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Designing an iPhone app

2 comments October 14th, 2011 2 comments

I'll try to summarize all the work that brought me the application The developer Mussage iPhone in a week . If you do not know what is Mussage, you can read this post !.

I was doing the steps and tools (mostly free) that I was using.

Use Case Diagram

First of all and based on the idea, I made ​​a use case diagram with yuml.me

Mockup

Then put together a screen navigation scheme with Balsamiq Mockup :

DER

It's time to make a layout of the tables that will have the database! For this we use the designer MySqlWorkBench

Xcode

It is time to program in Objective C ...

Also used the following Frameworks, libraries and tools for IOS:

  • FMDB SQLite
  • JSONKit for and receiving Json parsing the Server
  • MD5 Hash for sending to the server and authenticate the login
  • Internationalization of Strings and Xib in English and Spanish.
  • Views QuartzCore for animation
  • MediaPlayer for playing songs on iPod
  • MessageUI to send mails within the app

Server Side (PHP)

Development with Aptana IDE Studio 3 API to provide services to the app and interact with the database.

Graphic Design

I did not really too graphic, I used standard IOS controls and add some little icons , that if ...

Web Application for HTML5

To accompany the launch of the app, a site based on a Template and tuned with PHP.

Publish in the AppStore

Finally, publish the app!. It's a bit far-fetched the issue of certificates and preparing a version for distribution, but following the instructions on the apple website you can go by.
We must be prepared to give screnshots and the icon in different sizes for iPhone 3G (and lower) and iPhone 4 Retina Display.

Ready!

Once Apple approves our app (takes a week) to start promoting our app! Download it and use it!
You can try:
Hits for everyone!
Any questions let me tu (s) comments here, or look for me on twitter @ jbagnato .
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Mussage for iPhone musical message

2 comments October 5th, 2011 2 comments

What is Mussage?

I leave a video explaining what it is and how it works

YouTube link

The idea

A simple idea with elements that already exist but combinandos a new way, I will explain through some key concepts:

  • Most people use text messaging
  • Messages are sent between friends, family and partner.
  • Everyone likes listening to music.
  • They all store huge amounts of songs on the iPod, between 1,000 and 7,000 depending on the capacity of the device.

From this thought: Would not it be nice to send a song with a text to a friend? and the reality is that there is no application that let you do this easily. Another obstacle is the copyright of the artists ...

EUREKA!

Why not send a text message to a friend with a song you have on your own smartphone?
I often happens that as I have so many songs on my iPhone never really know what I have kept records and artists, and occasionally use the Random mode for music and I find myself saying "I did not know I had this song."
Yet another positive point is that the idea is that the songs you have are your favorite ones you like. So if I send a song to a user of your own library of songs, it's hard not to like it!.
Best of all: it is simple to program it on iPhone, does not require a monster computer or months of work, at least to develop the basic idea. Obviously then you can improve and add features, but the concept of the idea is realizable by a single developer.

Birth

Thus was born Mussage-mixing of English words Music + Message-an application developed in a week , as I said in a previous post. It was a tough week, hours and hours of programming, design and learning!. Submission for review of Apple and is now approved!

Available in iTunes AppStore

The application is ready to drop your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPhone in the Apple App Store to download now click on the image:
It is version 1.1 with significant improvements made to the previous version.
Also invited to visit the Web Mussage in http://www.na8.com.ar/mussage that has additional information on the application.

Future

I want to thank my Wapis that helped me in the drawings of the video-tutorial and made a video recording of the story of super good! In addition, the logo is also her!. Thank you very much!
The future of the application will be watching, surely you can do many improvements! I welcome your comments and suggestions!
You may develop a version for Android and specific to the iPhone screen size.
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Juan Ignacio Bagnato.
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Categories: General , Groove , Project , What the hell

The challenge of creating an iPhone application in 7 days

4 comments September 26th, 2011 4 comments


Background IOS

3 years ago that I'm programming applications for iPhone / iPhone and the reality is not yet developed any of its own. For a year I worked for a company Startup and learning the Objective C programming language and participating in projects of various apps (which very few saw the light): an app advertising for Toyota, a zombie killing game based on a comic, an application to learn to sing Karaoke and another similar to Twitter but with voice messages. I then worked as a freelance for third and was "evolving" in the versions of IOS, new APIs and PHP server side and communication via JSON.

