twisney.com

[wildeoscar]

is anyone else checking this out? this would/could make for a great interface for a game of hide and seek in the parks. You can forward a pic from your phone, and it posts in realtime to a map of the parks with a message you include. Technology is fun.

[cyberbox2]

Looks ineteresting, $75 gift card isn't to bad either. Very cool idea, how did you find this site W.O. it looks brand new.

[georgemoe]

Thanks WO. Pretty cool. I'll be posting to twisney from WDW on my phone next week. :thumbsup2

[checkwriter]

Looks like a verrrrry dangerous time-sink! :eek:

[wildeoscar]

Looks like a verrrrry dangerous time-sink! :eek:

I'll tell ya right now, it is easy to waste an hour checking that stuff out.

I found it cause I am kinda getting into twitter... which is a short message service that is all the rage out west with the tech community... that will no doubt take off soon with your kids.

[cyberbox2]

Well I'm a computer tech and I don't know much about twitter, but given my profession, I certainly don't what to learn about it through my kids;)

I need to get on Wiki!

[twisney]

Hi everyone. Scott here from Twisney.com. Glad you found the site and glad you like it so far. I'll be posting during our trip starting tomorrow (woo-hoo!) so keep an eye on the site for pics and posts.

P.S. Twisney just got covered on the Wall Street Journal online. Check it out on the home page. I can't believe all the attention this is getting!

[djlexus]

This is awesome ill use this tomorrow when i go to hs

[checkwriter]

Hi everyone. Scott here from Twisney.com. Glad you found the site and glad you like it so far. I'll be posting during our trip starting tomorrow (woo-hoo!) so keep an eye on the site for pics and posts.

P.S. Twisney just got covered on the Wall Street Journal online. Check it out on the home page. I can't believe all the attention this is getting!

Very cool, Scott. I'd love to hear your elevator pitch . . . .

[wildeoscar]

Hi everyone. Scott here from Twisney.com. Glad you found the site and glad you like it so far. I'll be posting during our trip starting tomorrow (woo-hoo!) so keep an eye on the site for pics and posts.

P.S. Twisney just got covered on the Wall Street Journal online. Check it out on the home page. I can't believe all the attention this is getting!

I heard them talking about it on the radio this morning. it is a rocken cool mash up.

[mitchellx]

(deleted) sorry, I meant to log in as twisney and instead logged in as mitchellx. :confused: I need to delete this mitchellx account to stop making that mistake.

[twisney]

Very cool, Scott. I'd love to hear your elevator pitch . . . .

Disney World + Twitter + Flickr + Virtual Earth = Twisney.com

:thumbsup2

To be honest, I never really thought about a pitch. There's no business model. I just wanted to create something to send updates to my family and to learn the new Web 2.0 goodies (I'm a software engineer). Twisney took about 20 days to build so it was a good learning experience.

See you all from inside the parks this weekend. :cool1:

[wildeoscar]

let's hope you have the chops that Db calls will scale well... you are about a week from being slammed from 500 hits a day to about 50,000 hits a day. and a host provider that won't beat ya up or shut down the site when you get to the bandwidth limits

[checkwriter]

Disney World + Twitter + Flickr + Virtual Earth = Twisney.com

:thumbsup2

To be honest, I never really thought about a pitch. There's no business model. I just wanted to create something to send updates to my family and to learn the new Web 2.0 goodies (I'm a software engineer). Twisney took about 20 days to build so it was a good learning experience.

See you all from inside the parks this weekend. :cool1:

First: Have a great visit! Looking forward to your Twisney posts.

Second: I assume it would be fairly easy to sell ads, either as individual posts or as markers on the map. That would probably limit you to the non-Disney hotels and restaurants, or would start taking you off-property. Maybe some service providers (taxis, food delivery, etc.). Possibly merchandise (Crocs, strollers, bags). That introduces some very interesting intellectual property law questions, since you'd be layering all of that over images of WDW. Which, once you get the lawyers involved, takes all the fun out of it. So never mind.

Third: I knew this reminded me of something. Twisney is a little bit like www.foundcity.net.

[dpuck1998]

I'm in and rocking it out. I'll be all over this like white on rice when I'm there in a month. For now I'm just dreaming of where I"ll be..

http://www.twisney.com/dpuck1998

Twitter is purty coo also

[dpuck1998]

Man, I'm on this stuff like flies on a dead fish. I got my email addy linked to my twitter and I can email/IM/web/mobile web my location! purty sweet...thanks WO for being on the bleeding edge...

[wildeoscar]

well the next step is getting folks to take a crowd pic at the entrance to the parks everyday though out the day... which will make for an instant crowd blog. so ya put in the location and the date... then for folks that wanna go back and see what the crowds are like, there is a historic photo record.

Then the advanced, would be pics of the times boards in the parks. or even as a way to play hide and seek... just txt in real time updates of your location to the twisney maps.

Then the super advanced would be with qik footage. qik.com requires a special phone with above avg internet connection, to stream video live to the internet. Talk about being your own CNN... would could post pics and stream in real time from the parks at stuff like Wide World of Sports, the opening of new attractions, the daily crowd blog, the daily hidden mickey, or when you run into folks from the boards in the parks,

There is huge potential for geeks and obsessive compulsives to have fun with this sort of technology. Or even, when breaking stuff happens like the kid with the backpack and devil issues at Planet hollywood, someone roll up on the scene, activate the live streaming... "hello and I am Allen Hunter here with Molly Quinn live on location at planet hollywood just in time for the blue plate special that is lousy and the kid that made a threat to blow up the restaurant in an effort to prevent people from having a lousy dining experience. When asked why, the kid stated the devil made him do it, because the devil hates bad service, cold appetizers, and Hollandaise sauce from a packet is not real Hollandaise sauce."

if any one wants to donate to the cause, i am game for being just that reporter.

