FOWA 2007 – All of my Twitters

I really enjoyed twittering throughout the Future of Web Apps conference, especially when IanD’s phone was beeping with an SMS alert every time I Twittered!

Back in the office this morning, I now know that at least one person followed it – thanks Sam.

I’ve brought all my Twitter posts together into this blog now, for easy reading. Here you go…

Packing for my trip. 06:33 PM February 19, 2007
zimki for building cheep as chips javascrip apps online. Yacc’s are pre shaved! 11:49 AM February 20, 2007
Listening to Ben Holmes on funding your web app via VC’s 11:51 AM February 20, 2007
VC’s are after great technical founders! 11:51 AM February 20, 2007
Ben has money to spend 11:51 AM February 20, 2007
Noticing that Ben is wearing a blue sticker 11:52 AM February 20, 2007
Hearing that £80million pounds invested in web apps last year 11:56 AM February 20, 2007
Believing that Ben should be on Dragons Den 11:58 AM February 20, 2007
Looking at the stages of investment. Yawn. 11:58 AM February 20, 2007
Believing that *ALL* VC websites say the same thing. 12:01 PM February 20, 2007
Not believing that Ben invested in drawing dolls! 12:03 PM February 20, 2007
Umm – Stardoll 12:03 PM February 20, 2007
Believing that Ben invested in Skype 12:07 PM February 20, 2007
Looking at VC typical deal terms 12:07 PM February 20, 2007
Shocked that VC wants 20-30% ownership! 12:08 PM February 20, 2007
Believing what Mike Arrington said about it being important to minimise VC 12:10 PM February 20, 2007
Not liking reverse vesting 12:12 PM February 20, 2007
Back from lunch – preparing for an afternoon of twittering 01:59 PM February 20, 2007
Listening to Last FM guys saying they get 175 scrobbles a second! 02:01 PM February 20, 2007
Liking Last FM’s use of IRC 02:02 PM February 20, 2007
Umm – osmotic communication 02:02 PM February 20, 2007
Agreeing with Last FM – talking about opening up their API to create a Platform 02:04 PM February 20, 2007
Agreeing with Last FM – allow people to export their identity from your platform and import it into another 02:06 PM February 20, 2007
Agreeing with Last FM – openness is the key to web platforms 02:07 PM February 20, 2007
Looking at Powered by Audioscrobbler logo and wondering about a Powered by the Talis Platform logo 02:08 PM February 20, 2007
Thinking about MyWare – software which spies on yourself. 02:08 PM February 20, 2007
Seeing Last FM apply attention data 02:10 PM February 20, 2007
Umm – wondering about subtle uses of attention data 02:11 PM February 20, 2007
seeing tag clouds being used to attack individuals 02:15 PM February 20, 2007
Thinking about tag cloud moderation 02:15 PM February 20, 2007
Understanding that attention data doesn’t lie – but the tags from people who spend time listening to Paris Hilton are more relevant. 02:16 PM February 20, 2007
Liking “more ambient findability” 02:17 PM February 20, 2007
Listening to Last FM being positive about VC. But they still assemble their own Ikea desks. 02:22 PM February 20, 2007
Thinking that the Last FM guys had some good things to say about Platforms and Social networks. 02:25 PM February 20, 2007
Listening to T J Kang from ThinkFree 02:27 PM February 20, 2007
Liking the ability to show office doc’s on a webpage, but wondering if I’d really use it. 02:33 PM February 20, 2007
Listening to Jason Chuck from Google 02:37 PM February 20, 2007
Seeing google maps mash up of real time gps feed from planes coming into an airport! 02:38 PM February 20, 2007
Seeing Google Sketch Up 02:39 PM February 20, 2007
Wondering what Jason’s girlfriends problem with web cams is! 02:41 PM February 20, 2007
Listening to Wermer Vogles from Amazon. 02:44 PM February 20, 2007
Werner says – compete on ideas not on resources. 02:46 PM February 20, 2007
Looking at GigaVox Audio Lite 02:47 PM February 20, 2007
Agreeing with Werner about the 20-35% VC’s want for your company is due to the cost of resources. 03:02 PM February 20, 2007
Looking at smugmug’s use of S3 03:04 PM February 20, 2007
Wondering when 3 nines up time became 4 nines uptime – and what the real fifference is. 03:06 PM February 20, 2007
Looking at enrackados.com – an operating system in the browser powered by S3. 03:07 PM February 20, 2007
Thinking I must try S3 Firefox Explorer 03:08 PM February 20, 2007
Surprised to see couple kissing two rows in front of me. 03:12 PM February 20, 2007
