henry chilcott

twitter, twistori, twennis, tweetscan

Another build on twitter I've stumbled across - tweetscan - a real-time search engine for Twitter.

It allows you to find the conversations, people, and tweets you want. You can search by keyword, author, and date.

I thought I'd see what 'noticing' was doing. Weird but kinda cool. 

Your scan: noticing

	kellymc : Noticing the placebo effects of straight tonic. <<
	mmmeghan : Noticing that once you give up/give in to anything, you begin to see it in a totally different way. Mets lose; so do I. <<
	kash007 : @ketta its true you dont see these things I only start noticing children when my lil sis arrived but they so cute when you see them play ^_^ <<
	perryevans : is relaxing (using the term loosely) in chicago o'hare, half way to the homeland. Noticing that travelers resemble the economy. <<
	thefitnessnerd : @skwigg Amazing how shaky you get in a plank -- was noticing that the other day. Planks are HARD ... <<
	SerialNumber : Just noticing that an apartment, where I've had dinner almost every Monday for four years, is accross from DC Comics. <<
	carney : Noticing that I always need to be overcomitted. If I have one thing to do it goes undone. Three things and I do them all. <<
	cameyg : noticing others. <<
	MissRFTC : It's a cloudy day. A robot loses one of its paws. A bird stops to look at the severed appendage. The robot thanks the bird for noticing. <<

Brand loyalty

hat tip to advertising is good for you and the rut

An innocent truth

Be yourself - even when (where) no one's looking.

hat tip to advertising is good for you

New meets old (2)

Back in April I made an observation about how people yearned for the simplicity and charm of the old world whilst they were unashamedly seduced by the new. This manifests itself in things like Mixwit where new world technology is dressed in old world clothing. Here's another great example of this from Wilkerson Furniture - 1950's style clothing for 2000's style plasma screens.

hat tip to bad banana

User generated contentment

The internet is whirring away with blogs and websites that fan the flames of people's love affair with creation and fame. Little entities are constantly springing up that - if magnetic enough - draw audiences of hundreds, thousands, millions. And after their audiences reach critical mass, most of them are monetized through advertising. 

But sometimes, simply harnessing the creativity and desire for fame is enough to make the dollars roll in.

I've been a long-time admirer of threadless.com Since 2000 they've built a thriving online community of 700,000 and growing. This community creates and - through voting - rates threadless' product: t-shirts. If they are rated highly the designs move up the charts. If they get high enough they are printed and sold netting the designer a $2500 prize and, more importantly, the warm glow of fame. Now Imagine that model in the offline world - a fashion label of 700,000 designers with qualitative research groups 700,000 strong that operate around the clock 24/7 3-6-5 giving you real time consumer feedback on your inventory. Ridiculous in the offline world but online - it's as close to perfect a model as you can imagine. The line between producer and consumer is completely blurred: it's all about participation; getting stuck in, sharing your creativity, and holding onto the thought that your creation could end up being worn around the world by thousands of wonderfully diverse creative people - with your name on the label.

The great news is - everyone wins - threadless are at the forefront of a new breed of online business spreading and monetizing user generated contentment. And these little businesses know everyone's happy - because if they weren't, there shelves would be empty.

The Whuffie Factor: Threadless Interview