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02 June 2010 ~ View Comments

Fred’s 10 Golden Web-App Rules

This past weekend i watched this video from Fred Wilson about what are the 10 Golden Principles of a Web application. Fred has been an investor for over 20 years and is on the board of some of this decade’s premier companies such as Twitter, FourSquare, Tumblr, Etsy, Delicous, and more. The 10 Golden Principles [...]

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21 November 2009 ~ View Comments

Twitter Ads Will be Organic

Was watching this video today (below) with the Twitter COO.  When asked about the advertising strategy, he says: You will see an advertising strategy from us in the very near future.  And i think that it will be…um…fascinating and completely non-traditional and people will love it…. The genuis of Google when Google first rolled out [...]

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08 October 2009 ~ View Comments

Techtacky

This is an interesting chart that i found on Seth Godin’s blog here: As he says: “The challenge is in designing structures and transparency that will attract the good guys while burying or repelling those that seek the new technology (because they can’t find anywhere else to go). In other words, you either need to [...]

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13 July 2009 ~ View Comments

Spying on Myself and LifeTracker

Fred Wilson had a post this weekend about MyWare and his love of it. I couldn’t agree more as i’m a huge proponent of tracking my own activity. For instance, Here’s a page with all the music i’m listening to Here’s a page with all the websites i find that i like Here’s a page [...]

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01 July 2009 ~ View Comments

Let's Talk About Revolutions (in media)

I reread this morning Clay Shirky’s great SXSW piece about the media business and i wanted to share some of his thoughts here.  Let me go through the end of the article a bit.  He starts: Elizabeth Eisenstein’s magisterial treatment of Gutenberg’s invention, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, opens with a recounting [...]

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26 June 2009 ~ View Comments

4 Reasons Twitter Makes My Life Better

Image via CrunchBase There’s an article i read today (thanks to Lizard) about how Twitter can you a better and happier person.  The reasons listed in the article are: Transparency & Values: Twitter constantly reminds me of who I want to be, and what I want to stand for Reframing Reality: Twitter encourages me to [...]

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23 June 2009 ~ View Comments

Image of Twitter's History

I think this is a great image of how Twitter got going.  Click here to see full size From here

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16 April 2009 ~ View Comments

Fred Wilson's Take on Twitter

There’s a good video by Fred Wilson about Twitter and what he, as an investor in it, thinks about it.  What he boils it down to is three points: “the single most important is that twitter from day 1 is a platform that others can build upon” “it is very one-dimensional…it doesn’t do anything that [...]

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03 April 2009 ~ View Comments

Thoughts on URL shorteners

This week there was lots of buzz around Bit.ly, a URL shortener company from Beatworks that raised 2 million dollars.  Betaworks is an incubator started by John Borthwick who i had the priveldge of working with at AOL.   Bit.ly is pretty sweet. Check out the things it can do for you: It uses a cookie [...]

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25 March 2009 ~ View Comments

More Twitter – but with video

I had to laugh at this video about twitter. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN2HAroA12w]

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