DISQUS

mager · 1 year ago

I agree, this is weird.

Joey Baker · 1 year ago

Meh… there's a possibility Twitter is making a bad decision here. I'd be more inclined to think that this is the start of the major changes we'll see as twitter tries to monetize in 2009. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10112037-2....

David Berlind · 1 year ago

Google owns Jaiku, right?

Noah Mittman · 1 year ago

Yep, but what are they doing with it? That's the question.

David Berlind · 1 year ago

Dave's blog said "Twitter-like service" without mentioning Jaiku. Just struck me as sort of odd that he didn't mention it.

Noah Mittman · 1 year ago

Hah, yes, I was just alluding to the fact that Google's already let Dodgeball die in limbo. I'll be shocked if they have any concrete plans for Jaiku at all besides "hey, it runs on App Engine now."

James · 1 year ago

Not sure how Twitter gains here.

On the other hand, Google wins big.

Albert Willis · 1 year ago

Being able to use your Twitter profile as the default profile on Google's Friend Connect is kind of a big deal for Twitter. I can now just update that one profile and any site that's Friend Connected does the right thing.

kelby johnson · 1 year ago

just hope GOOG doesn't try to modify the social/informal elements of twitter.

blazinBSDAgility · 1 year ago

Google to swallow Twitter in 3...2...1...

Albert Willis · 1 year ago

Because of the way Twitter is openly architected, using microformats to markup who you follow and who follows you, Google could already see any Twitter user's social graph via its Social Graph API: http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn.... Type your twitter URL and you'll see Google map your Twitter graph; it knows if the follows are mutual or not. This was possible long before any deal happened between Google and Twitter, thanks to open protocols.

Twitter partnering with Google on Friend Connect doesn't give Google anything they already didn't have access to. The important part that's not being talked about is that you can replace your Google profile with your Twitter profile if you wish, making Twitter more of the default profile in the Friend Connect ecosystem. That's cool.

xian · 1 year ago

Dave, are relationships in social networks always inherently reciprocal? That's one design choice but I think not the only one.

For example, at Flickr, people can choose to reciprocate the contact or not, and/or reciprocate the friend or family flag, or not.