

Three days ago I wrote my first Twitter rant over here.

It’s time for my 4th Twitter rant.  I’m sure you’ll agree with the fact there’s

No Twitter Groups!

is extremely frustrating, right?

Think about (more…)

RANT - What Twitter REALLY is missing Part 3 - DCI sound!

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Twitter Music!

Two days ago I wrote my first Twitter rant over here.

It’s time for my third Twitter rant.  I’m sure you’ll agree with the fact there’s

No way to incorporate music

to your tweets is thoroughly annoying, right?  I mean, hey, I can include snippets of Barry Manilow on my website or the Drum Corp International or other (more…)

RANT - What Twitter REALLY is missing Part 2 - images!

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Deliver images with style and grace

Yesterday I wrote my first Twitter rant over here.

It’s time for my second Twitter rant.  I’m sure you’ll agree with the fact there’s

No way to share images. 

is utterly maddening!  Oh sure, I can send a tinyURL to an image, what about dragging and dropping the image to my Twitter box and having it sent to specific people?

What’s wrong with adding that most-likely-short bit of code to simplify my life?   Unless I want to hire someone to take a picture of the image and then send it over to (more…)

RANT - What Twitter REALLY is missing Part 1, need a solution

Friday, March 21st, 2008

140 character limit in Twitter

You know, I’ve been educating myself quite a lot about Twitter lately, and I can really see the benefits to it. 

But the more I analyze it, the more I realize…it’s missing some key critical features.  And for my Friday Musings, I’ve decided to start listing them, one by one.

Let’s start with:

No way to communicate in MORE than 140 characters. 

Sure, I know, the basis for Twitter IS 140 characters or less, but c’mon!  If someone (more…)