Comments on: TechCrunch Meetup This Thursday

By: peterson

peterson — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:36:19 +0000

Real nice piece of work. Like the way you have extracted and placed all the facts together. Btw nice diversity, from Apple iphone to MS LiveMesh

By: robbie van der blom

robbie van der blom — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:11:59 +0000

Interesting that you coin the term social service bus, which Gnip effectively is, I can see three kinds of service busses emerging, each with it’s own span:

Firstly the ESB which has been around now for some time and is targetted at the enterprise.
Secondly the SSB which is tartetted as some might call the social space.
Third the PSB (Personal Service Bus) which is targetted at stuff surrounding me the person and provides anchor points into the SSB but also contains stuff i need in my personal space and exposes some services to either the SSB or the ESB.

Interestingly the PSB would host my social graph and determines what others might or might not see via my PSB. Interestingly I should be in sole control of my PSB and determine which SSB’s might handle my outside messages.

When you start thinking in SB’s it mainly makes Mesh irrelevant form most parts as it is a transport mechanism of which there are many…

By: Karoli

Karoli — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:02:58 +0000

Wonderful piece. I read it while standing at the bus stop waiting for the magic. Can’t arrive a moment too soon.

By: Nick W

Nick W — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:42:35 +0000

That’s an amazing piece Steve. Thanks. It’s posts like that that help put all this stuff together for those of us that don’t spend all day thinking long and hard about this stuff — facinating and exciting, makes me wish I DID spend all day thinking long and hard about this stuff!

By: Steve Gillmor

Steve Gillmor — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:02:35 +0000

Thanks for the correction, Tim.

By: Tim F.

Tim F. — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:04:52 +0000

“Note: If you think Twitter is a joke, or that Microsoft has no chance of being trusted with anything, or that Apple will fall to the surging citizen militia, or any other common wisdom of the Internets, please move along, I beg you.”

What if we thought PodTech had no chance of succeeding under any circumstance?

Anyway, you sow seeds, not sew them.