Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Email is to Instant Messaging as Blogging is to Twitter
I think Twitter is just group IM. I've been wondering about the relative merits and recent popularity of twitter, and came to the realization that it's very similar to blogging.
In a way blogging simply made your conversation public. Twitter makes your IM style conversations public.
Both Email and IM are similar in that:
Both Blogging and Twitter are similar in that:
I think Twitter has it's place... it's just a twist on Instant Messaging.