basheera khan

basheera khan

Basheera Khan  //  Basheera Khan is a freelance user experience designer with an interest in information architecture, interaction design and content strategy. She’s also a co-founder of the collaborative bug-tracking web app, http://PlayNice.ly.

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Dec 18 / 7:32pm

If you've got a problem, yo I'll solve it

But will Twitter check out the hook when my DJ revolves it? So basically, my problem is this: for people like me, who still pay attention to individual new Twitter followers, it's very difficult to tell at a glance from the 'new follower email notification' whether or not I should consider following-back straight away. I might stop email notification of new followers if I start picking them up at a rate of knots, but at the moment I can still cope with the flow. Here's my suggestion: When Twitter sends you an email saying you've got a new follower, how about including that person's location, web address and bio (which most people fill out unless they're trying to be terribly mysterious) and their last three tweets to give a flavour of what they're like -- essentially an overview that will save me from having to click through to decide whether or not to follow them back.

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Filed under  //  TweetDeck   Tweetie   TwitPic   Twitter   Twitterific   apps   feature requests  
 
Dec 18 / 7:32pm

If you've got a problem, yo I'll solve it

But will Twitter check out the hook when my DJ revolves it? So basically, my problem is this: for people like me, who still pay attention to individual new Twitter followers, it's very difficult to tell at a glance from the 'new follower email notification' whether or not I should consider following-back straight away. I might stop email notification of new followers if I start picking them up at a rate of knots, but at the moment I can still cope with the flow. Here's my suggestion: When Twitter sends you an email saying you've got a new follower, how about including that person's location, web address and bio (which most people fill out unless they're trying to be terribly mysterious) and their last three tweets to give a flavour of what they're like -- essentially an overview that will save me from having to click through to decide whether or not to follow them back.

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Oct 31 / 3:39pm

Twitlove

Twitter continues to delight and amaze me, despite the absence of The Perfect Twitter Client™. Tangential software blathering alert-- I use Twitterific and am generally quite happy with it, though in the style of the dysfunctional on again, off again relationship, I do sometimes find myself seduced all over again by Twhirl's superior feature set (integration with TwitPic and Friendfeed, easy retweeting and search, along with a slew of other nice-to-haves). Inevitably though, Twhirl's look and feel and lack of keyboard shortcuts start to grate; I return to salve my punished eyes in the balm that is Twitterific, and the cycle begins anew.

Despite the hype and obvious love from others, I cannot bring myself to enjoy using TweetDeck - it is entirely too overwhelming and claustrophobic - a great idea, poorly executed. Of course, my perception of TweetDeck and Twhirl may be skewed by the fact that I'm still on my old faithful PowerBook G4, which doesn't seem to cope well with the memory-hogging AIR apps.

Anyway. Twitter is a box of delights, and one of the coolest things about it is the occasional serendipitous finding of friends and other interesting people; most recently David Tebbutt, who I first came across at the beginning of my explorations into organised productivity. David, now a researcher/analyst of human and environmental aspects of computing, is one of the brains behind the information capture/planning application BrainStorm, a tool I used for a while back in the day before I made the switch and began my slow migration from kGTD to OmniFocus to Things -- which it must be said is just a *joy* to use on Mac and iPhone. Aaaand I'm back to the software blathering. Whoops. :-)

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Oct 31 / 3:39pm

Twitlove

Twitter continues to delight and amaze me, despite the absence of The Perfect Twitter Client™. Tangential software blathering alert-- I use Twitterific and am generally quite happy with it, though in the style of the dysfunctional on again, off again relationship, I do sometimes find myself seduced all over again by Twhirl's superior feature set (integration with TwitPic and Friendfeed, easy retweeting and search, along with a slew of other nice-to-haves). Inevitably though, Twhirl's look and feel and lack of keyboard shortcuts start to grate; I return to salve my punished eyes in the balm that is Twitterific, and the cycle begins anew.

Despite the hype and obvious love from others, I cannot bring myself to enjoy using TweetDeck - it is entirely too overwhelming and claustrophobic - a great idea, poorly executed. Of course, my perception of TweetDeck and Twhirl may be skewed by the fact that I'm still on my old faithful PowerBook G4, which doesn't seem to cope well with the memory-hogging AIR apps.

Anyway. Twitter is a box of delights, and one of the coolest things about it is the occasional serendipitous finding of friends and other interesting people; most recently David Tebbutt, who I first came across at the beginning of my explorations into organised productivity. David, now a researcher/analyst of human and environmental aspects of computing, is one of the brains behind the information capture/planning application BrainStorm, a tool I used for a while back in the day before I made the switch and began my slow migration from kGTD to OmniFocus to Things -- which it must be said is just a *joy* to use on Mac and iPhone. Aaaand I'm back to the software blathering. Whoops. :-)

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