Web2.0 Meta-Talk: Twitter vs. Google and Facebook vs. Itself
Interesting chatter bouncing across the blag-o-sphere / twitter-verse / what have you:
There's some discussion of the Facebook redesign, which is generally loathed, leading Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to proclaim that "disruptive" companies don't listen to their customers; presumably customers just drag you down. Actually, I don't think the redesign is bad in terms of pursuing the site's new "everything to everyone all the time" goals, but those goals seem like a bad new (not-so-new anymore) direction, perpendicular to the old awesome virtual address book ethos.
There's also a lot of discussion of Twitter, which continues to gain in popularity, leading some pundits to proclaim it a Google-killer, which makes little to no sense. Often I search the web and ask my friends in different situations, I also often search the web in the process of answering a question from friends (maybe I remember seeing relevant, but I need Google or Delicious to reacquire the URL) or search the web in the process of figuring out what question to ask or tell my friends that they are asking a stupid question and should just have Googled it themselves. Plus, Google is very likely to become better at searching Twitter than Twitter themselves unless Twitter excludes it, which they won't, because Google drives a lot of traffic to Twitter.
There's some discussion of the Facebook redesign, which is generally loathed, leading Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to proclaim that "disruptive" companies don't listen to their customers; presumably customers just drag you down. Actually, I don't think the redesign is bad in terms of pursuing the site's new "everything to everyone all the time" goals, but those goals seem like a bad new (not-so-new anymore) direction, perpendicular to the old awesome virtual address book ethos.
There's also a lot of discussion of Twitter, which continues to gain in popularity, leading some pundits to proclaim it a Google-killer, which makes little to no sense. Often I search the web and ask my friends in different situations, I also often search the web in the process of answering a question from friends (maybe I remember seeing relevant, but I need Google or Delicious to reacquire the URL) or search the web in the process of figuring out what question to ask or tell my friends that they are asking a stupid question and should just have Googled it themselves. Plus, Google is very likely to become better at searching Twitter than Twitter themselves unless Twitter excludes it, which they won't, because Google drives a lot of traffic to Twitter.