The Michael Foong Chronicles - paper.li and twitter newspaper
I can see where this is heading and there are a lot of discussions
about usability that address 2 main thought process in the areas of user interactions. Do we mimic daily life in technology (i.e Apple) or design for digital interaction (i.e Microsoft) Paper.Li (http://paper.li) brings yet another way to view twitter streams like a newspaper but not like a newspaper (I think they meant like a news website) if you haven't seen flipboard on the iPad yet go harass someone who has one. For twitter users who have been slacking due to work commitments (I am talking to myself ;) this daily updates of you and your followers is quite handy. It not only displays your twitter timeline like a chronicle or daily newspaper but it also auto categorizes it so your focus is much more directed and you don't have to filter out tweets yourself. The other cool feature is that every 24hours the daily is refreshed and it can even send you an email about it. The only thing I wish it could do is to have better integration with twitter, like add a favorite button, retweet, replies and quote tweets. (Correction: it has integrated with Twitter replies, retweets and favourites but no quoted retweets but it's quite obscure) Otherwise I like pulling out my iPad in the morning to read the Michael Foong Daily after chomping down my other RSS reader. So if you want to take a peek on my social media life here is the link - http://paper.li/mikefoong Go start one if you like it :) I can see potential.
about usability that address 2 main thought process in the areas of user interactions. Do we mimic daily life in technology (i.e Apple) or design for digital interaction (i.e Microsoft) Paper.Li (http://paper.li) brings yet another way to view twitter streams like a newspaper but not like a newspaper (I think they meant like a news website) if you haven't seen flipboard on the iPad yet go harass someone who has one. For twitter users who have been slacking due to work commitments (I am talking to myself ;) this daily updates of you and your followers is quite handy. It not only displays your twitter timeline like a chronicle or daily newspaper but it also auto categorizes it so your focus is much more directed and you don't have to filter out tweets yourself. The other cool feature is that every 24hours the daily is refreshed and it can even send you an email about it. The only thing I wish it could do is to have better integration with twitter, like add a favorite button, retweet, replies and quote tweets. (Correction: it has integrated with Twitter replies, retweets and favourites but no quoted retweets but it's quite obscure) Otherwise I like pulling out my iPad in the morning to read the Michael Foong Daily after chomping down my other RSS reader. So if you want to take a peek on my social media life here is the link - http://paper.li/mikefoong Go start one if you like it :) I can see potential.
