Hi Everyone, We’re very close in releasing a more trimmed-down version of Resonate. Why? Resonate have been brewing for too long without any feedback from you guys, our users. This can lead us to the dangerous path of making apps that you won’t love. So instead of including every feature that should be in Resonate,…
Resonate Development Update #2
In this second series of Resonate Development Update, you’ll see how Resonate can be used to show a Twitter stream in an overhead projection – to an LCD Projector or Television Set (with the appropriate cable). The use case was inspired by Monica Rankin’s Twitter Experiment where she used Twitter to aid class discussion. It…
Resonate Development Update #1
Take a sneak peek of our (Basil Salad) new Twitter client is progressing. You’ll see the very rough implementation of tweet aggregation using word clouds.
Working on a word cloud engine
I’m starting work on a Twitter client with word clouds as its primary feature. My plan is to build the components separately as individual apps to get feedback and iterate from there. Some people in StartupGuild sounds interested in the concept and it looks like a guy in Quora wants word clouds in his Twitter…
Twitter in Education
Lately I have been fascinated by two college professors who bravely attempt to apply social media (primarily Twitter) as a way to provide better service to their students. One is Dr Monica Rankin , a history professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, who used Twitter to facilitate discussion in a large class. The…
I’m alive!
Hi All In case you are wondering where have I been in the past few months, here is a quick update of what I’ve been doing. In short I’ve been doing some work to News Anchor and researching new product opportunities for Basil Salad. With the recent release of Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion”, I’ve…
Lifestyle business, defined
In response to Hillel’s definition of “lifestyle business”: Twitter friendly version: Lifestyle businesses is a derogatory term invented by VCs to dissuade entrepreneurs from bootstrapping. Twitter unfriendly version: Lifestyle businesses is a derogatory term created by venture capitalists (VCs) to dissuade potential entrepreneurs from funding their business by using their own money. As these entrepreneurs…