Comments on: Is Twitter the Che Guevara of Microblogging? http://pravdam.com/2009/09/08/is-twitter-the-che-guevara-of-microblogging/ Pravda on Media, Technology, and Rebel Filmmaking Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:07:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Footprints (10.09.09) | Chris Deary http://pravdam.com/2009/09/08/is-twitter-the-che-guevara-of-microblogging/comment-page-1/#comment-47755 Footprints (10.09.09) | Chris Deary Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:05:05 +0000 http://pravdam.com/?p=1634#comment-47755 [...] Is Twitter the Che Guevara of Microblogging? [...] [...] Is Twitter the Che Guevara of Microblogging? [...]

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]]> By: kfirpravda http://pravdam.com/2009/09/08/is-twitter-the-che-guevara-of-microblogging/comment-page-1/#comment-47752 kfirpravda Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:00:44 +0000 http://pravdam.com/?p=1634#comment-47752 Thanks for your insights Joe. Standartization flattens competitions and move it away from technology to service, marketing budget etc. If your vision is correct, Twitter as general purpose network will die even faster than I've imagined. <br>Please take a look at my post about an event for IMTC called "2025". It might be interesting for you to speak there. Thanks for your insights Joe. Standartization flattens competitions and move it away from technology to service, marketing budget etc. If your vision is correct, Twitter as general purpose network will die even faster than I've imagined.
Please take a look at my post about an event for IMTC called “2025″. It might be interesting for you to speak there.

]]> By: Joe Cascio http://pravdam.com/2009/09/08/is-twitter-the-che-guevara-of-microblogging/comment-page-1/#comment-47751 Joe Cascio Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:36:28 +0000 http://pravdam.com/?p=1634#comment-47751 I agree with your conclusion and also with the reasons you advance. But I have a somewhat different picture about what the future of microblogging is. <br><br>Communication, messaging always tends to standardize around a protocol, not a specific service. We don't have 50 different telephones in our house to talk to different groups or individual people on. I gave a talk this past spring entitled "The End of the CompuServe Era of Social Networking." Just like email became standardized around SMTP, so social media will converge around open standards like RSS and PubSubHubBub. Yes, individual sites like Facebook and Yahoo will have a microblogging facet to their service, but I am hopeful and confident that they will interoperate, federate with other such services, just as Yahoo and Google offer email that interoperates with any other email server. I agree with your conclusion and also with the reasons you advance. But I have a somewhat different picture about what the future of microblogging is.

Communication, messaging always tends to standardize around a protocol, not a specific service. We don't have 50 different telephones in our house to talk to different groups or individual people on. I gave a talk this past spring entitled “The End of the CompuServe Era of Social Networking.” Just like email became standardized around SMTP, so social media will converge around open standards like RSS and PubSubHubBub. Yes, individual sites like Facebook and Yahoo will have a microblogging facet to their service, but I am hopeful and confident that they will interoperate, federate with other such services, just as Yahoo and Google offer email that interoperates with any other email server.

]]> By: kfirpravda http://pravdam.com/2009/09/08/is-twitter-the-che-guevara-of-microblogging/comment-page-1/#comment-47749 kfirpravda Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:45:32 +0000 http://pravdam.com/?p=1634#comment-47749 Amir - not offended at all, the whole idea of blogging is getting feedback. <br>In your response there is no real distinction between Twitter and Microblogging. If you look at your first paragraph, you are basically describing a microblogging service - something that I agree with you re its value. Re logging in to different sites - people are doing it already, and if there is already an active community there, it means that you have the ability to add this feature without an extra registration process. Also, there might be a scenario of logging to different sites using Facebook, Google, Open ID etc, that will solve the registration issue. <br>And of course, I might be completely wrong :) Amir – not offended at all, the whole idea of blogging is getting feedback.
In your response there is no real distinction between Twitter and Microblogging. If you look at your first paragraph, you are basically describing a microblogging service – something that I agree with you re its value. Re logging in to different sites – people are doing it already, and if there is already an active community there, it means that you have the ability to add this feature without an extra registration process. Also, there might be a scenario of logging to different sites using Facebook, Google, Open ID etc, that will solve the registration issue.
And of course, I might be completely wrong :)

]]> By: rebeccarachmany http://pravdam.com/2009/09/08/is-twitter-the-che-guevara-of-microblogging/comment-page-1/#comment-47748 rebeccarachmany Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:29:42 +0000 http://pravdam.com/?p=1634#comment-47748 Couldn't have said it better myself. Days are numbered for Twitter as a standalone service. Couldn't have said it better myself. Days are numbered for Twitter as a standalone service.

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