Reference Cards

[ENTER THE ARCHIVE]

Mike Isaac said it all in the title of his August 1st post on AllThingsD: "The Future of Twitter's Platform Is All in the Cards". He goes on to say:

While members of the press scramble to cover Twitter’s most recent dustup involving the censorship of a reporter, speculation in the developer community continues to run rampant, and many accuse Twitter of being unnecessarily opaque.

But amid the confusion of the past month, nearly all have overlooked the section of Sippey’s post which holds the key to Twitter’s future: Cards. Twitter’s new Cards technology allows third-party developers to create richer, more compelling — and, above all, visually consistent— content inside of Twitter itself.

via AllThingsD

In line with the Card Mania, I have made a Retro/Vintage version of the Twitter Card:

Notice the Summary: I tweeted an article by Matthew Lasar called "25 years of HyperCard--the missing link to the Web", from last May (via Ars Technica). It gives the Title, the Author (+ his Twitter account), a short Description, the name of the Blog (+ its Twitter account), plus a small image thumbnail from the article.

"Zoomracks, introduced in 1985, represented data in a form that was visually represented by a filing card, known as "QUICKCARD"s. Cards could be designed within the program as a "template", using general-purpose data fields known as "FIELDSCROLL"s, which could hold up to 250 lines of 80 characters. Cards were collected into a "RACK", which was essentially a single database file. The display was character-based and did not make use of the Atari's GEM interface even though this was the primary platform for the product. Unlike similar database programs of the era, Zoomracks did not support different types of data internally, everything was represented as text."