Now what?

Twitter is what Blogger wanted to be when it grew up

In thinking about what I want to do on the web (professionally and in general) I started reading thru a lot of the Evan Williams archives (hence all these recent finds) and a couple of things have crossed my mind so far:

• Reading Evhead is a lot like reading a non-fiction version of Microserfs…only Microserfs was written in 1994 instead 1999 (well done Mr. Copeland).
• The majority of posts so far are very Twitter-esque…well below the 140 char limit - probably could have saved himself a bit of time had he just created Twitter first.

Also, thought this was funny:

Evhead, circa Feb 2000:

The new dot-com business model (via Valley Talk): “‘We’ll probably make more on subletting our own space this year than on anything else,’ says Jeff Bonforte, CEO of i-drive…”

Inc magazine interview with Ev, Mar 2008

As a cultural phenomenon, Twitter is a comer…but its status as a business is nebulous. The 14-person company is unprofitable (its single largest source of revenue last year was the subleasing of half a dozen desks to three small start-ups at $200 a desk a month)