Twitter / theBook @TheBook Twitter / DomYahoo! was generous enough to donate their venue for last Summer’s iPhone Developer Camp. During the event, I was finishing the last chapters of 140 Characters.
To follow up on that experience, Yahoo! visited my office for a Developer Spotlight on the history of iPhoneDevCamp, Twitter, my book, and the iPhone App.
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I met Tracy Sheridan at Lunch For Good, where she bought a copy of 140 Characters using Square. It was still in private Alpha then, so when it launched I met her again. This time at Sightglass Coffee & Roastery.
Here’s a clip of us using Square to sell Tracy her second copy of 140 Characters:
We also talked about the beginnings of Twitter, the genesis of the book 140 Characters, and the book iPhone App. Also included are some thoughts on being a Square merchant.
Thanks Tracy for capturing this.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Co-creator of Twitter Dom Sagolla releases 140 Characters for iPhone and iPod touch, a new form of hypertext book continuously updated with fresh content.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA: 140 Characters, A Style Guide for the Short Form has been released worldwide via the iTunes App Store. Distinctly different from the Kindle edition, the text has been updated and expanded with an additional chapter and exclusive multimedia features.
Read the work as it was originally intended, as a companion to the text edition published by John Wiley & Sons.
See a brief demonstration of the App.
140 Characters demo from Dom Sagolla on Vimeo.
Press Resources for the App
press@140characters.com
415-287-7775
http://140characters.com
In 140 Characters or less, the App:
The Full Mention
@Dom’s @BookApp 140 Characters for iPhone & iPod touch, a hypertext book continuously updated with fresh content. http://j.mp/140-tThe Big Mention
@Dom’s @BookApp 140 Characters for iPhone & iPod touch. http://j.mp/140-tThe Short Mention
@BookApp 140 Characters for iPhone. http://j.mp/140-tThe Tiny Mention
@Dom’s @BookApp http://j.mp/140-tThe Nano Mention
@BookApp http://j.mp/140-tThe Landing Page
http://dom.net/1
Facts.
Shipped: November 18, 2009.
Publisher: DollarApp
Rating: 9+
The App icon code.
<a href=”http://j.mp/140-web” title=”140 Characters App Icon by Sagolla, on Flickr”><img src=”http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2638/3988595268_ea3b582f88_t.jpg” width=”100″ height=”100″ alt=”140 Characters App Icon” /></a>
Press Resources for the Book
Same as for the App, except:
The Full Mention
@thebook by @Dom Sagolla. 140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form. http://j.mp/140-charsThe Big Mention
@thebook by @Dom Sagolla. 140 Characters http://j.mp/140-charsThe Short Mention
@thebook 140 Characters by @Dom http://j.mp/140-charsThe Tiny Mention
@thebook by @Dom http://j.mp/140-charsThe Nano Mention
@thebook http://j.mp/140-charsThe Amazon
http://j.mp/140-charsThe Borders
http://j.mp/140-chboThe B&N
http://j.mp/140-chbnThe List
http://j.mp/140-list
Facts.
Ship Date: October 12, 2009.
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0470556137
The book jacket code.
<a href=”http://j.mp/140-chars” title=”140 Characters in 3D by Sagolla, on Flickr”><img src=”http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2440/4009911664_f49ae378a1_m.jpg” width=”175″ height=”240″ alt=”140 Characters in 3D” /></a>
Thanks for blogging, linking, tweeting, emailing, and generally promoting this work.
I had an amazing time in Amsterdam, and will be writing lots more about it later. For now, enjoy this brief interview with the Dutch Cowboys at iPhone Developer’s Camp.
Thanks to all who attended—this is just the beginning.
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!
It’s been an amazing couple of weeks on the Book Tour and now back in San Francisco. More great news is coming but I’d like to share with you a list of recent press, bound to entertain:
Fellow speaker Monty Metzger used his Flip camera to capture a brief interview about the basics of the book, available October 19th.
Note: I correct myself, but the book contract was in fact signed in late June. I did leave Adobe to work on it full time in July and submitted the first draft on August 3rd. This pattern complies with the DollarApp strategy of: 1 person, 1 month, 1 feature.
My speech at FITC Mobile was about the “one-dollar-app opportunity”. Although I currently have one dollar’s worth of app with the Hypertext Edition, I believe I’ll continue adding value and ship it for a bit more than a dollar. More news to come.
Brian Oberkirch captured a few thoughts about writing “140 Characters” during last weekend’s iPhoneDevCamp in Sunnyvale. Enjoy a nice, brief interview about some of the principles behind the book.
Not only was I organizing iPhoneDevCamp, but I also attempted to finish up the first draft of the book over the weekend. Hectic, but — I finished!
(Note: Of course, in the video, I mean 40,000 words.)
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, in which he argues that having to say something in just 140 characters — that’s a new kind of literature.
“Your ability to express yourself is pretty laid bare, and I’ve struggled really hard with a style that is both expressive, but also unique and recognizable out of context.”
Peep the full video featuring Biz and Ev, thoughtfully captured by Adam.
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 value of a dollar. The founder and developer of DollarApp is creating applications for the iPhone that are just a buck.
“It’s like they say, ‘I’d buy that for a dollar,’” the 34-year-old designer said. Dom is just one of many speakers who gathered for the 2008 Sarasota International Design Summit hosted by Ringling College at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Designers from Google, Microsoft, Herman Miller, and others presented work and discussed the direction of social networking in the real world, online and from mobile devices.
It was one of those events that were under most people’s radar. I found out about it on Twitter. I put in a search on robots within a 50 mile radius of Tampa and caught Dom’s post.
“Checking into the Ritz-Carlton in Sarasota, Florida — turns out this Design Summit is high class.”
It turns out Dom was one of the originators of Twitter; #8 in fact.
“Jack Dorsey envisioned twitter as a messaging service to keep people in touch where ever they were in short bursts and stay connected and share ideas,” said Sagolla who is #8 of more than a million subscribers to Twitter.
“There are almost genres of users who tweet what they are eating next or what they thought of what they ate or what their cat is doing. I am more of a journalist.”
It was fun talking with David, who is doing a great service to the Tampa Bay area, and it’s always fun to turn other journalists on to Twitter.
140 Characters is a style guide for the short form, by Dom Sagolla in San Francisco. Available for iPhone & iPod touch.
Also available wherever books are sold.
![140 Characters [book jacket]](http://www.140characters.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/140-characters-book1.jpg)
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140 Characters: Hypertext Edition is a new book format, constantly updated with fresh content. Available exclusively for iPhone & iPod touch.
@Dom helped create Twitter. He is also founder of DollarApp and co-founder of iPhoneDevCamp.
More at Dom.net.
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