Ideal Requirements

I always had several ideas for iPhone applications, but so far never took place. Since he had no account in the Apple Developer Program could not publish in the Appstore. A few months ago I subscribed to the program and that gives me the possibility to publish. Now, just need to decide and implement the idea.
Something that I learned over time with respect to the ideas is that to carry them out should be simple. Simple is best. Simple, minimalist, to fulfill a specific function, that is not overwhelming to the user. Apple's policy is that and it says in its guidelines for developers: an application should be "small" do one thing but make it very well.

The challenge

Thus was born the name of Mussage for an idea I had in late 2009 for an iPhone application that I think meets the conditions: it is simple, focus on solving one thing and is viable. I'll tell you in an upcoming post about it. Now I have the challenge of trying to develop it in a week that is the free time I have before starting a new freelance work!. I do it? ...

To achieve this, I ask myself a schedule and I have a set of free tools and many on-line.

Schedule

  1. day 1 Design: UML, DER (database) and web structure, navigation mockup app
  2. Day 2: Creating Login (iPhone + web PHP)
  3. Day 3: Structure iPhone app, navigation between screens
  4. Day 4: Access to the iTunes library and send JSON data to the server
  5. Day 5: Receiving list of messages hall and sending messages to other users
  6. Day 6: Internationalization and Testing, detecting memmory leaks
  7. Day 7: Graphic Design and Publishing on the App Store.

Tools

  • Mobile iPhone

    • X-Code to elbow Objective C.
    • Articles in the iOS Dev Center Apple.
    • Library FMDB for SQLite database.
  • Others

    • Apache Server
    • MySql Database
    • FTP Client Filezilla
    • Producteev to manage tasks for Mac, iPhone or Web, very good to maintain order (free)
    • Packs of icons free
In a future post I'll tell you more about the idea to develop " Mussage, Musical Message ".
A nudge!
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Categories: Philosophy , General , Shower

Tutorial: Circles / lists on Facebook!

No comments July 14th, 2011 No comments

This is the version 2, Improved Guide facebook final permit .

Permissions facebook:

All facebook users should know such as permits, but straw hot dogs, FIAC, or simply because it can not be understood as given, we leave them as is, assuming that what you say Mark Zuckerberg ( which is longer facebook owner) is fine. Wow that is not so! basically most of our content is published!, This guide made me think a bit long but worth reading at least once concientizarte at first may sound abstract, but then with examples is to understand the idea (I hope) , so a little spice to make it easy and fun to read.

As facebook proposed to handle the issue of permits (although it is quite configurable) I think that not enough or not well defined and often confusing, this guide aims to show where and how you can set up an efficient way (can seem farfetched and it is but it is effective).

On the other hand it is noteworthy that with google google + and its conception of "circles" is basically the same thing but much more exposed and oriented, facebook never presented that way despite being very similar concepts.

Definitions: (those which use for this guide)

  • Friends: More Than Friends are contacts, and are "persons" to which we have them as direct contact, throughout this guide will appoints several times, suppose you always say in quotes.
  • Lists of friends: google + circles? Within the group can optionally facebook friends for something we want, typically to group friends by categories: school, laburo, etc..
  • Networks: Networks are generally at the beginning were universities, provinces and countries, organizations and businesses today, and so on. Basically there are groups of people (mostly unknown) to belong to this group
  • Permissions: These are just that, you give read and write permissions to your content networks, people and / or groups.
  • Content / Post: Wall, reviews, photos, notes, links, etc, everything that we provide free to facebook to share with our contacts.

