Comments on: Who’s Going to Say the “P” Word?

By: From the Pipeline - 4.24.08 — Shooting at Bubbles

From the Pipeline - 4.24.08 — Shooting at Bubbles — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:17:04 +0000

[...] Who’s Going to Say the “P” Word? :: Mark Evans – Mark thinks we’re all a bunch of chickens for not calling these social aggregators what the really are – portals. [...]

By: The Weekly Wrap | Mark Evans

The Weekly Wrap | Mark Evans — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:50:58 +0000

[...] Who’s Going to Say the “P” Word, looking at how aggregation services such as Friendfeed are really social networking portals. Yes, [...]

By: Link Sharing: 4/25/08 » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Link Sharing: 4/25/08 » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:34:21 +0000

[...] Who’s Going To Say The “P” Word? “P” meaning portal. I foresee a day where my portal is Google, and I’ll just import my FriendFeed and Twitter feeds there. [...]

By: WinExtra » From the Pipeline - 4.24.08

WinExtra » From the Pipeline - 4.24.08 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:41:56 +0000

[...] Who’s Going to Say the “P” Word? :: Mark Evans – Mark thinks we’re all a bunch of chickens for not calling these social aggregators what the really are – portals. [...]

By: Dave Ambrose

Dave Ambrose — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:14:20 +0000

Bingo, good sir, bingo!

“Of course, no one wants to say “portal” because it’s a dirty word associated with the dot-com boom of the late-1990s.”

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:05:40 +0000

I see what you’re saying, but I think it’s possible that they’ll continue to grow together and feed (so to speak) off each other. Twitter-FF-twhirl work pretty sweetly as a trio for me these days. Whether that will be true for me as well as a massive audience down the road will be fascinating to check out.

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:47:48 +0000

Eric,

My take is they’re both heading in the same direction. Right now, FF is leading the way but Twhirl seems intent on keeping up. The more competitive the spaces becomes, the more features they’ll keep on adding to attract users. Before you know, they’ll be full blown portals!

By: Eric Berlin

Eric Berlin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:40:03 +0000

Maybe my thinking is wrong, but I don’t think of twhirl and friendfeed as being directly competitive with one another. I see twhirl as more of a third party app that allows twitter and friendfeed alerts to get sent and sorted to the desktop.

By: engtech

engtech — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:56:54 +0000

I wonder if Portal Secrets could be as popular as Post Secret?

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:36:29 +0000

I’ve gone from a huge Netvibes fan to on the verge of switching to iGoogle. Ginger is awful. Painfully unstable. Marking the same things as read 20+ times a day goes beyond frustrating.