Twitter has announced that they will begin streaming promoted tweets in the timeline itself. At #RLTM Realtime NY 11, I moderated a really interesting panel discussion that included Steve Klabnik, the founder of rstat.us, an open-source service that clones the basic functionality of Twitter with a non-commercial and distributed system, who believes that “Twitter is too important to be owned by Twitter.” Read →
One of the many cool things that will happen at #RLTM Realtime NY on June 6: the launch of Ajit Jaokar’s new book, Meditation in the Age of Facebook and Twitter. Jaokar defines meditation as the sense of presence and focus required to achieve seemingly-impossible things. Landing a plane on the Hudson, for example. His main thesis is that we are entering an era where meditation is two-sided: involving both a traditional disconnection from the external world–and a simultaneous connection to an exponentially increasing number of inputs via the growth and spread of technology-based networks. To anyone who has been awe-struck by the incredible power of tools like Twitter to instantly connect you to the experience of millions of other people in realtime, this is an intriguing idea. Read →
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