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James Robertson

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David Buck, Smalltalker at large
Speaking of Tunnel Vision... Posted: May 29, 2009 5:36 AM
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You have to love the level of tunnel vision on display here. Scoble berates Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg for describing something as "Web 3.0", partly over this:

Short aside: It's interesting that neither Kara nor Walt show up very often on friendfeed, which is the best example of the 2010 Web right now. Kara Swisher has made a total of five comments there. Walt is even worse, doesn't bring any items in there, and only has six comments. How can you know what the 2010 Web is, if you don't use it and don't participate in it?

Shorter Scoble: "You don't use my favorite, relatively unknown walled garden, so how dare you try to name something? Only us cool kids over in the walled garden can do that"

As to Google's Wave announcement, which features prominently in the rest of Scoble's post? It looks interesting, but it remains to be seen whether Google can still launch a new product that people will use. Since GMail, what have they pushed out that has caught on in any real way? While it looks cool, Friendfeed also has tons of cool features compared to Twitter, and it's completely failed to get beyond being niche sized. There are only so many social software tools that regular people will use, and getting them to switch over from Twitter and Facebook will be non-trivial.

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