“First things first: Praise God.” That’s how Gospelr starts out its announcement that the company’s microblogging service is officially ready for users to sign up and “spread the word.”
It was bound to happen sooner or later.
Gospelr is quick to point out that it’s not “just another Twitter.” Instead, the site prides itself on being the world’s first “Ministry Microblogging” tool for those that want to share thoughts, ideas, words of encouragement, prayer requests, daily scripture readings, and oh so much more.
The company’s founder wants it to be more than a Christian Twitter, though. Beyond being a place where people can chat it up about ol’ JC, the company wants to be the place to “share the Gospel with those that have already heard the Good News (because we all could use a good reminder… daily!) and those that have not.”
Gospelr tries to change the way people interact on the service too. A normal “tweet” is colored in brown, while replies are green, and imported tweets from services like Twitter are colored in blue. That coloring scheme will make it easier to identify what’s being said and who is saying it.
The service can also let users upload and share files like Pownce, and most importantly, it auto-refreshes the page so you don’t have to.
Gospelr gained Twitter API source parameter approval, so whenever you tweet something in the service, you’ll notice an update on Twitter saying “from Gospelr.com” and it will also work with TweetDeck and other applications that let you syndicate material to Twitter.
Gospelr is available now for those that are looking to try it out.
I’m sure you’re wondering what is my favorite feature of Gospelr. Is it the chance to tell the world what I read in the Bible today? Nah. Is it the ability to hear others tell me about JC? Nope. It’s the RSS button. Check it out. Awesome, huh?
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damn can these company be something other then twitter!
may god smite you for your filthy mouth.
Does this mean Web 2.0 is a commodity now? Likely, a team of 3-5 used a XAMP architecture with a script language. So if a Web 2.0 service does become popular, isn’t it cloneable in days by the larger open source community? Therefore you have orders of magnitude of new actors/producers entering a linear growing market. Thus the marginal value of a particular Web 2.0 service diminishes exponentially. One constraint that the open source community wouldn’t overcome is the enormous expenditure on hardware to scale. However, most Web 2.0 will never reach a sufficient level to scale because of rampant cloning, thereby diffusing its value-add across scores of other sites. Therefore everyone starves.
…and when you tweet something blasphemous, it is coloured in red, and the Devil is CC’d about it.
It looks like blasphemr.com is free…
[Laughs] Quite a cool domain, come to think of it.
I thought the red letters where the words of Jesus Christ, at least in the red letter bible, I think then all blashpemous has to get another colour.
Couldn’t this have been done by setting your Twitter account to private, and only following people who align with your beliefs? Just sayin’…
No future company sale to GodTube that way.
Check out http://www.bibleapps.com and my apps on Orkut, hi5, Myspace, Friendster. I have a feature called “Post a prayer” which does the same thing. My apps are launched and have hundreds of thousands of users. Amen.
Wow, posting prayers–it’s just like the ‘real thing’. Put out there and nobody reads it. Or, maybe God doesn’t have an ISP(?)
You just need to remember the ‘@god’ - he’ll get it:
https://twitter.com/god
We’re going to look back at all these site names in a decade or so and wonder why the hell we came up with such complicated names for websites…
*YAWN*
And why is this on TC again?
Why wouldn’t it be? Like there’s never been any news about Twitter clones before?
Why didn’t I think of this?
WTF Like I have time to discuss the Bible and Big Guy all day. Just go to Bible Study frinkin freaks. These guys are going to end up in Hell anyways.
There should be a do not twitter list for this
or automated gotohell response
What about Pastafarians, who worship deities of equal importance such as the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Teapot, and various Nordic deities?
Ramen
Hahaha, you totally took my words from me!
Gospelr: Twitter for Christians.
From the company Human3rror.
Honestly, people. Do we really need to copy the bigs and make a clone for every last thing? That’s how a perfectly good service is killed off. Twitter for Christians, Twitter for Music, Twitter for Offbeat News, Twitter for Athletes, Twitter for this, Twitter for that.. soon, everyone will be sick of all the twitters of the world, including the original.
And the name? Gospelr. Could we please get a little original and not rip off the other big names? Flickr <= original.
Copies: zooomr, tumblr, locatr, preloadr, frappr, and several others. Honestly, it’s cool when Flickr does it. Copies? Not so much.
Ok, end of rant. =)
But I do wonder at how long this will last.
Acrotomophilr.com => Twitter for Amputee Fetishists. It’s really going to go off!
I just dont respect “entrepreneurs” that do this:
‘Clone the most popular, relatively innovative’ service and go after a niche/ vertical. It may demonstrate execution, but nothing else.
They will still have problems monetizing and I can’t imagine ads would go over well on this service.
While I agree with your basic premise, I do want to comment on one thing. You said:
“It may demonstrate execution, but nothing else.”
Based on my experience with entrepreneurs, I’ll take someone who can demonstrate execution over someone who can only come up with ideas any day of the week.
Ideas are easy. Everyone has them. Actually executing on the idea? Now that’s a different story.
Yes, “Ideas are easy” when you clone other people’s. I do not think original ideas are easy, as all the clone services (not just of twitter) that exist out there demonstrate.
