Marc Benioff – The future of computing looks like Twitter

Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff: The future of computing looks like Twitter | VentureBeat

Many companies haven’t realized this is where things are headed, he said. Benioff recounted attending meetings with chief information officers who all refused to believe that Twitter represents anything significant; they don’t have accounts themselves because “it’s not their generation.” Benioff’s response? He types the name of their company into Twitter search and shows that they’re missing out on a huge part of the conversation. 

links for 2009-06-23

  • TechCrunch: The Story Of Twitter In Picture Form
    Interesting visual history of Twitter
  • TechCrunch IT: The Realtime News Network (Steve Gillmor)
    “For months we’ve been experimenting with realtime streaming, realtime chatting, realtime aggregation, realtime filtering. Not everything is in place, but enough for those who see no choice but to engage with the speed of the times. It’s scary to watch how powerful these tools are, what potential they have for misuse or worse. The communities that are forming around realtime technology need to accept both the promise and the threat of this moment. In a realtime world we all live in glass houses, and it’s our job to take care of the garden as if it was our own. Which it is.”

From the TechCrunch article, the visual history of Twitter…

links for 2009-06-19

  • 140 Character Conference Videos
    Videos from the recent 140 Character (Twitter) conference
  • The Real Lessons From Twitter (Stubbleblog)
    “Have you ever looked at a piece of social software and thought, or worse, blogged, that it was worthless? Here’s a trick for evaluating social software in a way that isn’t going to make you look stupid six months down the road: assume it’s valuable if people are using it. Then try to figure out what value they’re getting.”