evolution not revolution
a great quote….
i have been mulling on this quote for the past few days since we got it as feedback from @aweissman on our idea and just do a quick stock of the the internet major players we see how much of their core business is really just a obvious evolution of their business.
just a few that come first to mind:
- google — take the value proposition of search and make it simple (and better in relevant — the backscratch)
- gmail – web mail without all the noise of visual ads
- facebook – again just a cleaner version of friendster meets myspace…
- basecamp – project management with a reduced feature set for better ux
on the contrary let look at a trend that people are calling radical – twitter.
is twitter is a revolution (or that what the fanatics are telling me)? i was chatting with a friend where i was saying “i just don’t get it” — his response — i get it — i completely get it — twitter is just the next natural evolution in status messages for IM and other services where people want to give little updates (or microblog in web20-speak). so in most all plays we can track its value to a predecessor (prior art anyone?)
for those of you familiar with the innovators dilemma and such such notions — the value is when you able to improve a market concept rather than create it when there is a enough market maturity and momentum to truly capitalize.
so with this new quote in the armory — snackfeed is the next evolution (not the next revolution) in web video…
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