Marc is the first amongst throngs of users to tell us about an email from Sprint pointing people to their add-influenced widget Page (now with PreCentral.net Linky Goodness!). We're naturally part of the "Buzzing" blogosphere, but given how much we want a real, honest-to-god release date announcement, "All the rage" is beginning to take on a meaning probably not intended by the copywriters.
Meanwhile Gearlog notes that the print campaign in newspapers also continues, this time with a focus on Twitter.
...Which leads me to this thought: there better be at least one stupendously good Twitter application for the Palm Pre, because the thing is made from the ground up to be perfect for Twitter.
- It has a real, physical keyboard
- it has non-intrusive notifications that can be pushed out by the Mojo Messaging Service
- As Milonkod said to me on Twitter yesterday, there's a huge opportunity for a Twitter app on the Pre to utilize not only the notification area, but multiple cards within the same app for following friends, checking replies and direct messages, following hashcodes, etc.
- The SDK uses HTML, Ajax, and Javascript with fairly deep access to the OS. Not only is that more than enough for every Twitter feature I can think of, it's also the language best known by all the people who are most obsessed with Twitter.
Sincerely: Twitter defines whatever we're calling "Web 2.0" these days (Web 3.0?). The Pre is the phone that seems to dovetail most with the new stuff being done with HTML5, Ajax, etc. If there's a more perfect match of Phone and Service, I don't know what it is.
In other words, it makes perfect sense that Sprint is showing that crazy-cute Twitter bird every-which-where.
If you're not amongst the Twitterati (non-Pre wordplay is still legal), maybe think about joining and then following PreCentral.net at @precentral
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It's ironic that the Sprint page (http://now.sprint.com/nownetwork/productPage.html?id9=MA:EM:20090416:SUS...) linked to in the email is showing feeds like the following:
- buzz about wireless: "Is the Palm Pre already DOA?"
- BGR: "Palm's New Handset: Pre-Mature Hype?"
- My Pre: "The Motley Fool calls Palm Pre DOA; foolish thoughts"
Twitter does not support push. Therefore talk of the mojo messaging service and notifications is moot.
so every user would need their own server to do this. Don't think its very practical.
No, just the app developer would need a server. That server would poll Twitter and push to all the registered prēs.
Also think they should have a standalone twitter app ready for day one.
Twitter. I don't get it. Who cares what you're doing right now!
Twitter is hardly just a "what are you doing right now". That's what I thought it was and made fun of it... but now I use it to track all kinds of companies to hear about new products, sales, reviews, (the Pre). I also have some friends and we use it to share quick snippets of information. It's much more than a "status" of your friends. Give it a try. Start following companies/celebrities/topics which you like and you just might find yourself hooked!
That's because you obviously know nothing about it. I am a twitter user, but I almost never tweet. I follow the news via twitter. all the palm pre news for example: on twitter I've heard it two days before it hits the frontpage of precentral.
and if I want I can reply to the news source immediately.
Bobula, then you haven't twittered before. Some times its not about the person. Its about news.
I use twitter as my own personal customized blog aggregate for company news. Think of it as you own personal RSS feed.
Example: get updates about stories from sites like this, pcmag, cnet, Sprint, Google, etc...
I could care less about what friends are doing atm.
Might be good for my business. I'll give it a look.
Nice of them to send me an email featuring the Palm Pre with nothing in terms of the release date or price. I said it before I'm saying it again: the longer they delay, the more pissed off I get. I want to know when to expect it and I want to know a price.
The Pre better blow me with as much hype as Sprint is putting behind this phone. No release date and no price. Is the Pre going to be over-hyped by Sprint and fail to deliver? Seems like a lot of people are getting annoyed and impatient for this phone. Better release it soon and it better blow the competition away. Sorry but I don't see this phone saving Sprint or Palm with how they are handling the marketing at the moment.
We are the only people that might be getting annoyed waiting for it. The most people dont even know about it yet. So when they start the Pre ads it will hopefully only be about 1 month away from launch.
I agree. I was in a meeting yesterday with 4 other tech guys (not phone techies but software developer types). I noticed one guy had a centro so I asked him how he liked it. He said it was ok, but was hoping to upgrade to the Pre in about a year or so. Besides myself, no-one else knew what the Pre was. They do now, of course. :-)
So I don't see the "hype" that everyone is talking about. It seems like it's mostly just hype within our small group of mostly current/former Palm users.
Correct.
>> The Pre better blow me...
Uhm...I haven't seen that in any of the demo. lol
They're still saying "twittered." I thought the agreed-upon action form was "tweet." Maybe I'm wrong as I don't tweet, but stuff like this annoys me.
It will blow you away when you currently have a phone that sux or winmobo like me =)
Can't wait for this phone. I live for cloud computing. I love the concept!
I wonder if contacts will have a slot for twitter names....then I will be able to "just communicate" with folks like I already (will be, anyway) can with IM/Facebook/SMS/etc.
"The SDK uses HTML, Ajax, and Javascript with fairly deep access to the OS. Not only is that more than enough for every Twitter feature I can think of, it's also the language best known by all the people who are most obsessed with Twitter. "
Speculation.
Duh! Everything we say about the Pre/WebOS is speculation until Sprint/Palm releases specific details on product/software/apps.
Doesn't mean that educated speculation is doing any harm.
I totally agree that the Pre will be a great platform for a great twitter client. In fact, I'm working on one right now--and the goal is for it to be the best mobile twitter client yet, and to really show off the capabilities of the Pre. I'm calling it "PreBird" and I'm already pretty deep into the development, so stay tuned for more or watch http://prebird.com for updates. :)
PS: I love PreCentral, keep up the great work! ;)
The SDK uses HTML, Ajax, and Javascript with fairly deep access to the OS. Not only is that more than enough for every Twitter feature I can think of, it's also the language best known by all the people who are most obsessed with Twitter.
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