David Emery OnlineChanges for Some SMS Users - Good and Bad News
Let’s start with the bad news. Beginning today, Twitter is no longer delivering outbound SMS over our UK number.
Twitter needs a business model, stat.
In fact, I’m surprised they didn’t take this opportunity to roll out a similar ‘pro’ scheme to Flickr, where you can get SMS updates and maybe no API rate limits for $29.99/year. I think for twitter it could really work, especially considering that – due to the high API usage amongst the userbase – traditional banner/adwords based advertising models may well not work that well. It still mystifies me that they haven’t tried that yet though – surely it wouldn’t hurt?
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It would be unfair, I think, to only link to one side of this story so here’s Chris’ take as well. A thoroughly modern affair.
Visit ➔The Horrors Live
We’ve just launched this simple site for The Horrors – we’ve put a web cam in their studio and it makes for strangely compulsive viewing:
Visit ➔Last.fm: The Next Generation
I think the new version of Last.fm looks and feels a lot better then the outdated, slightly haphazard old one. The comments on this post are massively revealing, however – people really (really) don’t like change.
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No, of course blogging is not dead. It’s almost like saying writing is dead. No, what might be seeing something of a decline is this concept of ‘rockstar’ blogging – your Scoble’s; your Kottke’s; your Denton’s.
Blogging has gone mainstream, and the rockstars just aren’t relevant anymore.
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For a mass-market orientated web service such as MobileMe, not fully supporting any form of the most popular web browser is pretty poor form, isn’t it? Sure, I think you can just about get away with it if you’re a niche start-up aiming at early adopters, but not when you’re selling your product in cardboard boxes in retail stores.
Lazy arrogance, pure and simple.
(Oh and Ben, would you please finish your site? It. Hurts. My. Eyes.)
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