367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry
The Talk Show With John Gruber
I Chat, I Chat Was, Is Locking the Chalk? Yeah. Yeah.
I chat was the original client that Apple made to talk to aim. Jack Dorsey's idea was, well, what if there was a universal service for those sort of things and you could just say, you know, that you're eating lunch at such and such cafe? And your friends who are nearby could maybe see that and say, Oh, I'll go stop by and see Craig. The fact that that's not how Twitter turned out to be isn't a failure. It's usually the sign of a great idea is when it expands into something that the creator didn't originally envision, but it works well.
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