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People are increasingly sharing different types of information on Twitter. For example, Tweets point to web pages, photos, videos, hashtags, people, check-ins, and more. Exploring Tweets is a great way to discover new and interesting information. And with devices of all shapes and sizes connecting to the Internet, we’re constantly looking for new ways to make this easier. To date, we’ve created applications for a variety of mobile phones, giving you instant access to Tweets and grea..   show all text
People are increasingly sharing different types of information on Twitter. For example, Tweets point to web pages, photos, videos, hashtags, people, check-ins, and more. Exploring Tweets is a great way to discover new and interesting information. And with devices of all shapes and sizes connecting to the Internet, we’re constantly looking for new ways to make this easier. To date, we’ve created applications for a variety of mobile phones, giving you instant access to Tweets and great content when you’re on the go.

Today we are bringing Tweets to a device that really lets content shine - the iPad. Twitter for iPad takes advantage of the iPad’s fluid touch interface, letting you move lots of information around smoothly and quickly – without needing to open and close windows or click buttons. There are a few things we want to point out that make this app a really fast and fun way to read real-time content.

Panes: Tapping on a Tweet opens a pane to the right. Depending on the content in that Tweet, you’ll see a video or photo, or maybe a news story, or perhaps another Tweet. You can continue tapping on Tweets, opening new panes, and getting new content as long as you’d like to. And, it’s really easy to move between panes by swiping to the right or left.


Media: When you tap a video link or open a web page with an embedded video, you can play that video inline. And, let’s be honest, video is great but sometimes it can take some time to load. The panes in Twitter for iPad let you look through your timeline while a video is loading, and then you can just swipe back to the video when it’s ready to play. You can also pinch on a video to watch it fullscreen.

Gestures: You can pinch on a Tweet to quickly view details about the author and to take actions on a Tweet, such as reply or retweet. Put two fingers together and pull down on a Tweet to peek at the replies, showing the entire conversation leading to that Tweet.



No need to login: You don’t even need to sign up to get started with Twitter for iPad. We’ve selected great Twitter accounts that you can see in various categories, such as Art & Design, Sports, and News. You can also search, view trends, and find breaking news. Sign up at any time to create your own timeline and start tweeting.

Twitter for iPad is available worldwide from the App Store. Try it out and let me, @lorenb, and @bhaggs know what you think.
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: Twitter now supports Sharing content in Tweets. but only on the iPad. FFS. http://monk.ly/9Hthhf  02.09.2010 05.11.34
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: Official Twitter iPad app launches http://t.co/TQ04ubo  01.09.2010 21.41.13
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: retweet atebits: Twitter for iPad - http://t.co/3RW9YkJ  01.09.2010 21.36.48
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: Awesome! RT @kevinthau Boom! Congrats @Leland, @lorenb, @bhaggs, etc. “@twitter: Announcing Twitter for iPad bit.ly/dqCLPS”  01.09.2010 21.14.40
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: Twitter for iPad - Sharing content in Tweets (Twitter Blog): http://bit.ly/bJoSXg [Looks good!]  02.09.2010 07.45.06
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: Twitter for iPad launches: http://gri.ms/KTGT  02.09.2010 07.30.03
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: RT @monkchips: Twitter now supports Sharing content in Tweets. but only on the iPad. FFS. http://monk.ly/9Hthhf  02.09.2010 05.12.24
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: retweet twitter: Announcing Twitter for iPad: Sharing content in Tweets http://t.co/xKz1rGj  01.09.2010 23.14.23
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: retweet dalmaer: Twitter for iPad beat Facebook for iPad.... although I still can't download the beastie http://ajxn.it/bYEgRj  01.09.2010 21.47.26
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: Twitter for iPad beat Facebook for iPad.... although I still can't download the beastie http://ajxn.it/bYEgRj  01.09.2010 21.41.12
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: Twitter for iPad is, by far, my favorite way to read Twitter right now. http://t.co/od06RIA  01.09.2010 21.30.06
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: @twitter: Twitter for #iPad: Sharing content in Tweets http://bit.ly/aHw8pq Download: http://bit.ly/caBIr1  01.09.2010 21.20.16
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: retweet atebits: Twitter for iPad - http://t.co/3RW9YkJ  01.09.2010 21.19.42
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: RT @mocoNews: Twitter for iPad launches tonight. Will it cut out the paid app competition? http://bit.ly/c9xXLt #mnbuzz  01.09.2010 21.18.02
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: Looks beautiful! RT @twitter: Announcing Twitter for iPad: Sharing content in Tweets http://t.co/xKz1rGj  01.09.2010 21.16.51
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: Twitter just launched its "Twitter for iPad" app. Looks slick. Check it here: http://bit.ly/ayPpLO  01.09.2010 21.09.09
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: You no longer have to use the 2X version of the iPhone Twitter app: [RT @twitter] Announcing Twitter for iPad bit.ly/dqCLPS  01.09.2010 21.08.06
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Are you addicted to Twitter? Do you have an iPad? Even if the answer to both is “no” right now, after you see Twitter for iPad, those answers are going to change — quickly. Yes, the wait is over. Launching tonight in the App Store is Twitter for iPad — the first official native iPad app from the company. We all knew it was coming (Twitter even said so a few months ago), but it has been a long wait. It was definitely worth it. Like most people, I wander into hyperbole fro..   show all text

Are you addicted to Twitter? Do you have an iPad? Even if the answer to both is “no” right now, after you see Twitter for iPad, those answers are going to change — quickly.

Yes, the wait is over. Launching tonight in the App Store is Twitter for iPad — the first official native iPad app from the company. We all knew it was coming (Twitter even said so a few months ago), but it has been a long wait. It was definitely worth it.

Like most people, I wander into hyperbole from time to time. But it has now been a few days since I first played with Twitter for iPad, and I still think it is hands-down the best iPad app out there. It’s that good. With all due respect to Reeder, Instapaper, Flipboard, and Pulse, this is now going to be my go-to app for just about everything related to reading news. It’s simply such a great experience for reading tweets — and more importantly, reading the links your friends share.

What Twitter has done is create an amazing user experience for reading information. This is thanks to an intuitive user interface that layers on top of itself. So, for example, if I click on a link in my tweet stream, I’ll have a new layer that rolls over to show that webpage in a customized browser window. If you’ve used Flipboard, it’s somewhat similar, but better because it’s much easier to go back to where ever you previously were before you clicked the link. You simply swipe something to the side to move it temporarily or swipe it again to get it off the screen (in portrait mode anyway, where there’s less space).

Something else that’s awesome: when you highlight a tweet by clicking on it, it’s now pinned to the top or bottom of the screen as you scroll through your stream. This is great if it’s something you want to reference. A lot of thought has been put into these type of saving state actions within this app. It’s simple to save a draft and go back to it, for example (much easier than with Twitter for iPhone). Or to reference one of these pinned tweets in your own tweet.

There are also some great new gestures that Twitter came up with for this app. For example, if you pinch-outward on a tweet, it will unfold to show you more information about the Twitter user. Better may be the way you can swipe down with two fingers on any tweet to see a full conversation in context. It’s the little things like this that make the app great — Apple-like, even.

Overall, the app looks and feels quite a bit different from Twitter for iPhone (which Twitter built from Tweetie — developer Loren Brichter’s client that they acquired earlier this year). But Twitter’s Leland Rechis assures me it’s using all the same stuff on the backend. In fact, Twitter is now a universal app — meaning it’s one app that will work on both the iPhone and iPad, it will just look different depending on which device you’re using it on.

Rechis also says Twitter started experimenting with some newer things on the iPad version that haven’t yet been brought to the iPhone version, but undoubtedly will. A great example here is that when you click through to a user’s profile page, you’ll see at the bottom a list of users similar to that user that you may like to follow.

