Twitter was dreamed up at a playground

I simply had to specially highlight this quote from Fred Wilson’s talk apart from my previous post.

Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps:

… This slide is in South Park in San Francisco. There is a little area at the top of the slide where you can hang out. This is where Twitter was invented. A bunch of employees of a company called Odeo took some time off in the middle of a nice, spring day, and went to think about new projects they could build. One group was 4 or 5 people that sat at the top of this slide and basically conceived of Twitter.

Do I really need to say it? Play around at work and good things can happen.

Social Media (capital ‘S’, capital ‘M’) is a big deal right now. I find it delightful that Twitter, this behemoth of an Internet and cultural phenomenon that is so vitally important to the future history of everything (note the sarcasm), got its start at a playground.