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"WHAT IT MEANS: With jobs harder to come by and the growth in workers' wages slowing, consumers are expected to hunker down further, spelling even more problems for the troubled economy." - imabonehead

"THE OUTLOOK: More pain ahead — even with Congress' unprecedented $700 billion financial bailout. The unemployment rate — now at 6.1 percent — probably will climb higher and employers are expected to keep cutting jobs in the months ahead. The economy may have stalled already — or actually slid into reverse — in the just-ended third quarter." - imabonehead

Anyone have a Qik stream? - Jesse Stay from twhirl

http://arstechnica.com/news... - Arnaud Fischer

some links are here: http://www.macdailynews.com/index... - Arnaud Fischer

http://www.engadget.com/2008... - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Engadget still takes the cake on coverage so far - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Awesome Jason - that's what I was looking for - Jesse Stay from twhirl

sweet new itouch for me to lose again - adolfo foronda

patience vs. instant gratification - Harry Chen

Ah, but run the comparison on any cell phone, and you start to realize how expensive most cell phone service plans are! - Piaw Na

I liked the simplicity of Twitter. The other similar services all try to tack on way too many bells-and-whistles. Simple is good. And Twitter integrates with FriendFeed so nicely ... - cerement

I think microblogging is here to stay. The community size will likely to grow, but there will be more consumers than producers. - Harry Chen

Twitter will grow, but I doubt it will become mainstream. The average person will be more inclined to use social network status updates than a dedicated microblogging service. - grag

Ben, Good question and I wasn't quite sure what to think. After doing a few quick searches it appears that Twitter has 2 million users (http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008...) while Technorati is tracking 112 million blogs (http://technorati.com/about/). So, that is only 2%. Reading those stats makes me think, IMO, that microblogging will expand to at least 8% (or 9 million total users.) - Czar

I also think it is here to stay. These services create a whole different angle of social networking - Neal Jansons

I don't know how viable it will be on Twitter, but Plurk is gaining fast in popularity because of the simple fact that you can have comments like this (friendfeed). With Plurk you can know instantly if your announcement "registers" with the audience. And there is instant feedback. - Telemill

I think what we all need to realize is that Twitter is not about microblogging (broadcasting yourself), it is about conversation (same as FriendFeed where conversation is even easier which explains its rapid growth). And I think in a year from now we will only see this trend sharpen: people will stick to the services that allow for a more efficient conversation instead of pushing your ideas and thoughts to people without expecting anything in return. - Svetlana Gladkova

I disagree, I think micro-blogging (broadcast) greatly differ from the bi-directional / conversation we see here in FriendFeed and blogs. So the twitter's and IM products are here to stay. They have a unique and distinct user base. - Susan Beebe

I think instant messaging is the target of micro blogging (and I agree with Svetlana when she says Twitter is about conversation) - Romain Péchard from twhirl

I just wrote a blog post partly connected to this. I think microblogging will survive - but not in and of itself. I think it will survive in concert with other services that integrate with it. It seems that everything is becoming more inclusive - therefore services that try to cause divergent behaviour (e.g. commenting directly on blog posts within the blogs) will probably fail. It's exciting to be around while this is shaking out though... - Jonathan Beckett

I don't think of microblogs as replacements for traditional blogs, to me they're human-readable endpoints for publishing data feeds. - Andy Murdoch

I think there's a benefit to microblogging - smaller attention spans. I don't anticipate its near death as people start to multitask more often and find that saying less means more. - Tamar Weinberg

I think it's a little early to predict the death of microblogging. It's only now just starting to pick up speed. - David Cohn

@Susan: I have never meant to predict Twitter would die - it's just that I don't see anyone values microblogging in itself - people tend more to use it as a conversational tool which has 2 part involved at least. So I don't care about Twitter as a microblogging platform, I care about it as a social network where lots of people I find interesting discuss things (same and even better goes to FriendFeed). - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

I don't think microblogging will die, but I do think it's telling that this conversation isn't also on Twitter. And if Twitter is about conversation, then FF is more Twitterish than Twitter. It's easier to follow a conversation here, and thus easier to converse. - Brian Carter

@Stuart Forsyth agreed. microblogging is trending in the direction of other "micro interactions" - speed, efficiency, brevity - for better or worse. - Dean Terry

I don't think microblogging will replace blogging, anymore than blogs replace books or TV replaced movies- I realize they are on different platforms, but take the metaphor- there are different media of different lengths for different purposes- some blog posts give me detail I need that I can't get on Twitter or FF; some are so long I print them out- some are too long and I never get around to finishing them- but I read books that are longer in less than a week... - Brian Carter

I think micro blogging in part was just permission to create content that was more immediate and unfinished - with the idea that we create together. And it certainly will continue and grow. - Tony

Am I the only one who thinks this 'Recommendation Engine' interferes in the wisdom of the crowds by "telling you" which things/news/articles suppose to like instead of digging just because you want to? -- Also, I think this is similar to the fact that people digg on the most popular stories just because they are popular, not for their content. -- And I believe this is a 'threat' social media has to avoid sooner or later. - Alex Barredo

Alex, I guess there is that possibility... But under the old system, the "Upcoming" stream was largely unusable due to the volume of new submissions. Perhaps a few users will weed through all the latest submissions, but I think the vast majority want to have some kind of social proof that it's worthwhile content first. This new system seems a pretty effective way of giving them that. - Eric Daams