Utility Computing: A Business Model for the Twitter Economy?


	Utility Computing: A Business Model for the Twitter Economy?

bellapria

7-7-2008 12:33 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/23fb8e19-1123-48f4-8adc-be0b2279644b/CE35FB08-6C81-40E8-8E6A-7A4B708A3A55/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/utility-computing/" href="http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/utility-computing/" style="font-size: 11px;">mashable.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/utility-computing/"><H2><A rel="bookmark" title="Permalink to Utility Computing: A Business Model for the Twitter Economy?" href="http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/utility-computing/">Utility Computing: A Business Model for the Twitter Economy?</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/utility-computing/"><P><IMG align="right" src="http://mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/grid-r.gif" />There have been several discussions about whether <A href="http://mashable.com/2008/06/27/twitter-death/">FriendFeed will kill Twitter</A> or Twitter will kill itself or even some new application will kill both of them. Then there was the recent announcement of <A target="_blank" href="http://www.gnipcentral.com/">Gnip<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.37/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>, a platform that provides a protocol bridge for data producers and data consumers. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/utility-computing/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mashable.com/img/AE38DE85-96CE-4E62-B67A-88ADC7FC5CB7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/utility-computing/"><P>In layman’s terms Gnip is a platform on which you could develop an aggregating application. Given that <A target="_blank" href="http://friendfeed.com/">FriendFeed<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.37/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>, <A target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/">Twitter<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.37/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> and eventually Gnip are popular because of the APIs they offer, who wins should not be the question. Instead of these applications being the destination that many people crave, they are just the enablers for future applications.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2008/07/06/utility-computing/"><P>The proliferation of third party applications running on top of FriendFeed and Twitter is showing the power of these APIs and the data these services provide. But do they really want to be a utility? There are significant issues that need to be hurdled to become a true utility service. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CE35FB08-6C81-40E8-8E6A-7A4B708A3A55/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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