Comments on: Why not being first might be your biggest advantage http://outthink.co.za/index.php/2009/09/why-not-being-first-might-be-your-biggest-advantage/ The search is on... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Justin Hartman http://outthink.co.za/index.php/2009/09/why-not-being-first-might-be-your-biggest-advantage/comment-page-1/#comment-533 Justin Hartman Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:06:55 +0000 http://outthink.co.za/?p=986#comment-533 I agree with this 100%. Conversely though you can look at Twitter vs. Pownce vs. Jaiku. In my opinion Pownce and Jaiku were by far superior products to Twitter yet in this instance the first mover advantage worked for them as Pownce and Jaiku are no more.<br><br>I think though that while Pownce and Jaiku were better products they were simply trying to steal Twitter's audience and they figured more features would do it. Twitter stood resolute and didn't react to this and let them fight it out. It could have backfired on them quite badly but as we've seen it was the right approach for the situation. I agree with this 100%. Conversely though you can look at Twitter vs. Pownce vs. Jaiku. In my opinion Pownce and Jaiku were by far superior products to Twitter yet in this instance the first mover advantage worked for them as Pownce and Jaiku are no more.

I think though that while Pownce and Jaiku were better products they were simply trying to steal Twitter's audience and they figured more features would do it. Twitter stood resolute and didn't react to this and let them fight it out. It could have backfired on them quite badly but as we've seen it was the right approach for the situation.

]]> By: Justin Hartman http://outthink.co.za/index.php/2009/09/why-not-being-first-might-be-your-biggest-advantage/comment-page-1/#comment-509 Justin Hartman Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:06:55 +0000 http://outthink.co.za/?p=986#comment-509 I agree with this 100%. Conversely though you can look at Twitter vs. Pownce vs. Jaiku. In my opinion Pownce and Jaiku were by far superior products to Twitter yet in this instance the first mover advantage worked for them as Pownce and Jaiku are no more.<br><br>I think though that while Pownce and Jaiku were better products they were simply trying to steal Twitter's audience and they figured more features would do it. Twitter stood resolute and didn't react to this and let them fight it out. It could have backfired on them quite badly but as we've seen it was the right approach for the situation. I agree with this 100%. Conversely though you can look at Twitter vs. Pownce vs. Jaiku. In my opinion Pownce and Jaiku were by far superior products to Twitter yet in this instance the first mover advantage worked for them as Pownce and Jaiku are no more.

I think though that while Pownce and Jaiku were better products they were simply trying to steal Twitter's audience and they figured more features would do it. Twitter stood resolute and didn't react to this and let them fight it out. It could have backfired on them quite badly but as we've seen it was the right approach for the situation.

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