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Wednesday Nov 04, 2009
- Turning Twitter into an application server - "... Twitter plays the role of the enterprise service bus and the Twitter API is the broker between data sources ...". I suggested as much a few months ago.
- Naked Win 7 still vulnerable to most viruses - Hard to believe this is still the case. "User Account Control did block one sample; however, its failure to block anything else just reinforces my warning prior to the Windows 7 launch that UAC's default configuration is not effective at protecting a PC from modern malware".
- AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy - Odd course of action.
- Google praises Microsoft's HTML 5 thoughts - After complaining about their lack of participation, they had to praise it, but will their participation help or just slow the process down?
I would not call twitter an AppServer, but it certainly is a PubSub bus. And, to me, that is the part of Twitter that is actually interesting.
If PubSub is what's useful about twitter, then I don't get the high valuation; as PubSub is not very sticky and can be bridged easily
FB (or even linked in) is much more sticky. I think of those as my personal and professional sites, but twitter is just a bus...
Posted by Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart on November 04, 2009 at 03:59 PM PST #