So, why would such a curation system be a billion dollar opportunity?
Well, first of all, it would open up a new kind of CMS. That alone would be worth some money, but not a billion. Second of all, it would open up a new kind of community. One that goes beyond Twitter and Facebook, but uses both of those. Every time I talk about this tool with other publishing professionals they agree there’s a need. Many of them are already trying to use CoTweet or TweetRiver to watch tweet streams and push them into buckets for further discussion. Even sites like Mashable and TechCrunch are watching Tweets all day long and are regularly building blog posts out of those Tweets (but they are doing them by hand). Third, I look at potential market sizes. Blogging got to a few hundred million people. Twitter and Facebook are going to hit far larger numbers, why? Because the potential market for microblogs is bigger than blogging was. Think about it. Lots of people can write a status message. Not as many people can put together a good blog post. Even more people will be able