Rechis also notes the importance of the logged-out view — something Twitter worked on before the iPhone version launch. Twitter wants to make the service as useful as possible to people even if they don’t have an account. The idea, of course, is that they’ll hopefully sign up for one — and this app may give them the most reason to yet. When logged out, you’ll be able to see tweet streams based on hot topics.

Tweets in general are not just what I’m doing, they have an incredible amount of metadata,” Rechis says speaking to why they created this layering idea for the app. Almost 25 percent of all tweets now have a link in them, he says. This app is perfect for those tweets, and content consumption and exploration in general.

Rechis notes that one of his favorite things about tablets is how they eliminate window management. At the same time, you need some way to manage all this information. He notes that Brichter’s original concept was stacks of sheets of paper that you quickly shuffle through. Other members of Twitter including Rechis refined that idea and the end result is Twitter for iPad.

That’s roughly 750 words about the app — but you really just need to see it, and use it. It will definitely be my go-to way to browse Twitter from now on. It’s that good.

Look for it in the App Store shortly. It will be a free download.

Update: I should note that for some of these more advanced gestures, there is a slight learning curve. That said, you can do everything without using those gestures, so it’s not a big deal — it’s just icing on the cake. And yes, Twitter is trying to come up with the best way to teach users about these new gestures.



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: retweet TechCrunch: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://tcrn.ch/bdQ3Iy by @parislemon  01.09.2010 22.35.33
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: retweet TechCrunch: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://tcrn.ch/bdQ3Iy by @parislemon  01.09.2010 21.32.39
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: retweet TechCrunch: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://tcrn.ch/bdQ3Iy by @parislemon  01.09.2010 21.17.04
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: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://tcrn.ch/bdQ3Iy by @parislemon  01.09.2010 20.59.54
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: Twitter Just Killed Their Own Website. iPad App Is That Good (TC): http://tcrn.ch/aTAVR7 [Twitter.com has always sucked]  02.09.2010 08.00.42
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: retweet TechCrunch: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://tcrn.ch/bdQ3Iy by @parislemon  02.09.2010 00.16.32
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: retweet adambain: RT @ischafer: Twitter for iPad. You're gonna want it. Bad. http://dfoc.us/aFnARW  01.09.2010 22.09.30
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: retweet Jkirk22: Congrats to @Twitter team for another solid upgrade to their off site experience: Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://tcrn.ch/cE7J47  01.09.2010 22.02.29
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: retweet TechCrunch: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://tcrn.ch/bdQ3Iy by @parislemon  01.09.2010 21.34.52
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: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://t.co/xlJi81c via @techcrunch  01.09.2010 21.33.02
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: retweet TechCrunch: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://tcrn.ch/bdQ3Iy by @parislemon  01.09.2010 21.31.19
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: retweet TechCrunch: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://tcrn.ch/bdQ3Iy by @parislemon  01.09.2010 21.22.30
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: RT @ischafer: Twitter for iPad. You're gonna want it. Bad. http://dfoc.us/aFnARW  01.09.2010 21.20.31
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: Congrats @leland @lorenb @bhaggs ! Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://t.co/VWEZUOR  01.09.2010 21.14.02
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: RT @parislemon: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://t.co/cu4VcPJ tip @techmeme  01.09.2010 21.11.34
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: “Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://t.co/VWEZUOR " go @Leland @lorenb !!!!!  01.09.2010 21.09.53
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: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://t.co/zEbTZ9O Nice headline writing, MG.  01.09.2010 21.09.52
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: retweet TechCrunch: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://tcrn.ch/bdQ3Iy by @parislemon  01.09.2010 21.04.56
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: Reading @TechCrunch: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For #iPad Is That Good http://tcrn.ch/csXrtf  01.09.2010 21.03.47
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: And @TechCrunch @ParisLemon give Twitter for iPad 3 thumbs up: http://tcrn.ch/bdQ3Iy  01.09.2010 21.02.22
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: Twitter Just Killed Something Else: Their Own Website. Twitter For iPad Is That Good. http://t.co/cu4VcPJ  01.09.2010 21.00.26
Says :   "It's now virtually impossible for MSM to keep pace with the likes of Twitter." More reason for #teamwork. http://bit.ly/9n8TTT @arimelber
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: "It's now virtually impossible for MSM to keep pace with the likes of Twitter." More reason for #teamwork. http://bit.ly/9n8TTT @arimelber  02.09.2010 06.44.01
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: "Social media sources are now regular parts of the news ecology, serving as an early alert system"-@WashingtonPost http://j.mp/9W1Pt8 Yup.  02.09.2010 06.05.27
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: Good morning! Twitter scores another news-breaking credit, this time with the Discovery Channel gunman story http://nie.mn/9Iuj2Q  02.09.2010 06.03.33
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: Once again, big news and photos break first on Twitter: the Silver Spring, MD hostage taker - http://bit.ly/bZmagi (HT @nigelcameron01.09.2010 21.22.49
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: How Twitter broke the story on the Discovery gunman http://wapo.st/baACSe (via @kzaleski02.09.2010 08.31.56
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: Good story! RT @NiemanLab: Twitter scores another news-breaking credit, this time with Discovery Channel gunman story http://nie.mn/9Iuj2Q  02.09.2010 06.14.16
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: WP: Twitter breaks story on Discovery Channel gunman James Lee. http://journ.us/b9MIuA  02.09.2010 04.47.32
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: WP: Twitter breaks story on Discovery Channel gunman James Lee. http://journ.us/b9MIuA  02.09.2010 04.46.59
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: WP: Twitter breaks story on Discovery Channell gunman James Lee. http://journ.us/b9MIuA  02.09.2010 04.45.18
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: retweet theSeanCook: "Among other uses, Twitter is an effective tool for finding personal stories in the midst of massive news events" http://bit.ly/bV2jde  01.09.2010 23.06.45
As the fugitive businessman Asil Nadir flew back to Britain from his North Cyprus bolt-hole last week, Sean O'Neill, the crime editor of The Times, scooped Fleet Street by being the only print journalist on the plane. Yet those searching Google for the latest on the breaking story that morning would have found no sign of O'Neill's exclusive – only follow-up stories by rival news organisations such as The Guardian and ITN.

As the fugitive businessman Asil Nadir flew back to Britain from his North Cyprus bolt-hole last week, Sean O'Neill, the crime editor of The Times, scooped Fleet Street by being the only print journalist on the plane. Yet those searching Google for the latest on the breaking story that morning would have found no sign of O'Neill's exclusive – only follow-up stories by rival news organisations such as The Guardian and ITN.

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: Advertisers pull out of The Times after post-paywall traffic collapse http://nie.mn/cxbKf8  02.09.2010 06.45.02
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: RT @felixsalmon Rupert's paywall problems at the Times of London http://bit.ly/9808c1  02.09.2010 07.37.10
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: Consumers don't get the Times's scoops. Advertisers are deserting it. Even celebs aren't giving it interviews: http://bit.ly/9808c1 #paywall  02.09.2010 07.29.06
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: retweet acarvin: RT @NiemanLab: Advertisers pull out of The Times (UK) after post-paywall traffic collapse http://nie.mn/cxbKf8  02.09.2010 07.17.50
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: RT @NiemanLab: Advertisers pull out of The Times (UK) after post-paywall traffic collapse http://nie.mn/cxbKf8  02.09.2010 06.54.57
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: The Independent on Murdoch's paywall http://bit.ly/bk0Gy4  02.09.2010 06.47.37
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: Ay ay ay RT @NiemanLab Advertisers pull out of The Times after post-paywall traffic collapse http://nie.mn/cxbKf8  02.09.2010 06.46.16
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[Updated at 1:05 p.m.] Mariner Energy, owner of the production platform, said in a press release that no hydrocarbon spill has been reported after an initial flyover of the incident. "Mariner has notified and is working with regulatory authorities in response to this incident," the statement said. "The cause is not known, and an investigation will be undertaken. During the last week of August 2010, production from this facility averaged approximately 9.2 million cubic feet of nat..   show all text

[Updated at 1:05 p.m.] Mariner Energy, owner of the production platform, said in a press release that no hydrocarbon spill has been reported after an initial flyover of the incident.

