[rodyancy]

"AT&T came up with the idea for buzz.com about a year and a half ago, says David Krantz, president and chief executive of AT&T Interactive"

He says that so casually, like it was an original idea. And, he's not bothered by the fact that it took them a year and half to launch.

[omouse]

"And, he's not bothered by the fact that it took them a year and half to launch."

Well, considering how long it took Twitter to scale and stop falling over, I'd say taking a little while longer to launch is a good thing.

[dsil]

I don't understand this logic at all. Twitter has learned so much by launching as early as they did, and now it's a huge success. It's better to "scale and stop falling over" while you're improving your product and growing exponentially than spend a year and a half having meetings.