Alex Ko on 2009-11-29
This was also the original social architecture of StumbleUpon, but was not salient enough and was abandoned at some point in favor of more complex friend/subscriber model.
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Good blog entry about what Twitter can do and how it fits in with Facebook, etc.
"I thought I should outline here some of the specific things I find so compelling about Twitter, with suggestions about architectural features to be emulated by other internet services."
excellent analysis of twitter and its impact on social web
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Post by Tim O'Reilly
If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to.
refelcts "what I'm paying attention to" ... "tidbits" that would otherwiese have been too quick/small for surfacing on the social radar: "all the things I could never find time to put on my blog, but that I spray via email like a firehose ... within O'Rei
Twitter is simple. Twitter works like people do.Twitter cooperates well with others. Twitter transcends the web. Twitter is user-extensible.Twitter evolves quickly.
I thought I should outline here some of the specific things I find so compelling about Twitter, with suggestions about architectural features to be emulated by other internet services.
"If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I'm paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O'Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers
From the O'Reilly Radar blog
Like a lot of people, I tried out Twitter early on, but didn't stick to it. Most of the early twitter conversation was personal, and I didn't have time for it. I came back when I noticed that about 5000 people were following my non-existent updates, waiti
Tim O'Reilly lets us know why the simple and functional Twitter is one of his favorite communication tools.
In many ways, Twitter is a re-incarnation of the old Unix philosophy of simple, cooperating tools. The essence of Twitter is its constraints, the things it doesn't do, and the way that its core services aren't bound to a particular interface.
I thought I should outline here some of the specific things I find so compelling about Twitter, with suggestions about architectural features to be emulated by other internet services.
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