Typical scenarios:

We grouped the friends in "college" and "work" obviously some classmates are more friendly than others and undesirable , And we want anyone to write on the wall a couple of monkeys for X reasons, it is with the group "work" quick fix: block some people level permissions, quick fix +: remove as a contact.

  • We are a celebrity and want raise a little ego have many many friends, the problem is that anyone can write on the wall of this character can therefore be used as advertising space to advertise or just fuck me / us.
  • We "hunt" in facebook, minita shot at that crossroads, fell one in your tentacles, but it is not much like the picture of your avatar (commentary aside, the photos of the avatars are usually the best photo of the person, some incredibly achieved a photo "good", after thousands of attempts to clear ... learn it all at once!) but lo! is what you get decide to give him a chance, you should at least be nice, after a few grogs one thing led to another and we know how the story ends. Now the thing this girl can potentially talk about your sizes virtues in your own wall, in many cases you will not want to do, but neither will delete your contacts can serve as a backup You never know (obviously also applies to the opposite sex).
  • For the antisocial (the question is that hell is on facebook, but bueh) and just want some friends do not have access to anything and others have access to something in particular and other (one or two at the most friends) have access to everything.

There are clearly many more ...

Note: I must say that this guide is something that occurred to me to implement to me, although I'm sure I'm not the one who "saw" in this way, and is inspired by the group management and permissions nodal Unix and other systems is Rarely did not promote facebook as does google +, even google shows it as one of the most important features.

Circles Lists:

What I propose is to separate two concepts using the lists of friends:

  • Categorized lists: Work, studies, etc..
  • Lists by type of permit: Types of access to your information (Setting permissions applied to lists, not individuals).

These two concepts operated out facebook friends lists serve different "functions" is to define a category to which it belongs and the other friend will say you can do in your profile.

To give me some things, I gave permission number (level) and name, that shows where all the lists appear as I ordered and do not appear in between, with this desire to display time, knowing that first appear permits and then lists.

As an example I show my lists:

facebook listas

(To create a list Just do it from several places, for example from "Account", "Edit Friends" at the left "Friends" top button "Create New List")

're Obviously free to list the amount you feel is necessary, these are my personal and they can serve as a basis or example.

Thus we have separated the types of relationships with friends, and permissions.

In my case, create four permission settings, 0-readonly: you can see my content, can not comment or write anything, is public data, 1-Limited: Same as 0 but can make comments and see some basic personal information , 2-Normal: You have permission to practically everything, and as additional 3-Private: You can see things very personal, very photos drunk family photos children nephews, etc.. The latter can be combined with "2-normal" and "1-readonly", we'll see that it is.

And there is a final permit is implicit, and is not to be associated list, without which they have permissions to anything, is basically the same as if I had you as a friend, or even less.

The idea is to assign each of your friends at least two lists: one is the category (you probably already have this done, however it is not necessary here) and the other is the permissions (this if you have to assign, for each), can be hard I know, but can save you headaches in the future and you will gain peace of mind. you do not get me posteen maintenance fee for the baby!

The idea goes like this:

permisos en facebook

PERMITS / PRIVACY

From "Account", "Privacy Settings" access to everything related to permissions. (So ​​I have it and you can serve as base):

"Customize your privacy settings"

To set permissions for all facebook is almost the same way, from a screen like this (lock):

facebook permisos 1

By clicking on the padlock triangle unfold options, each option is not necessary to describe it ("just me" is hidden to everyone), it is understood, but is also the option to "customize", click on " edit ", and here's the magic!:

facebook permisos 2

By selecting "real people" we enable a text box, here we enter the names of the persons to whom we want to give access to that content (also you will see the networks they are with a check to give permission), you should enter one person at whom you give access, this would be extremely tedious and difficult to maintain, but also finally come to the rescue we can use the lists!, then we define only the lists, which involves people who are on these lists. What I recommend is to fill in a permissive, or grant access only to such lists therefore would not be necessary to deny access to others, and all the rest that is not in the selected lists have no access (half hard to explain this point , re-read several times aloud repetilo)

"Preview Profile"

To confirm that what we are doing this well for our taste, in every definition of permits have the option to "Preview Profile" (which I recommend having another browser tab), from here we see at first instance and it is our public profile, then we can see how we see this or that person, so this is only necessary to write his name in the box above. It is very important that as you play with the permission settings go hand in hand watching as you "are" seeing.

