I've read it in articles covering Irans current demonstrations against vote manipulation as well as heard it from members of management in companies of all sizes in Germany:
twitter is not important. We want to talk to the masses, not to a few.

Wake up.

twitter is a collection of supernodes, a idea mass-multiplication-hub.

Let's say, you have 10 followers.
Each of your followers has 10 friends they speak to on a regular basis. NOT on twitter! Somewhere else out there in the real world.
Let's say, there is a 20% overlap in the friends of your followers

If you call one of your followers on the phone to tell them something, you will reach 11 people.
If you send that same message via twitter you will reach 90 people.

hmmmm.

I've been thinking a lout about the ideas of Bernard Lietaer and Margit Kennedy, Muhammad Yunus, Goetz Werner and others to rethink the way we deal with money. This series of videos brings it to the point. We really need to get up and start doing something about it.

Start here: (unfortunately it's in german), maybe we should get the guy to do an english version....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BrLrwbkQWQ

Just tested geode, the FF plugin that will be included in FF 3.1 and Fennec. It gives developers the chance to locate you via JS. In the 3.1 built in version, the location source can be selected by the user: skyhook, GPS, etc...

This is exciting for the desktop browser, but even more so for the mobile version! Cannot wait to test that too!

The brave new world of living on Google cloud is even one step closer.
I just discovered Googles "Native Client" which is a plugin (Firefox) that allows for execution of native code within the browser.

It is in early development stage but fully functional with impressive results, on my mac, that is... Installing is easy: simply execute an installer script from the shell. That's it.

Check it out here: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/