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Uh, DNS is too hard for most people. So is maintaining a web server. If you want any kind of reliability you're going to have to spend 10/year on domain name, 1

Uh, DNS is too hard for most people. So is maintaining a web server. If you want any kind of reliability you're going to have to spend 10/year on domain name, 15/year on good DNS server, and 10/month on web hosting. That's $145/yr. Users can use twitter and facebook for free. Besides, the general public can't even use HTML well, so what chance do they have with xml? The other compelling thing about twitter is that 140 characters thing. Blogs enable people to train-of-thought-rant for pages before making their point (if at all). Tweets, on the other hand, force people to think and condense before writing. That's an awesome feature for readers. Also, twitter makes it very easy to follow and unfollow.

aaron-lebo 14y ago
It doesn't seem like Dave is advocating wrapping this up into something friendlier to end users. However, you certainly could have something powerful if you did. I agree that expecting people to muck around with DNS and even RSS wouldn't gain wide-scale adoption.
icebraining 14y ago
I think his suggestions are for the people who are planning on writing a Twitter-like open service: https://join.app.net/ https://join.app.net/
- pwpwp 14y ago
  Except app.net isn't open in any of the ways Winer describes.
  - icebraining 14y ago
    App.net isn't open nor closed, because it doesn't exist yet.
  - MatthewPhillips 14y ago
    It will be if its paying customers demand it.
riffic 14y ago
The stuff that is hard for most people is moderately easy for those who actually have a message to transmit. I'm thinking of government agencies, or businesses.
- sthatipamala 14y ago
  Have you seen the websites of most local businesses, like restaurants? They look like they are from 1995. Web dev not easy for them. Many of the same businesses are using Twitter to get their message out far more effectively.
  - riffic 14y ago
    I know what you mean. Not all businesses are going to have the same technical competency. In fact if they lack the technical competency, perhaps Twitter is their best choice.

aaron-lebo 14y ago

It doesn't seem like Dave is advocating wrapping this up into something friendlier to end users. However, you certainly could have something powerful if you did. I agree that expecting people to muck around with DNS and even RSS wouldn't gain wide-scale adoption.

icebraining 14y ago

I think his suggestions are for the people who are planning on writing a Twitter-like open service: https://join.app.net/ https://join.app.net/

pwpwp 14y ago
Except app.net isn't open in any of the ways Winer describes.
- icebraining 14y ago
  App.net isn't open nor closed, because it doesn't exist yet.
- MatthewPhillips 14y ago
  It will be if its paying customers demand it.

riffic 14y ago

The stuff that is hard for most people is moderately easy for those who actually have a message to transmit. I'm thinking of government agencies, or businesses.

sthatipamala 14y ago
Have you seen the websites of most local businesses, like restaurants? They look like they are from 1995. Web dev not easy for them. Many of the same businesses are using Twitter to get their message out far more effectively.
- riffic 14y ago
  I know what you mean. Not all businesses are going to have the same technical competency. In fact if they lack the technical competency, perhaps Twitter is their best choice.