Twittervision and the world-wide cake…

Twittervision and the world-wide cake meme

A few days ago I was witness to something quite unique. The spread of a meme across the world. It was the world wide spread of an idea, and it took less than a minute to go worldwide, and carried on for ten minutes before dying out. The meme? I want some cake. The medium? Twitter, or to be more exact, Twittervision. It was a simple statement by somebody, I can’t quite remember where, I think it was France, to the effect that they were hungry and would quite like some cake. That was replied to by someone in England, and it was then picked up in other countries by other people. Soon, practically everyone was talking about cake. I wanted cake myself. Now, imagine that idea is something like a real product that you want to publicize. Or an idea that you want to spread. You could have GLOBAL influence within a minute or so. Think about that, that’s something you couldn’t have had even a year ago, even with blogs. Instant global reach with instant global feedback. The global conversation has begun, in near realtime. Will an idea catch on? Try it in Twittervision, and see. If you are ignored, your idea was crap. If it sticks, you have a winner.

microsoft onenote 2007

Microsoft OneNote 2007 is a fantastic application designed for taking notes wherever you have your laptop. It’s more freeform than Microsoft Word, allowing you to keep stuff in multiple notebooks, sections and pages. And each of the pages will allow you to add or edit stuff at any point in the page. This could be a fantastic creative tool, as good if not better than some mind-mapping software for keeping notes.

The pages are saved automatically as you type. Things you paste in are scanned and indexed, even photos that contain text are indexed. You can also add audio stuff, and that gets run through the pattern recogniser and indexed too. I am going to investigate keeping mind maps in OneNote, as well as other freeform notes. I will report back when I have used it for a few days. It does seem to be fairly comprehensive, it’s just a matter of seeing if it’s too freeform.

 

By the way, taking screen shots into OneNote is easy too:

As the above shot of Google Talk shows, with imified running with my Twitter updates coming in. You can also work on notes collaboratively with other people, and you can all edit a note at the same time. Of course for this to happen you are going to need a shared drive or in my case SharePoint. I assume you could do it with Microsoft Office Groove too, but I haven’t tested that yet.