I recommend having multiple tabs of the browser (Chrome, Firefox, IE, etc) with different types of permits (person), ie a person with no list, the other with 1-readonly list, another with 2-Normal.

This is the screen:

facebook permisos 3

This is a brief overview, if you do not end up with much more detail to write this post, I recommend you to explore.

  • Connect on facebook:

Find you on Facebook: If you want to be found with the search facebook, Sending friend requests: Who you can ask friends, sending messages, View your list of friends do not think it's good that everyone can see who you got on facebook, I put it to 2-Normal, View your training and employment: I put in 2-Normal and 1-Limited, Check your current city and home, check your preferences, activities and other connections: "All"

  • Share on Facebook:

From this panel you can select default permissions and displays a table would look like:

To apply these permissions to propose necessarily have to be customized, that is where the "juicy" all This quilombo this setting.

Recently added an interesting option:

"Allow friends of people tagged in my photos and publications to see." Does not have to explain much

Inside we customize settings (name a few)

  • My publications: it becomes the wall comments, photos, etc, these permits are predetermined, which means that at the time of posting can be modified from the lock icon.
  • "Edit the privacy settings of photo albums and video." Is a link to the configuration of the albums, the permission settings of the photos is at the album, not individual photo.

(Here is where the permission comes in "3-Private" where some of your albums children nephews, drunkenness family, I put this permission and only very few contacts with the true friends have access.)

  • Photos and videos that you have been tagged, recommendation: no way to say you do not label, but what if you can do is say who can see where you are content labeling.
  • "Permission to comment on your posts," is just that, for some reason is tied to "You can see the posts of friends in the wall" if it is not active, can not comment ... no, it is rare.
  • My friends can post on my wall: It's just an option of whether or not, in the case of "if" was enabled the next point.
  • "You can see the posts of friends in the wall" in my case, only the "2-Normal", this enables you to view and comment

With all this practically have our account set up correctly in terms of permits, it is not necessary to apply permissions per person, simply add a person to a predefined list of permissions already.

  • Applications and websites:

For good measure in this post, I recommend reviewing "Applications and Websites."

In this section you can configure the permissions of the applications, I strongly recommend to remove applications that do not use (edit settings button and then on the X), these have permission to read content you out more than not use it.

In "Information accessible through your friends" is just that, check it

Public search is that, to enable you to search engines like google are.

Finally finished, I did a lot longer to write than I thought I wanted to be learning to understand why you put your own configuration as an example, I hope I have achieved.

Ok ok, may have exaggerated the title :)

If you liked this article and think it is useful to spread, thanks

NOTES:

  • Each time you add friends to remember to apply the lists! but not be able to see any of your content!
  • In the chat you are the lists, you prune to hide them.
  • The only downside I see to this methodology is the "maintenance" when a person goes to "level" of friendship, is manual in this case the matter.
  • This also applies to applications that have pages and profiles / tabs
  • The issue of having a 3-Private, is that I can have people leave 1 and 3, and others with 2 and 3.
  • In networks (as in the example "UTN"), there are strangers, would not leave for almost nothing.
  • The NTU network is only as examples, not study there.
  • Note that it denied the permissions takes precedence over the access, that is if a person is in two groups, one block, this person will be blocked.
  • If you apply this thinking, believe that it is advisable to create lists of permissions and add one by one for each list, if ever-ready applications of any kind, you got the option to "add more" and select those people.
  • Of course with this sent me on my settings in jail and you know how I have you set up, but I think it's good that facebook does not endorse and is not at all good to know. That is, google it touted as a great feature, the difference is that g + is directional, while in facebook is bidirectional.
  • The data shown in the pictures are drawn, not real.

Enjoy!

