hop to it, already
My idea for Twitter, i.e., free interaction design work ;) — as originally posted to the FanWiki
Twitter Events (timeframe filters)
* Allow a user to enter a event timeframe, i.e., beginning date & time, ending date & time.
* This event becomes a navigable item on the user’s page
* This event becomes a filter on the user’s archive
* EXAMPLE: User schedules vacation; User sets up future Event in Twitter; User goes on vacation, twitters as usual about location; Several hundred updates later, User can easily revisit notes on things he/she did on vacation; User realizes vacation dates changed, can modify timeframe of event
* FUTURE USE: Twitter can promote special events and conferences by having users add a system Event and not a system Twitter User.
* FUTURE USE: Attributes of the timeframe (such as title) can be used to aggregate across the public community, e.g., “See all posts during ‘SXSW 2007’”
* FUTURE USE: Integration of web calendar APIs (30Boxes, Google Calendar, etc.) can auto-generate Events for users
