There's a reasonably interesting article here about how Twitter could bring Google to its knees (well, in some ways), but the best thing from it is this:
I like both the article and the clipping. How do they find clippings like that?
With the article, the author seems to get confused: on the one hand, he says that dominant web companies fall to make way for more innovative ideas; and on the other hand he says that Twitter is dominant and will stay that way. My suspicion is that the reason everyone uses Twitter is because that's the service everyone else is using, and it only works if we all use the same system (twitter feeds into LJ and FB, but I don't see it going the other way). If Google *did* create now.google.com, then that would offer universal search access to all of the chattering systems and effectively unite the market so that the market could diversify, and we could all choose the service we prefer (if only, say, because the username we want is on Spackchat.com, and not Twitter).
So in a way, perhaps Google will be fine, and Twitter is doomed.
In other news: I am sure FriendsReunited died the same year as Yasser Arafat. Why is it now rebranding itself as a *free* version of Facebook (great differentiator, by the way).
How do they find clippings like that? I wondered that - I thought it might be fake for a moment, but I'm hoping not. I wonder how long the Notificator lasted, too.
I don't see it going the other way That's the trouble with Twitter, I guess - you can't automate summarising an LJ post into 140 characters, other than by using a link... which takes you back to LJ or whatever. I like tweets where people use the medium for itself, really.
With the article, the author seems to get confused: on the one hand, he says that dominant web companies fall to make way for more innovative ideas; and on the other hand he says that Twitter is dominant and will stay that way. My suspicion is that the reason everyone uses Twitter is because that's the service everyone else is using, and it only works if we all use the same system (twitter feeds into LJ and FB, but I don't see it going the other way). If Google *did* create now.google.com, then that would offer universal search access to all of the chattering systems and effectively unite the market so that the market could diversify, and we could all choose the service we prefer (if only, say, because the username we want is on Spackchat.com, and not Twitter).
So in a way, perhaps Google will be fine, and Twitter is doomed.
In other news: I am sure FriendsReunited died the same year as Yasser Arafat. Why is it now rebranding itself as a *free* version of Facebook (great differentiator, by the way).
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I wondered that - I thought it might be fake for a moment, but I'm hoping not. I wonder how long the Notificator lasted, too.
I don't see it going the other way
That's the trouble with Twitter, I guess - you can't automate summarising an LJ post into 140 characters, other than by using a link... which takes you back to LJ or whatever. I like tweets where people use the medium for itself, really.
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