[wildeoscar]

and qik can send an update to twitter, and there is a way to pop up a chat screen on the phone while you are still streaming video, so the folks at home, would get a twitter that your intrepid reporter is live on the scene, would be able to open a website that shows the video and allows you to send comments and questions to the person holding the phone. so the folks at home could say "move closer to the fire", or "ask those kids to jump in the fountain". It just has so much potential to be so much fun.

[djlexus]

i was actualy using this today its very cool. I did go to a couple of places it dident understand But its still cool!

[Zeebs]

well the next step is getting folks to take a crowd pic at the entrance to the parks everyday though out the day... which will make for an instant crowd blog. so ya put in the location and the date... then for folks that wanna go back and see what the crowds are like, there is a historic photo record.

Then the advanced, would be pics of the times boards in the parks. or even as a way to play hide and seek... just txt in real time updates of your location to the twisney maps.

Then the super advanced would be with qik footage. qik.com requires a special phone with above avg internet connection, to stream video live to the internet. Talk about being your own CNN... would could post pics and stream in real time from the parks at stuff like Wide World of Sports, the opening of new attractions, the daily crowd blog, the daily hidden mickey, or when you run into folks from the boards in the parks,

There is huge potential for geeks and obsessive compulsives to have fun with this sort of technology. Or even, when breaking stuff happens like the kid with the backpack and devil issues at Planet hollywood, someone roll up on the scene, activate the live streaming... "hello and I am Allen Hunter here with Molly Quinn live on location at planet hollywood just in time for the blue plate special that is lousy and the kid that made a threat to blow up the restaurant in an effort to prevent people from having a lousy dining experience. When asked why, the kid stated the devil made him do it, because the devil hates bad service, cold appetizers, and Hollandaise sauce from a packet is not real Hollandaise sauce."

if any one wants to donate to the cause, i am game for being just that reporter.

I would be up for donating to your cause but for one thing. I am pretty sure myself and my kids would end up on your report, "Mother goes bananas as children run off one more time, was heard to say, we paid £££££ for this holiday and you are ruining it, now get happy ;) )

Kirsten

[wildeoscar]

you are my favorite family.. the one screaming at each other to hurry up and have fun.

[drwitz]

I plan on updating during my trip next month as well....

What a great service...

[erogers]

I'm not going to the parks anytime soon myself, but I love watching the Twisney site.

If any of you go, and you post, keep your ears open for funny guest comments and strange things seen in the parks; those are my favorite Twisney posts. It can be hilarious and highly entertaining.

[LenDVC92]

I had a lot of fun using twisney.com when we were at WDW last month. My original thought was just to let the folks at home know what we were up to, but now that I'm home I also have a play-by-play record of what we did during the week. As Pete would say, "Very cool".

You can see my posts here (http://www.twisney.com/moodringtone/2008/5/20/7). (if you like what you see, you can also vote for me as twisney poster of the month for May).

Len.

[PAcpl]

well the next step is getting folks to take a crowd pic at the entrance to the parks everyday though out the day... which will make for an instant crowd blog. so ya put in the location and the date... then for folks that wanna go back and see what the crowds are like, there is a historic photo record.

Then the advanced, would be pics of the times boards in the parks. or even as a way to play hide and seek... just txt in real time updates of your location to the twisney maps.

Then the super advanced would be with qik footage. qik.com requires a special phone with above avg internet connection, to stream video live to the internet. Talk about being your own CNN... would could post pics and stream in real time from the parks at stuff like Wide World of Sports, the opening of new attractions, the daily crowd blog, the daily hidden mickey, or when you run into folks from the boards in the parks,

There is huge potential for geeks and obsessive compulsives to have fun with this sort of technology. Or even, when breaking stuff happens like the kid with the backpack and devil issues at Planet hollywood, someone roll up on the scene, activate the live streaming... "hello and I am Allen Hunter here with Molly Quinn live on location at planet hollywood just in time for the blue plate special that is lousy and the kid that made a threat to blow up the restaurant in an effort to prevent people from having a lousy dining experience. When asked why, the kid stated the devil made him do it, because the devil hates bad service, cold appetizers, and Hollandaise sauce from a packet is not real Hollandaise sauce."

if any one wants to donate to the cause, i am game for being just that reporter.

Sorry to bump such an old thread, but I ran a search for "qik" and this popped up. Its funny how much technology has grown in just over a year. If anyone is interested I will be doing something like this in a couple of weeks:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2282661

[TSWJan78]

Not to hijack but did anyone else jump out of there skin when they saw this at the top of the boards?

[cocowum]

Not to hijack but did anyone else jump out of there skin when they saw this at the top of the boards?

Me!!! :scared1::scared1::scared1: Poor Paul, his ears are still ringing!

[froggy5657]

twisney.com doesn't work for me.

I just get a message saying the site might be for sale by owner :(

Nevermind, this thread is from forever and a day ago :)

[PAcpl]

Sorry, I didn't want to stir up anything up that I shouldn't have.

[TSWJan78]

Sorry, I didn't want to stir up anything up that I shouldn't have.

No worries.. you did nothing wrong!! We are just a little punchy around here sometimes!