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For those that have known me for over 5 years may recall an online newsletter I used to publish called the "Chronicles of the Bored". As it turns out, what I really was doing was sharing a mashup of news articles I found interesting (long before the Web 2.0 was invented). So now that the technology has caught up, I've decided to revive the CotB using Blogger and Google Reader. Enjoy!
While reports have indicated preliminary talks, I think people's imaginations have run wild with this one and have made it a far bigger issue than it really is at this point. To use a sports analogy, it would be like a team acquiring an all-star to add to their roster. Given Google's track record, it would seem that their strategy is more in line with drafting a rookie (read: new technology) with high potential and developing it within its system. However, this doesn't mean that this isn't a good idea. Here are some random thoughts if this were actually to go through:
- Twitter would benefit from the beefier Google infrastructure => extinction of the Fail Whale.
- Google would gain a larger foothold in the social space and gain more ammunition for its war against Microsoft.
- Twitter would gain resource support against Facebook's attempts to become more like Twitter.
- There would be a plethora of opportunities for integration between Google's Mail, Calendar, Reader, etc. with Twitter's information stream.
While I think this will eventually make it into the same rumor bucket as when Google were supposedly buying Digg, you never know what can happen. Just look at the New York Yankees and the Boston Celtics.
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