The Future Is Always Scary To Those

The Future Is Always Scary To Those Who Cling To The Past.

The Nice Thing About Twitter Is The Architecture Of Visibility. Email Is Invisible Unless You Reach Out To Someone Directly. With Twitter, Anyone Can Follow You And This Is One Of The Big Changes That Was Really Introduced By Flickr, Was This Wonderful Idea That You Can Follow Somebody Without Their Permission. Recognizing That Relationships Are Asymmetrical, Unlike Facebook Where We Have To Acknowledge Each Other Otherwise We Can’t See Each Other.

When You Have To Prove The Value Of Your Ideas By Persuading Other People To Pay For Them, It Clears Out An Awful Lot Of Woolly Thinking.

In Social Networks, You Gain And Bestow Status Through Those You Associate With.

I Think That Microsoft Will Increasingly Feel Margin Pressure From Linux As Well As People Saying: Well Actually The Applications That Really Matter To Me Are Not On My Pc. And So They're Going To Be Able To Extract Less Of A Monopoly Rent, So To Speak.