Tag Archives: microsyntax

New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher

Nov 8th – 4pm

Image based on Kevin Van Aelst’s original. Update: These basic “tags” have been christened “slashtags” by Chris Blow. They are also now supported in Atebit’s popular Twitter client Tweetie 2 on the iPhone. Since it’s apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I’d build on my success with [...]

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Stowe Boyd launches Microsyntax.org

May 26th – 11am

Stowe Boyd launched Microsyntax.org this morning and announced that I will be the first member of his advisory board. Stowe and I have batted around a number of ideas for making posts on Twitter contain more information than what is superficially presented, and this new effort should create a space in which ideas, research, proposals [...]

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