http://doodleporn.disqus.com/enSun, 08 Mar 2009 14:38:47 -0000http://doodleporn.tumblr.com/post/84647876#comment-6997021<p>From the beginning of Twitter, I've seen a huge ammount of its power locked up in being more of a platform than a messaging service.</p><p>I built <a href="http://mytwitternotebook.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="mytwitternotebook.com">mytwitternotebook.com</a> (and a couple other of my own utilities) on that idea; that twitter was something that you could get at from your desk and your phone, and that in itself lends an opportunity to interact in interesting ways.</p><p>The command line aspects of it are both awesome and frustrating. You are unambiguous about what you want, and what you're getting back (a programmer's dream); but even for return data, you're limited to 140 characters, in that respect, it's nothing like a quality command line. You also can't do any kind of mashups with commands (In unix they called them pipes...mashups aren't a new idea at all) but you can't get what you want if you go like this</p><p> d stock AAPL | d tweetnote #stock</p><p>That would just confuse @stock, not send the stock to your personal notebook;</p><p>Twitter is at best a decent starting point for a mobile, shared command line. </p>issackellySun, 08 Mar 2009 14:38:47 -0000