The number of examples of digital crowd sourced information and coordination is growing. I saw this and it gave me a great deal of satisfaction to see it working where it really matters and all the benefits can be realised.  IT done right. I've been spending a lot of time looking at site user interfaces and wondering when we will see the shift in presentation that unlocks more productivity for users - 3D views on lots of information. To me - views on large volumes of data seems to be an underfunded area and the tools for doing this are few and far between and vary in quality. We can get stats but where can we get insight? We need a social media dashboard... News organisations and PR people beware. This will change the game like big bang did in London in the 80's. Maybe this is this answer?

After reading, mashable earlier on twitter recent growth spike, I've just been playing with compete.com and found some interesting trends to share. 1 -Twitter's velocity is reletively high both historically and compared to its social rivals. 2 - Website Traffic is rising but is way short of fb and ms 3 - Twitter has risen up the long tail  4 - Google trend shows there is a long way to go NB API use not included. I've been wondering when twitter will tip in terms of user numbers.   How long will it take to reach 100m registrants? My prediction is by November 2010.  I'm now activily looking at twitter business opportunities and have some ideas. I think this is going to be an exciting space over the next couple of  years.