Been thinking about the future of Cafe TweetSpot and what it could really become. Getting our own website going will allow us to really build in the kind of functionality that will make Cafe TweetSpot the place to hang out for budding entrepreneurs. I envision a website filled with virtual “tables” or “conversations”. It should be easy, and I personally think its absolutely key, to maintain the twitter-like feel and allow people to use twitter to participate even once we have our own site.
You’ll be able to search for tables based on certain keywords like the words used in twitters about that conversation. You’ll be able to easily start new conversations and hope someone comes to join you. When your search returns a table, you’ll see the original twitter message and the icons of the other people “at the table.” Not all conversations will turn up in a search though. You will have the option to “find a corner” i.e. make your conversation private to the people already in it. Users will join a table as either idea generators, idea improvers, or idea funders and you will be able to open your conversation to just people of a certain type, like allowing just idea funders if your idea is ready for real work to get started, or exclude just idea generators if you don’t want to share original credit with anyone else.
I got ideas coming out my ears today. Surely more to come later.
