Haha, man would Doug Bowman be pissed.
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#22This is the worst thing that could happen to twitter. Google's brand doesn't have quite the same cachè it used to. Today, it means being bought with no improvements to the service for at least a year after that. Look at Grand Central and Jaiku as examples.
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#23Haha, man would Doug Bowman be pissed.
Haha, good one. (not being sarcastic, btw)
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of those just started: http://wrongtomorrow.com/ I should start adding Mike Arrington quotes, he's almost as bad as Scoble.
exactly the idea I had for a site.
Hah - I had a similar idea, except it wasn't pundits that you measured, it was regular people. You could make predictions, for the future, and people could vote up the "truthfulness" of them as time went by. You'd need some sort of penalty to discourage people from predicting everything under the sun though.
Of course, ideas are cheap...
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
exactly the idea I had for a site.
Hah - I had a similar idea, except it wasn't pundits that you measured, it was regular people. You could make predictions, for the future, and people could vote up the "truthfulness" of them as time went by. You'd need some sort of penalty to discourage people from predicting everything under the sun though. Of course, ideas are cheap...
Yeah, I just wanted to create a site where people can submit articles, blog posts or just any predictions about the future and a maturity date. At the maturity date, you can mark it correct or incorrect.
Only then can you sort out intelligent predictions from noise.
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#26For some reason, I just don't see this happening. If I just sold a company to google 5 years ago, why would I want to sell them another? I think it is much more likely they are collaborating on a project.
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#27Twitter. The bane of my existence.
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#28Not buying it. This is Google we are talking about, their main move has always been to release their own version of the service, hope to win, and only if that fails, do they open up their pocket book.
But a broken clock is still right twice a day, so who knows, maybe Arrington's source isn't full of it
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#29This is the worst thing that could happen to twitter. Google's brand doesn't have quite the same cachè it used to. Today, it means being bought with no improvements to the service for at least a year after that. Look at Grand Central and Jaiku as examples.
They wouldn't have to brand it as Google. Think: Yahoo buying Flickr.
I also could imagine some pretty terrible things happening to Twitter... like, for example, the site displaying "FUCK OFF" on every page load, forever.
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#30Not buying it. This is Google we are talking about, their main move has always been to release their own version of the service, hope to win, and only if that fails, do they open up their pocket book. But a broken clock is still right twice a day, so who knows, maybe Arrington's source isn't full of it
I'm not quite sure I agree. If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google, you will see that they have often bought companies as well.
In some cases you might argue that they have bought less known companies, refactored and rebranded the service, and then used it to go after the marked share of a more known service.