Parties initiated by a Twitter invitation should be the new norm.
Thomas
· 1 year ago
Ha is that Johannes in that picture?
sigh for snowy Toronto. sxsw sounds like a blast this year.
Gib
· 1 year ago
Very funny!
I love how this sort of proves that social media competes with search engines!
When people are looking for something to DO - social media connects trusted sources of information (a Tweet from a friend/follows) that tromps any monolithic algorhythm of Page Ranking (the party list).
The social aspect of Twitter (friends tweeting friends) meant probably that the coolest people arrived earliest -- which is an in real life example of the social filter beating out Google's policies (represented by the bouncer/list keeprr).
Best,
Gib
PS: AltaVista is always on my list for Babelfish, which seems slightly better at translation than Google's tools.
PS2: relegate is a great word.
David
· 1 year ago
sounds like SXSW is overexposed and tired...
Enkerli
· 1 year ago
The Austin Zealots brewclub was also at GM that night. But they went in the front because of all the bird droppings. When locals tell you not to sit under a tree, it's a sign... (The tweets convinced me to go to GM but I hung out with the brewcrowd. Still got a chance to chat with Merlin Mann.)
bobwyman
· 1 year ago
A "footnote in history"? Robert, that's a bit harsh. Couldn't you have gone with something like "a now largely forgotten *chapter* in history"?
How soon we forget even the roots of Altavista -- which grew out of DEC ("Digital Equipment Corporation") once the second largest computer company in the world but now also largely forgotten.
bob wyman
SearchEngines
· 1 year ago
The sad tale of AltaVista is one that every startup should study.
Great technology for its day - but short sighted people who never saw the potential of search.
Wonder how much politics and egos had to do with their decline.
Ironically, brin and page were encouraged to invent Google because they discovered that one could use the LINK: operator in Altavista.
It was bizarre when the man who oversaw AltaVista's decline was hired by Yahoo - who also declined in search share
Derrick
· 1 year ago
Well I still use Altavista for their translation tools.
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sigh for snowy Toronto. sxsw sounds like a blast this year.
I love how this sort of proves that social media competes with search engines!
When people are looking for something to DO - social media connects trusted sources of information (a Tweet from a friend/follows) that tromps any monolithic algorhythm of Page Ranking (the party list).
The social aspect of Twitter (friends tweeting friends) meant probably that the coolest people arrived earliest -- which is an in real life example of the social filter beating out Google's policies (represented by the bouncer/list keeprr).
Best,
Gib
PS: AltaVista is always on my list for Babelfish, which seems slightly better at translation than Google's tools.
PS2: relegate is a great word.
(The tweets convinced me to go to GM but I hung out with the brewcrowd. Still got a chance to chat with Merlin Mann.)
How soon we forget even the roots of Altavista -- which grew out of DEC ("Digital Equipment Corporation") once the second largest computer company in the world but now also largely forgotten.
bob wyman
Great technology for its day - but short sighted people who never saw the potential of search.
Wonder how much politics and egos had to do with their decline.
Ironically, brin and page were encouraged to invent Google because they discovered that one could use the LINK: operator in Altavista.
It was bizarre when the man who oversaw AltaVista's decline was hired by Yahoo - who also declined in search share
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