Twitter announced yesterday the availability of a “tweet this” button for blogs and websites everywhere.
Check out the video after the jump.
As platforms grow, 3rd party vendors fill in feature gaps. As platforms grow further, the platform developers usually close those gaps, sometimes leaving entire companies without a revenue model. Case in point, prior to yesterday TweetMeme held the title for the Twitter button of choice. But now that Twitter has one available, TweetMeme themselves have bowed out of the space.
This sort of progress is inevitable and dates back to software’s humble beginnings. The first word processors didn’t have built in spell checking and spell check apps represented a thriving market vertical in the software industry. Once they began to come pre-packaged with word processors, the market dried up.
Innovation comes in waves. As a company these days it is important to ride the face, stay ahead of the break, and sit in the pocket as far as the wave will take you.
Oh, and don’t marry yourself to one wave, because they all end up on the shore eventually.
The advances in technology are enough to make your head spin. Remember when cameras with 3X optical zoom were like $600? Remember the Zack Morris phone? Remember the pre-text messaging era?
Remember two-ways???
Through all that, we now have Twitter answering the Facebook Like Button with a Retweet button. Exciting times!
Oh Karsten, totally man. I remember those days!
peace | dewde
Chris,
I’m not an editor, by any stretch, but did you intend to type “ride the face” or “ride the wave” in the post?
Peace
Dewitt:
I’m no surfer, but pretty sure the “face” is the part of the wave that surfers try and target. Any surfers out there??
peace | dewde
Thanks man! I didn’t know that was part of the wave. I see the point about developing companies. Keep up the great work here with 8bit
Thanks for sharing the post Chris!
seems like it is a further push to get people to follow more people – at least from the recommendation that follows after the tweet
am interested to know when this will be available on StandardTheme
Already developed because @tomsfoolery is a coding maniac. Needs to be tested and will be rolled up into our next incremental release.
You KNOW we’re staying on top of this stuffs!
peace | dewde
rockstars, all of you!
methinks its sweet…