Anyway… there were many other points made in that interview, which you could find of interest.
While I had generally always been favorable to Twine (until their response to that interview- Check my previous posts), I had pointed out a number of times that the user experience, both daily digest and interface, were poor.

Additionally, the ceo has had plenty of bad press from decisions he made to kick out some power users in the past. While he is pretending to make amends, he reverts back into old habits of name calling and denigration at the first sign of criticism. I wouldn’t be surprised if he responded to this with some attacks as he did in the past, although now that I said it he’ll find something smarter like sending his paid folks after me instead – he’s obviously a complex adaptive system).

As far as the twine product is concerned, I use it to promote my blog posts by bookmarking them, that’s pretty much it. Cross-posting is pretty much required since there are dozens of twine on the SAME topics… Beyond that, the signal-to-noise ratio is too bad for me, so I’ve pretty much stopped using it for anything else (even before the interview, in case you wonder). I do think they have some assets they could better take advantage of to make the user experience better, but instead they seem to focus on whatever pleases the ceo and that’s apparently not the user’s experience.

If I guess him correctly all he cares about is his next VC round and so he’s trying to drive traffic anyway he can, even if that involves just acting as a landing page haven for bots. Over 92% of their traffic comes from “passers-by according to compete.com (friendfeed=95%, but friendster=48%). Also note the traffic has plateaued since this interview, even gone down by 4% since their max in may.

The twines I subscribe to consistently have great articles posted to them to the point that Twine now provides a sizable chunk of my daily reading material.

However, when I do end up posting a link to something I’ve discovered through Twine, I tend to link to the original article, not the post on Twine. Not sure how they can address that, but there needs to be more of a reason to link back to the Twine than the original article. Especially since the comment activity on the site is usually pretty low.

I have yet to see a single client (I’ve consulted on dozens & dozens of sites, several of them with 10 million+ uniques, and a handful with 30 million+ monthly visitors)…none get more than 10% direct traffic…unless you’re one of the leading top ten internet companies.

forums or groups on interests were always needed, now real time search adds value to them. fb should make real time search of public comments/posts in fb groups and pages.