Louis Gray, Chris Saad and Ben Parr have a conversation about Twitter’s new API partnerships and its implications for their revenue, the developer and user communitis and APIs. Is their approach competitive or cooperative with the community? How is their model likely to change over time?

This show mentions @al3x, @rsarver, @parislemon, @ev, @paultoo, @kfury, @btaylor and discusses Buzz, Pubsubhubbub, Facebook, FriendFeed and Twitter.com

 

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Google Buzz, only a week old, is gaining a lot of visibility, and is seen as Google’s most direct attack against social upstarts Facebook and Twitter. Some really like it. Others are up in arms about perceived privacy violations. Louis Gray and Chris Saad discuss whether Buzz’s clear mimicry of FriendFeed and other existing sites missed a new opportunity to innovate – and become a true social network aggregation tool, including aggregation of gestures. Did Google make a mistake, and not really invent anything new with Buzz, making it immediately an also-ran?

Companies discussed include: Google, Google Buzz, GMail, Google Reader, FriendFeed, Facebook, my6sense, ReadBurner and Seesmic.

 

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Louis Gray and Chris Saad discuss the issue of real-time news reporting and curation, most recently seen with this week’s controversy involving TechCrunch and Teens In Tech CEO Daniel Brusilovsky. Are we going to see a transformation of journalism from solely content creation to a mix of content curation, and if not, how can we compensate investigative journalism?

People mentioned include: Loic Le Meur, Gabe Rivera, Loren Feldman, Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Marshall Kirkpatrick, John Furrier

Companies/Products mentioned include: Cascaad, My6Sense, Techmeme, CBS, NBC, CNN, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Read/Write Web, Silicon Angle.

 

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Louis Gray and Chris Saad discuss and debate Apple’s approach to corporate communications and branding; keeping everything they do and say closed until absolutely necessary. How do we, as a community, reconcile this attitude with the open precepts of the web and social media?

We also discuss Microsoft’s leadership role with innovation, how RSS is not dead and the possible resurgence of Tablet PCs.

 

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This is our first discussion. We talk about @JoshElman, @Twitter and the incremental changes to the Twitter Suggested User List. In the conversation: @chrissaad and @louisgray.

Mentions of @joshelman, @gregarious, @scobleizer, @danielbru and more…

 

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