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Collapsing Space
“But I can’t imagine that blogging and Twitter won’t fully merge, and I expect that to happen soon.” – Dave Winer I’ve been posted to Twitter from Cullect since Cullect launched. Cullect.com/Garricks-Friends probably has as many blog feeds as Twitter feeds (yes its more about the people than their choice of publication). This is a […]
Pownce, Exit Here.
While, I wasn’t kind to Pownce a year ago, twice even. There are many unfortunate things about the shuttering of Pownce. Halfway down the list is making the mistaken assumption that the same shuttering couldn’t happen to Twitter (or any other centralized, free, web service). Remember Evan sold Blogger to Google 6 years ago – […]
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 tiniest, […]
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 […]
Twitter: Build a Revenue Stream on Dunbar’s Number
The problem with many of the suggestions on how Twitter should charge1,2,3 is they put the emphasis on the wrong problem. The problem isn’t on the publication side (number of ‘tweets’ written by any individual), it’s on the distribution side (delivering the ‘tweets’ to their ‘followers’). A simple equation to understand this ‘spew’ problem. Message […]
Twitter Bingo
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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 […]
…And They Asked 4 Followers, And They Asked 4 Followers
Something I wrote on Twitter a couple weeks ago: “…2 questions: a) What if there was an open source, more effective alternative to Google search? b) What if Twitter is that alternative?” Today, Four Reasons Why Twitter is the Next Google writes: “Not only has Twitter inadvertently taken crowdsourcing to search, it has actually taken […]
What Andrew Baron Should Be Selling: Following
There’s lots of chatter today about Andrew Baron auctioning off his 1500 Twitter followers. As of this writing, the auction is just over $500. Standard ad-based media play: aggregate eyeballs and sell them off to the highest bidder. Yummmm. Eyeballs. “This stunt may spark some copycatters, but it is essentially meaningless.” – Stowe Boyd I […]