Madness Weekend: Startup Weekend Madrid 2011

5 comments June 13th, 2011 5 comments

Go or no go?

Doubt was with the service or not the event. I read a blog of entrepreneurs: Startup Weekend Madrid a meeting of entrepreneurs from various fields, technology, design, marketing, business and the goal of developing an idea from Friday June 3 in the afternoon, Saturday and Sunday in a marathon work to appear before a jury of 4 inverters on Sunday evening.

I signed, I took the ticket Santiago - Madrid, book a hotel near the metro in the Gran Via and packed my things. On the flight I wondered whether or not to submit an idea. It is somewhat difficult: first "deliver" your idea to an audience unfamiliar second trial with the possibility of being devalued, third, the challenge given to understand and convey the idea in just 1 minute.

Have an idea

For the girls event organized grouping They 2.0 (which is the flag to encourage and support women who dare to undertake) had emailed us with some very interesting slides about how to give your Elevator Pitch of 1 minute: present, pose a problem and your solution that makes highlighting the innovative and original. I wrote my idea and then I read taking my time with the iPhone stopwatch. Conclusion: impossible to say everything in 1 minute!. So things had to be cut and phrases, adjectives ... and ... best to write again.

Arrived that Friday afternoon and the meeting was interesting, I exchanged words with several participants, the usual questions of "you're doing?", "You will present idea?", "Is the first time you come to an event like this? ". Madrid OnRails space was 100%, we were 90 entrepreneurs and soon we blow up the wifi router!. 33 we presented ideas, I was number 26 and while watching the parade of 60 seconds of my ancestors I became more and more nervous.

He opened fire: "My name is Juan Ignacio and I come to propose to create the toy of the future ..."

I left my 60 seconds of pure adrenaline, the heart was beating and beating me. The proposals were then voted and only a few survive to the next stage, we became 17 and had to settle for multidisciplinary teams to tackle the rest of the weekend. I almost immediately four members: Mathew American designer, game designer Antonio, Juan Diego creative marketer and Jimmy a manufacturing expert and social relationships. Later we join Clara, mother and web designer.

Undertake Saturday and Sunday

What I can say? For me it was clear that if these five people were on my team and support my idea was they were crazier than me. But what a nice time! It's amazing to see other people get involved in your project and work involved and really believe in what they are doing. During Saturday and Sunday work hard, but we allow outputs, lectures and many jokes. Work having fun, surrounded by dolls, toys, with aluminum foil on their heads to try to improve the wifi signal and know a little more between us. Do not forget that just hours before we were totally unknown.

Thus was born PincheToys , a toy hybrid between real and virtual children. A "multi-world toy." We liked the idea, but as much as we liked also thought it was the wildest of the 10 that were to present this Sunday 19hs before the investors .

It was 18.30hs and ended our Powerpoint. Now to try!? No. There was no time and also as I said Jimmy, "which comes out naturally." I like crazy ... I thought, "this will be a disaster."

Go out there

Presentations began and we were number 6. The other very interesting projects, good proposals, but when they reached the returns of investors saw how quickly detect weaknesses and weak spots.

It was our turn, I had taken a shot of whiskey before going out there but only found Coca Light.

We start our presentation and miraculously was out, flowed ... it was giving an informal talk as explanatory and touches of humor. Applause. Our return was initiated by Dove Hair (the MIT!) Who told us that although he had seen other usb dolls on the market liked the creativity in the proposal and also be useful both in the computer game as in real life. We had a very positive response! of course we said we would have to handle well the Logistic and distribution to achieve our company stores.

I was very happy with everything, how it came, we put together a good team, great work we had done. FIN, was done for me. Weekend over, very happy, it was worth all the effort.

And then the impossible happened: the jury selected us as the Best Project .

I IN CRE BLE.

A weekend of madness.

Living on the Web with Chrome OS

7 comments March 31st, 2011 7 comments

The Chrome OS is an operating system (OS) created by Google which main characteristic is based on the network. This means that the only software you need is a web browser.

