Reminds me of Paul Graham's observation: "Twitter is important because it's a new protocol. Fundamentally it's a messaging protocol where you don't specify the

Reminds me of Paul Graham's observation: "Twitter is important because it's a new protocol. Fundamentally it's a messaging protocol where you don't specify the recipients. It's really more of a discovery than an invention; that square was always there in the periodic table of protocols, but no one had quite hit it squarely." http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html