Twitter needs to be commoditized. What do I mean by that? I mean that the Twitter message streams need to interoperate with all my other message streams. Twitter is just a bunch of logical message streams from different people. I don’t really care if my messages are coming via twitter or RSS or IM. Why? I’ll [...]
There are all kinds of programming languages, and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes you want fast prototyping, sometimes you want massive scalability, sometimes you want easy availability of a large library of preexisting code, or access to a specific framework. Strong typing is useful, duck typing is useful, running on a virtual machine [...]