The magic of Twitter has long been that you didn’t have to understand it to use it. You just wrote tweets, and they appeared. You followed other people, and their tweets appeared. That’s it. The rest of Twitter was based on social behaviors transmitted through oral culture and imitation. It was software design through anthropology. [...]
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Realtime search vs. permanent reputation
May 10, 2009I took time off a few years ago to go back to school and study the history of technology. What I learned is that most people involved with technology aren’t interested in history. They are too busy searching for the next big thing. Right now the big thing is realtime search. I’m a techie myself, [...]