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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