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On 29th of June Ryan Roslansky wrote about the Twitter import in LinkedIn. He was really clear and direct writing:

Consistent with Twitter’s evolving platform efforts, Tweets will no longer be displayed on LinkedIn starting later today.

Ryan wrote that this decision is due to the new Twitter strategies that focus on the “consumption experience” improvement.

The same day Michael Sippey wrote on the Twitter developer Blog:

we’re hard at work building tools that make it easy for developers to build common Twitter features into their own sites in a simple and consistent way.

This support the new expanded Tweets annouced on the 13th of June on the Twitter Blog. The new function consists on the embedding of external sites contents directly on the Twitter home feed. In this way users can read a full article of the NY Times or comment an exclusive WWE image directly on Twitter.

Obviously these expanded tweets are a revenue source for Twitter that is searching to find the right way to monetize its success.

After a lot of year of Twitter client clones, the company want to cut their server reasources for third part application increasing the interactions between Twitter and web contents, or between surfers and contents sites through Twitter.

What about the social media instruments connected to Twitter?
What about the Twitter cross posting on Facebook and Tumblr?
What about the Twitter login on Disqus and many other web/mobile apps?

Are they doing the right move? I hope yes, because the Twitter failing strategies could be a fail for all the digital economy that can’t monetize contents. If I don’t wrong YouTube is still losing money.

For my Twitter use and needs they should improve the multi account performances and the ashtag management. They can’t expect to become a full content aggregator because people use Twitter because won’t read more than 140 character. If they fill my twitter feed of long contents, I’ll not appreciate it.

I applied to the Seedcamp selection with TwitReporter, an application for the pay per tweet and the ashtag management. I’ve just started developing it with my dear friend Chiara de Caro, but now we’ll wait a while to understand the Twitter strategies, but if someone is interested in, you can find me here 🙂

Searching for the word play on the Oxford Dictionary I found:

– verb
[no object] engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose:
– noun
[mass noun]
1activity engaged in for enjoyment and recreation, especially by children:

Yesterday march 6 , Google announced that Android Market is replaced by Google Play.
New logo and new name for more or less the same services. In their official blog post they say:

[…]Google Play, a digital entertainment destination where you can find, enjoy and share your favorite music, movies, books and apps on the web and on your Android phone or tablet. Google Play is entirely cloud-based so all your music, movies, books and apps are stored online, always available to you, and you never have to worry about losing them or moving them again.

In my opinion Google is going to have branding problems because it’s focusing its activity on the mobile with the only one product that doesn’t have the big G brand: Android!

When they launched Android probably they didn’t expect a success like this. Today, with thousands day activations, Android is the unique OS available natively for smartphones and tablets of any price, TVs, set top boxes, car entertainment systems and probably other devices that I’m forgetting.

When Google will mash Chrome/Chromium and Android will be the world’s OS leader, surpassing Microsoft and Apple. In a near future Google will control the fruition platform of a lot of the internet devices in our daily life, except the gaming devices (for now). The best way to earn from this leader position is selling contents/services to consumer and business markets.

In these years Google built the perfect market.
It started from the www content indexing paid from AdWord. Then it offered for free services like Gmail, Gmap, Greader, Ganalytics, Gdocs, Gbooks, Blogger [etc] retaining users with their personal data, and contemporaneously selling business services versions to the small/medium companies. He bought the most important content site ever, YouTube, improving the video distribution on the web. Then Google integrated all these services in a unique social Google (+) Account and in a mobile OS: Android.
Android today can aggregate all the Google services and contents in a big variety of devices, but where’s the problem of this perfect market?

The problem is that the Google’s biggest selling channel is branded Android, not Google!

In this way BigG is wasting all his brand power exactly when it should be trusted from his consumers to sell products that others are already selling from iTunes, Xbox/Zune/Windosw8, Amazon Store or PlayStation Network.

The little Android mascote is so cute. Google can’t kill him, but can delete him from the money cloud cave of the future, the ex Android Market.

All together say hello to the rainbow triangle of Google Play.