What's wrong with this picture?
- There's not a single provider for telephony (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.)
- There's not a single provider for text messaging (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.)
- There's not a single provider for instant messaging (GTalk, MSN, AIM, etc.)
- There's not a single provider for e-mail (GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc.)
- There's not a single provider for blogging (Blogger, Wordpress, etc.)
- There's not a single provider for "mini" blogging (Tumblr, Posterous, etc.)
- There IS a single provider for micro blogging (Twitter)
- And it's down for the count (everything from the main site to the API is inaccessible)
- And it's been down for an Internet eternity (the best part of an hour and counting)
What are we going to do about it?
2 comments:
1st to market with a new product idea that has millions of users. I think it would be quite tough for a competitor to come in and take market share without significant marketing $$, which probably requires VC$, which should require a monetization plan.
Perhaps Google will acquire in 1-2 yrs and make us all happy.
I'm not talking about a single provider, rather a multi-provider solution based on open standards. We don't have a single provider for email for example (can you just imagine a worldwide email outage today?), primarily because we have SMTP.
Sam
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