Comments on: Will Qik Be The Next Twitter?

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:41:41 +0000

This just shows how ahead of it’s time Facebook was and is. Its newsfeed makes twitter limited and redundant, and a user can share all the “VITAL” forms of media. I don’t see the point of another social networking site.

By: Brandon J. Mendelson

Brandon J. Mendelson — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:21:24 +0000

I have to agree with Jeremiah, the barrier for entry to Twitter is zero. Even power users can get a free app to update their Twitter status. You need a decent phone and a decent plan to capture video, and the difference between Twitter and Qik is this: Twitter allows for precise conversations. A bland live stream of video will only be interesting so often before fading to digital noise.

By: Kosso

Kosso — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:58:13 +0000

Hi. Great post! All these new methods and systems for publishing multimedia are really changing the way we get to share and see the world.

Phreadz doesn’t just need awebcam, as it supports ‘V.I.T.A.L’ multimedia: Video, Images, Text, Audio and Links ;) So you can use it to post and share all sorts of content – also from other sites like YouTube, Flickr, Seesmic, Blip.fm, Blip.tv, podcasts, Slideshare presentations, BBC News videos, DailyMotion, etc, etc AND Qik :)

More info of at http://blog.phreadz.com

Cheers!
kosso
(posting from a free internet terminal at Hong Kong airport!)

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:30:27 +0000

I’m not sure Qik will come close to the Twitter crown.

For one, you can use Twitter with a text plan on any phone. Qik can only be used with a more premium phone and phone plan, a deal killer for most, who don’t really have the cash to throw around on a 3G phone/plan.

By: William

William — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:14:52 +0000

Twitter can be used as a news service. However because this is done as a second thought it is not well organized as there is no systematic way to enter news so that it can be easily found and separated from the noise.
Because of this there is no easy and fast way to search for this information.

We have built have integrated a news posting service into our micro blog “Conversations” This ability to post news to the microblog is also integrated into our feed reader and both services post to twitter.
We you search on adelph.us for a news story you will receive results that are from both main stream media as well as from related micro blogs.