A Frog in the Valley

After the success of Twitter (twitter is the new flickr) and the instant realisation to several thousands of alpha-geeks and creative webheads at SXSW that SMS could be micro-blogging as well as a social command line (and I hereby claim this meme). SMS did not need twitter to catch the heart of the geekerati, but it became a clear demonstration that mobile was a major platform for social app (it’s all about the flow - thanks Stowe!).

Seventh mass media or innovation minefield? As often, the truth lies somewhere in between. I must say that the Kakiloc demo at the last democamp in Montreal opened my eyes on the command line aspect of it all. Their “dot-k-dot” commands instantly invoked for me the terminal culture, the browser location bar as the web command line and IRC/IM bots. Open, transparent and hackable transports, messaging and formats are the core of the TAO of Unix/Linux and “pipelining”, having several smaller pieces loosely joined either on your computer or across the cloud, that’s something to build interesting applications upon.

I am not saying all this because I want to justify the fact that I will be implementing multiple methods on interaction and message routing across protocols in two of the applications I am working on. Well, at least I am not trying to convince anyone now, it’s quite obvious it is so useful.

Tags: atomization, culture, loosely-joined, twitter, sms