"Mariner has notified and is working with regulatory authorities in response to this incident," the statement said. "The cause is not known, and an investigation will be undertaken. During the last week of August 2010, production from this facility averaged approximately 9.2 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and 1,400 barrels of oil and condensate."

The company also said no injuries have been reported.

[Updated at 12:48 p.m.] David Reed, a paramedic on board the Rowan Gorilla II oil rig located 14 miles from the platform that exploded told submitted an iReport saying he saw all thirteen workers rescued from the water.

“We were up here in the radio room and all of sudden we saw a whole bunch of smoke coming from the platform," Reed said. "Shortly after all the radios started lighting up like a Christmas tree. They called any helicopters in the area, any boats in the area to respond, they were saying there were people in the water. There were multiple people in the water.”

See Reed's iReport of what he witnessed

WWL: Coast Guard reporting production platform incident

WDSU: Production platform explodes in Gulf

iReport: Did you see the explosion? Share images

[Updated at 12:32 p.m.] White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that the federal government has "assets ready" to respond to any environmental problems resulting from the explosion of an oil platform off the coast of Louisiana.

 

[Updated at 12:31 p.m.] All thirteen people aboard a production platform that exploded in the Gulf are accounted for and safely on a commercial vessel according to initial information, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement.

"We continue to gather information as we respond with full force, and have oil spill response assets ready for immediate deployment should we receive any reports of pollution," the statement said.

 

[Updated at 11:53 a.m.] U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough tells CNN that 12 people from the production platform are in water immersion suits as they await rescue.

Colclough told CNN there are reports the production platform, which is for both oil and natural gas, is still on fire.

"We don't know what caused the rig to catch on fire," he told CNN, noting the incident is under investigation.

Asked about concerns regarding oil leaks or pollution, Colclough said "there are reports the rig was not actively producing any product, so we don't know if there's any risk of pollution."

Mariner Energy is a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production company in the Gulf of Mexico. About 85 percent of the company's production comes from offshore assets, with a growing share of that coming from deepwater developments.

The explosion comes nearly five months after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 people and causing oil to gush into
the Gulf of Mexico, leading to one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

 

[Updated at 11:43 a.m.] U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough tells CNN that all 13 workers involved in the production platform explosion are accounted for, but one person is injured.

Coast Guard Choppers are on the way to the site 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay.

[Posted at 11:33 a.m.] An oil production platform has exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana, with 12 people overboard and one missing, the Coast Guard said Thursday morning.

Rescue attempts are under way for at least 12 people, Coast Guard spokesman John Edwards told CNN. 13 people were on board the production platform total, Edwards said, noting 12 have been accounted for, but one person was missing.

The accident took place 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana on the Vermilion Oil production platform 380, which is owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy.

The Coast Guard has multiple helicopters, an airplane and several Coast Guard cutters en route. It's unknown if there are any injuries.


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: @UltraNurd Fingers crossed. Looks like all 13 workers are accounted for, at least: http://bit.ly/cWFXib  02.09.2010 08.56.17
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: retweet mkhammer: More on #oilrig. All13 workers accounted for, 1 injured. No info on if there's leakage. Rig may not have been producing. http://is.gd/eRFFA  02.09.2010 09.15.58
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: Coast Guard: #Oilrig not producing oil at time of blast, apparently still on fire. http://on.cnn.com/9zThNM  02.09.2010 09.05.11
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: Another oil rig exploded of Louisiana http://om.ly/stOj  02.09.2010 08.56.18
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: #CoastGuard: 12 #oilrig workers in water in safety suits; 1 other injured. http://on.cnn.com/9zThNM  02.09.2010 08.55.58
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: Drill, baby, drill: Another oil rig just exploded in the Gulf. http://bit.ly/cWFXib  02.09.2010 08.52.16
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: retweet trianglman: But of course, the moratorium was an overreaction: New Gulf oil rig explodes http://is.gd/eRDjx (h/t @QueenofSpain02.09.2010 08.51.27
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: RT @BuzzEdition: ►#Oilrig explodes 80 miles off #Louisiana; 12 people in water, 1 missing. http://on.cnn.com/9zThNM via @cnnbrk  02.09.2010 08.48.08
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: retweet mzkagan: Another oil rig explosion in the Gulf? Super. http://bit.ly/bm52PZ  02.09.2010 08.45.14
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: #Oilrig explodes 80 miles off #Louisiana; 12 people in water, 1 missing. http://on.cnn.com/9zThNM  02.09.2010 08.36.13
Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter's extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong. This article will explore some of the problems with Twitter's OAuth implementation and some potential pitfalls inherent to the standard. I will also show you how I managed to compromise the secret OAuth key in Twitter's very own official clien..   show all text

Twitter officially disabled Basic authentication this week, the final step in the company's transition to mandatory OAuth authentication. Sadly, Twitter's extremely poor implementation of the OAuth standard offers a textbook example of how to do it wrong. This article will explore some of the problems with Twitter's OAuth implementation and some potential pitfalls inherent to the standard. I will also show you how I managed to compromise the secret OAuth key in Twitter's very own official client application for Android.

OAuth is an emerging authentication standard that is being adopted by a growing number of social networking services. It defines a key exchange mechanism that allows users to grant a third-party application access to their account without having to provide that application with their credentials. It also allows users to selectively revoke an application's access to their account.

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: Ryan pwns Twitter short-sighted, and dumb engineering/security practices on this Ars Technica article: http://bit.ly/bc3OIq  02.09.2010 08.46.33
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: Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system: http://arst.ch/ma1 by @segphault  02.09.2010 08.36.51
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: Twitter's "best effort security" fails. Compromised the OAuth secret key in Twitter's official Android client: http://arst.ch/ma1  02.09.2010 08.32.25
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: Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system (@segphault / Ars Technica) http://j.mp/beDUv5 http://techme.me/A0FV  02.09.2010 09.06.11
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: retweet ejacqui: Looks like @segphault successfully compromised Twitter for Android's OAuth. http://arst.ch/ma1  02.09.2010 08.39.26
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: Looks like @segphault successfully compromised Twitter for Android's OAuth. http://arst.ch/ma1  02.09.2010 08.37.47
Apple announced on Wednesday a cornucopia of new hardware and software: sleek iPods, a brand new Internet-enabled video streaming device and new versions of its iOS software and iTunes 10. However, the most impressive to me by far was Ping, the music-only social network that Apple is opening up its 160 million existing iTunes users. No, I’m not blown away by the 160 million number. What I’m impressed by is the thinking behind Ping. Ping may function like a cross bet..   show all text

Apple announced on Wednesday a cornucopia of new hardware and software: sleek iPods, a brand new Internet-enabled video streaming device and new versions of its iOS software and iTunes 10. However, the most impressive to me by far was Ping, the music-only social network that Apple is opening up its 160 million existing iTunes users.

No, I’m not blown away by the 160 million number. What I’m impressed by is the thinking behind Ping.

Ping may function like a cross between Facebook and Twitter for iTunes by allowing you to follow celebrities, create social cliques and get artist updates via an activity stream. I think it could have tremendous impact on social sharing and commerce.

