I just had a thought about how interesting it would be to have a feed reader that was no longer focused on individual blogs, but instead, it was focused on subscribing to individuals like journalists and bloggers—the people who create the content. This would put more emphasis on the content creators, and that, in my opinion, is a great thing. But it then dawned on me that this was such a ridiculous idea!

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Twitter and Jaiku—these two similar services were battling it out for mini-blogging supremacy during a time when the average person had little to no knowledge of what mini-blogging was. Twitter came out on top, but don’t think for a second that it was because Twitter was better. Instead, it was a result of Twitter’s open API which allowed mind-blowing third-party products and services to be created. These third-party products and services have, in many respects, done phenomenally well for Twitter, but now there is a new player in town wanting to earn the respect of similar third-party developers.

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After attempting to load one of my favorite social networks, Facebook, I was greeted by something I had been familiar with over the past month on another social network, Twitter.  As many of you know, Twitter has been plagued with downtime issues due to bad design and infrastructure as of late.  So, as Facebook makes serious design changes, it almost ends up looking and functioning like Twitter—the downtime really adds the finishing touches.

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