Everybody loves Twitter, Everybody wants it distributed

Last couple of days, I have been explaining to many people how Twitter’s open architecture changes the game. I blogged about API users providing shared experience here. Not to miss out on this, we went all out in building Twitter support in MessageDance. Yes offline tweet support included!
Couple of days back, Eric at VentureBeat, reviewed [...]

Are pageviews really that important?

Page views are the reason why Google had to take Facebook very seriously.
Eric Schmidt on page views -
People don’t appreciate how many page views on the Internet are in social networks
Marc Andreessen on Ning’s growth rate -
At this point the underlying platform is built and we are scaling rapidly — now over [...]

Google OpenSocial - like Google Base?

Rumor machine is in full swing and techmeme lately showed more similarity with a script for Sex, Love & Secrets. Latest secret story is that Google is about to unleash facebook killer of gigantic API-proportion. They even managed to gather two big enterprise giants - Oracle and Salesforce. Social graph goes enterprise 2.0?
To me [...]

Yahoo plans to “Poke Him” with email

Arthur Conan Doyle  once said - “it’s a capital mistake to theorize before one has data”. Data supports how widespread email usage is and that’s why email is so interesting
“..there will be 1.4 billion email accounts in active use world-wide at the end of this year, estimates Radicati Group Inc“
In last couple of days I [...]

Different graph for buttoned-up goofiness

When people tell the story that there will be one graph they are crazy,These are different platforms that are built for different purposes,
with different members and different relationships between them.
- Dany Nye (CEO LinkedIn)

Shhh Meme-cops are watching you

You can’t just monkey around anymore!
Dave Winer says people who are using “social graph” term are sounding like monkey.
In the wonderful echo-chamber called Silicon Valley there are some fine folks who need to wield baton and show everybody what meme-cops are capable of.

To begin with, Brad you cannot  conceptualize anything in the public space [...]

Email is dead, long live email!

So much action around email in last couple of days  -
Yahoo giving a mind boggling valuation to Zimbra. Though this has nothing to do with the open source. Zimbra got lucky in being there at the right time as big boys are getting desperate to re-arrange their online collaboration portfolio. Crazy valuation is all about [...]

Social networking IS a media business

And every media outlet needs some level of ombudsmanship. Chuqui has a great post on this topic:
The more I explore the social networking space, the more I think people like this are crucial for the good operation of the social network. They really aren’t Ombusdmen, though, because they need to be internal to the company [...]

Customer tool kits and context orchestration

Don Tapscott in Wikinomics:
Forget about static, immovable products. If your customers are going to treat products as platforms anyways, then you may as well get ahead of the game. Make your products modular, reconfigurable, and editable. Set the context for customer innovation and collaboration. Provide venues. Build user-friendly customer tool kits. Supply the raw materials [...]

While we’re fans of Twitter..

250 mashups and counting.