Rebirth of The Reference Card
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 Twitterâs 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 Sippeyâs post which holds the key to Twitterâs future: Cards. Twitterâs new Cards technology allows third-party developers to create richer, more compelling â and, above all, visually consistentâ content inside of Twitter itself.
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.
I couldn't help myself, I had to make a Reference Card-style Retro Twitter Card, just for the heck of it. :)