The manufacturer takes the premise that all activities are conducted daily on the Internet, our computer thus becomes a "dumb terminal" where only tipeamos web site addresses and execute our tasks.

At the moment there is a " pilot program "(for residents) to test the OS on which Google provides a Notebook Cr-48 (ugly name!) it takes to boot a brief 10 seconds. So what we see on screen is a minimalist web browser: Chrome.

How is Chrome OS?

As we begin our session with the computer using Gmail, we access our mail, contacts, calendar and chat. The browser sync and keep our state in case the notebook fails, exploited, stolen or you simply logging in to another machine with Chrome OS and keep all the state it was: open tabs in the same order, the documents "self -saved "with the last words typed and chat with someone asking" are you there? ".

To edit documents online have the Google Docs, where you can write text, complete spreadsheets, making "Powerpoint presentations." Also through the Chrome Market we have access to hundreds of free and paid applications that offer solutions to all the needs we have: productivity, lifestyle, communication and most importantly, games.

Some pros

Todd is updated TooDo alone, ie the operating system, which basically consists of being a webbrowser, is regularly updated to keep us safe from the internet and the latest online innovations to date.
The system is super lightweight and running quickly, we think that technically the entire processor and computer memory is dedicated exclusively to sail "comfortable" on the Internet. And that's a lot of processing power and speed in 2011.

Some points against

Have all our files, photos, videos and upload to the network identity is a bit scary if someone managed to figure out our personal access key.

So ...

All this could not have existed a few years ago, it took a lot of fast computers and memory, internet, a society that increasingly turns to the network to share knowledge, the development of HTML5, Web 2.0, the appearance of Cloud computing, mobile telephony, cheaper costs and all that to put our lives-compressed-on multiple servers in the world.

The Chrome OS is a good approach to a new operating system, to shake the Microsoft Windows saga that was to dominate the home market for over 20 years and worry-at least, the rebound in OS X from Apple. It has good advantages especially for its speed and simplicity of use and integration of the powerful and great multipurpose "Google world".

Firefox 3.6 vs. Firefox 4

6 comments March 24th, 2011 6 comments

The 4th version of Firefox released to the public for 3 days and boasts of being fast and superior to its predecessor. We first tested.

Captura de la web de FF4 For the test we selected 15 frequently used web sites of various kinds and servers distributed across multiple servers in the world. We measured the load times of each page using the plug-in YSlow (Yahoo) and compare repeatedly.

Attention! The tests are subject to many errors as it depends on general traffic on the network that exists at the time that is measured, it may be that the operating system more or less delay in responding or that the destination server congestion and delays have time to respond. To try to reduce these margins of error, we took 5 measurements for each site both FF 3.6 version and version 4 and average values. Test was used to my MacBook with OS X 10.6.6 and Firefox without plugins vesion installed (except for YSlow).

And the winner is ... Firefox!

The sum of the averages of the 15 sites in FF3 gives us a total of 174.82 seconds while Firefox version 4 is the winner with 119.6 seconds. This means that we saved about 55.21 seconds of our lives to navigate these 15 sites, almost a minute saved by Mozilla engineers!

Tiempos de Carga de Firefox 3.6 y de FF4

The shorter the better. In Blue and Red FF4 FF3.6

The full list of sites and the average times obtained are left below:

Tabla de resultados de tiempos de carga de FF3.6 y FF4

The 15 sites that were used to measure the results

Beyond these results, the truth is that version 4 is nice and level design feels smooth to navigate, has improved security and complies with relevant standards of HTML5. Recommended passage of the previous version to the new. You can download it from here .

Coming measurements FF4 vs Chrome ...

