Does the world need another twitter client?
it certainly is not about being the first out there
When we pitch our little project, we often get the same reply: “Isn’t that what Plaxo does?” I often think the answer to that question is “no”, “not really”, or maybe even “partly”, depending on how deep into the industry the guy we’re talking with is. But lately I’ve been thinking of answering “maybe”, or even “yes”. So what?
Twitter has been around for some years now (and the fact that despite being one of the greatest things ever they still don’t have a business model that the people we eventually pitch to would like to hear, but that would be the suject of another post) and since the beginning there have been many ways to interact with it, specially desktop clients. And I mean many.
Well, it turns out despite having endless ways to interact with twitter, there were these guys who thought there weren’t enough ways already and came up with the wonderful Tweetie. And guess what, it turns out that after a couple of months, Tweetie is the third most popular way of interacting with Twitter on the desktop (the second if we don’t count their own web), that is according to twitsats. According to the people around me, it’s just the Twitter client many people had been waiting for.
I don’t want to mean that we’re going to be the same thing on the personal information management arena (sure as hell we’re trying to), but I just can’t help but picture these guys pitching their product:
“What? Another twitter client? And you have to pay for it? Go home, kids”
So… did the world need another twitter client? It looks like it did. Plaxo or LinkedIn have been around way longer than Twitter, and the real truth is that everybody signed up but nobody actually uses them, or at least no more than eventually. Maybe the world just needs another contact manager.
mobile heights
business center
in an attempt to stimulate growth within the ICT sector in the southern region of Sweden, a project called Mobile Heights Business Center is being executed. We’ve been selected as one of the teams, that will get the chance to participate in this constellation, between the industry, investors and entrepreneurs, to create win-win synergies in the region. On tuesday the teams got the chance to pitch their ideas to the investors and to the collaborating corporation. The event was very successful and we’ve got new meetings planned with some very interesting possible co-operators.
On the 29th of May it will be official: who’s in the project, what’s the deal, and what will happen next. One of the team, our friends at Saplo was broadcasted on the Local News Sydnytt on tuesday night, when they revealed the event.
and here’s an extract from Mobile Heights Business Center website about the project:
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New ideas for cooperation between private and public actors will generate growth in Mobile Heights Business Center
Mobile Heights in collaboration with Teknopol and other organisations constructs the groundwork for the pilot project Mobile Heights Business Center.
The platform consists of various private and public actors in a unique collaboration. The actors contribute with their specific resources at different stages of the business development process e.g. short way to financing, finding the right skills for the team and offering access to the knowledge bank that industry researchers possess.
An own business center is fully in accordance with Mobile Heights objectives: To establish southern Sweden as a world-leading region in research, innovation and entrepreneurship in mobile communications, leveraging the entire value chain of mobile devices – hardware, software and services.
Lars Tilly, Head of Research, Ericsson in Lund and Chairman of Mobile Heights:
- One of the success factors for Mobile Heights is to initialize new knowledge-based companies in wireless communications through different ways of lowering the bar for innovation and realization of research results.
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we’ll keep you posted.