Microblogging is so 2008. Want to get right to the point? Then try picoblogging, where the name of the game is all about character. One character.
That’s right. I’m excited to announce my new start-up venture, Jitter, where you can send 1-character messages at random intervals. Your friends can subscribe to see what letter you think is most interesting right now.
We’re currently in α testing with a limited number of subscribers and have received our first round of venture funding ($1) from X Associates.
While we’re not yet ready to accept subscribers into our public beta program, we are excited to share this hot-off-the-presses screen shot from our web site.
Exciting, huh? One character. It’s the future.
P.S. We’ll be announcing details of our developer program shortly. Please note that you will need to be fluent in APL to write Jitter plug-ins.
I hope that screenshot is indeed from the alpha release, because you’re clearly using 16- (or even 32-bit!) characters, way too much to digest at once. I’d like to see NO MORE THAN 7-bit ASCII at a bear maximum, but I’m thinking if you bring together some smart talent, you can find a way to shave a bit or two off.
I hope there isn’t semi-colons. and brackets. That stuff just gets in the way.
On behalf of the Children’s Television Workshop, please cease and desist. We have had exclusive distribution rights on letters since 1967, and will defend our right in Court, should it come to that.
Kind regards, and brought to you by the letters A, F and D.
I’m intrigued.
This sounds like a souped up version of a service I’ve been using for quite some time: “Bitter”. Bitter is a social media system that lets you express whatever you’d like as a single bit: 1 or 0. You sign up for your friends “bitstreams” which flow along the bottom of the screen. Here’s a screenshot of the bitters from the 2,548 bitter friends I have:
10111001001 01001001001 0111010100101 001001001011 1101010100101
That steve398… what a kidder!
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