{"id":2942,"date":"2009-04-29T15:14:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T13:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2009-04-29T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T13:14:46","slug":"gadgets-that-twit-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2942","title":{"rendered":"Gadgets that Twit themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today during a brainstorming session at Fon<\/a>, David Garcia from customer care had an idea that we are likely going to implement for the Fonera 2.0 but that could in theory be expanded to many other gadgets. It is the concept of gadgets twitting themselves. Why would you want to get twits from a gadget? I know the idea sounds absurd at first but the Fonera 2.0 has a lot of things to twit about. The Fonera 2.0 is a social WiFi router that manages your relationship with the Web 2.0<\/a>. If the Web 2.0 is all about user generated content<\/a> (you can wake up now) then the Fonera 2.0 is about managing the transfer of that content. The Fonera 2.0 uploads your pictures to Facebook<\/a>, Picasa<\/a>, and\/or Flickr<\/a>, it downloads your files from Rapidshare<\/a> and Megaupload<\/a>, it uploads and downloads your torrents<\/a>, it uploads your videos to Youtube<\/a>, it offers a little extra bandwidth to your neighbors or people who pass by your home or office, it converts 3G signal to WiFi signal and it does all those things while your computer is off. On its own. So for a gadget that does a lot of things on its own but does not have a keyboard or a screen Twitting makes a lot of sense. Possible twits are “i just gave some bandwidth to a fonero”, “uploading<\/a> pictures to Flickr”, “finished downloading torrent”, “finished sending 553 MB HD video to youtube”,”3G to Wifi conversion now on”, etc, etc, etc. In the case of the Fonera 2.0 twitter saves us from having a graphics card, a screen, a keyboard, many weird lights that mean all sorts of different things. But if that is what Twitter can do for the Fonera 2.0 imagine what it could do for many other gadgets: “your turkey is ready”, “your garden\u00b4s watered”, “your pool needs chlorine”, “you are running low on oil”…<\/p>\n