#smclondon08 blogging - I might as well, everyone else is.
First talk of the day from a fresh-faced looking Martin of Communote, Germany, demonstrating his new microblogging service. Nervous - his first barcamp event (incidentally, my first one too) - his presentation is slick and certainly no impromptu grass-roots affair.
Martin’s primary points are very valid: Twitter is not the be all and end all of microblogging. He refers to Twitter as ‘micromessaging’ - something i’m not 100% sure that I agree with, but name is not as important as the distinction. Twitter lacks some of the features of a blog that Martin sees as essential, specifically tagging and filtering, as well as other things that could be fixed such as the security of archival and visibility. Martin sees tag subscription in microblogging as something that could be very useful in the enterprise, although I would love to see this generally.
Communote seems very topic-centric, which is a great feature for business. But in my eyes, blogging is as much about personality as it is about subject matter - so I’ll be sticking with Twitter for now, although with a slightly more focussed perspective.