Comments on: Microblogging needs platform independence http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/05/microblogging-needs-platform-independence/ Editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new content startup. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:20:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-RC1-10026 hourly 1 By: What Does Twitter Need To Survive? | The Outboard Brain Of A Geek http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/05/microblogging-needs-platform-independence/comment-page-1/#comment-109441 What Does Twitter Need To Survive? | The Outboard Brain Of A Geek Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:08:35 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/?p=837#comment-109441 [...] Ryan Block’s blog and read a very interesting post about how micro-blogging needs some platform independence and it truly got me to thinking - Why isn’t their an open source twitter clone on the market? [...] [...] Ryan Block’s blog and read a very interesting post about how micro-blogging needs some platform independence and it truly got me to thinking - Why isn’t their an open source twitter clone on the market? [...]

]]> By: Does Twittering mean you blog less? The answer might surprise you. » Ryan Block http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/05/microblogging-needs-platform-independence/comment-page-1/#comment-104669 Does Twittering mean you blog less? The answer might surprise you. » Ryan Block Thu, 22 May 2008 19:20:37 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/?p=837#comment-104669 [...] other Twitter-related post I’ve been wanting to write lately regards the correlation between the decline of [...] [...] other Twitter-related post I’ve been wanting to write lately regards the correlation between the decline of [...]

]]> By: Vance http://www.ryanblock.com/2008/05/microblogging-needs-platform-independence/comment-page-1/#comment-104211 Vance Wed, 21 May 2008 18:11:40 +0000 http://www.ryanblock.com/?p=837#comment-104211 What you say makes sense, but it is hard to be the first one on the block with a new technology only to see a dozen competitors come along and use your concept before you can even monetize it. The only way to make any money is to advertise (since you can't patent and then license the concept), and advertisement requires eyeballs, so there is a strong incentive to keep those eyeballs on YOUR product. However, you will say that a rising tide raises all boats and the only way this tide can rise is if it can be widely adopted and become mainstream, which requires an open platform. Still, you gotta feel their angst. What you say makes sense, but it is hard to be the first one on the block with a new technology only to see a dozen competitors come along and use your concept before you can even monetize it. The only way to make any money is to advertise (since you can’t patent and then license the concept), and advertisement requires eyeballs, so there is a strong incentive to keep those eyeballs on YOUR product.

However, you will say that a rising tide raises all boats and the only way this tide can rise is if it can be widely adopted and become mainstream, which requires an open platform. Still, you gotta feel their angst.

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