“The only – and fairly small – additional layer is to decide whether to invoke TWO primary additional features – starting your message with an @ or to send a private message using a d convention”

well, I don’t think that all users know about those additional “layers”.

“Decide where to post your message which involves selecting amongst many different possible places, many of which likely could overlap”

Sure groups are overlaping, but they are always a bit different. In order to reduce spams, I think it’s obligatory to limit to a unique group each tweet (maybe 3).

You keep that streamlined model + the possibility to share tweets with people you know, care about. Groups can be “on-request”, limited. That’s okay. Life is like that.

“you still have to CHOOSE which group(s) to participate in with each engagement.”

And is it so problematic to choose ? Yes, you have to join them before publishing a microblog inside. Is it a problem to have too many groups ? Well, that depends of the vision of the groups you have.

That’s what we tried to work on with HyperWeek.com, a groups platform where you can publish various formats, but also microblogs with a quick twitter crosspublish system.

Groups are micro-communities. They could still be seen as old-school. But they aren’t. They are the future.

So check this spammy group widget, with microblogs !

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Users are funny – few features are too few, but many features are to many. I slowly understand, how microsoft office became such are bloatware.

More?
During my study in 2006/2007 I developed a Software for short messaging via web and mobile phone. …

Man, she’s cute!

I am in the process of making a few custom changes to the Wordpress Twitter Tools plugin, to do just that for tweets going into a “daily digest” or similar post, i.e. create paragraphs from multiple fused .. tweets.

Re: the list subsegmenting, I’ve been calling for that for a while now. Then again, the ways to search/sort friends lists isn’t particularly intelligent in other Social Networking apps either, e.g. Facebook does allow sublists, but you have to manually assemble them instead of being able to do a full text search over their profile and wall posts to see if they are an interest match.

If you could do this, you’d have friendfeed. Oh wait, we already have friendfeed.

use case scenario:

Cindy, an 8 year old, has to do a home work assignment on trains from the 1860s. Cindy asks Emily, “Find information on 1860s train.” Emily returns diaries of the railroad worker, genealogies of the railmen (text or audio), American folk music from that period (audio), photographs of the workers (projected images), contemporary documentaries on the theme, etc. Cindy CREATIVELY decides to aggregate the information together to make an animated documentary of the railway workers, producing an original score, by telling Emily to do it all, and iMail it to her teacher. Homework is completed in 10 minutes. next.

The next generation will be the shuffle generation in which knowledge is ubiquitous, and easily accessible as to be of minimal value. What will differiantiate you from your competitor is how you creatively use the knowledge. It will be a creative economy in which we will shuffle information into new epistemological structures for utilitarian purposes.