OK, so I thought I should put a few points down regarding the whole idea behind chinposin.com, the importance of avatars, the fun you can have with avatars and the significance of avatars.
“Can you grab all the chinposin avatars from twitter?”
I said, “Sure, no problem”
I’m not going to expand on the features list, but the study of avatars has become an obsession.
This week, I decided to change my twitter avatar to monotone twitter cyan. If you know twitter, you know the colour. If not, go there and find out.
Soon after, there was an abundance of avatars, all monotone. The point came to me, as usual, after a glass of wine. But I was amazed how people went monotone and followed the craze.
Let it be said that me and james are thinking alot about avatars. Avatars really interest me and James. Hugely. And if I am not emphasising that enough, let me underline it. We fucking like avatars.
Tracking avatar behaviour and watching how the visual community changes is pure wizard. That iswhere we see chinposin. Tracking avatar behaviour across time.
I have been following Michael Gannotti and his great Michael on the Go podcasts for a long time. I have also heard great things about Academy Mobile, which is a video service developed by Microsoft, built on sharepoint for an enterprise conversation. At the moment tho, it is only available intrnally at Microsoft. A great tool being used with great results at Microsoft. This needs o be released!
There is a huge conversation going on over at seesmic. I have been hugely guilty at wasting loads of time over on seesmic, and more recently over on utterz. I hav been talking about Academy Mobile for much longer than seesmic has been around.
I am dying to see Academy Mobile released. The enterprise needs this type of tool. The consumer needs this type of tool. I guess Microsoft is guaging all these markets and deciding on a startegy for release. At least I hope.
So I decided to ask Michael Gannotti the question as he *did* say leave questions.
If the opposing team (anyone else on the conference call) start scoring points, you must counter these attacks, after all attack is the best form of defence.
The Points
Music on hold 10 points
Not muting phone 5 points
Not introducing yourself 3 points
Leaving and rejoining for no reason 2 points.
All RFCs on new standards welcomed. Should we create a league?
I have created the Seesmic .NET Time Drain using ASP.NET Ajax. I’m not making it public at the moment, because in true seesmic style, it is pre-alpha. But if you find it, then great.
This project has been developed with the intention of creating a .NET class and library allowing other .NET developers to easily build on the Seesmic API and platform.
I have not been paid to create Time Drain. So there are bugs. I offer no warranty or guarantee regarding the suitability of the code or usability of Time Drain. There are no warranties, and no special offers or cuddly toys.
What I hope this does do, is go some way to opening up seesmic to the .NET developer community allowing us all to benefit from new and usefull apps. Ping me if you want to get involved.
Dennis Howlett wrote a great post this evening (or morning) about the new features released by Seesmic. A huge improvement. All those features you wanted. They are here!
Johann has also written a blog post about the new features. Nice work to all the dev team at seesmic. It’s been amazing to see how you have listened to the community and implemented the features we all wanted. Great job!
The next LMUG webcast is on 26th February at 4pm GMT. Thanks to everyone that attended the first meeting. We voted on content ideas for the next webcast, and the comunity decided! So keep the ideas coming.
If you would like to come to this event, please post a message in the webcast forum until I setup the registration for this event.
Virtual BreakOut rooms for Live Meeting 2007
Date: Tuesday February 26th 2008, 4pm GMT Speakers: Chris Dalby: Live Meeting User Group Where: Online – Live Meeting webcast Product: Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 Audience(s): Users, presenters, developers and resellers of Live Meeting Duration: 60 Minutes ish Language: English.
There’s a lot of talk at this time of year about what rocked last year and looking forward to 2008. So I thought I’d throw in my tupence, for what it’s worth, and tell you what will be my killer app of 2008 – eventtrack
Setup couldn’t be simpler. If you have a twitter account, simply follow @eventtrack. To start an event, or joing an existing event, simply tweet: “@eventtrack start*xxxxx” where xxxxx is the keyword for your event e.g. “@eventtrack start*geekmeet”.
The person behind @eventtrack is Craig Cmehil who works as an evangelist for SAP. Craig has whipped this up in his spare time because he saw the need for this type of service. I couldn’t agree more and look forward to using it more. It’s my killer app of 2008.
