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I'd parody this with 'Email Is Not Really That Special', but I'm too busy building a profitable company on Facebook.
by blader 19y ago
I'd parody this with 'Email Is Not Really That Special', but I'm too busy building a profitable company on Facebook.
- xlnt 19y agobeing able to make money off something is different than it being important. and the sense of important Matt meant was made pretty clear in his post.
- jmzachary 19y agoChia pets were profitable. The pet rock, too. That doesn't mean they were important, except to the people who realized the profits.
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- mattmaroon 19y agoEmail was clearly a paradigm shift, but I wasn't there during its inception. It was well established by the time I got wise.
- blader 19y agoOkay, that was a little flippant on my part. I agree with the other two guys that there isn't a whole lot of correlation between profitability and importance. I just think you're underestimating the importance of social tools that help people communicate more efficiently. I could replace 'Facebook' with 'email' and 'Google' with 'the telephone' and your rant would make about as much sense, but it'd be just as wrong.
- jacobolus 19y ago“paradigm shift” You should look that up (i.e. read Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions), because it does not mean what you think it means. (Except when used as a bullshit buzzword by “enterprise” software executives)
- jmzachary 19y agoYou're not forward-thinking out-of-the-box. These best-of-breed phrases are multi-disciplinary across vertical and horizontal markets.
- axod 19y agoEmail has become a broken platform for spam - similar to facebook.