[Joakal]

A project that delivers decentralised twitter-like applications as well as interfaces that aggregates it. There's several projects I believe. Essentially make it akin to an email service.

I suppose if you're aiming for the next best thing after Twitter, it might be brief videos with voice recognition. eg "Joakal: Met HN's founder!" "(PG talking) I like blackberries. Blackberry companies are best" (10, 20 or 30 secs?). That would make spam control and aggregation pretty challenging but lots of potential for advertisements and interviews.

Here's a brief advertisement (edited), "The Last Exorcism - BEST OF Chatroulette reactions": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNSaurw6E_Q And brief comedy (edited), "Top 20 5 Second Films Presented By UPROXX": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saqO_ZqX6uY