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 ads [...]
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 move [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 search for ways [...]
I think this is a great image of how Twitter got going. Click here to see full size
From here
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 is not [...]
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 to [...]
I had to laugh at this video about twitter.
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I spent a lot of time this weekend explaining Twitter to people. People want to know not just what it is but why they should use it. It’s confusing for people who have never tried it. It’s so simple yet so confounding. This chart explains the early stages well:
One thing i’ve noticed in my [...]
