Joseph Kelly Thinking out loud

8Nov/090

Twitter Lists

I've been exploring the benefits of Twitter lists over the past week to see what value they provide. Personally I have no real need to create lists. Categorising offers little value over my stream. I've been creating private lists (groups) on tweetdeck for sometime now and they are rarely used.

So the buck is then passed onto people intent on creating lists that they believe offer value. They are being formed by people creating them without tweeters permission or alternatively by you actually submitting your profile to be included in a list. Types include.

Nick Kallen the list project leader states

"lists have the potential to be an important new discovery mechanism for great tweets and accounts. We started working on this feature because of the frequent requests we received from people who were looking for a better way to organize information on Twitter"

Some significant value and structure may start to emerge with the lists api

So list creators be they stupid or clever are now on the prowl, and we must begin to look at lists of lists, or do we?

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6Oct/090

Nibbles

Microsoft's hotmail has had what's seems like a serious security breach for its email users. The hack or phishing scheme as detailed on Neowin states that the passwords for names A through to B (assuming surnames) were posted to pastebin the coder debugging site. Ooops!, so which of the big mail providers can we trust for security and reliability, let the password changing begin.

On a lighter note Amazon is getting to grips with its Mobile Payment Service (MPS)

IIA on International Strategy, Caelen King - Reva Health and interviewed by Una Coleman Codega Consulting

and The Machine is only just starting to get powerful, excellent!