DISQUS

I strongly prefer the Tweetie app for iPhone at $2.99. Think Tweetstack app for iPhone might have potential. Loving the new Nambu app for Macintosh. Much prefer it to Tweetdeck or Twhirl. Don't agree on twitterfon - sure it is good for what it is, but the challenge of app-making is to squeeze power into an app in such a way that it still feels simple and fun. That's what tweetie does in my opinion.

Thanks for sharing this part of your life. I've read some of these books and appreciate the reminder of the principles. I was raised Christian and am ecumenical not believing that there is 1 true way but resonate most with Buddhism.

Thanks for exploring this important topic. A couple things. I like Twitter partly because it is asynchronous which feels easier to deal with a lot of the time in my busy lifestyle. I like that when I post it has a life of its own outside a single conversational back and forth kind of like a mini-blog-post.

If it is Twitter vs. FriendFeed and Twitter manages to survive, I'm going with Twitter. I'm pretty sure Twitter has 10x more users. But then, to a large extent, I'm going where the users I want to listen to and talk to are hanging out. I hope that Twitter gets its act together quickly before people move on to something else unless that something else is better than Twitter.

I get more of a real time feel with Twitter. I hate the elevation of content (like a mini-digg) on friendfeed. I don't want to keep seeing the same content come up every time someone *votes* for it. There has to be a better way. And there's definitely gaming going on. Right, you are supposed to support your friends. Thus the *best* does not necessarily rise to the top.

You do some really kick ass analysis. I hope you find a way to keep your blog growing. We need you and you know how to get hits and understand all this revenue generation stuff. I can see your blogging turning into some lucrative consulting and speaking gigs.

On a blog format issue. I hate wide 1-column formats because the type is really small on my iPhone. Right now when I turn horizontal, the font doesn't get bigger. That seems true on other mobile sites.

I am seeing the disruptive myself. When you think things are going to stay as they are, then Microsoft desktop apps win. When you start to buy into the mobile always connected concepts described in Communities Dominate Brands, then you see that there is a great big untapped upside that Zoho is tapping into. They are having a ton of fun. And something is working. Now you are not always connected, but in a University environment, people have lots of wi-fi plus 3G cellular like Verizon is right there. If you were in Korea, Japan or Finland right now where you do have 24/7 connectedness, you would be thinking differently.