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Twitter as a “Platform Play”

From NYT today after Twitter’s first developer conference called “chirp” by JeremiahOwyang

(Twitter has) gone from a data play to a platform play. You’re seeing the same behavior that Facebook, Google and other online communities have done. This is a natural evolution of a Web company.

Here is the link.

FOLLOW - I really enjoyed Om Malik’s article comparing Twitter and Facebook development trategies.  Here is the link. Why is this important? Om argues

(Facebook and Twitter) are the Kane & Abel of our new pulsating two-way, near-real-time Internet. Together, they dominate the zeitgeist. They are the future of communications and interactions. They already have a large portion of our Internet attention. To put it simply, they are competing for essentially what is the next evolution of the Internet: The People Web.

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