Do you remember the Flutter presentation? The world really “goes micro” as was nicely said by Jonas a week ago.

Microblogging became in some way oldfashioned thing after the appearance of Flutter. It is a new generation of micro status update. The new name given by creators is – nanoblog. Smaller than Twitter, shorter than Twitter, quicker than Twitter. Better than Twiiter? Maybe. Has this question any sense at all?

Flutter has one good feature – auto shortening of Twitter tweets. Kind of inovation of the year 2009!

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There is a lot irony behind the Flutter. There is no real Flutter. It was just a video made to improvise the future of status update applications.  But the guys who made it are very smart people. Who could even imagine about Twitter  and its popularity a few years ago? Now Twitter breaks the walls carrying together all critics and indifferent humans.

For my opinion Twitter and Flutter have no fundamental difference. The only thing separating them is that Twitter exists and Flutter not.

We have short messages, instant messages, microblogging, 12 seconds of microvideo blogging in Tweetdeck, picture blogging, so why not to shorten a bit our text messages. Text becomes more boring every day. So it would be nice to have an application transfering text to a symbolic photo or picture. Or just talk less as Flutter offers. What will be the objects for exchange and for share after non-existent Flutter?

Maybe, we will have kind of Egyptian scripts or writings of Maya. A small picture will mean even a short story or explain many social things about the messenger. We won’t need details and a lot of side explanations.  We will simlify our language in needs to talk more and faster. I imagine many symbolic pictures surrounding our walls, desktops and first page of Google. Maybe one billion of Chinese people will help us enter the next level of communication.

Have you thought anytime about the social micro software name meanings? We have lots of social micro services and most of them use very short and artificial names. For example, Thingfo, Jaiku, Pownce. Hictu, Bebo sound strange to me. And the stranger number one is Tumblr. What the heck do they mean?

If all these names are created to look exceptional, these do look especially unique. But they create strange associations in my mind. Each of them distinguishes by the same sense which I could call – virtual presence. It means – the thing exists but you can’t touch it, you can’t understand it and it’s meaning, sense.

Maybe they are not well – understood as services and so we even couldn‘t also easily accept complexity of the names. Maybe these online services blow our minds out and the title of service you use isn’t as important as their quality. Maybe it’s hard time for software developers and they hardly find new names for new services.

I wonder what will fly next after Flutter…

Jonas

Is a desire of something better than Twitter is a stupid thing? Not at all. There is Flutter. Now I can just watch the video below. I hope next time I will be able to say a few words about it: