Comments on: Reconsidering Facebook http://smr.absono.us/2009/08/reconsidering-facebook/ karaoke mind control Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:15:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kevin Marshall http://smr.absono.us/2009/08/reconsidering-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Kevin Marshall Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:14:19 +0000 http://smr.absono.us/?p=436#comment-604 You've hit the curve early once again! The idea that we need a storehouse is absolutely brilliant...I don't think it will be either facebook or twitter though (just because they've already got strong positions in people's minds)...in some ways twitter search (at least the repository part of it) already is that storehouse, it's just that they've chose to only focus on 'search' so far on top of it (and because of size limitations they truncate and filter some of the data)...but the API is out there and so I guess someone can/will build things outside of search on top of that data set...<br><br>As for foursquare specifically...I'm not a convert yet (haven't tried it out)...but I do agree that it's MUCH more interesting to me where my friends have been (frequently) or where they are going to be (in the near future -- which as you know is a bit of the angle I'm playing toward with tym.ly)...overlaying those data sets on a map is a pretty cool and useful idea...<br><br>I guess it's still really early in all this...but it will def. be interesting to watch it all play out. You've hit the curve early once again! The idea that we need a storehouse is absolutely brilliant…I don't think it will be either facebook or twitter though (just because they've already got strong positions in people's minds)…in some ways twitter search (at least the repository part of it) already is that storehouse, it's just that they've chose to only focus on 'search' so far on top of it (and because of size limitations they truncate and filter some of the data)…but the API is out there and so I guess someone can/will build things outside of search on top of that data set…

As for foursquare specifically…I'm not a convert yet (haven't tried it out)…but I do agree that it's MUCH more interesting to me where my friends have been (frequently) or where they are going to be (in the near future — which as you know is a bit of the angle I'm playing toward with tym.ly)…overlaying those data sets on a map is a pretty cool and useful idea…

I guess it's still really early in all this…but it will def. be interesting to watch it all play out.

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