From a content perspective, there are three different types of media we love to talk about: movies we see, music we listen to and books we are reading. These are accepted social norms. In fact, many relationships are made on the basis of collective love of a movie and many friendships have started with mixed tapes.

It makes perfect sense for a music service to be social. I’m not alone: The popularity YouTube, the fast-growing MOG and the sadly defunct iLike and Imeem show that people gravitate towards music as a common, collective experience. A recommendation from friends on Last.fm often resulted in me buying many-a-few music tracks. My friends who listened to Thievery Corporation turned me on to The Broadway Project and Chris Joss, which I ended up buying on the iTunes store or via Amazon’s MP3 store.

This click-and-go-somewhere-to-download model of affiliate links can never match a unified experience. Amazon, for example, encourages bloggers and others to link to things they like and then get a piece of the action. This separates social from commerce and treats them as two discrete activities. On the post-Facebook Internet, I don’t think anyone can afford to keep these two actions distinct.

Ping, from what little I saw during Steve Jobs’ demo, allows a similar level of social interaction. It can tell me who my friends think are cool and the top 10 favorites of people in my social graph. Some of my friends are famous deejays. Others just have eclectic musical tastes. They can collectively sift through over 10 million songs and help with the discovery of music. This social-powered discovery is part of the biggest theme of our times: serendipity. About two years ago, when I wrote about serendipity, I said:

The problem is that there’s too much data coming online too quickly, and the traditional method of search that involves first finding and then consuming the information is not going to work for much longer. There just won’t be enough time for us to do that and still have a life. It’s a problem, and therefore solving it is an opportunity — a very big opportunity.

My belief has only been affirmed by growth in the amount of data available. With 12 million songs and 250,000 apps, the best way for Apple to enhance the iTunes store – aka its shopping experience — is through the use of social. Back in 2007, I argued that social networking was merely a feature that had to be embedded into applications to enhance their value. Apple has done a great job of that, but it’s also gone one step further, not only by adding a social networking layer to iTunes, but by meshing it with its commerce engine, the iTunes Store. And it’s made this experience available on both the desktop and its devices.

Apple received much of this social capability with the acquisition of Lala, an online music service, which as a standalone company used sharing of social objects to drive folks towards paid music downloads. Now Apple is only closing the loop by further sharing what users bought. I wouldn’t be least bit surprised if sales of music on the iTunes store rocket upwards, thanks to social discovery.

Amazon, which recently started experimenting with Facebook Connect, has similar ideas, but its implementation leaves a lot to be desired. On Amazon, I’m reduced to reading reviews from absolute strangers for music. I have a handful of friends who have impeccable taste in non-fiction business books, are all members of Amazon, and they already use email to share new book suggestions with me.

What if they too could share their likes and dislikes via a social layer inside Amazon.com? Or what if I could follow my favorite authors and get updates on their books? Much like Apple, Amazon owns book-based social service, Shelfari, and should find ways to embed the social layer inside of all Amazon products and connect its tens of millions of users.

Like Apple, Amazon too has a lot more data about its customers and their behaviors and could create a compelling discovery experience. I believe with tens of thousands of products in its store, the retail giant needs to figure out ways to surface content and other offerings smartly.

Related content from GigaOM Pro (sub req’d)Why Google Should Fear the Social Web


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I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Some have made the model work. My favorite of the bunch is Betaworks, based here in NYC. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly and chartbeat. But one aspect of incubation that I like very much is the idea that multiple projects are sharing the same workspace. The term for this kind of work setup is coworking. There are various approaches to coworking. There is t..   show all text

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I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Some have made the model work. My favorite of the bunch is Betaworks, based here in NYC. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly and chartbeat.

But one aspect of incubation that I like very much is the idea that multiple projects are sharing the same workspace. The term for this kind of work setup is coworking. There are various approaches to coworking.

There is the shared space model. Foursquare, Curbed, and Hard Candy Shell have shared a single office for the past year and a half and they get a lot of benefits from working together even though they are three companies all working on very different things. Our portfolio company Outside.in has employees from our portfolio companies Disqus and Zemanta working out of their office. We see that kind of setup all over the startup world. I encourage all of our young companies to think about that kind of setup.

The main benefits of this kind of setup are comraderie (small startups can be lonely), knowledge sharing, high energy, culture, and cost sharing. I have heard so many stories of software developers walking to the other side of the office to talk to software developers working for another company to talk about a thorny tech issue. That same thing can happen in finance, legal, bus dev, marketing, product management, really all parts of the business. You can get some of the benefits of scale without being at scale.

I have been contacted by a large number of people working in city, state, and federal government recently asking me how they can help small tech companies. They often ask about real estate. I tell them that small office spaces are plentiful and not terribly expensive, but that what we need more of is coworking spaces. And we have been getting them at a nice clip here in NYC.

A few weeks ago I was down at the NYU Poly coworking space on Varick St right near the Holland Tunnel. They have about thirty companies in one large open floor in a very nice buiding owned by Trinity Church. NYC Seed keeps their manhattan office there as well.

Dogpatch Labs has coworking spaces in SF, Boston, and NYC. The NYC Dogpatch is on 12th between University and Broadway. There are a lot of great companies going into and coming out of Dogpatch these days.

A new coworking space has opened in Williamsburg recently called The Brooklyn Makery.  The image at the top of this post is of their space. I am really excited about this project and a few of us from our office are going out there in a few weeks to visit all the teams.

There is an all woman entrepreneur coworking space on 23rd St between Fifth and Sixth called InGoodCompany. There is an all green/environmental startup coworking space on lower broadway called Green Spaces.

I could go on and on, but I'll just link to this wiki of coworking spaces in NYC. If yours is not on there, please add it.

If you are launching a startup or have one that is just one or two people, you should really try to get into a coworking space. It can be more cost effective, but that is not the best reason to do it. You'll get knowledge sharing, energy, and a lof of camraderie. And you can't put a price on those things when you are doing a startup.


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Google is celebrating the second anniversary of its Google Chrome browser with the release of new stable and beta versions, bringing and even cleaner and simpler user interface and increased speed and performance. As the Google Chrome Blog points out, Chrome 6 is years beyond where most imagined browser technology when it was first introduced just two years ago. Sponsor The Google Chrome Blog takes a retrospective look at how much browsers have changed over the past two years, remarking that ..   show all text

Google is celebrating the second anniversary of its Google Chrome browser with the release of new stable and beta versions, bringing and even cleaner and simpler user interface and increased speed and performance.

As the Google Chrome Blog points out, Chrome 6 is years beyond where most imagined browser technology when it was first introduced just two years ago.

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The Google Chrome Blog takes a retrospective look at how much browsers have changed over the past two years, remarking that when Chrome was first introduced in August of 2008, "JavaScript was 10 times slower, HTML5 support wasn't yet an essential feature in modern browsers, and the idea of a sandboxed, multi-process browser was only a research project."

In addition to some cosmetic changes, the new version of Chrome brings form autofill features, making it so you don't have to type in again and again that ridiculously long email address you now regret choosing. It also brings extension and autofill synchronization, meaning that your autofill data will remain the same from desktop to laptop to netbook.

Among the myriad features, the user interface seems to have an impact in the browser market. The soon-to-be-released Internet Explorer 9 looks like it stole a page from Chrome, adopting the clean and simple design that lets the browser step out of the way. Chrome's design manages to portray what we find most appealing about Chrome (which replaced Firefox as the default browser months ago now) - its lightweight operation. Just as it steps out of the way of the page, in terms of design, the browser manages to step out of the way of other programs, managing to run well (even on a netbook) without hogging all of the processing power.

If you haven't yet, we highly recommend giving Chrome a spin.

