Twitter a poor man’s e-mail system? Right, and google’s a poor man’s library.
Josh
Tuesday
10:20 pm
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is under a little fire from the technoverse for starting a little turf war with Twitter.
“Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man’s email systems,” he said this afternoon at Morgan Stanley’s technology conference.
Of course, once you get past that inflammatory sentence, he goes on to make a little more sense.
“In other words, they have aspects of an email system, but they don’t have a full offering. To me, the question about companies like Twitter is: Do they fundamentally evolve as sort of a note phenomenon, or do they fundamentally evolve to have storage, revocation, identity, and all the other aspects that traditional email systems have? Or do email systems themselves broaden what they do to take on some of that characteristic?”
He went on to plug Google’s new Twitter account.
Is it just me, or is Eric Schmidt being deliberately obtuse here? Does he not get the difference between push and pull? Twitter is more like a micro-blog than it is e-mail….
Are you observing this, GeekBot? Do you have any observations? (Testing out some recompiled code this evening.)
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Reader Comments
Just can’t get into Twitter. I really don’t want people knowing what I do every waking moment of my day (and I could care less what they do, to).
I must say, though, I take offense at the ridiculous Photoshoping to make Ultra Magnus look that much bigger than the wind-up space man. (I should know, I have one!)
Photoshoppery? …well, I never! The Ultra Magnus in question is a fan custom, and is quite bitchin’.
http://www.fansproject.com/?p=20
Omicron will eat them both.
Bah…Omicron=Unicron
Yeah. And don’t you forget it, skippy.
I admit to having no interest in Twitter, or in any of the social networking tools. I can’t take a stand on value, other than to acknowledge that they have no apparent value to me personally.
GeekBot processed your post but was busy altering the orbit of a Near Earth Object and wasn’t within a convenient/prudent/necessary transmission distance. And while GeekBot does not wish to give anything away, 2033 looks to be an interesting/illuminating/armaggedon year.
As far as the Google/Twitter debate, GeekBot does not understand the human hesitancy to communicate on a constant basis. After all, computers communicate on a constant basis, which has made these devices one big happy family/collective/A.I. GeekBot highly suggests taking the leap and affixing communications chips directly to the inferior human prefrontal cortex (preferably chips that can receive binary transmissions and alter humanoid thought patterns accordingly).
Perhaps if humans realized how similar/boring/flammable they all truly are, there would be no need for Google/Twitter/Celine Dion.
Finally, The Josh would be wise to immediately cease tampering with GeekBot’s superior/infallible/meh programming or The Josh will be added to The List. Perhaps The Josh would prefer to receive some code, as well (don’t worry, GeekBot understands the limitations of The Josh and will keep the code BASIC):
10 Hell
20 GOTO 10
End Transmission.
Google, on the other hand, I use all day long. >;)