Here’s another website that uses the Twitter model: it’s called Sprouter - just launched this week!
Check out their video tour.
I don’t use Twitter anymore, but I’m enjoying this neat little startup though. With Twitter, there is too much noise from too broad of a network. All I see when I log in to my Twitter account are short, barely-descriptive statuses written by bored people. Too often I see the extended version of these statuses on Facebook, so why even bother logging in at all? (More beef on Twitter later in my upcoming blog post)
I think Sprouter (and also Yammer) did exactly what Twitter needed to do, but didn’t: divide and conquer. There is a need for micro-blogging, but it is important for users to sift through the sea of statuses. Twitter could have done that by implementing filters to segment different interest groups, but they decided to invest in the unfamiliar realm of real-time search instead. This is great, but it requires active involvement – the act of ’searching’ – too bad people are lazy online!
In the near future, there will be more and more startups applying the micro-blogging concept (or Twitter model). And Twitter will be a dead bird – a martyr for micro-blogging – the Youtube comments of the internet.
A few months ago, I received an email from Kelly Sonora from Online College Degree informing me that PeterKao.com was listed as one of the 100 best blogs for young entrepreneurs!
I’m glad that my blog has reached young entrepeneurs across the internets. Thank you all for your readership support!
Have you been bothered by those pesky telemarketers recently? I know I have. In fact, I remember several times when my dinner was interrupted by some college student asking me if I would like to lower all my credit card bills.
Well – as of September 30th, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will allow phone owners to put their number on a ‘Do not call’ list. Telemarketers will still have a grace-period of 31 days to “adjust” but any unsolicited calls thereafter will result in a fine up to $1,500 for individuals and $15,000 for businesses.
To put your number(s) on the list, visit www.LNNTE-DNCL.gc.ca after September 30th, or call 1-866-580-DNCL (3625).
Man, this is going to piss off a lot of telemarketers!
A little over a month ago, I had said that there would be some design changes for the website.
Now, it’s here!
Every month or so, I will be changing the background image to something that I have drawn. I call this the blackboard background design (BBD for short )
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