Google vs. Twitter II
Schmidt, Google: Twitter is “a poor man’s email system”; http://tr.im/gZSA
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker 17:19 on 4. March 2009 Permalink |
Winer: “Finally, I couldn’t help but notice how similar Google’s reaction to Twitter is to the reaction of all market leaders to initially successful upstarts. It’s the same reaction Alta Vista and Yahoo had to Google when they were young. “Search is only part of a portal,” they sniffed. You can make a hugely long list of BigCo’s that failed to understand the threat presented by upstarts, and lived to regret it. It’s hard to think of a a single example of a BigCo that took a threat seriously when it (based on historical hindsight) needed to. Maybe this is because people like Schmidt, while they are educated, and intelligent, weren’t there when their company was the upstart, and neither were most of the people there now. The institutional memory fades, and as it does, it creates the opportunity for the next generation? Perhaps. We’ll get a chance to find out soon enough.“
Google vs. Twitter III « Wir sprechen Online. 09:47 on 21. April 2009 Permalink |
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