Enough With The Private Invites, Already...

OK, I am now officially tired of those services which attempt to create buzz by giving out invites to a select few and hardly doling out any more. If the service wants good blog press, then let everyone in. Oh, but that would reveal the secret that "this revolutionary new thing" is just not that. The last "revolutionary new thing" I saw was twitter, and that was not such a big idea after all. People have wanted some kinda way to let people know what they are up to in a light way for ages. No one just ever did it. Pownce, Jaiku etc are just better, more featured, twitters. More features usually means bad. Look at how Palm hit the skids once it got more complex. We need simple devices which do one thing or a few things well.