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Re: Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

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Post by jalammar »

vang3lis wrote: post #34
vaksel wrote: post #28

Not 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

> 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 it failed! See what happened to Jaiku

Jaiku was also bought, not developed in-house.

Re: Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

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Post by ojbyrne »

geuis wrote: post #22

This 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.

Ok, spelling/grammar nazi time. The accent over cache would be only slightly pretentious if you didn't have it pointing the wrong way (caché is the slightly archaic spelling you're struggling to remember). But the fact that the word you're looking for is "cachet" makes it a double fail.

Re: Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

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Post by jlees »

Splines wrote: post #24
yan wrote: post #14

Earlier 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...

http://www.hubdub.com/ ?

Re: Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

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Post by bluelu »

mattmaroon wrote: post #19

"Real time search" is a great new buzzphrase, like "social graph", used to make a startup sound important rather than just popular and to therefore justify lofty valuations. Any information worth having will still be worth having a half hour later when you can find it on real news outlets, professionally written and researched and with more than 140 characters. This is all predicated on the ridiculous notion that "sh…

As if the engineers at google were too stupid to implement real time search of a limited source set... :-)

If you search something that's not very common on twitter, the search will take forever (> 10 seconds to return results).

Re: Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

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Post by dawson »

palish wrote: post #35
_bn wrote: post #7

I find it funny how Arrington links to previous posts where he cites himself having some profound knowledge about the importance of a company or product. Hey mike, you're a journalist, not a CEO. When it comes to business, you really don't know your head from your ass.

Would you say that in person? No? Then don't say it here. By the way, I think Mike has posted here once or twice.

What if he would say it in person? 'just saying! But, if he would, then he can say it here and did.

Re: Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

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Post by ahoyhere »

sam_in_nyc wrote: post #29
geuis wrote: post #22

This 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.

Yahoo! couldn't resist fucking with Flickr, though. Or delicious. Think about the damn tying it to freakin Yahoo! accounts, which look like they're out of the stone age, and the "you have to log in every 2 weeks to save a bookmark" feature they added to delicious, etc., etc. etc.

If people fuck with Twitter like that, it'll be gone. Service instability is one thing. Adding so much friction is another.

Re: Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

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Post by jodrellblank »

yan wrote: post #25
Splines wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

See Derren Brown's "The System". You wouldn't sort out intelligent predictions from noise, you'd sort out (intelligent and/or lucky) predictions from noise. Which still wouldn't give you any idea which future predictions to trust.

Re: Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter

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Post by systemtrigger »

ojbyrne wrote: post #42
geuis wrote: post #22

This 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.

Ok, spelling/grammar nazi time. The accent over cache would be only slightly pretentious if you didn't have it pointing the wrong way (caché is the slightly archaic spelling you're struggling to remember). But the fact that the word you're looking for is "cachet" makes it a double fail.

Who is being pretentious now?
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