"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor"
-– Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. via Barack Obama via John F Kennedy
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A friend was asking me where I saw Twitter going, and some of what Dick talks about is along those lines (some of it is also things I just didn’t think about). There’s a window closing fairly quickly on what people generally term the “plumbing” of the web. If you think about the Internet as a house, the plumbing or wiring is what makes it habitable and powers the laptop I’m writing this on.
A core set of services exist as the plumbing of the Internet, Google is certainly one of them. Dick talks about Twitter as a platform-agnostic communications tool, with a view to trying to ensure people can discover the content they’re interested in.
There’s potential for Twitter, under that guise, to join the small group of companies considered to be the Internet’s plumbing, but I’d argue its utility beyond the simply superfluous communication sent out into the ether still needs to be more obvious to the masses.
Watch the video (HERE), and then let me know what you think.
A friend was asking me where I saw Twitter going, and some of what Dick talks about is along those lines (some of it is also things I just didn’t think about). There’s a window closing fairly quickly on what people generally term the “plumbing” of the web. If you think about the Internet as a house, the plumbing or wiring is what makes it habitable and powers the laptop I’m writing this on.
A core set of services exist as the plumbing of the Internet, Google is certainly one of them. Dick talks about Twitter as a platform-agnostic communications tool, with a view to trying to ensure people can discover the content they’re interested in.
There’s potential for Twitter, under that guise, to join the small group of companies considered to be the Internet’s plumbing, but I’d argue its utility beyond the simply superfluous communication sent out into the ether still needs to be more obvious to the masses.
Watch the video (HERE), and then let me know what you think.
As many of you know, I've been helping some good friends write a book on internet business models. The website (beta version) just went live (beginning of January 2011). Check it out, feel free to engage in the discussion (in fact please do!) and of course thoughts and feedback are very welcome.
What is Simply Seven?
Simply Seven is a practical framework designed to help companies select the right internet business model for their web site. It is based on the idea that there are only seven internet business models - no more.
The framework was jointly developed by an entrepreneur, a consultant and a business school professor and is being used by them in their jobs every day. Simply Seven is being published now as a book.
At TEDxSydney, Rachel Botsman says we're "wired to share" -- and shows how websites like Zipcar and Swaptree are changing the rules of human behavior.
