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Twitter’s Missing Features

Beau Lebens — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:58:04 +0000

I’ve been sketching some random thoughts and plans for a new Twitter client, and rather than restrict it to my notebooks and condemn it to the fate of so many other ideas of mine that never see realization, I’m putting my wish-list for what a decent Twitter client should allow me to do here. Feel free to roll these into another client and let me know so that I can just use it, rather than have to build it

Integrated search
“Personal Search” — I want to be able to perform a search just within the tweets of people I follow. This is just a filter on my own tweet streams.
I should be able to save “Personal” and “global” searches and easily come back to them. Ideally the client should tell me (badge or notification) when new tweets show up under any of those searches.
Support for multiple Twitter accounts.
The ability to view a combined stream of all tweets from all accounts that I follow through any of my configured Twitter accounts.
Simple (2 clicks) Retweet and Reply functionality.
URL shortening via bit.ly
Autocomplete of people I follow, and ideally those who follow me as well (even if I don’t follow them back). It should search both their Twitter username and their real name. Ideally I should also be able to “rename” or associate a real name with anyone I follow.
Groups — I want to be able to associate people with one or more arbitrary groups.
I should be able to view a stream of tweets from all members of a group.
Ability to “mute” an individual, or an entire group with a single click. A simple UI to show me all current “mutes” would be good as well. Muting an individual/group would remove their tweets from all views except for their explicit (group/person) view.
I’d like to be able to get SMS notifications for all mentions (@beaulebens) as well.

If you know of an app that does all of this (in a simple, clean UI), I want it. If not, let me know when it exists

HumanSciences.com.au Live

Beau Lebens — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:13:00 +0000

I didn’t post earlier, but the changes which I made (along with a designer) to the HumanSciences.com.au website are now live. I worked mostly on some technical modifications to the discussion forums and the mailing list, while the designer involved changed the look and feel and structure of the site.

Client Education Library for Information Architects (CELIA)

Beau Lebens — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 12:12:00 +0000

Aim:
Provide a collection of resources which will help Information Architects to educate potential and existing clients about the importance and relevance of Information Architecture and strategy.

Contents of Collection:

Diagrams
Quotes
Statistics
Case Studies/Examples
Online Resources

A search facility would be available, allowing you to hunt down certain things, as well as all widgets being categorised carefully and fully browsable. I’d like to be able to give everything a “permanent URL” within the collection as well, so that people can link back to it’s entry, and “reference” their resources properly, thus keeping authors happy(er) about the fact that their work is being used by other people in a relatively generic format.

No DOLA

Beau Lebens — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 12:12:00 +0000

That’s annoying — last week I got a call from DOLA, asking if I would be able to come in early next week (this week) to talk to them about doing some IA work for them.

I had to turn them down, because I am now working at AdultShop.com, which is taking up nearly all of my time, and I simply wouldn’t have had time to dedicate to the job. I asked them what they were doing anyway, and apparently they wanted me to work on the information architecture of their entire suite of websites and online applications – bugger!