From Seth Weintraub:
This is why Google wants Twitter. Twitter has enticed people to share news, events, and nothing short of their consciousness with the rest of the world. At the same time it is able to harvest that information into a valuable product to consumers. Google can’t make this.
So, what username is being used to harvest your consciousness?
Haven’t joined the consciousness harvesting yet. Feel like I am still trying to grapple with Facebook and FriendFeed. Should I?
You should definitely give it a look. I think it is much more interesting than Facebook in that I am more willing to talk to strangers rather than just acquaintances. I haven’t used FriendFeed so can’t compare it to that.
Although it took a little while I now have quite a fun gang of people that I chat with about maths, stats, machine learning and programming. Often, it feels like quick hallway conversations with like-minded researchers.
I even compiled a list of some of the machine learning ones.
Done, my computer science friend. I dub me boscoh.
I have to admit that I just don’t ‘get it’. There have been some discussions over at macresearch.org about twitter and people keep saying how useful it is, but then I go and look at their feeds and I don’t see anything useful about it. Since Twitter seems like cell phone abuse taken to the next ugly phase, here’s something to think about:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/511
