http://www.statusq.org/archives/2012/09/29/4524/ Quentin Stafford-Fraser's blog Wed, 22 May 2013 15:27:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.statusq.org/archives/2012/09/29/4524/comment-page-1/#comment-126080 Michael Dales Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:26:34 +0000 http://www.statusq.org/?p=4524#comment-126080 So, the one thing no one seems to be asking in all this is what’s IFTTT’s biz model – you’ve given them the keys to all your accounts (or oauth tokens at least) and no money. I find it hard to sign up to things now when I didn’t see where the money is (I don’t mind per se if it’s advertising, like Facebook, I just want to know before I hand over the keys).

]]> http://www.statusq.org/archives/2012/09/29/4524/comment-page-1/#comment-126078 jc Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:35:30 +0000 http://www.statusq.org/?p=4524#comment-126078 what’s cool about twitter is they massively underspecified the _protocol_, but let users arbitrarily extend it – I know some folks currently studying the evolution of successful (and unsuccessful) steps in twitter’s evolution – things like re-tweets and mentions etc, and the very way it moved from asymmetric tree micro-blogging to an actual multi-directional mesh relationship of users – for anyone to do the same in the face of fb & twitter, they have to make an equally disruptive step – cleaner APIs for apps won’t cut it – better privacy is a massive gamble too – but I agree you gotta like someone trying on that basis!!

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