Thinking that AWS Product Family is really cool. 03:14 PM February 20, 2007
Still feeling sceptical about Mechanical Turk 03:15 PM February 20, 2007
Understanding that Mechanical Turk is not available globally due to labour laws. 03:18 PM February 20, 2007
Hearing that hitting Amazon’s front page calls about 150 internal service. Services are run by small “start up like” teams. 03:20 PM February 20, 2007
Listening to Werner say he’d love aws to be compatable with other services – but that there aren’t any, and thinking that he’s right. 03:22 PM February 20, 2007
Hearing that aws is built to support data centre burn downs. It’s guaranteed to be in multiple locations. But he wont say how many! 03:25 PM February 20, 2007
Listening to Bradley Horowitz from Yahoo 04:12 PM February 20, 2007
Looking at route 66 mapped out by flickr photo’s 04:30 PM February 20, 2007
Liking Tagging Cluster – tagging love creates clusters of catagories – romantic love, love symbols, pets(!) etc 04:32 PM February 20, 2007
Just added MyBlogLog to my blog – MyBlogLog is built on Amazon S3! 04:34 PM February 20, 2007
Hearing about Yahoo Pipes. 04:37 PM February 20, 2007
Hearing that Pipes allows easy access of data to create derivative works. 04:40 PM February 20, 2007
Seeing a pipe that allows you to find apartments near day care or parks or anything you like. 04:43 PM February 20, 2007
Hearing that RSS is analogue sampling where pipes are like a synthesizer which much richer expression. 04:45 PM February 20, 2007
Realising that Pipes only reads RSS feeds. 04:49 PM February 20, 2007
Listening to Stephen Stokols from BT 04:51 PM February 20, 2007
Wondering why IanD is googling for pictures of Harry Potter! 04:54 PM February 20, 2007
Wondering what the guy from BT is actually talking about – and if that’s the reason why IanD is googling for pictures of Harry Potter 04:56 PM February 20, 2007
Looking at BT Contact beta 05:00 PM February 20, 2007
Hearing about QuotationsBook.com 05:01 PM February 20, 2007
Wondering if I would ever find a use for QuotationsBook.com 05:08 PM February 20, 2007
Thinking that for QuotationsBooks.com everything is happening in the next few weeks. 05:10 PM February 20, 2007
Listening to Stefan from soocial 05:11 PM February 20, 2007
What a cool presentation style from Stefan 05:12 PM February 20, 2007
Wondering what the problem with contact management is. 05:13 PM February 20, 2007
Wondering how to sync multiple contact pools. 05:14 PM February 20, 2007
Remembering never to send Stefan any text messages! 05:15 PM February 20, 2007
Understanding that every successful web company has 2 o’s in it! 05:16 PM February 20, 2007
Thinking that I might ring Stefan’s mom. 05:19 PM February 20, 2007
Laughing with Stefan 05:21 PM February 20, 2007
Listening to Kevin Rose from digg. 05:23 PM February 20, 2007
Trying to remember if someone said “free wine”. 05:33 PM February 20, 2007
Not digging it – but it’s late and it’s been a long day. 05:47 PM February 20, 2007
Digg is going to let you export your attention data. 05:47 PM February 20, 2007
Digg is going to support openID 05:48 PM February 20, 2007
Kevin is drinking wine not water while he’s doing his presentation! 05:49 PM February 20, 2007
Realising that with 900,000 users in a community fights break out. It’s therefore important to create groups within your community. 05:51 PM February 20, 2007
Zonked – but off to socialise, drink wine and find *food*! 05:53 PM February 20, 2007
Getting ready for another full day of Twittering about 23 hours ago
Looking at my twitters on IanD’s phone! about 23 hours ago
Listening to the guy from Adobe about Flex. about 23 hours ago
Wondering if excessive twittering is a sack able offense? about 23 hours ago
Looking at Flex Builder about 23 hours ago
Watching live demo of coding a flickr browser in Flex Builder about 23 hours ago
Looking at picnik – a Flex Application about 23 hours ago
Wondering how you would test a Flex Application, remembering that testing Flash apps is near;y impossible. about 23 hours ago
Seeing a demo of Scrybe about 23 hours ago
Seeing that Action Script 3 is faster than Action Script 2 about 23 hours ago
Seeing a ring of fire in Action Script 3 about 23 hours ago
Hearing about Adobe Apollo about 23 hours ago
Listening to Chris Wilson – from Microsofts IE7 Team about 23 hours ago
