Everything awesome always happens in Japan first. Even, it seems, when it involves an American startup. Digital Garage, Twitter’s partner with Twitter Japan, launched Twicco, a site that lets Twitter users create groups and then subscribe to them.
Loic Le Meur got a demo, and the video is below. Twicco is available now in Japanese only, other languages will be available later.
This isn’t much different, at first glance, to Friendfeed Rooms. It’s odd that Twitter will do this via a separate site instead of just treating Rooms as resources that you can subscribe to directly on Twitter. Or maybe they are. It’s all Japanese to me (I’m sure our Japanese readers will be able to clear up the details for us).
Will this be in U.S. as well? That’s cool
- Scott from http://venturedig.com (twitter for VC’s and entrepreneurs)
Cool! I really like the idea of lifestreaming+groups, although I think the groups metaphor will soon change to certain ‘interest clustered streams’. Something I’m trying to accomplish with http://kakuteru.com/
I wonder if they showed this at Digital Garage’s New Context Conference (which is today and tomorrow here in Ebisu, Tokyo) http://www.gara....co.jp/ncc2008/
1. Let friendfeed develop a good feature
2. Copy it, lamely.
3. ???
4. Profit.
Twitter’s model stops at #3
hate to do this but crowdstatus lets you do most of this. The next version goes a lot further too.
I think there is a lot of room in this market and I think these sites need to do more than just twitter.
This is a nice feature. It is not that difficult to implement using some available open source solutions.
I think that many may be looking at this kind of grouping/streaming service the wrong way. With new services we tend to imitate the leader as well as existing scenarios; so we have the basic idea of groups being added to a new type of service. I think that mini blog/twitter like services have close similarities to the media and entertainment industry.
For creating this service is very simple.
1) Find category that you interested in.
Those categories are including lifestyle, hobbies, regional location, people, … etc.
2) Get new twitter account for creating twicco community.
3 and 4) Enter twitter account for community and authenticate with your twitter account.
5) Inform your community to the world!
Currently, there are some kind of approvement process between 2 and 3.
Additional info:
When creating twitter account for twicco, you need another email address that is not used for current twitter account.
I ran the site through Google Translate real quick and it looks like it might be exposing direct messages.
http://bit.ly/XZvrX
http://weblog.m...-hours-for-699/
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interesting they are using groups in the same way you had rooms in a forum and the ssame that friendfeed has rooms. what i am looking for – and maybe they will not do this – is provide a means to aggregate tweets and them publish out as a content proposition – dailytwitter.com – a site in the making is trying to do this – by providing local country newspapers of tweets aggregate around a specific theme.
It looks like the groups themselves are powered by twitter and that twicco just helps you find them. You simply “follow” the group and then you can post by writing a message like, “@groupname my posting here”
you’ve been able to do this on http://www.twitly.com for a while
So, I create twicco community as below:
http://twitter.com/python_fun
About this url, just only one twitter account.
Twicco is currently alpha version they say, so I am expecting summarize page will be shown in twicco.jp.
Picture this; you and thousands of others are watching the season finale of Lost. Until now there was no way to discuss with people watching the show at the same time. However with Buzzable, you can buzz into the Lost group and receive notifications from the Lost group in real time on your phone.
It’s micro-bloggiing for groups.
See for your self at http://www.buzzable.com
Please shoot me an email on what you think:
Ovais [at] Buzzable.com
Buzzable.com
Even better than Buzzable – Tweetizen is quicker, easier and almost dumb-proof, no need to create a new account, no need for an invitation – just login using your own twitter account and create a group in less than a minute!
Share the group with the world – and even embed it on your own website!
http://www.tweetizen.com/