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Re:The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is Wha... by lacker on Friday May 01, 2009 @07:12PM (#589292)
IM and IRC are fundamentally different from twitter and friendfeed, because twitter and friendfeed have home pages with content. Deciding what goes on the home page is key functionality that wasn't in IM or IRC.
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Re:The Man Who Made Gmail Says Real-Time Conversation is Wha... by likpok on Friday May 01, 2009 @09:38PM (#589414)
Some IM protocols allowed one to set up some info which is public and supposed to act as a bio. This content could be some form of HTML, which is more than anything twitter supports (i.e, it let you do the styling, much to the detriment of others).
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