Seeing that bullet points under semantic web missed off RDF about 23 hours ago
Hearing that IE7 balances “compatibility” with web standards about 22 hours ago
Thinking that I don’t want what IE6 did or what IE7 does – I want it to comply to the standards. about 22 hours ago
Thinking that it sucks that you can’t run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine – and running WinXPSP2 in Virtual PC is not the answer. about 22 hours ago
Hearing about ASP.net AJAX about 22 hours ago
Listening to someone mention Web 3.0. about 22 hours ago
Refreshments sponsored by ThinkFree about 22 hours ago
Listening to Khoi Vinh from NY Times.com about 22 hours ago
Agreeing with Khoi that management is making it possible for great things to be done. (Sent from a very slow laptop! about 21 hours ago
Agreeing with Khoi that options are obstructions and remembering Joel’s book on the subject. about 21 hours ago
Considering if Experts aren’t as easily offended as beginers about 21 hours ago
Hearing that your boss is not the right person to acceptance test your product about 21 hours ago
Seeing slides of twitter at FOWA! about 21 hours ago
Wondering if it’s true that NY Times is Web 1.0 or 2.0? about 21 hours ago
Hearing that BBC is going to start being more Web 2.0 – embedding Google Maps etc. about 21 hours ago
Listening to Simon Wilson on openID – believing that single sign on will save the world. about 21 hours ago
Hearing thet openID is single sign on with no central point of control. about 21 hours ago
Seeing Simon log in to Zoomr with his live journal account. about 21 hours ago
Thinking I must create a persona at MyOpenID.com about 21 hours ago
Thinking I must register some appropriate domain names before everyone does for openID about 21 hours ago
Looking at mosters which stop phishing attacks about 21 hours ago
Wow – openID – I’m loving it! about 21 hours ago
Both the internet and openID are intelligent on the edges about 21 hours ago
Understanding that openID gives decentralised communities about 21 hours ago
Understanding that Phishing attacks could make openID suck about 21 hours ago
Hearing about Card Space in (spit) Vista about 21 hours ago
I dont want my boss to know I’m a furry about 21 hours ago
Agreeing that openID not ready for mainstream – but ready for early adopters. I don’t want to use it to log in to my bank yet. about 21 hours ago
Thinking must try FreeYourID.com about 21 hours ago
Listening to Jonathan Rochelle from Google Docs and Spreadsheets. about 19 hours ago
Docs and sheets fits with the mission = organise *my* data about 19 hours ago
Relieved to be back on twitter after following IanD upstairs where there is no power. about 16 hours ago
Failing to persuade IanD that 5 minute battery life trumps Jingyie’s blue screen of death problem in the “New Laptop League”. about 16 hours ago
Listening to Rasmus Lerdorf about PHP about 16 hours ago
Listening to the history of PHP about 16 hours ago
Seeing that PHP now has some nice language features – but that it was intened as a quote “dirty hack”. about 16 hours ago
Realising that PHP solved Rasmus’s own problems and that lots of good things come from solving your own problems. about 16 hours ago
Rasmus is saying your site has to perform fast. about 16 hours ago
Rasmus is saying your site has to perform fast. He’s showing me some profile information about a demo app about 16 hours ago
Understanding the difference between performance and scaleability about 16 hours ago
Seeing code injected into a page to steal passwords about 16 hours ago
Seeing new features in PHP 5.2 for parsing xml from the web about 16 hours ago
Hearing NetVibes announcement – Introducing Universal Widget API about 16 hours ago
Hearing the CEO of MOO saying “Print is Dead” – but of course he’s joking – long live print! about 16 hours ago
Decided to order some Moo cards about 15 hours ago
Hearing that when there is an error in the code on MOO – every developer gets an email! Wow – we should do this! about 15 hours ago
My last comment didn’t apply to PXXXX of course! about 15 hours ago
Hearing Contact Office say the javascript language is a nightmare! about 15 hours ago
Hearing Contact Office be very pro Google Web Toolkit about 15 hours ago
Wondering just how busy the tube is going to be. about 15 hours ago
Going home! about 15 hours ago