We integrated some parts of Twitter, Flickr and are currently adding MySpace and Facebook support.

What’s in it for our users?
You can now distribute photo postings to different accounts (Twitter, Flickr and in the future many other platforms) from one place. Send your posting to your Mobylog and it will be automatically distributed to the platforms you’ve setup!

If the marginal benefit to a user does not outweigh switching costs, and the marginal cost of the dominant player adding your feature is negligible, I’d probably go back to the drawing board.

The hope, of course, is that enough buzz will be generated around the thing to generate a lot of users. “If you build it, they will come.” Maybe. Maybe not. But if they do, maybe you can sell out to Google or Yahoo! and cash in. Maybe not.

What’s typically not being asked, though, is: What would compel someone who has never heard of this thing to change their behavior and start using it? The key word in that sentence: “compel.”

(Oh, and this: How does this thing generate revenue?)

Welcome to Bubble 2.0

It seems to me now become too many clones of Twitter. I’ve also checked the features of this Yappd, it only allows USA phone carriers. I think Jaiku already did way much better and reliable stuff than that.
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I think all the clones including Twitter have to kick some own ass. DIFFERentiation! Think about an innovative revenuemodel and then start something which allows and forces users to become active and important life leaders. Get real, Twitter is not more then a global chatbox where you ar not directly allowed to connect to strangers.

@ChandraB – During our time running our tech demonstrator (shortly to be replace with our full site) we’ve paid anything from 2.5p to 5p (circa 5c to 10c at these crazy exchange rates) for bulk delivery. Its possible to go slightly lower, again depending on destination (and reliability). You can go direct to the carriers but you need to be shifting massive traffic and I mean massive.

@Mario – I dont think the hype surrounding Twitter is justified; its a simple concept, technically badly implimented (although at NMK Calacanis shot me down saying I am just jealous of their userbase…yea right, whatever) and my admittedly bitchy-sounding take on it is that its the valley looking after and hyping their own; for what it is and what it does it simply does not deserve the level of attention its had. Despite their lack of revenue model and flakey platform they got funded though – so congratulations to them.

“One of these days….the number of twitter clones will exceed the number of twitter users itself.”

I wish I had written that.

John Ballingers famous Adobe Air app. Already has images AND now file sending via Twitter. Pretty cool stuff.