Google Plus vs. Twitter?
Scoble: Google Plus has made Twitter boring; http://eicker.at/2h vs. Siegler: Twitter is not Google Plus; http://eicker.at/2i
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Boxcar Services
Boxcar, iOS push notifier, adds new services besides Twitter, Facebook: Google Buzz and Voice, Growl; http://eicker.at/Boxcar
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Foursquare: Brands Push Tips
Foursquare lets established brands push information, moving from a mere game to a location platform; http://j.mp/cjpinv
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Google Buzz API
Google Buzz gets an API: will be integrated into Seesmic, TweetDeck, and more; http://j.mp/9eimLQ
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WordPress(.com), Twitterfeed, PubSubHubbub
WordPress(.com) supports PubSubHubbub (PuSH; and rssCloud), matching perfectly with Twitterfeed now; http://j.mp/bOBqYY
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Yammer 2.0
The Yammer 2.0 iPhone app is now available to download with multiple new features, including push; http://j.mp/2663k
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Push Gmail
Google finally enables push Gmail for iPhone and Windows Mobile as a feature of Google Sync; http://j.mp/1Uqfk5
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PubSubHubbub vs. rssCloud
Fraser: Both rssCloud and PubSubHubbub represent a huge step forward for the [real-time] web; http://j.mp/15u2n6
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Boxcar 2.0
Boxcar pushes Twitter to iPhone: supports all tweets, multiple accounts, trending topics, Facebook; http://bit.ly/KK0PQ
Gerrit Eicker 08:40 on 19. July 2011 Permalink |
Scoble: “For the past few days I’ve been hanging out in Jackson Hole with a bunch of geeks and one thing I’ve noticed over and over is how boring Twitter has gotten when compared to Google+. Why has Twitter turned boring? I’ve found several areas: 1. First experience. 2. Pictures and videos. 3. Control over content distribution. 4. No API, no auto pushing of content. 5. Signals are visible from who you excited and pissed off. 6. Auto flowing webpage. So, let’s take each of these areas on, and talk about what Twitter could do to make users excited again.”
Siegler: “Put more bluntly: if Twitter is batshit crazy enough to implement even half of the things that Scoble lays out, they will effectively kill their own product. … Twitter is not Google+. Nor does it need to be. If they tried to make it into Google+ on the fly, the millions of current users would rightfully throw a shit-fit. I have a feeling that Scoble would too. … The truth is that Twitter almost did kill itself a few years ago also due to scaling issues. But for whatever reason, none of their competitors were able to capitalize and Twitter emerged, stronger. … Twitter’s core concept is the extension of simple, short messages throughout the past many decades. The postcard begat the SMS message begat the IM status message begat Twitter. Sometimes the simplest ideas resonate because of the very fact that they are simple.”
Winer: “Scoble, my longtime friend, and someone whose chutzpah I admire, says that Google-Plus is making Twitter boring. – Yes, I agree – and that’s a good thing. – He says Twitter should evolve to be more like Google, but I disagree. … It isn’t until a technology becomes boring that it becomes truly useful. Because it’s the things people do with tech that are interesting. … Twitter has been interesting for far too long. What they should want now is to be used as an almost invisible, taken-for-granted but indispensible piece of the workings of the Internet. Permanent link to this item in the archive. – It’s way past time for it to be the precocious upstart. It’s used for all kinds of mission-critical communication. Reliability would be a better measure of its success over interestingness.“