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Twitter

In 2009 I was bullish on Readtwit, and the product folded. In 2010 I'm bullish on Formulists. Some ideas for Formulists-created lists:
  • @sillygwailo/follow-friday
    • people recommended by the people I follow
    • the "Follow Friday" tweets (could be multiple) by people I follow can only occur on a Friday
    • only in tweets hashtagged with #ff or #follow-friday (or with the phrase "follow friday", case ignored)
    • list re-created every Friday
  • @sillygwailo/two-degrees
    • take the people I follow, then make a list out of who they follow
    • randomly selected, with a configurable limit (upper limit being Twitter's upper limit of people allowed on a list)
    • people who I don't already follow
    • list is either straight random from 
    • bonus points: people not already on any of my lists

Places

  • Each place has an ID for example http://twitter.com/#!/places/19f2c94ac7b53d0f
  • you can see
    • the exact location of tweets inside that place
    • who's tweeting from that place
    • the recent tweets from people recently at that place
    • that means you can get real-time updates of stuff happening there, but only in the browser (see below)
  • you can't
    • follow a place
    • access the place via the API/RSS
      • this would allow you to combine things with Flickr photos, other things involving WOEIDs, etc.

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