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• Failing to Scale  Years ago, Google did something brave, bold, and innovative. They opened up GMail to a miniscule number of people and gave them a couple handfuls of invites to share with others. At the time, I assumed that strategy was as much about marketing as about scaling the service up. These days - when the
• In the Twucket  Aaron Fruit pointed me to a screenshot of Rebisoft’s new Twitter client, Twucket. Yes, in fact, the purple arrow with the caption, “Click a user’s image to open their Twitter page…” points right at my chin. er did. Neat. I’m even happier they caught me writing about Cullect. UPDATE: According to J, Rebisoft updated their graphic. Strange,
• Diversified Rhino Guarding “If you’re building on someone else’s platform, whenever they are down, you are down. There is no way around that.” - Brian Breslin on why TwitBin development is stalled. A year ago, I wrote about my hesitation of building on someone else’s platform. Since then, I launched Cullect. Which is nothing if not built atop
• Short Message Silo  Jaiku’s growth strategy is getting Twitter’s overflow. But only if you look at it from a winner-take-all, one-silo-for-everyone, perspective. Look at email. I like Apple’s Mail.app. Lots of other people like Gmail. I still know people that swear by Eudora. Despite the different applications, we all still get the messages from each other. The short
• Friday, March 30, 2007 3:29:17 PM “Please do not overdo it, nobody wants to read about every single track you hear. “ Really? I thought that’s what Twitter was all about. Oh well.