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Ever since it became stable enough to use on a day-to-day basis on a Mac last year, Google Chrome has been my browser of choice. Other browsers have been adding some nice features — but Chrome keeps adding them faster. And today on its second birthday, that rate of change isn’t slowing down. Google has officially rolled out Chrome 6 as the latest stable version of the browser today. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone using the dev or beta builds of the browser, but it..   show all text

Ever since it became stable enough to use on a day-to-day basis on a Mac last year, Google Chrome has been my browser of choice. Other browsers have been adding some nice features — but Chrome keeps adding them faster. And today on its second birthday, that rate of change isn’t slowing down.

Google has officially rolled out Chrome 6 as the latest stable version of the browser today. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone using the dev or beta builds of the browser, but it’s nonetheless an important mark as it means it’s stable enough for mass consumption.

Remember that it was just two years ago when Google surprised the world by announcing a new browser (a little early) via a comic. The next day, we got the first shots of what the browser would look like — and it was released as a beta for Windows users. It actually looks pretty much the same today, but it’s now much, much faster (and when it launched it was already faster than most browsers out there).

Google says that Chrome today is a full three times faster when it comes to JavaScript performance versus Chrome circa 2008. The rapid speed increases have also undoubtedly pushed rival browsers to become faster, so we’ve all benefited.

Arguably more important to me is that despite adding all the new features – and extensions — Chrome still seems lightweight today. I fondly remember the good old days of 2004 when I first started using Firefox as my main browser and thinking how fresh and lightweight it felt compared to the atrocity that was IE. Firefox, sadly, got bloated over the years. So far, Chrome hasn’t put on the same weight. Here’s hoping it never does.

As I said, Chrome is also showing no signs of slowing down from a development standpoint. The browser is already in the process of morphing into version 7 as well. Chromium, the open source browser that Chrome is based on, has been hit version 7 a couple weeks ago — and the dev build of Chrome just went 7 as well. Google has said they hope to iterate every six weeks going forward.

These next few months are going to be arguably the most interesting times for the browser yet. The Chrome Web Store will soon open, bringing tightly integrated web-based apps into the browser. And then, of course, Chrome OS is due before the end of the year.

Happy birthday Chrome.

Chrome then:

Chrome now:



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Excited about your new Facebook page but don’t know what’s next?  What does a truly advanced company look like in social business?  They can say yes to seven or more of these ten criteria. We’ve been interviewing the most sophisticated brands in the world when it comes to social business for our upcoming report on “Enterprise Social Strategists Role”.  We’ve come to learn which companies are advanced and why.  Secondly, I meet a variety of..   show all text

Excited about your new Facebook page but don’t know what’s next?  What does a truly advanced company look like in social business?  They can say yes to seven or more of these ten criteria.

We’ve been interviewing the most sophisticated brands in the world when it comes to social business for our upcoming report on “Enterprise Social Strategists Role”.  We’ve come to learn which companies are advanced and why.  Secondly, I meet a variety of companies who tell me they are “Very advanced, having done this for a few years, and have dozens of Facebook efforts” but when I ask them some specific questions on their sophistication, they often retract their statement.

How to tell if your Company is Advanced: 10 Criteria Of Social Business Maturity.
Corporations that have these and other following elements in place, may truly be sophisticated when it comes to social business:

  1. Clear understanding of their customers socialgraphics. Clear understanding of how their customers use social media by knowing the socialgraphics of your customers.  Granular knowledge of where their customers are, which behaviors they use, who they trust for information, and how they influence their peers in the context of their own products.
    The true test? Your company can adjust budgets of your integrated social strategy based on data –not gut feel.
  2. Your organization is in Hub and Spoke, Dandelion, or Holistic formation. Social technologies enable all employees that want to talk to customers to do so.  This means a massive change inside of your organization to get ready.  Your company is sophisticated if you’ve organized in the Hub and Spoke, Dandelion, or Holistic and all employees clearly know their role, process, and contact points.
    The true test? A product crises has emerged on YouTube on a Friday evening before a three day weekend and you can sleep peacefully.
  3. Corporate website integration: Social sign on. When customers come to the corporate site, they can see which one of their friends uses which product, and what they think about it.  Common technologies would include OpenID, Facebook Connect, and other social sign on technologies.
    The true test? You can disable your corporate registration page and use social logins instead.
  4. Personalized corporate website based on social data. When a prospect (someone who’s never logged into you website before) arrives to your corporate website, they receive a customized experience based on their social IDs.  This would be based on Social CRM infrastructure, social sign on technology and a large inventory of personalized content.
    The true test? The voices of the consumers real world friends emerge above that of the brand right on the corporate website, see Levi’s foray.
  5. Thriving advocacy program: customers are actively selling on your behalf. The sophisticated marketing program isn’t really the company talking much at all, instead they’ve a thriving advocacy program and word of mouth program that encourages customers to recruit prospects for them –all unpaid.  Learn how to do this, by reading this piece on Forbes.
    The true test? most leads are coming in through existing customers –not your sales team.
  6. A community of customers supports each other, reducing support center calls. A company that has a thriving branded community where customers are self-supporting each other with little aid from the brand or the support team is a sign of a sophisticated social support program.
    The true test? A majority of customer support issues are resolved by community faster, with greater satisfaction than your dedicated support team.
  7. Anticipation of prospects and customers using Social CRM technology.  Brands can anticipate before a customer has a problem, or grab leads “right out of the air” by using brand monitoring software, intelligent keyword monitoring and responding to be faster than real time using Social CRM strategies.
    The true test? sales and marketing are getting leads before the consideration phase, and the support team reduces inbound calls by triggering the community to resolve a potential issue before it’s escalated.
  8. Innovation of new products with customers using web collaboration.  Companies that use these same tools to glean input from customers (ethnographic data collection) or create private communities, or use collaboration and innovation tools like Ideastorm or Uservoice and build new products and services demonstrate true sophistication.
    The true test? faster time to market on products because consumers have dictated the specifications, and less inventory as the product is built on spec.
  9. Supply chain is influenced by social data in real time. Social media isn’t just about marketing and support, but is very valuable in listening to customer signals then to anticipate which products, services, and teams should be when and where.
    The true test? Your company is sophisticated if you’re using social data to adjust your supply chain in real time based on customer signals from checkins, tweets, and plancasts.
  10. Real time reporting of revenues, costs and efficiency:  I’ve met with some of the most advanced teams, and they have clear reporting and can measure the increased revenues (over the total cost of the program) to tell their executives the true ROI of their business program.
    The true test? Real time dashboard measures the health of all social channels revenues, CSAT, sentiment and overall program costs.

We’ve done research on the roadmap for companies to reach these 10 levels of nirvana, but have found few companies that have done a few, or even a majority of them. If you know of any companies that have achieved five out of ten of these criteria, we’d love to know, please leave a comment.

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New York City startup BankSimple today disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital, Roger Ehrenberg’s IA Ventures, and Village Ventures, along with seed investors SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Nauiokas Park (Amy Nauiokas and Sean Parker), and . But it did not disclose how much it raised. I’ve confirmed that the round was $2.9 million, with an additional $190,000 raised last year in convertible debt (which converted to shares with this round),..   show all text

New York City startup BankSimple today disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital, Roger Ehrenberg’s IA Ventures, and Village Ventures, along with seed investors SV Angel (Ron Conway) and Nauiokas Park (Amy Nauiokas and Sean Parker), and . But it did not disclose how much it raised. I’ve confirmed that the round was $2.9 million, with an additional $190,000 raised last year in convertible debt (which converted to shares with this round), for a total of $3.1 million raised.

