Twitter is giving rise to the most accessible, participatory public medium in history. The implications for social change, innovation, and entrepreneurship are huge but hardly explored. In the coming paragraphs I explain what I see and call out to you, to all, to help surface what's happening and understand how it can help us create the world we want. I care because we need change like never before. If that matters to you too, please read, comment, and share. Let's see where this goes.
What’s going on with Twitter (now at over 32m users - up from just ...
I think it's time to "pull a VISA" and free the Fail Whale.
Back in the early days of credit cards, the banks were facing competitive and processing challenges. A number of them came together create this thing called VISA - an idea to develop and provide common standards and processing infrastructure for their competing cards. Well I think it's time to do it again for this thing called public micro-messaging. Here's why.
With 3000% year over year growth, it's no question that Twitter is here to stay. It's also increasingly clear that what's behind the phenomenon is something bigger... as Om ...