Twitter, the micro-messaging company that is now said to be worth $10 billion didn’t start off that way. It was a germ of an idea that has become what I have often called, the megaphone for the planet. Check out this video of its origins. Read More »
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“Laughable,” “absurd,” “ludicrous” and “pointless” were words Twitter founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone used Monday night to describe a recent Malcolm Gladwell story in the New Yorker about the futility of social media to create real social change. Read More »
In a few hours, Twitter will host its first developer conference, Chirp in San Francisco. There are many questions surrounding the company’s attitudes towards its third party developers and who it might compete with. In reality, the company has a much bigger challenge ahead. Read More »
Twitter Founder Ev Williams went on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” to talk about his San Francisco-based micro-messaging startup, and in the process turned his red hot company hotter. It’s not clear how many people are going to sign up for the service following the… Read More »
Dom Sagolla, formerly of Odeo Corp., corporate predecessor of Obvious Corp., the company behind Twitter, tells the story of the micro-messaging service that has caught the imagination of everyone from from tech mommies to cable news networks, sports stars and Hollywood stars.
Updated with comments from Twitter: Dave Winer points to a series of discussions and blog posts about Twitter allegedly limiting people to 2,000 followers. In his opinion, it is a good idea, because “the expensive thing in Twitter is distributing status messages to large… Read More »
Here’s this week’s list of stories we may have missed, but which you shouldn’t. 1) Why we make misjudgments: On Tues. Mar 25, our friends at VentureHacks did a better job than I did of editing-down Marc Andreessen’s latest opus on cognitive bias, which is… Read More »
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious,” Albert Einstein once said. False modesty? Perhaps. But Einstein actually placed a premium on curiosity — not intellect. Why? Because, he pointed out, “we can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we… Read More »