Searching Ponupo Ads

No comments October 23rd, 2010 No comments
Buscador de anuncios Argentina

Search ads for Argentina

I want to comment on a new tecnolocura, a search engine ads for Argentina and other 15 countries .
What the hell does this search engine?
It is divided into three vertical search engines, here I tell them each with examples.
Car Finder : If you are looking for a ford fiesta to give to your child for the 18, this is your place, we have almost all the cars that were posted on the sites selling used cars from Argentina (if you pass it by turning 18 this Post your parents)
Property Search : out there looking for something to rent or buy, instead of looking at several sites selling / rental properties, I recommend that you do from Ponupo. It's tiring to go site by site right? Although each has its special touch.
Job Seeker : Now with Ponupo, I can fix if there are any jobs in Persian or Freddo ice cream, what will I choose? By that I deduct my salary consumisiones ;)

Who am I? The top of the cap : P

Crystian thank you very much for allowing me to promote Ponupo!

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What is Twitter and what is

1 comment September 3rd, 2010 a comment

What is Twitter?

Twitter emerges as a tool similar to a blog but in which we limited our number of characters per article to write 140 letters. It resembles a box where we place our "status" (as in the MSN Messenger or gTalk) where you write briefly your current mood, what are you doing, a thought or phrase. Currently links to blogs or share news, photos and videos.

Just do not get it! To which I use?

Throughout the remainder of this report, we'll try to answer that question. Many people still have never used Twitter ask if there blogs, instant messaging, Facebook needed this new service. The reality is that Twitter introduced new concepts that did not exist and it was so strong. On the one hand to have a limited capacity forces the text you type to be concise and to the point. On the other hand there are new definitions and roles as the "followers" (did not exist before) and explain a little better below.

New concepts: followers and real-time news

Unlike Facebook, where two people to contact both must be accepted, on Twitter you can follow another person without her to be our "friend". That is the concept of Follower. And we can go to many people and others may be interested in following us and what we say in our tweets.
The other concept that was born with Twitter is the real-time news and created or reported by the same twitter. I will explain, when the service won an important critical mass of users and still be able to tweet from your mobile phone, began to broadcast news and developments long before they appear on TV or radio. A good example was when a plane crashed in New York , where the accident was covered in real time on twitter, that is, as I went through the people who were in the vicinity of the place. And all that coverage was before it hits CNN or other media.

No intermediaries: Celebrities on Twitter

When generating a direct link between "follower and followed" our Time Line we can link with news writing celebrities, famous, trademark or other characters that interest us. The novelty of this is that there has never been as direct a route relationship between the "fan" and "God." The other day I heard that Alanis Morissette was pregnant by her own words in your tweet. Think before to learn of such news was still a circuit much longer and complicated: the singer's representative notifies half, then that raises the intermediary release (Reuters) and finally reaches some local online newspaper then discuss some announcer on the radio.

Facebook Vs Twitter

If I have Facebook, you need to have Twitter? are not the same? Answer: They are not the same. While there are social networks because we link with various individuals and share comments and opinions are very different. One of the differences and said and lies in the connection between users is not necessarily bidirectional and Facebook. Also Twitter is characterized by very simple: a short text, perhaps a link and go. Facebook is a cluster of services: upload photos and videos, events calendar, online games, polls and much more. The simplicity of Twitter makes it very practical for use from mobile phones to read so as to update the state of their own.

Natural history: the hashtags

Twitter was born in early 2006 and was gradually changing and there were improvements. A very interesting feature that emerged by the users themselves were the "hashtags." The hastags are labels used to identify the Twitt and it is used and character #. For example could be used # music , # movies or now it is increasingly common to see job search tags with # employment . They are very useful when real-time search and filter information.

So Twitter is for ...

In conclusion we can say I do not know specifically what it is Twitter, you probably have several different functions depending on how each person uses it. But perhaps generalizing a bit longer because of what we described above we can say that Twitter is an online communication tool, bounded and concise.

How to start?

If I could convince you, at least a little bit, that Twitter serves and is useful for something, you can start by going to twitter.com and create an account with your username. Recommendation: record a short name!.

And if you want contact me my username is @ jbagnato , Greetings!

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(What is) a Digital Immigrant in 140 characters

No comments August 27th, 2010 No comments

Are those people who did not have PC or internet since forever, but they had to learn to use them when he is slightly larger

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