A Twitterade? (Sounds like a soft-drink for nerds)
Today was an epic day on Twitter for Dave:
- Adam Curry and I always got along until he got greedy and decided to take all the money and credit for the work we did on podcasting. #
- I always felt he was barking up the wrong tree with Podshow, and the market seems to be confirming that. #
Because Dave’s Sunday Gang definitely has a much larger market share than PodShow does… right?
- And Mahalo is a shitty idea, and they are a vendor who got a bad review from me, and reacts with continuing personal attacks. #
By “a bad review” he means a rude interruption of a talk followed by months of name-calling.
- They should get a new CEO, then we’ll take another look and see if we can’t find them an honest business model. #
Like using countless bloggers to test your product for free and then pulling the rug out from under them once you’ve gotten what you want out of them? I’m curious, though, is the problem Jason or is the problem their business model? Or is it really that Dave doesn’t like Jason and is, as a result, trashing Mahalo?
Jason, of course, had something to say about all this…
At a certain point you’re going to have to admit that it *might* not be the rest of the world–it might be you.
I prefer to say it this way:
True to form, Winer goes after Calacanis by threatening to go after his job.
…but as one might expect, he doesn’t actually have the, uh, fortitude to go ahead and buy Mahalo to fire him. He threatens with the Royal ‘We’ as if just saying it makes hordes of like-minded people appear from thin air to help him in his endeavors.
I’ve been bugged by the royal we in Winer’s posts lately. It’s a cheap way of implying that your ideas have a wide acceptance, but I find people who agree with Dave about as strange as those who prefer Internet Explorer to Firefox.
http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/03/27/the-twitter-effect-dont-shoot-the-messenger/
The royal “we” is an interesting insight into what lies behind a lot of these outbursts and general nastiness.
Jason, Adam: both made millions + set up real companies with real funding based on technology Dave believes he “invented”.
Dave has his Scripting News Inc., and uses the royal “we” as its not really a company and has no funding. FlickrFan isn’t a start-up product, though it was always described as “we’re releasing today…”.
UserLand et. al. is long gone, and Dave has seen a lot of people get rich and lead interesting lives based on technology he was involved with. He hasn’t got anything truly to show for it (other than selling Weblogs.com under a cloud of controversy).
Jason wakes up as a CEO. Adam wakes up as a CEO. Dave wakes up without a job.
This is what’s behind all this IMHO.