You're on fire, Dave, and absolutely right on. Imagine if someone bought FriendFeed and decided to just pull the plug -- holy cow, can you say uproar? - Jared Smith

What needs to get back on the table is to make this social contract explicit. Sites want our attention and effort in return for effecting change in our life, there is an implicit contract. When they shut down on us and leave us in the lurch, they broke that end of the contract and we have a right to want satisfaction from that. - Dave Slusher

And also, thank you very much. Every so often I get my string pulled, and this has done it. - Dave Slusher

Dead on, Dave. I was actually going to make a comment along these lines on mike's thread, but you beat me to it, and filled it out well. The whole "it's free you can't complain" meme is BS. As you said, WE created part of the value that got Rael acquired. That's nice for him, but to just immediately turn around and shut down a service you DESIGNED as "my personal assistant" is irresponsible. Of course, I've come to expect nothing less from Twitter. They're free to shut it off; we're free to bitch about it. - Ken Kennedy