[Sigia-l] Twitting yet?

[Ziya Oz]

Dmitry Nekrasovski:

> It's interesting that this thread has yet to mention Facebook as a
> service which was pretty good at providing ambient intimacy before
> Twitter came along.

Before Google there was AltaVista, which for its time was likely the best
popular search engine albeit with a brain-dead management team. What Google
had that AltaVista didn't (besides PageRank, of course) was an open
*platform* upon which many different types of services could be built, from
advertising to vertical mash-ups. I think the promise of Twitter (unlike the
more limited-domain Facebook) is to become a *platform* for all sorts of
presence-related services. It sounds to me like more of a
"pipes/infrastructure" type of service than a destination application, which
in many ways Facebook is. It'll be interesting to see how this will shake
out.

(Obviously I'm waiting for the Microsoft press release six months from now
about how they just innovated Enterprise User Personal Status Indicator
Network Client Application Premium Edition to "win it" in this space. :-)

Ziya
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