3/ They are destined neither for commodity status as private sector technologies, nor for utility status as public services.
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4/ What they do instead is *create* frontier land, sparking land-grab economic races.
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5/ Twitter "running a clown car into a gold mine" is closer to Columbus (yeah yeah) discovering America than a company executing on an idea
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6/ Unix shell is a more subtle example, but I mean it in the sense of "every shell command becomes a unicorn business" (who said that? PG?)
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7/ One reason these entities "fail" as both business and utility entities is that they discover territories too vast for one entity to own
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8/ Pattern already clear with Craigslist: it doesn't get "disrupted". Instead companies like AirBnB bite off chunks small enough for 1 corp
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9/ Twitter "failing" to own the revolutions it obviously caused (messaging, bots) isn't a failure really if viewed that way.
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@kragen Not in the modern form. I see more Twitter DNA in Slack than I see IRC DNA. But yeah, some justice to that.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
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.@puellavulnerata @kragen I'm not interested in genealogy of ideas as much as scaling and spreading of a pattern into mainstream
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@vgr@puellavulnerata Surely the company responsible for taking N-to-N messaging mainstream would be AOL chatrooms, no?2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes -
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@kragen@vgr@puellavulnerata to me, it ain't messaging mainstream until my mum's using it to chat with her sisters (FB, WhatsApp)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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