I once had the idea for a global event queue, to enable new types of application interaction. Then twitter came out and I thought "oh well, that basically does

I once had the idea for a global event queue, to enable new types of application interaction. Then twitter came out and I thought "oh well, that basically does what I was thinking of". Didn't quite turn out that way when they messed up the APIs, and then IFTTT did a better version of that concept...