BankSimple has not yet launched. It is trying to develop a better interface for banking, working with financial institutions to actually hold the deposits. “Anything the customer sees is what we do,” says CEO Joshua Reich. BankSimple is creating a new front-end experience for bank customers both online and through mobile apps. The service will simplify their accounts into a single account and gives them a dashboard to see how much they are saving, how much they can spend, and how close they are to reaching financial goals.

The whole point is to simplify people’s financial lives by giving them a modern Web interface and realtime data linked to their accounts. So when you are about to reach an overdraft, you might get a notification on your phone. The first customers will be required to own a smartphone so they can download one of BankSimple’s mobile apps (iPhone and Android will probably be first). They will be able to deposit a check by taking a picture of one with their cell phone camera. Customers will also get a bank card tied to their account.

“The way banks work is they shove products down the throats of consumers,” says Reich. The more products you sign up for with your bank, the more fees they can charge. BankSimple will not make money from fees. Instead it will split the net interest margin with its partner banks (the net margin interest is the difference between the rate at which banks lend out money and the rate at which they pay depositors). It is looking to partner with wholesale banks to take care of the back end.

This strategy of focusing solely on the user experience contrasts with Betterment, a TechCrunch Disrupt finalist which also tries to simplify the online banking experience with a single, smarter account, but does hold deposits. Reich acknowledges that “we would certainly get more revenues if we did it ourselves,” but does not want to be distracted by regulatory compliance and managing large pools of money. Plenty of banks do that better than BankSimple could. Instead he wants to focus on what banks don’t do well: building a technology company and making the customer experience less harrowing.



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After looking at the different approaches to filtering for Relevance, I have been seeking a way to map them visually. There are many different startups competing in this space along with the giants, and a way to map them in a matrix would help us see the big picture of how the battle for relevance is evolving on the social web. What are the fundamental ways in which these approaches and startups differ? These could form the axis around which we can then proceed to map them. The Popular – ..   show all text

After looking at the different approaches to filtering for Relevance, I have been seeking a way to map them visually. There are many different startups competing in this space along with the giants, and a way to map them in a matrix would help us see the big picture of how the battle for relevance is evolving on the social web.

What are the fundamental ways in which these approaches and startups differ? These could form the axis around which we can then proceed to map them.

The Popular – Personalized Axis

Filtering either works by showing us the most popular stuff being shared online, or by understanding our individual preferences and surfacing personalized content. Thus, we have the following axis:

PopularPersonalized

The Serendipity – Search Axis

You either search for content or you see it serendipitously without seeking anything specific. Search is actively initiated by the user and is goal-driven, while serendipitous discovery is gifted with the user being passive at the receiving end. This gives us our second axis:

SerendipitySearch

The Filtering for Relevance Matrix (FORMAT)

We combine these two axes to form the backbone of our visualization. We then place different services within our matrix as per their core filtering approach. The result is the Filtering FOR Relevance Matrix (FORMAT) as seen below:

 

Format

Let us now look at each quadrant closely.

Popular – Search Quadrant

This is the simplest and oldest of all. Search powered by algorithms to surface most popular content online. This also includes other Twitter search services like Topsy. These services are powered by algorithms such as PageRank, PersonRank, Resonance, etc. to surface the most popular result relevant to a query.

This approach dominated the Web 1.0 era before the advent of the social web.

Popular – Serendipity Quadrant

Services in this category help you find the most popular content being shared online across different social networks. These were the next to evolve in the Web 2.0 era, beginning with social bookmarking services like Reddit, StumbleUpon, etc.

There is an element of personalization provided by many of these, in that you “follow” some users, but the motive behind such following is less to seek personalized content, more to seek trending, viral content.

Note how Digg is attempting to move from this quadrant to the personalized quadrant, and facing hurdles along the way.

Search – Personalized Quadrant

A breed of services has evolved around delivering personalized recommendations and content tailored for your needs. Hunch learns about you and acts as a “taste engine”, while Blekko allows you to personalize your searches with slashtags. Google is making forays in this space with its Social Search service, which tries to personalize search results based on your social graph.

Personalized Serendipity Quadrant

This is the hottest space where most of the competition is today.

Twitter Lists are personalized (created by you) and deliver fresh, serendipitous content relevant to your interests. Facebook Likes give you serendipitous discovery from your personal friends. Flipboard provides a social magazine based on your personal social circle on Facebook and Twitter. My6sense delivers new content using ‘Digital Intuition’. Vertical networks like Last.fm deliver music recommendations based on your individual taste. Personalized Twitter newspapers give you fresh content filtered by your social graph on Twitter.

Note how Datasift lies at the center of the matrix. This is because Datasift is a platform providing different filtering services and approaches. Developers may use the platform to develop different services and apps that can lie in any of these quadrants.

How does FORMAT help?

So what is the point of this exercise? Using FORMAT:

  • We see the big picture of how services providing relevance and filtering are evolving.
  • We see how personalized serendipity is the holy grail of the social web right now.
  • We see how different services relate to each other and who is competing with whom and how.
  • We see how identifying the target quadrant is important for any new startup in this space.
  • We see how users provide friction when a service tries to change quadrants (Digg).

If you are involved in a startup aiming to provide filtered, relevant content to users, which quadrant would you target? See how FORMAT helps?

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Says :   So, music gurus - Ping is the latest Social Music service, as opposed to Last.fm and Blip.fm. What is better that makes it sustainable?
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Twitter has just announced the service’s official iPad app. It’s free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is intended to allow for seamless navigation between tweets, photos, web pages, videos and other media and updates. It’s also usable even for those who don’t have Twitter accounts. Twitter for iPad [iTunes link] has a few new UI touches that you haven’t seen elsewhere. These features are custom-designed for the la..   show all text

Twitter has just announced the service’s official iPad app.

It’s free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is intended to allow for seamless navigation between tweets, photos, web pages, videos and other media and updates. It’s also usable even for those who don’t have Twitter accounts.

Twitter for iPad [iTunes link] has a few new UI touches that you haven’t seen elsewhere. These features are custom-designed for the larger screen and touch capabilities of the iPad. It also caters to what the iPad was made for: media consumption rather than creation. Twitter’s Leland Rechis, a mobile UX designer, writes on the Twitter blog that the iPad is “a device that really lets content shine.”

The main interface is a series of panes that can expand and retract based on the kind of content the user wants to access. “Tapping on a Tweet opens a pane to the right. Depending on the content in that Tweet, you’ll see a video or photo, or maybe a news story, or perhaps another Tweet. You can continue tapping on Tweets, opening new panes, and getting new content as long as you’d like,” wites Rechis.

Media viewing is optimized for the iPad, as well. Videos play in-line with other content and can be loaded while you’re browsing through your timeline. You can pinch a video to view it fullscreen, too.

Finally, Twitter has really done some interesting things with touchscreen capabilities in this app. When you pinch a tweet, you’ll see details about the author and have a list of actions you can take, including reply and retweet. A two-finger pull-down gesture will show the entire conversation around a tweet.

It’s a creative way to approach multitouch app building, and we look forward to playing with it ourselves. We’re also really looking forward to what apps may come to other tablets in the future.

The iTunes release is rolling out right now; if you can’t get the latest version of the app right now, wait a bit and try again. And of course, let us know what you think of Twitter for iPad in the comments.

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Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, as he strolled through the demo room for the media, just after he had announced various updates for the iPod, Apple TV and iTunes onstage. One of the those was the introduction of a new social network for music called Ping that Apple (AAPL) has integrated within iTunes 10 and which looks an awful lot like the experience you get on Facebook. Essentially, it is a vertical version–in this case..   show all text

Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, as he strolled through the demo room for the media, just after he had announced various updates for the iPod, Apple TV and iTunes onstage.

