Comments on: Is twitter’s the future global namespace?

By: Scott Blomquist

Scott Blomquist — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:28:39 +0000

Sam, there was a company called RealNames that set out to get everyone to surf to every site using plain words instead of URLs. I can think of a dozen reasons why it might have failed, but I’m not sure which reasons are the real ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNames

Will, yeah–the color scheme does leave something to be desired. I’ll file a ticket to fix that. Thanks for fixing the quote issue so quickly!

By: Will Norris

Will Norris — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:22:42 +0000

^^ wow, those links in my previous comment are just about impossible to see with this color scheme. :-\

By: Will Norris

Will Norris — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:21:44 +0000

I found it more than just a little disturbing when the official Vidoop Announcement of Chris and me getting hired linked to our Twitter profiles, as if those were our authoritative profiles on the web. Even the RRW article got it right by linking to our personal websites. (oh, and wp-openid 2.2.1 is out and it fixes the quote issue)

By: Sam Alexander

Sam Alexander — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:42:27 +0000

@sblom (omg you’re so right!), I think @lachlanhardy is saying that his userbase was using @flickr_username as their global namespace BEFORE twitter. Most likely they’ve since switched.

Its definitely a tech thing, though. I still talk to Normals who use their Myspace SEARCH TERMS to identify themselves, though.

“Yeah, I’m on myspace. Search for “katy 3 lawrence, kansas” and you’ll find me.”

That same mentality is taken to extremes in Japan where they are using Google search terms instead of even URLs

http://www.cabel.name/2008/03/japan-urls-are-totally-out.html

By: Scott Blomquist

Scott Blomquist — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:02:23 +0000

But @lachlanhardy (see what I did there?), how often do you refer to someone by their flickr username outside flickr? Maybe I missed your point and you’re saying you started using @flickr_username all over the web. If so, I must’ve just been blissfully unaware.

By: Lachlan Hardy

Lachlan Hardy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:19:27 +0000

Nah, it’s happening everywhere. My community were doing it on Flickr before Twitter, but everybody does it a lot more there now. We’re building it into a current app because I can’t actually believe that other apps haven’t taken Twitter’s step of codifying this convention and making it useful.

By: http://zacpenix.blogspot.com/

http://zacpenix.blogspot.com/ — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:17:03 +0000

there is an idiot who has zac@twitter.com… and he only posted like 4 times, over a year ago…

I would like to remove him from this planet and take his twitter id.