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| September 11, 2008 | | There is very little value in any single neuron, but the collective value of all the neurons in a brain is enormous (even if we can't explain exactly how that happens.) | @TeacherPatti, my first impression of Twitter was exactly the same. And while I'm not sure exactly how or where a greater-than-the-sum-of-the-parts value will emerge, I am pretty confident that it will emerge. Twitter is really a general purpose, publish/subscribe, multicast messaging infrastructure. There is no doubt that such infrastructures can be valuable... almost a decade ago I worked with companies spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to license such platforms just to solve specific business problems. Now, several software generations later, here's Twitter, a nearly ubiquitously available, free platform with a relatively complete (and also free) programming API. As Tim Berners Lee once said of the Internet itself, this technology is emergent; emergent phenomena are often unexpected, nontrivial results of relatively simple interactions of relatively simple components . Something is bound to happen. | | |
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