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Posterous Overtakes FriendFeed, Set to Overtake Delicious.

Source: New Comm Biz

Nov 04, 2009

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Posterous has been gaining a lot of attention lately. Most people see it as a great way to fill that gap between a tweet and a blog. Some people see it as a next generation content management systems for the Web. Other people see it as a lifestream. Whatever you want to call it Posterous is gaining in popularity.

One of the biggest drivers of technology adoption is the group known as curators or collectors. This is the noise 10% on Twitter sharing all those links. It’s also the group that flocked to FriendFeed. It’s that same profile that made Delicious the early New Media breakout service 5 years ago. That is until it got acquired by Yahoo.

In my (not so) humble opinion, the biggest missed opportunity was all that valuable data Delicious users where creating. They tag, curate, comment on and share tens of thousands(?) of links a day, the very thing that has been, arguably, the biggest value of Twitter.