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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live ~ http://www.time.com/time… [Front page Canadian edition; business section US edition]
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Waiting in the grocery aisle to buy all my organic vegetables 😉 I was in SHOCK & AWE to see this as Time’s COVER story. The worlds most respected and wildly circulated news weekly and a magazine which, he who shall not be named wrote some brilliant features for at one time. Anyways, it’s largely a fluff piece IMO (being a social media expert in training): Scoble & Louis Gray (et al) have trounced many of the points made time and again here on FriendFeed or maybe they have more to reply as to this piece. So here for your perusal: – sofarsoShawn |
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Agreed it leaves a bad first impression. Only last summer, people would give a blank questioning (but interested) stare when you said Twitter but this skipped right past recognition of the service over to an eye-roll reaction. – Jess |
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I think that reaction is justified, shrugging Twitter aside for the most part, as it is backed up. However, the general thesis/main point the article comes up with in “How it will change are lives” is in the 2nd last para and a huge item that Scoble, Gray et al have failed to explore or touch on that I know of, is with the term they use “end-user innovation” which I like MUCH better and I think is more suitable than the term3rd party applications or …”There are several varieties of this kind of innovation, and they go by different technical names. MIT professor Eric von Hippel calls one “end-user innovation,” in which consumers actively modify a product to adapt it to their needs. In its short life, Twitter has been a hothouse of end-user innovation: the hashtag; searching; its 11,000 third-party applications; all those creative new uses of Twitter — some of them banal, some of them spam and some of them sublime. Think about the community invention of the @ reply. It took a service that was essentially a series of isolated microbroadcasts, each individual tweet an island, and turned Twitter into a truly conversational medium. All of these adoptions create new kinds of value in the wider economy, and none of them actually originated at Twitter HQ. You don’t need patents or Ph.D.s to build on this kind of platform.” – sofarsoShawn |
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““If Facebook continues to grow at its current pace, it will be bigger than Google in just a few years, says RBC .. http://tinyurl.com/ca77dl” 4 hours ago –
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the assumption is based upon a mere linear projection. A bit too simplistic hence far from convincing. – me |
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Une loi scandaleuse et ridicule – Conversation avec Jacques Attali – Lexpress
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Comme en agriculture, où les riches paysans de la Beauce se sont depuis longtemps cachés derrière les pauvres agriculteurs de montagne, pour obtenir des subventions dont ils étaient en fait les principaux bénéficiaires, les industries du cinéma et de la musique mettent maintenant en avant quelques créateurs et quelques chanteurs bien vus des puissants, pour maintenir d’indéfendables rentes de situation.
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If You Are Doing An Event, Bring Twitter Into The Room
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Op-Ed Contributor – Subprime Europe – NYTimes.com
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The wrenching decline in the standard of living caused by this crisis is provoking social unrest. American subprime borrowers who have had their houses foreclosed on are not — at least not yet — rioting in the streets. Workers in Eastern Europe are.
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The debts of many Eastern European countries and some banks will have to be written off. Ultimately, as in the case of the American subprime debts, taxpayers will have to foot the bill. But which taxpayers? The taxpayers of Austria and Italy certainly can’t. So the burden will have to fall on the rich countries of Europe, especially Germany and France
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Tags: economical crisis, jacques attali, subprime, twitter
