If I had a dollar …
So the big talk this weekend is that Twitter has an iPhone and Blackberry app… woooo …
I would too with $100 million cash in the bank. I might have even lined that up a week or so after closing $100 million a year back.
What I would NOT do is charge people to attend Chirp (Update:good post here I just saw ), which is also 18 months late, but who’s counting. I will use it as an excuse to camp out at True Venture’s office in San Francisco to do some meetings because people are in town. I definitely don’t need to pay to have Twitter tell me what may be their plans. It will be live tweeted by Scoble. There have been freaking millions left on the table in search to have offered up free tickets and a bigger venue for the event. But, that’s cranky old Howard. I love Twitter, I want Twitter to thrive. I also get pissed about these small details.
With respect to Twitter competing downstream, come on, who do not see this coming?
I have investments in Tweetdeck and Bit.ly and I would not take them back or sell them because Dave Winer hates URL shorteners or because Twitter is competing with me. When I make investments, I initiate the wire (I think), I sign the documents. In the case of Bit.ly and Tweetdeck I knew this day was coming and only shocked it took so long. I invested in the products and the opportunity and the teams. I also believed that valuations were crucial. For example, if you come to me with a Twitter app tomorrow, you paying me, might not be low enough.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Adobe…are at thermo nuclear level war. These little Twitter wars are kid’s stuff. I am just happy to be in the battle. That’s what it is all about if you are lucky enough to be breathing, investing and not having to fight real wars.
Game on .
Hi, exactly twitter is fast becoming a part of our lives and you have a good perspective on things..certainly twitter is fast emerging as a winner..wishing all the good luck to twiitter..kudos!!
Hi, exactly twitter is fast becoming a part of our lives and you have a good perspective on things..certainly twitter is fast emerging as a winner..wishing all the good luck to twiitter..kudos!!
This begs the question, what would I do now if I was tweetdeck or bit.ly. The instinct I’m following now is open backdooring the social channels. Tweetdeck has how many users? Bit.ly has what kind of analytics? The trick is getting users comfortable with status.net, activity streams, etc.
I’m betting on a market outside of Facebook because there will always be a web between corps for the same reason Stevie J and Eric Shmidt met at a coffee shop- neutral ground.
Update: caught up on Read write web interview of Lain. He’s got some groovy behaviorial prediction and classification in store and using Tweetdeck as an information capturing service. I see some similarities to that path and what Chris & crew are doing with Hunch. I hope they can predict when I’ll latch on to a value offer to users :)
i agree, it’s disappointing to see twitter getting serious about a mobile client so late in the game. and some would say it’s already too late to fill in the voids in twitter to really get any meaningful traction into the mainstream, that 100million is like twitter’s bailout money – a lot of cash, little results.
in a previous post you said “twitter can’t kill anybody, just themselves”. i think that’s spot-on. it’s becoming more like tumblr than it is a hard network, maybe it had a shot of being one but lost it, its existing users will continue staying loyal.
its still the best onramp to getting discovered and broadcasting…thats why
I like it. I am loyal as long as it does that best for me.
If only Twitter listened to a suggestion I made 1.5 years ago to exchange part of its over-inflated stocks for shares in all promising third party applications and focus all its capital on building infrastructure, they would be a much more successful company. Why would you build an open source if you don’t have a strategy how to gain from it? Sometimes good ideas come from the so called “nobody” and they are free. Listen to your customers.
If only Twitter listened to a suggestion I made 1.5 years ago to exchange part of its over-inflated stocks for shares in all promising third party applications and focus all its capital on building infrastructure, they would be a much more successful company. Why would you build an open source if you don't have a strategy how to gain from it? Sometimes good ideas come from the so called “nobody” and they are free. Listen to your customers.
This begs the question, what would I do now if I was tweetdeck or bit.ly. The instinct I'm following now is open backdooring the social channels. Tweetdeck has how many users? Bit.ly has what kind of analytics? The trick is getting users comfortable with status.net, activity streams, etc.
I'm betting on a market outside of Facebook because there will always be a web between corps for the same reason Stevie J and Eric Shmidt met at a coffee shop- neutral ground.
its still the best onramp to getting discovered and broadcasting…thats why
I like it. I am loyal as long as it does that best for me.
i agree, it's disappointing to see twitter getting serious about a mobile client so late in the game. and some would say it's already too late to fill in the voids in twitter to really get any meaningful traction into the mainstream, that 100million is like twitter's bailout money – a lot of cash, little results.
in a previous post you said “twitter can't kill anybody, just themselves”. i think that's spot-on. it's becoming more like tumblr than it is a hard network, maybe it had a shot of being one but lost it, its existing users will continue staying loyal.