One of the those was the introduction of a new social network for music called Ping that Apple (AAPL) has integrated within iTunes 10 and which looks an awful lot like the experience you get on Facebook.

Essentially, it is a vertical version–in this case for music–of the powerful social networking site.

Facebook has noodled for years about creating its own social music offering, including doing a partnership with Lala, which was bought by Apple last year and shuttered in June.

But its efforts have largely gone nowhere.

And Facebook is nowhere on Ping too. Currently, there is no linking, sharing or participation of any kind with Facebook–or Twitter or MySpace either–on Ping, which will work only on the iTunes software on computers, iPhones and iPods.

When I asked Jobs about that, he said Apple had indeed held talks with Facebook about a variety of unspecified partnerships related to Ping, but the discussions had gone nowhere.

The reason, according to Jobs: Facebook wanted “onerous terms that we could not agree to.”

Definition, according to an online dictionary: “Involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome; Involving heavy obligations.”

Jobs did not elaborate on those troublesome terms and also would not say if Ping would incorporate Facebook Connect–which would make it much easier to find friends to share music with.

“We could, I guess,” he shrugged.

And when I asked how to find friends, Jobs offered, noting iTunes had 160 million users across the globe: “You can type their names into search or send them emails inviting them to join.”

Okay, although being more open would work too!

As MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka noted:

“Maybe Apple plans on joining the rest of the Web, via an open API that will let Facebook, Twitter et al–maybe even the to-be-launched Google (GOOG) music service–play nicely with Ping. We’ll see.”

Facebook–including some execs who are definitely irked about how closely Ping resembles Facebook, right down to the blue color scheme–hopes so.

Consider the statement issued by Facebook to me–after attempts to get it verbally failed, due ironically to several dropped connections on the iPhone of the exec I spoke to:

“Facebook believes in connecting people with their interests and we’ve partnered with innovative developers around the world who share this vision. Facebook and Apple have cooperated successfully in the past to offer people great social experiences and we look forward to doing so in the future.”

In other words: Zing, Ping.

In any case, Jobs said he had great hopes for the social music service, adding that Ping could be the most significant thing to come out of yesterday’s announcements.

But soon enough, he moved right onto the new iPods, declaring enthusiastically: “Isn’t the Nano amazing?”

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A new study by email software purveyor Xobni confirms what we bloggers know to be true, there’s actually no such thing as a day off in the Internet age (Want more visceral proof than an email study? Check out the timestamp of this post). Information anxiety has pretty much put the kibosh on “time off” as two out of three Americans and Brits check their email outside of regular business hours (ha) and half of Americans email while on vacation (double ha). The Xobni study, an on..   show all text

A new study by email software purveyor Xobni confirms what we bloggers know to be true, there’s actually no such thing as a day off in the Internet age (Want more visceral proof than an email study? Check out the timestamp of this post).

Information anxiety has pretty much put the kibosh on “time off” as two out of three Americans and Brits check their email outside of regular business hours (ha) and half of Americans email while on vacation (double ha).

The Xobni study, an online survey of 2,200 British and American adults conducted in August, holds that the traditional 9-5 work day has gone the way of the Dodo, due to the fact that Americans and Brits can’t stop checking their email. Apparently we sneak a peak at out inboxes while on vacation, weekends, sick days and even when we are (gasp!) in bed.

The press release blames this behavior on the down economy and the iPhone, but I blame it on the fact that we now live most of our lives online, and we feel compelled to check our email/Facebook/Twitter because that’s where most of the exciting stuff is happening anyways.

More highlights from the study/the life we have chosen:

* The 9-5 work day has gone the way of the Dodo. 72% of Americans and 68% of Brits say they regularly check their email on vacations, sick days, and at home in bed.

* Yes, IN BED. Conveniently for Xobni, work email in bed is apparently, you know, like a thing, with 1 in 5 Americans checking email as the first thing they do in the morning or the last thing they do at night before falling asleep (Again I can personally vouch for this).

According to Xobni, email has become an addiction, and like most addictions it is fueled by peer pressure:

* 27% check email outside of regular working hours because they feel it is expected.

* 26% of Americans feel they can’t handle/overwhelmed by the number of emails they receive during vacation.

Everyone in the world agrees that managing email has become a challenge to our sanity. And various companies are scrambling towards solutions including Google with its recent Gmail Priority Inbox launch and Xobni, obviously. My favorite low-fi way to deal with the bottleneck is a service called Sentenc.es which makes it clear to your email reader that you are limited to short responses.

Even though I’m not sure how well that will work, in bed.

Video, vaguely related.

Email overload image above: Ario_



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Says :   As Samsung launches its tablet, @timbray asks what are they for: "a tablet is, crucially, a more shareable computer": http://bit.ly/aMk3Qe
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Sarah Cohen, the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, figured there had to be an easier way for journalists to organize their notes on chronological events. “Time and place are two of the most important aspects in stories,” Cohen said. “Most reporters I know are still keeping a 40-page chronology in Word for long running stories.” So, with a grant from Duke, Cohen hired two research s..   show all text

Sarah Cohen, the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, figured there had to be an easier way for journalists to organize their notes on chronological events.

“Time and place are two of the most important aspects in stories,” Cohen said. “Most reporters I know are still keeping a 40-page chronology in Word for long running stories.”

So, with a grant from Duke, Cohen hired two research scientists, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, to design a visual tool to allow reporters to not just organize their notes more effectively, but to also see the results of their research over time.

In this image, the tool tracked President Obama's first 100 days in office, by his location.

Viegas  and Wattenberg were the brains behind the IBM Many Eyes project and now work for Google.

The tool they came up with, an open source program that is free to download and use, makes it possible for journalists to look at the reams of data that went into those old 40-page text chronologies or multisheet spreadsheets in new and more useful ways.

“Say you’re working on the BP story, you can say, ‘I only want to see what happened in May having to do with birds,’’’ Cohen explained.

You can also look at how often President Barak Obama talked about the disaster in May, drill down into how when the president mentioned Gulf wildlife or any number of other functions. But the program doesn’t just making searching data easier – it’s a visual tool that makes understanding data points over time easier.

“The way journalism is going, as there are fewer boots on the ground. It’s important that they’re spending their time efficiently,” Cohen explained.

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Of all topics, this is one of the perennials. People want more traffic, more attention, more awareness to their blog. It’s fair. We work hard on our blogs. We want more attention and traffic. If your business depends on volume, this is especially important (for instance, if you’re using ads). Getting traffic is a tricky business, and it requires a lot of experimentation. I’ll tell you what’s worked for me, so far, and I’ll tell you what you might try. Maybe others ..   show all text

Of all topics, this is one of the perennials. People want more traffic, more attention, more awareness to their blog. It’s fair. We work hard on our blogs. We want more attention and traffic. If your business depends on volume, this is especially important (for instance, if you’re using ads). Getting traffic is a tricky business, and it requires a lot of experimentation. I’ll tell you what’s worked for me, so far, and I’ll tell you what you might try. Maybe others will educate us both in the comments on their best methods.

Great Titles Help

The first few seconds of someone’s attention are the hardest to pass. If you have a lame blog post title, no one’s going to want to read the post. For whatever reason, we react to “how to,” we react to “7 great,” we react to all kinds of things. Not sure where to look? I stole this advice from Brian Clark years ago: go to the grocery store, buy some ladies’ magazines like Cosmopolitan, and learn how THEY write headlines on the front page.

Graphics Don’t Hurt

This entire series (and most of my blog posts) use graphics to catch your eye. It’s an easy way to get one’s attention. Screen captures help. Video helps. There are tons of ways to get people into a receptive space with your material, and graphics are just the easiest one.

