CATEGORIES
- WEB STARTUPS
- CONFERENCES
- WEB JOBS
- MICROSOFT
- INTERVIEWS
- VIDEO
- AMAZON
- ALL TOPICS
CONTRIBUTORS
“Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey goodbye” Says WordPress To Twitter
Alright so maybe Matt Mullenweg isn’t saying it yet, but you can feel it. A new, distributed Twitter for internal groups has arrived and it’s called Prologue. Here’s the net idea: if you have multiple bloggers on your WordPress blog, you can now use Twitter-like short messages to chat internally. Is it a Twitter-killer? No, not currently anyway, as most Twitterdiction folks are using it for shouting to the public vs. internal messaging.
With WordPress the dominant player in blogging, this could be a game changer. What makes it interesting? Check out the final comment by Matt in the announcement, "Some folks have suggested that using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter. This isn’t something we’re personally interested in, but we’ve made the theme available as open source under the GPL so if you want to hack around it yourself you’re welcome to. For WordPress.com users the theme is available in your “Presentation” section."
Mark from Mashable has a good review and Mathew Ingram looks at what a distributed version of Prologue might look like. I could also see a system like this working very well for corporate IT support teams. Lastly, check out our audio interview from late 2006 with Matt Mullenweg.
Here’s a sample of what Prologue looks like:
In fact, I don’t know *anyone* who uses twitter for internal messaging… that’s not to say people don’t, just that I haven’t seen it. I’m a big fan of WP, I use it for my own blogs, but at the moment I can’t see how Prologue would benefit me personally.
Melissa – I think the distributed model is what works – imagine if the wordpress blogs could interlink together :)
and while internal groups aren’t using twitter for internal, they are using skype and aim…
Allen,
I’m with you in thinking this could be a game-changer. Stepping back, I think Prologue really signals that Automattic is ready to emerge from a small, enthusiastic blogging platform into something with more aggressive strategic goals. Armed with more than enough venture capital, Prologue strikes me as just a small step in a much bigger game.
Not really keeping to its original intention, but Prologue’s clean, white, iPhone friendly creative inspired me to build a Jakarta bar listings & review site:
http://www.jakartabar.com/
Innovative use of various WP comments plugins allow users to not just submit their reviews, but also ratings, as well as rate the reviews of other users.
We think it’s a great way to create niche sites that reduce the noise found on services like Twitter. Check us out at http://www.sportstwit.com.
Cheers