Keeping Track of Twitter on Techmeme With iterasi

The kitchen is getting hot.

We are getting very close to the launch of our public beta. New features are getting implemented. The private beta is just about done. We are almost ready to head into the wild. Thanks to all the people who signed up for a beta account. We’ll have something for you very soon!

But, man, I think I am no different than any other start up guy out there who would love to see that Twitter effect. It keeps getting hotter in Twitterland. Dang, do people get the fever when it comes to Twitter. Just look what happened in the latest episode of “My Office Has A Kitchen!”

Just look at the number of Twitter posts at the top of Techmeme the other night. This is the kind of coverage a startup would dream to have on its best day….ever. Kara Swisher lead the brigade with one of those post about how few people actually know about Twitter outside of the Silicon Valley. Well, that got the bloggers going. It was followed by discussions in Venture Beat, The Last Podcast, The Viral Garden, WinExtra, Scobleizer, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, The Social Times, SarahLacy.com, Between the Lines, broadstuff, larry borsato, IP Democracy, Furrier.org, Bloggers Blog, Scott Heiferman’s Notes, Vinny Lingham’s Blog and Smalltalk Tidbits. That was followed with Twitter posts by Dan Farber, Jeff Clavier (with discussion by The Real McCrea) and Michael Arrington (with discussion by Webomatica and a second discussion in a post over at The Social Web) and Mathew Ingram. I tell you it just doesn’t stop. In one evening, a total of 24 posts by well-known bloggers speculating if Twitter will go mainstream, has a business model, etc.

I wanted to read these posts the other night. On Techmeme, posts are all in one place, packaged for easy access. But Techmeme updates fast and I knew might miss a few of if I waited to get back to them. I often face this issue with Techmeme in my busy day at iterasi. I don’t have time to read all the posts at that point in time. I can look at the posts in reverse chronological order but it is arduous to go back and reconstruct the collection of posts.

So instead, I used iterasi to save, or as we call it, notarize the Techmeme page. I clicked the iterasi button in my browser to notarize it. Within a minute, I had the Techmeme page in my account. I had the peace of mind that I could get back to the posts when I had the time.

I am looking at the page now in iterasi, reading Kara Swisher’s story, Venture Beat and the rest. Viewing it today, I see I had filed the Techmeme page, added notes and tags such as Twitter and Techmeme. I had essentially taken a snapshot in time of Techmeme to access later, links and all. It was like I had Tivo for Techmeme.

Even more exciting, I can now share this preserved Techmeme page from my iterasi account. My friends will receive it and see it as I did at 10:15 pm on April 28.

Would you like to me to share this Techmeme page with you through iterasi? Leave a comment,send a tweet to my Twitter account (podcasthotel) or drop me an email: alex-at-iterasi-dot-com. I will share the page with you. At that point, you may open an iterasi account, download the add-on and share pages of your own. You may also just share the page without the add-on but I find it far more useful to save pages that are important or of interest to me. I then have the added benefit of sharing the pages.

Twitter has a real vibe going. The coverage they get is extraordinary. They pioneered microblogging, led the way for all kinds of services and helped elevate the discussion about what it means to have a lifestream. They deserve all that attention.

Our goals? I just hope people find iterasi useful. That’s all. If we can achieve that then there will be some passionate iterasi users. I just know it. :-)