Comments on: The Twitter Model - the modularized service http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/ Ivo's blog about PHP, the internet and life in general Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:07:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: how things work http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/comment-page-1/#comment-279541 how things work Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:50:12 +0000 http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/#comment-279541 [...] works by taking twitter.com as an example. This might become the way to do business the next years.http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/Advertising: How Things WorkAug 8, 2008 ... Critics from academia and politics asked the NCAA which [...] [...] works by taking twitter.com as an example. This might become the way to do business the next years.http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/Advertising: How Things WorkAug 8, 2008 … Critics from academia and politics asked the NCAA which [...]

]]> By: Sander http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/comment-page-1/#comment-240471 Sander Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:17:28 +0000 http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/#comment-240471 Ivo, you write "It's one of those things that if you don't have it, you don't know why you should, but once you use it, it becomes so common it's hard to imagine life before it.". I think I should probably agree. But could you also try explain why I should then join twitter? :) Ivo, you write “It’s one of those things that if you don’t have it, you don’t know why you should, but once you use it, it becomes so common it’s hard to imagine life before it.”. I think I should probably agree. But could you also try explain why I should then join twitter? :)

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]]> By: Marina Martin http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/comment-page-1/#comment-236131 Marina Martin Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:17:56 +0000 http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/#comment-236131 I wouldn't brush away other microblogging services just yet. Twitter made many of us realize the power of microblogging, just as we once had to discover the power of email and instant messaging. However, I don't want all the email and IMs in the world controlled by AOL, and as such we have a distributed system where hotmail.com can talk to anydomain.com seamlessly. Identi.ca and the platform it's built on, Laconi.ca, is really promising because its establishing the OpenMicroBlogging protocol (http://openmicroblogging.org) which allows multiple microblogging systems to exist and to communicate with one another. This preserves the microblogging concept without trapping all my messages behind one fortress. I wouldn’t brush away other microblogging services just yet. Twitter made many of us realize the power of microblogging, just as we once had to discover the power of email and instant messaging. However, I don’t want all the email and IMs in the world controlled by AOL, and as such we have a distributed system where hotmail.com can talk to anydomain.com seamlessly.

Identi.ca and the platform it’s built on, Laconi.ca, is really promising because its establishing the OpenMicroBlogging protocol (http://openmicroblogging.org) which allows multiple microblogging systems to exist and to communicate with one another. This preserves the microblogging concept without trapping all my messages behind one fortress.

]]> By: Ian Barber http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/comment-page-1/#comment-235181 Ian Barber Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:01:06 +0000 http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/#comment-235181 The service + API is not a million miles from what microsoft did - they built an operating system and were generous with development facilities (compare to os/2 for example), which encouraged a lot of applications to be written on it. They did indeed buy a lot of technologies other people had developed, but they often just cloned them (which has many of the same benefits, lower risk etc. ). The difference was that microsoft could be generous in building a platform as their business was fairly traditional - they sold a product - and the other apps could only make them money through more sales. Twitter doesn't have this luxury, their apps tend to cost them instead (through extra load). While there may be aspects they can use to make money, I'm not sure we've actually seen anything serious. I think there is something out there, but the question is: if someone does develop a method of really making cash though a Twitter related service, and Twitter didn't get in there early, would it be Twitter buying them, or them buying Twitter? The service + API is not a million miles from what microsoft did - they built an operating system and were generous with development facilities (compare to os/2 for example), which encouraged a lot of applications to be written on it. They did indeed buy a lot of technologies other people had developed, but they often just cloned them (which has many of the same benefits, lower risk etc. ).

The difference was that microsoft could be generous in building a platform as their business was fairly traditional - they sold a product - and the other apps could only make them money through more sales. Twitter doesn’t have this luxury, their apps tend to cost them instead (through extra load).

While there may be aspects they can use to make money, I’m not sure we’ve actually seen anything serious. I think there is something out there, but the question is: if someone does develop a method of really making cash though a Twitter related service, and Twitter didn’t get in there early, would it be Twitter buying them, or them buying Twitter?

]]> By: Michelangelo van Dam http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/comment-page-1/#comment-234891 Michelangelo van Dam Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:14:21 +0000 http://www.jansch.nl/2008/08/15/the-twitter-model-the-modularized-service/#comment-234891 Ivo, Once again a great posting about a great service. I do believe the business model you describe here, where you have one killer app with a great API and several third-party applications plugging into that API, is the way business shall be done in the next (few) year(s). Ivo,

Once again a great posting about a great service. I do believe the business model you describe here, where you have one killer app with a great API and several third-party applications plugging into that API, is the way business shall be done in the next (few) year(s).

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