Thanks for you comment Carl, I can count on you to bring a thoughtful voice to the conversation.

I like connecting with the authors of the tweets I retweet. When I use the older more personal style of retweeting, the author sees my tweet in his or her replies / mentions tab, and is likely to respond. When I use the newer more automated Twitter retweet button, the author is much less likely to see it.

I like connecting with my readers when I send out a retweet. When I use the older more personal style of retweeting, my readers see my picture attached to the retweet and can easily see that this is something I have selected for them. When I use the newer more automated Twitter retweet button, my readers see a stranger’s picture on the retweet, and it is more difficult for them to see that it is from me.

Carl Ingalls

Hank Wasiak

I think Nigel was acting, at least in part! He obviously enjoyed answering the question and was passionate about what he was talking about. That is where good interviews come from – striking a nerve, although that was not my intent.

As for PicScout, perhaps their site is clear to designers and other people who have the problem that they solve, I can’t say. Perhaps some designers, photographers, stock houses and other creative folks will weigh in and let us know what they think.

Cheers and thanks for the comments

Second, I like the idea of digital rights management for photography, but I have to be honest, after reading your article I got excited about PicScout, but I’ve been having a lot of trouble navigating the Web site and getting a clear idea of how they work, what they do, and how they’re different from other digital watermarking technologies. Very difficult to tell where they fit in the digital photography landscape or more importantly what they could do for me…

Perhaps they could use some help from a qualified branding professional?

Cheers.

I am glad that you like my commentary on the changes to the Twitter platform. Actually it does already affect each and every one of us regardless of whether we use Twitter.com, a twitter client, or web app. I believe it affects the decisions that Twitter makes and the new RT feature is one of them. The fact that RT’s that use the new RT feature do not show up in the clients and probably will not unless the client uses the web feature affects us all. This means the ability to easily see the reach of our tweets in the client of choice is diminished and we must check twitter’s own RT feature to see if we have been RT’d using this feature. It is a pain in the butt. If I am correct and this was done to facilitate their advertising model, we are all being affected by it.

I think they will use traditional ad models such as adwords etc in associated with search results but think the new model when revealed will be something that would be passed on through to the clients and web apps.

It is possible that Twitter could force the client to serve the adds but limiting API calls unless they comply. I hope it doesn’t come to this, but is altogether possible. I am concerned that all this disruption to the twitter ecosystem is a deterrent to developers and will affect their decisions to work in the platform. This too will affect us all. I also agree with your feelings that they believe their site (and service) is invincible (or irreplaceable) and yes it is comical, and Sad too!