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I sat (and skateboarded) for the British Broadcasting Company at my house in San Francisco. We talked about Odeo, Twitter, my company DollarApp, and our community iOSDevCamp. See a brief excerpt here: “I discovered that you can be a new type of writer in this tiny space.” See the interview in full at BBC News.

I enjoyed speaking with Henry Tenenbaum on Sunday morning. I see the future following the model of the past, which is: we started out with this SMS application. Thank you, @HenryTen and @KRON4News for a great experience!

Have you watched the video demonstration of Google Wave yet? What we have here is shrinkage: shorter times to update, shorter updates themselves, by word in translation, or by character in live typing. Any time we see an acceleration of realtime transmission like this, we witness a revolution. With the telegram, then email, texting, instant […]

I was lucky enough to be available for this Nightline piece on Twitter. I spoke for about half an hour with the irascible John Donvan, which got boiled down to about 30 seconds about our book (starting around 5:22 in the above clip): [Dom skateboarding] John Donvan: He’s writing a book about his Twitter experiences, […]

They’re no Strunk and White, but Dom Sagolla and Adam Jackson are aiming to do for Twitter what “The Elements of Style” did for good writing on paper: outline elementary rules of usage, composition and grammar. Thus begins an article on our book in the Bits & Blogs section of the New York Times. From […]

Prelude. oh this is going to be addictive @Dom, March 21, 2006 Twitter is born, and Dom posts the first substantive tweet in response to a message from Twitter’s inventor: @Jack.  Mastering the short form becomes a daily study for Dom. Four months later, we launch “twttr”. It takes a year to master Twitter, and […]

Welcome to 140 Characters, the hub of our combined efforts to write, edit, publish and distribute a book about Twitter. Updates on our work, excerpts from the book and exclusive short form content will be published here by Dom & Adam. We’re not alone though. When we say, “our combined efforts” we’re talking about the […]

While I was at the Sarasota International Design Summit, of course I posted to Twitter about it. Local one-man news crew David Leonard caught my message and visited the conference in order to interview me. Here is the article (corrections in italics), originally posted to the 10Connects site: Sarasota, Florida – Dom Sagolla knows the […]

From the Twitter FAQ: We like to keep it short and sweet! It also just so happens that 140 characters is the perfect length for sending status updates via text message. The standard text message length in most places is 160 characters per message. We reserve 20 characters for people’s names, and the other 140 […]