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Butterflies Aren’t Free - New York Times
"She’s so at odds with who she used to be, even in the Senate, that if she were to get elected, who would voters be electing?
Obama is like her idealistic, somewhat naïve self before the world launched 1,000 attacks against her, turning her into the hard-bitten, driven politician who has launched 1,000 attacks against Obama.
As she makes a last frenzied and likely futile attempt to crush the butterfly, it’s as though she’s crushing the remnants of her own girlish innocence."
Extraface » Why I Unfollow People Who Use Hashtags On Twitter
"It kind of looks like a representation of someone with food in their mouth while they talk." Another person who hates the meta brought inline.
The Evolution of the Pitch
David Parmet points to the Twitpitch as a new option for companies to get their story out there.
The Elevator Pitch Is Dead. Introducing The Twitpitch
"A Twitpitch is open and transparent, delivers on social proof, creates value without adding noise, and is somewhat personalized. The final great thing about the Twitpitch is that even when it is personalized, it isn't limited to the person it is directed at. You can simply send a message on Twitter, tag it with #twitpitch and anyone can track all the pitches being made at anytime by simply going to: http://www.hashtags.org/tag/twitpitch. That way, even if you forget to direct a pitch at someone, chances are it will find its way to the right people."
Royal Pingdom » Social network downtime Jan-Apr 2008
Twitter has the highest downtime of the social networks reveiwed.
Unit Structures: Twitter, Imagined Identity and Flux
"Twitter isn't a platform, it is a unique social network. It is a social network stripped to its most essential elements. Twitter provides social network designers a roadmap forward, a way of thinking about social networks more fundamentally. An "open" clone offers very little by way of competition. Further, an open clone that lacks the design or interaction aspects of Twitter would actually feel very different. Twitter is really about the user experience - something that simply can't be replicated via an open standard."
I agree completely.
Marc Benioff heralds Web 3.0 at DreamForce Europe | Software as Services | ZDNet.com
"We think Web 3.0 is now upon us. It’s the era of platforms,” declares Benioff, citing his own company’s Force.com, along with Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services and Facebook as examples. “New platforms are coming right out of the cloud. It’s time to make a choice. You can continue to build your applications in the software model or you can move your applications to the new model of cloud computing. There is a new way to build your applications."
Uh, web as a platform is one of the cornerstones of Web 2.0, Marc.
Will people never stop trying to coopt 'Web 3.0' to buttress their own market messages?
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