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Dalton Caldwell is responding to PG's call at PyCon to "swing for the fences, and build $1b large, scalable platforms". PG suggested having the balls to disrup
by teawithcarl 14y ago
Dalton Caldwell is responding to PG's call at PyCon to "swing for the fences, and build $1b large, scalable platforms".
PG suggested having the balls to disrupt Google Search itself, by building a new search platform, only for the top 10,000 über-geeks in tech. PG believes done properly, this will scale a new search engine, which he thinks is woefully needed.
That's what Dalton's doing, except to Facebook and Twitter. Responding to PG's call to be bold.
And he's nailing it.
Right now, the App.net ecosystem is 10,000+ of the tech's finest minds. It feels like a private Path network, with private access to many of the top minds in tech. A myriad of heavyweight tech talent are in their voicing their support, struggling to fix social.
It's a great place to read tech.
It's one of the best geek parties on earth.
Twitter has lost the ability to do that "intimately for a small conference of 10,000 advanced minds".
By the way - App.net is not Twitter.
The core blackbox (App.net) is an engine to build any construct upon, including (but not limited to) Twitter innovation.
The current client, a 'referential implementation' (which looks like Twitter ... Orian calls it Alpha) is only a proof of concept by Dalton, to show one excellent construct on top of the broader App.net engine.
I think Dalton has nailed PG's challenge, and innovators want in on the fun.
- andrew_simone 14y agoI think much of the push back to App.net comes from not understanding the context in which Dalton et al. is building the platform. Frankly, it wasn't until Dalton linked to PG's write-up of his PyCon talk that I really began to understand what his intentions were. The write-up: http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ITLdmfdLI
- thinkingisfun 14y ago"Right now, the App.net ecosystem is 10,000+ of the tech's finest minds" that made me smile, then I realized you're serious, which kinda gave me a shudder. unless "tech" is code for "marketing scripts" or something? sure you can NOT be talking about technology in general. that would be so deluded, it might just about wrap around to humble again.
- teawithcarl 14y agoLook through the list for yourself: (it's free) http://alpha.app.net/teawithcarl/following http://alpha.app.net/teawithcarl/following (270 people, a who's who of Silicon Valley)
- thinkingisfun 14y agoThe list is free? It better be, seeing how it mostly consists of nicks and cutesy taglines :P "Silicon valley" is not "technology". It's great you like SV so much, but that doesn't make it whatever you want it to be. even if we restricted it to computers: when are Linus Torvalds or John Carmack expected to sign up? Huh.
- jmathai 14y agoYou must not be familiar with the bubble which exists in SV. It's one of the only things I despise about this place. Love the rest :).
- teawithcarl 14y agoPlease view this tweet, (by Paul Graham) joining. Paul Graham (@paulg) on Twitter 8/12/12 2:46 PM @AppDotNet I'm backing App.net. Sign up here: http://join.app.net/ http://join.app.net/ #joinus