Recently, I was reading “Why Twitter Will Soon Become Obsolete” by Jason Clark . Very well written and insightful piece that was another reminder of how rapidly change is coming at us.
Jason makes the case that while micro-blogging – the 140 character limit of posts (tweets) that Twitter pioneered – is here to stay, there is no reason to believe that Twitter itself will have the staying power of say a Google, Apple or Microsoft. The marketplace is littered with the dead and dying business entities that once generated all of the buzz that Twitter now enjoys e.g. Netscape, AOL, Friendster and MySpace to name a few.
But apart from marketplace vagaries that are hard to explain even after they have occurred (read… Continue reading


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