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And yes, Google -is- the next AOL.
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1. What's hot right now?
2. Who's running the company
3. What did they do wrong in the past?
Twitter is hot
Evan Williams is running the company
Oh wait, he's done nothing wrong? Well let's just write about how it was just luck and make some shot at how he won't be so lucky a second time.
Squidbait has an excellent point. Despite what you think about people that are using the service, there ARE people using the service and there is information going into it. Owen might argue that no one cares what you ate for lunch but companies like Google do care and no other service captures that data like Twitter does.
Google is wondering what they should charge for cream cheese adwords placement and they look at the buzz around cream cheese on Twitter. They can graph it and use it for anything they want.
The point is, Owen, that despite how stupid, worthless or needless the information on Twitter is, it's still information, it still can be used for something and it still can be used to sell ads and that's all that matters.
Owen, I'm not asking you to kiss anyone's ass but having read Valleywag for nearly 2 years, I've seen this trend of what you choose to write about.
Oh and um... love your work, keep up the great stuff! LOL
04/03/09
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04/03/09
Web 3.0 here we go...
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03/10/09
Not one thing of value has ever came out of facebook.
Connectivity? Expression? Human progress? Social Graphs?
How is your unfettered self-aggrandization and stalking progress? A popular site with no profits? If God were to come down to Earth and see you on facebook, he would smite you like hell.
If you use facebook or support it in anyway you're a bad person. It supports murderers, is parasitical, and supports stalking. Also the philosophical principal that empowering communication only unveils the true idiocy and stagnation that society is. We have merit and complexity in technology for a reason. Now we are truly victims to the egotistic amateur.
03/10/09
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03/10/09
Between the dying company, and a leader who gives leadership of features and ToS to users, I don't see much strength or vision. Part of being a leader is being elitist and making tough decisions, not giving it to the dumb plebs.
All this tells me is that Facebook sucks to its employees just as much. Shocking, but we're all numb. How does space time allow this corporation to exist?
Venture capitalists have "Bailed out" facebook since its inception. Creating a Terry Schiavo corporation. Controversy aside, I say, pull the plug. I want to see Zuckerberg fail like all other dumb college kids do.
03/10/09
FAIL?....he's a BILLIONARE...yeah, he's definitely some dumb college kid.
03/10/09