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I’m always on the lookout for “hidden gems,” or people who are doing remarkable work that the whole world hasn’t caught on to, yet. Today, I asked my friend Cal Newport to illustrate how he completely dominates as a post-doc at MIT, author of multiple books, and popular blogger. How does he do it … Posted via web from Phil Baumann’s Posterous

Why do I get the feeling that Twitter’s headed towards being more like FriendFeed (sans the engineering excellence:)? The RT feature is a Like feature. They rolled a Lists feature (not exactly the same, but…). I could see them rolling out a commenting feature and maybe even a sharing-to-other-services feature. What say you?
Twitter’s main feature is the 140 character limit. But I could see the service add some sort of additional metadata features (say commenting).
Now, I won’t say Twitter will = FriendFeed (the 140 character limit is a key thing that Twitter shouldn’t toy with – not anytime soon at least).
But what if Twitter kept the core feature (the 140 limit on tweets) and added a platform for FF-like discussion?
I’m thinking now, that perhaps FF didn’t get mainstream because it lacked that “social-easy” feature which Twitter provides – the instant notification (@ reply). FF required some time to play with to fully appreciate.
John – Yes, but what if they provided a context to see the threads more easily and instantly? Not saying they should, but what effect could that have on the future of the service?
Twitter chats demonstrate that you can have ordered (sorta) discussions on Twitter but right now you need a client like TweetChat to get the most out of them. I’m wondering if Twitter enabled such a service on its own real estate if that would provide the right balance between enabling deeper discussion & the simplicity of the @ reply.
John – exactly. It could just be an option so that the basic “Twitterness” of @ replies aren’t interfered with.