Comments on: Twitter the next Google? Not likely! http://blog.mastermaq.ca/2008/04/24/twitter-the-next-google-not-likely/ The official blog of Mack D. Male, an Edmonton blogger. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven Hsu http://blog.mastermaq.ca/2008/04/24/twitter-the-next-google-not-likely/comment-page-1/#comment-8134 Steven Hsu Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:38:11 +0000 http://blog.mastermaq.ca/2008/04/24/twitter-the-next-google-not-likely/#comment-8134 I don't know what exactly Twitter does. But if it is as good as Mack say it is, then I have to assume that it can be considered as a disruptive technology. And if you look at the life cycle of a company, the pattern has always been that company with mature technology always lose out to disruptive technology. Again, on the condition that if Twitter is as good as Twitter users say it is, then it would be bit of a stretch to say that Twitter won't be what Google is now to Microsoft. As I remember when Google was just a startup, Microsoft dismissed it. It is just search. How can google make money on that. Well, it did. Just like when you play chess, the frightening part of your competitives move is not what piece he has just moved, but what moves will follow that you are not aware of. Google's first move was to build a search engine. Google's second move is to develop web 2 apps to bring more data online so that we as consumers become dependent and REQUIRE to be connected. If I was to guess, I would Google third move will be to charge consumers to access the application and data that they hold that we cannot live without. I don’t know what exactly Twitter does. But if it is as good as Mack say it is, then I have to assume that it can be considered as a disruptive technology. And if you look at the life cycle of a company, the pattern has always been that company with mature technology always lose out to disruptive technology.

Again, on the condition that if Twitter is as good as Twitter users say it is, then it would be bit of a stretch to say that Twitter won’t be what Google is now to Microsoft. As I remember when Google was just a startup, Microsoft dismissed it. It is just search. How can google make money on that. Well, it did. Just like when you play chess, the frightening part of your competitives move is not what piece he has just moved, but what moves will follow that you are not aware of. Google’s first move was to build a search engine. Google’s second move is to develop web 2 apps to bring more data online so that we as consumers become dependent and REQUIRE to be connected. If I was to guess, I would Google third move will be to charge consumers to access the application and data that they hold that we cannot live without.

]]> By: Mack D. Male http://blog.mastermaq.ca/2008/04/24/twitter-the-next-google-not-likely/comment-page-1/#comment-8117 Mack D. Male Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:26:07 +0000 http://blog.mastermaq.ca/2008/04/24/twitter-the-next-google-not-likely/#comment-8117 Rob, I think you need to be a little more open-minded! As the Evans brothers pointed out in their post, people thought many of the same things about Google when it was young. No one expected Google to find a revenue stream, it did so almost by accident. No one expected Google to become a billion dollar company, but it did. Rob, I think you need to be a little more open-minded! As the Evans brothers pointed out in their post, people thought many of the same things about Google when it was young. No one expected Google to find a revenue stream, it did so almost by accident. No one expected Google to become a billion dollar company, but it did.

]]> By: Rob Davy http://blog.mastermaq.ca/2008/04/24/twitter-the-next-google-not-likely/comment-page-1/#comment-8094 Rob Davy Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:22:39 +0000 http://blog.mastermaq.ca/2008/04/24/twitter-the-next-google-not-likely/#comment-8094 Even your entry here about Twitter is a bit of hyperbole... "The sky is the limit." Not really. Twitter is extremely limited, both in product and appeal. The product has no logical revenue possibilities and limited product expansion. The appeal is even less so than blogging (which is far from a mainstream activities, regardless of what the tech-press seems to think), unlike a search engine which has huge universal appeal to almost everyone in every walk of life. Take a very well functioning and well used search engine, sprinkle in some well placed ad opportunities and you have Google, the multiple billion dollar monster that it is (and Twitter isn't and won't ever be) Even your entry here about Twitter is a bit of hyperbole…

“The sky is the limit.”

Not really. Twitter is extremely limited, both in product and appeal.
The product has no logical revenue possibilities and limited product expansion. The appeal is even less so than blogging (which is far from a mainstream activities, regardless of what the tech-press seems to think), unlike a search engine which has huge universal appeal to almost everyone in every walk of life.

Take a very well functioning and well used search engine, sprinkle in some well placed ad opportunities and you have Google, the multiple billion dollar monster that it is (and Twitter isn’t and won’t ever be)

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