links for 2009-03-04

"In other words, they have aspects of an email system, but they don't have a full offering. To me, the question about companies like Twitter is: Do they fundamentally evolve as sort of a note phenomenon, or do they fundamentally evolve to have storage, revocation, identity, and all the other aspects that traditional email systems have? Or do email systems themselves broaden what they do to take on some of that characteristic?

I think the innovation is great. In Google's case, we have a very successful instant messaging product, and that's what most people end up using."

Push the green button. On most phones this brings up the log file. However that's a log of calls rather than integrated with SMS or other updates from friends (eg facebook, twitter, The voximobili solution integrates the log. Nice! Obvious yes. Are we there yet in general. No. Should we be yes? With an address book like this… live can become more interesting.

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