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Harking back to Carvill...maybe we could get Hillary to give Mitch one of hers....
by AceInTX

In truth, to history
by Raven

I think you're spot on
by E Pluribus Unum

Never claimed it is
by Raven

Another reason to like Sarah Palin
by JSobieski

Buggery
by zornorph

Unbelievably belieavable...
by conservativecurmudgeon

Liberal
by zornorph

I did not know that they had a table at CPAC--ouch
by JSobieski

LePage has publically supported Snowe for 2012
by captkirc

Liberals Are Very Bad People
by izoneguy

I thought the vote on the Dream act was on Cloture...did I miss something? nt
by AceInTX

Look...she made the pledge...and she signed her name to it...
by AceInTX

Wow
by smitch61

pilgrim- How about he run for Senate againt Snowe in 2012?
by Scope

ummm....yup!!!
by AceInTX

Ron Paul will not rest until the US economy mirrors that of Commie China, with government bureaucrats and functionaries making monetary policy rather than bankers and economists. -nt
by Read Chesterton

You know sheen really thought he could be president too. nt
by Common_Cents

You know sheen really thought he could be president too. nt
by Common_Cents

Maybe in 2014 LePage will run for Senate. nt
by pilgrim

You have a point on Snowe....but Collins has b een in negotiation with Dems on every bad idea that's come down the pike
by AceInTX

Is she that thick?
by Menlo

I am staying in the Shenandoah Valley tonight
by Jack_Savage

Amazing how the Paultarians have come out
by Scope

After Announcing That They Won't Vote For It, I Don't See How They Can Turn Around And Vote For It
by IJB

So The Next Step Is
by wonkish1

I Think These Are The Reasons
by wonkish1

Ron Paul is not a Libertarian
by Scope

Not all liberals created equal
by lexington_concord

You Understate Things
by IJB

Can we please stop referring to Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and a few others as moderates already?
by AceInTX

I'm almost embarrassed to admit this but Collins
by throwback59

You would certainly be welcome to do that
by Scope

Shame on you Sorkin
by pamela1631

Buyer's Remorse
by writestuffla

Sadly, there are tens of thousands of such heartbreaking stories...
by conservativecurmudgeon

We're not put in a tight spot
by lexington_concord

How much did diplomatic measures
by Scope

5 (nt)
by Neil Stevens

Not so fast Congessman Roe
by wattchildress

Twitter launched a number of new features for its website today that allow more companies to embed their content in the site’s right-hand media pane, making the site feel even more “app-like.” Coincidentally enough, while Twitter was making this announcement Google was launching Chrome OS, and talking about all the great apps that users can download from the Chrome store — many of which cost money to download and have features that don’t work fully unless you are using a Chrome browser or the Chrome OS. One is about the web and the other is about apps.

Obviously, Twitter has apps too — it has an iPhone ( aapl) app, an iPad app and an Android app, and may even be working on a Chrome OS app. But the company has also been spending a lot of time and resources on its website and adding new features to it, including the ability to embed Slideshare presentatations, Instagram photos, iTunes links shared via Ping, YouTube videos, Rdio tunes and other multimedia content. The new version of the site (which is still being rolled out to users) even feels app-like in the way content slides out into the media pane. But you don’t have to download it and you don’t have to pay for it.

The features that Google’s Chrome OS apps have to offer are nice as well, and the user interface in many cases is very slick, but they still represent new apps that users have to find and download from a new app store, just as they have to download apps for their iPads or iPhones, or their Android devices. Everyone seems to want to have an app or an app store — even Mozilla is apparently developing one — in part because of the monetization potential that many see, not just from users paying to download the application, but also from in-app purchases or subscriptions or upgrades.

So what happened to just using the Internet and the regular web? The father of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, wrote recently in Scientific American about the rise of the walled-garden approach to applications, and his concern about how users are being restricted by proprietary platforms, with limited abilities to link or share content, both of which are at the heart of the web’s power — and he is right to be concerned. In some ways, the web seems to be getting subsumed by a flurry of different platforms and app stores.

One of the powerful things about HTML5, as Google CEO Eric Schmidt noted in his talk following the Chrome OS launch, is that it allows developers to produce rich, interactive websites that look and feel like applications. So why don’t more companies take the approach that Twitter is taking, and develop better websites instead of focusing on building apps for a dozen different stores? Obviously apps have a number of benefits — monetization through downloads being one of them — but there are a ton of benefits to just having a better website as well, and one is that anyone can use it without having to pay for it.

Related GigaOM Pro content (sub req’d):

Why Google Should Fear the Social Web

Lessons From Twitter: How to Play Nice With Ecosystem Partners

What We Can Learn From the Guardian’s Open Platform

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