This is an AMAZING video.
Watch the 8 plus minute battle unfold, it gets really interesting around the 4 minute mark.
The first thing that struck me was how this event is a metaphor for life, business, competition, starting a new venture, take you pick. Make sure you can hear the commentary as events unfold.
Just heard Evan Williams discuss Twitter.
I must admit, the jury is still out for me regarding wide acceptance of Twitter. For those that haven’t heard, Twitter is a mash of dodgeball, IM, and a blog that is designed to answer the question “What are you doing”?
At SxSW Twitter made quite a stir (techies + booze + music + wireless devices = FUN). Apparently Twitter acted as a self reporting geo-locator. I heard one podcaster say it was like high school: trying to figure out whose parents are out of town and have the best booze :-p
While I was considering how Evan plans to make money on Twitter (If I can track him down I’m going to ask him) it dawned on me that Twitter is a good tool to self report and parse out information in a micro attention social interface and easily digestible (albeit constantly interrupting) manner. It may in fact be the next evolutionary step for blogging.
Blogging tends to be a stream of consciousness, topically driven (at least at first). Twitter limits user input by a 140 character cap. This mandates pith. And judging by the comments on Evan’s friends, it dramatically changes the nature of what is being shared among a friend network. While we listened, updates flashed across his screen like: eating an orange, late breakfast, I HATE PHOTOSHOP, checking emails now. One guy even used his post to announce that he updated his blog. Guess he doesn’t trust RSS.
Stan James CTO of lijit has a different angle.
