Advanced Operators

For the first AdvOp Blog Carnival, let’s explore the future of microblogging. To get your brains going, here is some information:

• Wikipedia’s definition for microblogging
• del.icio.us resources tagged microblogging
• Technorati’s resources tagged microblogging
• There are a few major players positioning themselves to be the platform for microblogging: Jaiku, Twitter, and Pownce.
• A great slide show from Jyri Engeström, founder of Jaiku, that explores the future of microblogging.
• Acedemic paper: “Why we Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities“

Here are some questions to include in your post (you don’t need to answer all of them):

• Is microblogging a fad?
• Does it have any value beyond entertainment?
• Will microblogging degrade the value of information being created by lessening the amount of deeper resources?
• Is microblogging a feature that can be absorbed by larger social networks like MySpace and Facebook?
• Who will dominate the microblogging sphere and why?
• As microblogging fills in the space between all of our other forms of communication, we approach real time connection to other people via the web. What kind of impact has/will this make on our psyche and relationships with other people?

Finally, here’s a great graph called The Twitter Curve (Courtesy of Creating Passionate Users)

Please compose your response by Wednesday, August 22, 2007. Responses may be left on this post as a trackback or a comment with a link to your post.