Tag Archives: Dave-Winer

Twitter’s Business Model: Contextual Tag Footers or Differentiating Feature?

Dave Winer hits the bull’s eye on Twitter’s business model

Twitter’s destiny is, imho, to be acquired by a phone company and sold as a feature that gives users a reason to use one brand of phone over another.

Imagine if Nokia offered a cell phone with Twitter built-in, a checkbox for SMS users (default on?) — “Do you want to send SMS messages to your buddy list?”

Don’t you think the kids would go for that?

I agree with Dave that contextual tag footers on Twitter will be lame. All mobile companies I meet tell me that tag footers work, but I’m far from convinced.

What do you think? About tag footers on SMSes? About tag footers on Twitter?

The New Interview Etiquette

What do you do when a journalist asks you for an interview?

Well, if you are an A-list blogger, you insist that you’ll do the interview only by e-mail (Jason Calacanis) or offer to blog about the topic and let the journalist quote from the post (Dave Winer).

Now, I’m not a A-lister yet, so I just do half a dozen little jumps around the room every time a journalist asks me for an interview. When I do become an A-lister… ;-)

Also See: Jason Calacanis (rejoinder), Dave Winer, Michael Arrington, Fred Vogelstein (rejoinder), Techmeme, Jeff Jarvis, Wired, Dan Gillmor, Valleywag, Heather Green.