Posts tagged with: "twitter"

UI Kits are commonly found in most designer's toolboxes. We use them to bootstrap visual elements of a product before diving into the harder work. They are not as common with developers though, and in the spirit of this weekend's Betascape event of joining Art *and* Technology, I'm here to advocate for UI kits as a simple bridge between the design world and the development world.

Typically, every project goes through three main phases: Discovery, Design and Development. Although each phase defines a distinct position in the process, they do intermix. Generally, development starts as early as the Discovery phase, design continues to happen throughout all phases, and new requirements from the client pop up long after the Discovery phase is complete. This three-phased process is natural and effective but could be kicked up a notch by integrating a UI kit to the discovery phase.

The TweetSentiments.com API is now available for developers who are interested in Twitter related sentiment analysis.

This week Twitter launched the official “Tweet Button,” a button for website owners to count RT’s and let readers easily share content. Mashable was first to report on this shiny new button, but we’re the first to release a Ruby on Rails gem for your next project.

Presently.com, launched at this year's SXSW Interactive Conference, is a professional microblogging community, bringing together the best features of Twitter and LinkedIn to provide a more businesslike environment for collaboration and status updates.

Among the many strategies Twitter might use to make money might be to charge commercial users based on their number of followers (subscribers.) This has precedents in both the offline and online worlds.

I'm joined by a couple of other social business strategists in this January 24 article on Social Networking Do's and Don'ts.

Twitter has announcement that it will soon begin charging for "commercial use" should yield benefits to end users, companies, and the Web 2.0 marketplace as a whole. So just what is commercial use? Companies over a certain size or all companies? Will commercial users go elsewhere? Where is there to go?