socialmedian: Back To Mono: It’s Time To Splice The Streams

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Back To Mono: It’s Time To Splice The Streams

Source: TechCrunch

Oct 19, 2009

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I went to a birthday party this weekend where I ran into a Facebook guy, a smart guy who asked me to go off the record. In fact, the whole party was supposed to be off the record. So I ignored the off the record part by insisting that I already knew the thing I was being told, and then I told him on the record what I thought was about to happen for Facebook. This being my usual m.o. which is to insist on not being NDAed except for things I don't really want to talk about anyway, like the next version of Office.

That way, I can just make up what I want to have happen, never breaking any confidence and yet at the same time painting as plausible picture of assumed reality that it is hard to deny or in fact slow down. So here's what I told the Facebook guy: the company has at most 3 months window to absorb FriendFeed and open the Everyone News Feed, and if that's true (again, making all this up) then the messaging about how that's going to work must begin immediately, like in two weeks. Then I went home and saw MG Siegler's post and Scoble's remake of Frenzy on Fr ...Read the full article

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