{"id":951,"date":"2007-04-12T12:14:51","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T20:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/12\/communication-multiplexers\/"},"modified":"2007-04-12T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T20:14:51","slug":"communication-multiplexers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/12\/communication-multiplexers\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Multiplexers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radicalbehavior.com\/5-question-interview-with-twitter-developer-alex-payne\/\">interview<\/a> with one of the developers on the twitter.com team:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think the real power of Twitter is its ability to channel over different mediums at the user\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s whim. IM, SMS, email, and the web are just transports as far as Twitter is concerned. Generally, you have to go out and get information via whatever medium that information is on. With Twitter, information can come to you via whatever medium you prefer. Or, if you want some space, you can easily turn off the information tap with a simple \u00e2\u20ac\u0153off\u00e2\u20ac\u009d command. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s powerful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I linked to a <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/twittering_your.html\">blog post<\/a> by Tim O&#8217;Reilly a couple days ago that summarized this feature by calling it a &#8216;communications multiplexer&#8217;&#8230; There are other companies that do interesting things in this space in different ways: rasasa.net, zaptxt.com, feedcrier.com, etc&#8230; It&#8217;s also one of the ways I&#8217;d like to evolve the <a href=\"\/projects\/instantfeeds\/\">instantFeeds plugin<\/a> I wrote: be able to send an email, IM or an SMS or maybe even message into a web page: get only the information you want, delivered using the medium of your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an interview with one of the developers on the twitter.com team: I think the real power of Twitter is its ability to channel over different mediums at the user\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s whim. IM, SMS, email, and the web are just transports as far as Twitter is concerned. Generally, you have to go out and get information &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/12\/communication-multiplexers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Communication Multiplexers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,2,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}