I’ve been thinking about 140 character posts. Most microblogging tools like Twitter limit posts to 140 characters to keep content SMS friendly. The reality is the SMS gateway APIs you use to send out SMS messages are smart enough to break up longer messages. But most products choose to restrict the length at the source, the argument being that people will think about what they say before they say it. But is this a good idea?
When I started working on revamping SIx Sites last week, my only goal was to move from Tumblr to Chyrp. But during the process I discovered that using a micro-blog tool can actually make for a powerful collaboration tool as well. It is a bit early to make any firm decisions, but the more I think about it, the more I can see using sixsites.com as the central hub as the primary collaboration point.
Over the past two weeks I’ve been overwhelmed with web products. I’ve probably signed up for a dozen free accounts with a dozen web products solving about three problems.