“In the end, we’ll flock to the solutions that best increase our ability to be in touch with more people … ”

I’ve been using Flock as a separate browser to stream updates from friends on Facebook and Twitter. I follow their messages in the sidebar, and continue conversations as needed.

This is not the most elegant solution, and I’ll be happy when I find a better way to continue the exchanges I’m interested in, whether on Facebook, Twitter, or elsewhere.

“In the end, we’ll flock to the solutions that best increase our ability to be in touch with more people … ”

I’ve been using Flock as a separate browser to stream updates from friends on Facebook and Twitter. I follow their messages in the sidebar, and continue conversations as needed.

This is not the most elegant solution, and I’ll be happy when I find a better way to continue the exchanges I’m interested in, whether on Facebook, Twitter, or elsewhere.

People need to understand how these tools differentiate themselves from one another:
-IM = One-to-one immediate conversations
-Twitter = Open group discussions and sharing.
-Blogging = Presentation, followed by group commenting or discussion (depending if the commenting tools used)

At the moment, it’s still way too early to say if Twitter can trump Facebook, but the potential is there in the form of the extensability of the platform itself.

Herein is a lesson for Facebook. As mentioned above re moving “off closed email systems to open ones,” look what happened to AOL. If I remember the sequence of events correctly, while their platform was indeed exploding, their growth didn’t go Thermonuclear until after they open up to outside email.

Other examples include Firefox’s add-on ecosystem and Google’s AdSense which put a little piece of Google almost everywhere across the entire web. Seems to me that Face needs to learn that lesson or it will suffer a similar fate as AOL.

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People need to understand how these tools differentiate themselves from one another:
-IM = One-to-one immediate conversations
-Twitter = Open group discussions and sharing.
-Blogging = Presentation, followed by group commenting or discussion (depending if the commenting tools used)

At the moment, it’s still way too early to say if Twitter can trump Facebook, but the potential is there in the form of the extensability of the platform itself.

Herein is a lesson for Facebook. As mentioned above re moving “off closed email systems to open ones,” look what happened to AOL. If I remember the sequence of events correctly, while their platform was indeed exploding, their growth didn’t go Thermonuclear until after they open up to outside email.

Other examples include Firefox’s add-on ecosystem and Google’s AdSense which put a little piece of Google almost everywhere across the entire web. Seems to me that Face needs to learn that lesson or it will suffer a similar fate as AOL.

Shameless Plug: Read more at http://www.nealwiser.com

There’s a lot more value to the info coming out of Twitter than many appreciate. As a simple example, some of my kids work for a certain fast-food restaurant. Yesterday I just did a quick Twitter search on their name, and found there’s roughly 2000 tweets per week.

Even if half of these are just someone saying they’re eating there, the other 1000 unsolicited comments would cost quite a lot to collect, but they’re on Twitter just free for the asking, anytime someone wants to look.

We’ve barely scratched the surface of Twitter’s potential, but it’s already the best way to get on the leading edge of most any field of activity. The main question I have now is how it will be integrated with other sites, particularly FriendFeed and Facebook?