Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel
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Re: Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel
#2Sans-hardware (not supported until 3.0), there are a lot of apps for the iPhone that do credit card processing, including the one that's on Apple TV ad right now: http://innerfence.com
Re: Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel
#3Sans-hardware (not supported until 3.0), there are a lot of apps for the iPhone that do credit card processing, including the one that's on Apple TV ad right now: http://innerfence.com
I have to imagine that Dorsey knows this which makes me wonder if he has something up his sleeve, unless he thinks that his reputation in the business will help carry the project. This is, after all, the tech industry; we shouldn't underestimate the viral.
Re: Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel
#4Sans-hardware (not supported until 3.0), there are a lot of apps for the iPhone that do credit card processing, including the one that's on Apple TV ad right now: http://innerfence.com
I have to imagine that Dorsey knows this which makes me wonder if he has something up his sleeve, unless he thinks that his reputation in the business will help carry the project. This is, after all, the tech industry; we shouldn't underestimate the viral.
Isn't a credit card app basically B2B? I don't see how a reputation in consumer internet is going to help.
I think he has something more up his sleeve.
Re: Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel
#5Nothing bad about the Twitter Inventor, but there was (A LOT) of luck involved in the success of Twitter. His next project might be interesting, but it is 99.999% certainly not a new blockbuster like Twitter.
Re: Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel
#6Nothing bad about the Twitter Inventor, but there was (A LOT) of luck involved in the success of Twitter. His next project might be interesting, but it is 99.999% certainly not a new blockbuster like Twitter.
I don't know about those odds... It took an insight most people didn't have to come up with Twitter--to me the concept of twitter was not obvious at all until after I'd used it.
There are no guarantees, but one startling insight could indicate he has more. Plus, I like this idea...
Re: Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel
#7Nothing bad about the Twitter Inventor, but there was (A LOT) of luck involved in the success of Twitter. His next project might be interesting, but it is 99.999% certainly not a new blockbuster like Twitter.
How many times does it take before you don't call it luck anymore?
Re: Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel
#8Nothing bad about the Twitter Inventor, but there was (A LOT) of luck involved in the success of Twitter. His next project might be interesting, but it is 99.999% certainly not a new blockbuster like Twitter.
but there was (A LOT) of luck involved in the success of Twitter.
Actually there wasn't a lot of luck. Twitter is something that users actually wanted: a broadcast "status" update that wasn't just on their instant message client.
Twitter is successful because they remained positive and persevered while other people capable of making a similar system didn't do anything about it. Grumpy programmers just posted confused blog posts and forum comments about it. "Twitter? Huh? I don't get it." Nobody really tried to compete with them head on, and they still don't have any real competition. People say facebook is their main competition, and they are right, but Facebook has so much baggage of being something else that isn't Twitter that it seems unlikely people will ever consciously choose between one or the other. More likely people will use both services.
It's a bit of luck that anyone cares about posting their status online but it's not really luck that they are using Twitter to do so... What else would they use?
Re: Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel
#9Nothing bad about the Twitter Inventor, but there was (A LOT) of luck involved in the success of Twitter. His next project might be interesting, but it is 99.999% certainly not a new blockbuster like Twitter.
but there was (A LOT) of luck involved in the success of Twitter. Actually there wasn't a lot of luck. Twitter is something that users actually wanted: a broadcast "status" update that wasn't just on their instant message client. Twitter is successful because they remained positive and persevered while other people capable of making a similar system didn't do anything about it. Grumpy programmers just posted confused…
It's easy to pick reasons in after the fact to explain why something happened the way it did. Just being able to find plausible reasons doesn't mean they are right, or that the event wasn't in fact a matter of luck.
Re: Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel
#10Nothing bad about the Twitter Inventor, but there was (A LOT) of luck involved in the success of Twitter. His next project might be interesting, but it is 99.999% certainly not a new blockbuster like Twitter.
How many times does it take before you don't call it luck anymore?
2 in my book