This tweet was RTed by 100+ people. I don’t get it.
1. If List had been introduced earlier, organization would have been much more convenient. Now that many tweeters have followed thousands of people. Organizing is more time-consuming it takes longer.
2. Unless List slows down posting, I don’t see a reason to complain.
3. Values may be created elsewhere. To create contents for the social media world is to create values. Besides, some users elicit information from Twitter without (re)creating information, but carry the information onward to create values elsewhere. i.e. financial observers. The benefits of getting organized by lists may not be visible on Twitter itself, but are realized in the society.
4. Lists is new and evolving, why not let people have more fun with it?
When Yahoo! 360 closed down, I ebullient promoted WordPress and Blogger to all who wanted to find a good blogging platform.
People with professional intention stayed with WordPress & Blogger.
But one thing I had predicted and feared has come true. Those who write personal slowly & silently migrate to the uninspiring, plain and boring 
Notes application on Facebook.
What’s the moral?
- Convenience of distribution
- Social graph matter
- Behaviors and preferences are dynamic and can be changed by a superior product
- It is when one thing becomes a daily trivial consuming good that it grows powerful. Think Facebook. Think Microsoft. Think FMCG.
What many users had been complaining for the past years but they turned out users of Notes
WordPress
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Why core WordPress does not support “Connect” features
- WordPress is a blogging platform at heart
- It can be deduced that Matt’s team put their full focus on WordPress’ core values
- The result is that WordPress updates versions rapidly enough to keep bloggers fully awake and excited
- Most importantly, when WordPress becomes the #1 blogging platform, ecosystems will follow
- and see, now we have Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect…
- Eventually, the WordPress builders see though the values of WordPress-powered professional bloggers: attract readers with quality of publications. WordPress keep its bloggers concentrated on their writing task
What do you think?
We have always praised Tumblr for its simplicity:
- Without categories, posting is quick
- Media embed made easy
- Reblog is deadly convenient
However, few analysis has been done on the Type of Content that Tumblr promotes.
This entry dedicates to it:
Firstly, it doesn’t hurt seeing how Tumblelog differentiates itself from Weblog:
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Blog |
Tumblelog |
| Main medium |
Text |
Visual |
| Provoke |
Logical |
Emotional |
| Form |
Pseudo-stream. Actually reverse-chronicle collection of stopping points in which each entry is one big point. |
Stream |
| Macro-form |
Individual blogs |
All tumblelogs of concern in one stream |
| Main interaction |
Comment at one stopping point |
Reblog and forward the stream |
| Promote |
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So eventually, the difference in form leads to the difference in essence. Tumblelog is the heaven for emotions, popular art, creativity; it is the symbolic freedom of logging. What’s more, Tumblr has become more of a stream-based social image bookmark site.
How to monetize Tumblelogs requires a totally different way of thinking feeling.
P.S: this entry itself is not Tumblr-friendly, not any…
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