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If I owned Twitter, I'd be far more interested in the overall usage stats than just uniques. I understand the importance of uniques for overall growth, but reading most of the complaints, it's not that the service offers no value, but rather it's the perceived lack of filtering. People will eventually figure out lists, and other ways of filtering the data. And Twitter's open source approach should continue to ensure that a very large community of developers and entrepreneurs will continue to find new ways of expanding Twitter's utility.

Sometimes a video is worth 1,000 blog posts. This one does a great job explaining the immediate appeal and potential power of their social search. In personal tests, I didn't find it all that, but then neither was YouTube on day one. But the potential is screaming obvious. And I found it a glaring reminder of how far ahead of everyone Google is in search. Tried Facebook search lately?

Think iPad will save the publishing and ad industries? Here's a good contrarian viewpoint.

The underlying thread here is simplicity and speed. No surprises there. Of course, whether that's an iPhone app or a Facebook app, that's easier said than done.

I've long been jealous of the east coast's ability to take trains between cities. Especially with the declining experience of air travel. An extra hour or two on a 3 hour trip is, IMO, entirely bearable if you have full access to productive technology. And, can cut out an hour of getting into and out of the downtowns of cities. I'm only surprised Amtrak didn't do this earlier.

If there's an intersection of mobile, gaming, and emerging platforms, it seems to be located very close to Foursquare. I can't think of any other app that's been consistently getting as much buzz as these guys. These upgrades won't impact anyone but the hardcores, but I do think the new borderless structure will only increase Foursquare's popularity and growth. As I've previously reported, it's being used as a promotional device by various bars and coffee shops. And what better to identify your most vocal brand advocates in your area?

Easy, and more importantly, graphically cool way to generate word clouds from any selection of words you chose.

Ran across this story from Dom Sagolla, one of the original team that created and launched Twitter. Note how, despite Twitter's relatively simple concept and technology, they went through a number of technical, UX and branding challenges. Scroll down the page past the book promo to see the original post.

It's interesting to compare how Apple launches products vs Google. Apple's launches rest almost entirely on the shoulders of Steve Jobs. Google has made a habit of putting their product managers in the spotlight. Can Google's 20k employees compete with Apple's charismatic CEO? It's an interesting comparison between one company who's known for it's secrecy as much as the other for it's openness.