What could happen over at twitter when you add Rael Dornfest--someone who's created and edited a superb book series (O'Reilly Hacks), built one of the first RSS readers (Meerkat), working on the RSS spec standards and then went on to found a cool little company values of n that built Stikkit: Little yellow notes that *think*. 

Now the man's going to join forces with Ev Williams, Biz Stone and other smart people at twitter; my product development head is bursting with speculation about the cool direction twitter could go in (and thinking multiple products people, one at a time...). And of course the dude's an engineer....

TechCrunch broke the story and the twitterverse is humming with the news.

"Free is the next disruption.  Like all platform shifts, it begins as a small but structural change in the economics of adoption. It ends with the re-alignment of the market, with a couple of survivors, and many more new entrants."

--Peter Rip, Early Stage VC, writing about how cloud computing, Google Apps as a free provisioning environment, etc. is disrupting economic models for infrastructure, frameworks, hosting, scaling, etc.