It takes all 3:
Creative + Hard work +luck
whats this built on? Are all these clones recreating the back end?
Why doesn’t god drop some knowledge on his followers so they can create something original for once?
This is obviously built on the FLOSS/Open Source Jisko microblogging service (Affero GPL): http://jisko.net/ I can not see that that is mentioned anywhere on the site or in the blog post where the launch is announced: http://human3rror.com/2008/09/.....a-testers/ Strange, huh? Seems like Gospelr is violating the license..? Or am I missing something?
funny - if you view the source of the site there is a commented out image that points here: http://gospelr.com/img/logos/logo_jisky.png which is the jisko logo…
Licensing fail.
Does this mean Web 2.0 is a commodity now? Likely, a team of 3-5 used a XAMP architecture with a script language. So if a Web 2.0 service does become popular, isn’t it cloneable in days by the larger open source community? Therefore you have orders of magnitude of new actors entering a linear growing market. Thus the marginal value of a Web 2.0 service diminishes exponentially. One constraint that the open source community would’t overcome is the enormous expenditure on hardware to scale. However, most Web 2.0 will never reach a sufficient level to scale because of rampant cloning, thereby diffusing its value-add across scores of other sites. Therefore everyone starves.
And business development, which requires more than some scripting ability. That’s how you obtain access to sil0′d data and actual revenue generation
wow that’s gonna get pretty old, everybody will be following god, but he won’t ever say anything. haha. cuz he ain’t real!
crack a beer, fire up the cigar and kick your feet back! Life is good!
Dang someone already got the user name jesus…
Cynical.
yeah god is good. but when is there going to be twitter for dating.
Why isnt Twitter Twitter for everything? They are really screwing up her but not making a Twitter Business server and make it run on Windows or Linux. Poof, they put all these wannabees out of business. Twitter is the term now, not Yammer, or anything else. I can’t believe TC50 happened and Yammer got so much praise?! That’s like me coming up with a Techcrunch.com blog for my house or office - wow, I’m such an innovator!!!
I am not a fan of creating “christian based” services such as GodTube and Gospelr. bad idea. Let’s stay in the mainstream people!!!
Christianity is mainstream.
Twitter busted their ass to build a business only to have evry 1 and their bother jump on the train to try an gane them! If u plant the seed den you sow it, but if you corp is rotten then you starve and the village stone you for blastfame. This industree will throw down every card to win a hand at the sake of a few evn if the billage burns down! I’m fraid you don’t know the true wraith u are meddling with!
This is a horrible idea. Please I hope this site falls through.
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fuck can you stop spaming every article with your shit service? if it was good you would not need to spam the shit out of comments, you would have customers and money for ads…. get the fuck off this site you looser.
also you shit page, has a video with 6 language option (cool) , but the site itsself only has 4 language options…. might want to fix that…
twitter, yammer, gospelr i want to come out with templr, sportyr etc. etc.
Christian fundamentalists are wreaking havoc in the web… lets hope they don’t launch an online inquisition
it would be awesome if @God can twit back and say Uh @don I saw that
ahh gospelr i missed that one in my post about 10 potential vertical twitter clones. maybe because even in a joke post the names weren’t so lame. gospelr? seriously? that’s the best you could come up with?
http://www.technews.la/2008/09.....-win-tc50/
keeping the christian subculture alive! thankfully, because Jesus really would prefer us not to associate with sinners.
i’m headed over to my favorite christian restaraunt to eat some christian pancakes and read my christian paper, then i’m going to go to my christian job and open my christian computer and communicate with my christian friends and cohorts.
please stop making this stuff. just use twitter or the ten million other tools like this if you want to communicate “share thoughts, ideas, words of encouragement, prayer requests, daily scripture readings, and oh so much more.”
christian t-shirts are a bad idea. christian bumper stickers are a bad idea. christian twitters are a bad idea.
“…share the Gospel with those that have already heard the Good News (because we all could use a good reminder… daily!) and those that have not.”
More like a way to further insulate the christian community from the rest of the world. I really don’t see a lot of non-christians signing up for this.
I assume their motto is “do no evil” - if you are going to steal the product, might as well steal the motto.
brings an interesting new meaning to the expression, “preaching to the converted”
You wrote:
“Gospelr is quick to point out that it’s not “just another Twitter.” Instead, the site prides itself on being the world’s first “Ministry Microblogging” tool for those that want to share thoughts, ideas, words of encouragement, prayer requests, daily scripture readings, and oh so much more.”
Seriously? Seriously.
My question for gospelr is what prevents us from sharing thoughts, lifting others in prayer, announce causes that need help, encouragement on twitter in the first place.
You know when I think Jesus will return? When the entire Christian subculture dies a horrific death.
Jesus did not call us to huddle amongst ourselves and exclude all others. Light much? Salt much? Get into the world. Love them. Serve them. If necessary, you die for them.
I wish the Gospelr service required users to sign a statement of faith. I’m nervous that some users could be working under the power of darkness to lead authentic Bible believing Christians away from the narrow road. Hopefully the Holy Spirit will lead some faithful Venture Capitalists to create a service where Christians can encourage each other while being safely sheltered from the evil temptations of the world.
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