The Best Microblogs According to Ten Criteria.

The listing of the better microblogs at http://microblogs.ning.com starts with this statement:
“This list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced functional up-time.”

Nice, we all want this. But the question remains: what makes up a really good microblog ?

For me it are these ten requirements:

1* login with username
2* immediately ready for posting after login
3* 140 characters mininum
4* no title needed
5* standard sending to all people
6* no extra tagging needed
7* respecting commas in urls
8* shortening urls
9* directly ready for reposting
10* presenting your previous postings

This list of requirements is ofcourse strictly personal, but I wanted to be able to discuss about quality so I had to substantiate what I see to be necessary for quality.

These seven microblogs meet all these criteria:

http://twitter.com
http://smspr.ru
http://zuosa.com

http://gozub.com
http://blip.pl
http://feecle.jp

http://beemood.com

Do you know of any other microblog meeting these criteria, let me know it right away !

Pieter Jansegers
http://webosophy.ning.com

 

Les TICE sont le présent

http://jansegers.unblog.fr is my French language blog with the same aim has this blog.

TICE is French for “technologies de l’information et de la communication dans l’enseignement” (information and communication technologies in education)

http://jansegers.over-blog.com est un second blog sur le même sujet / is a second blog on the same subject.

Frenchteachers.ning.com

I’ve launched http://frenchteachers.ning.com as an international social network for discussing the use of the internet in the everyday language classroom.

ICT is the present

Indeed. ICT is the most important way people of today are learning things out of their own.

ICT is omnipresent in today society. The computer isn’t just a tool like any other, it’s turned into THE TOOL for all kinds of uses.