Now that we’ve got a decent title, decent graphics, let’s be quick about your content.

Brevity Is the Game

Keep your posts brief (unless you want tons and tons of bookmarks). People don’t have all day to read. If you can keep your posts between 250-500 words, that’s in alignment with most people’s attention spans. Hey, you’re welcome to write whatever length you want. You asked me how to grow traffic to your blog. I can only give you results that I’ve tested. When I write a super long piece, I get much less involvement with it.

Share Your Blog

I’ve written about making shareability a priority. If you don’t have easy-to-share buttons on your blog, you’re missing the easiest way for people to see your stuff on Facebook, on LinkedIn, on Twitter, and all the other sites where it would matter. Sharing out is a great way to make some more traffic happen. I also automatically push my posts into Facebook with their notes feature. I have an automated post into twitter via @broganmedia, but don’t do this same effect on my primary @chrisbrogan account.

Subscriptions or No?

In my case, subscriptions to my blog matter. I want people to subscribe, because I don’t necessarily survive on ad revenue. If you’re trying to monetize via ad revenue, and if your ads are in the header and the sidebar, a subscription really won’t help you get more traffic. If for whatever reason you want people to come to your website directly instead of via your RSS feed, you might want to obfuscate where you put your subscription information.

If you’re like me, you ask for the subscription all the time. In fact, I’ll ask now. You’re not yet subscribed? Enter your email (I respect your privacy):

Guest Posts

Over in the Third Tribe, we talk about guest posts quite often as a great traffic-builder to your blog. Find someone who has a very similar kind of blog topic to yours (not sure where to start? Check out Alltop), and offer a guest blog post. Oh, and then actually follow through. I have heard recently from my friends who accept guest posts that often, people ask for something, get approval, and then don’t take an action. That doesn’t sound like a good plan. Just FYI.

Consistency

This is one of those points where people disagree. I blog daily. Truth be told, I’m up to 2x a day most days. Why? Because the more I blog, the more people subscribe. I learned it from some of the larger blogger sites out there.

Lots of people justify once a week, or once every two weeks. That’s fine. But if you want to grow traffic to your blog, that’s a very long slow crawl towards that growth. That said, no matter which frequency you’ve chosen, stick to it. The moment you drop off the map, people who haven’t yet subscribed to you lose sight and move on.

Market Your Blog

You can always market your blog the good old fashioned way. I’ve had people hand me business cards at events that had a compelling question or interesting graphic, and then a URL to their blog. More often than not, I’ll at least check out the post. You might make postcards and bring them to the places where your prospective readers might congregate. For instance, if you write a restaurant blog, why not have a business card tray by the mints? Make an offer, just like you do with any other kind of marketing.

Often times, we sit around inside the fishbowl of social media and hope people from outside will find us. Here’s a hint, hero: the people you need are out there wondering what they can do to learn more about the thing you’re talking about. Go get ‘em, tiger.

How Do You Grow Traffic To Your Blog?

I’m a big fan of the basics: write about what they need, make sure they see that you wrote about it, make it easy to carry on the relationship, make it easy for them to promote you to others.

Seems like a simple formula, and yet, we go through all kinds of hoops to come up with trickier methods. Try this one first. What do you say?


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Says :   love this quote "If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." http://bit.ly/93JYCJ via @precipice
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Says :   "Twitter plans to record all links clicked"-@declanm http://j.mp/dATS8z Will custom bit.ly URL shorteners like n.pr disappear?
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Says :   @NoelDickover: NARA's new study on web 2.0 implications to Records again shows how behind http://bit.ly/9MJKfG #gov20 No real guidance 1/3
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Says :   The Great App Bubble http://j.mp/bHWTZq
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Virgin Mobile’s MiFi is nearly like the ones offered by Sprint and Verizon but with three exceptions: an unlimited data plan, no contract and a $40-a-month service fee.
Virgin Mobile’s MiFi is nearly like the ones offered by Sprint and Verizon but with three exceptions: an unlimited data plan, no contract and a $40-a-month service fee.
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Today Apple launched their new music social network Ping (basically a clone of Last.fm), and in Apple’s promotional image for the new feature, they very obviously removed a thread of Tweets from Lady Gaga’s timeline where she clearly spoke out celebrating being pro-gay, about California’s anti-gay marriage legislation, Prop 8. Seriously. Apple, we see you. ::pause for the scream of WTF on loop in my head thinking about my gay friends who work at Apple. Those of us who live in ..   show all text

Lady GaGa - Vanity Fair 2

Today Apple launched their new music social network Ping (basically a clone of Last.fm), and in Apple’s promotional image for the new feature, they very obviously removed a thread of Tweets from Lady Gaga’s timeline where she clearly spoke out celebrating being pro-gay, about California’s anti-gay marriage legislation, Prop 8.

Seriously.

Apple, we see you.

::pause for the scream of WTF on loop in my head thinking about my gay friends who work at Apple.

Those of us who live in the SF Bay Area know that when Lady Gaga was in town for her San Jose shows, she paid a visit to Apple Headquarters and got a tour. Everyone around here wondered why. This was likely when it was discussed, pre-launch, that they would use her for the Ping page example. She shot a video there for them, it was in the Apple keynote. So either she knew her messages of tolerance (which sell quite well, by the way) were going to be censored, or Apple did not tell her. I wonder which it was.

Here’s the Daily Swarm with the story (thedailyswarm.com).

BUT — I screencapped her timeline just now so you can see what Apple removed. Apple’s version for Ping launch:

Her *actual* timeline:

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For some in Silicon Valley, Asia remains an alluring black box. A promising world with pockets of hyper growth, obscured by a tangled web of unfamiliar languages, customs, regulations and native ecosystems. Although the walls are coming down fast, the road to Asia’s markets remains an intimidating one for many. Enter Dave McClure, founder of 500 Startups (a recently launched $30M super angel fund) and Geeks On A Plane, a program that takes tech entrepreneurs and investors to emerging mark..   show all text

For some in Silicon Valley, Asia remains an alluring black box. A promising world with pockets of hyper growth, obscured by a tangled web of unfamiliar languages, customs, regulations and native ecosystems. Although the walls are coming down fast, the road to Asia’s markets remains an intimidating one for many.

Enter Dave McClure, founder of 500 Startups (a recently launched $30M super angel fund) and Geeks On A Plane, a program that takes tech entrepreneurs and investors to emerging markets. In its own small way, Geeks On A Plane is attempting to bridge that gap between the Valley and the rest of the world. Earlier this year, roughly 55 “Geeks” traveled to several key hot spots in Asia, including Shanghai, Singapore, Seoul and Beijing, to connect with the region’s top entrepreneurs, to mingle with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and to sample local tech conferences like Shanghai World Expo and CHINICT.

“Asia is easily a third, possibly close to half of the world’s population, I think there’s a lot of innovation and a lot of growth that is happening in China, India, and Southeast Asia,” McClure says. “Some of the internet models that we’ve seen are starting to be transferred over there, and actually a lot of the internet business models are being copied over here…There’s actually an explosion of social networks happening in all those countries.”

Although McClure doesn’t consider himself an expert in doing business in Asia, through his trips and his new relationships, he says he now has a better understanding of the internal dynamics of Asia’s disparate markets and is acutely aware of common Western misconceptions. In particular, he says it was very eye opening to learn how advanced China actually is and how many have underestimated the region’s technological and economic progress.

“Well I think people tend to look at China as being a pretty big opportunity but they also tend to think about China as being a little bit behind and I think that’s just really the wrong impression. China has actually got more internet users than the US, they certainly have more mobile devices than the US…You know the top 10% of the Chinese population probably has more average spending power than the average US citizen…and they’re buying a lot of cars, they’re buying a lot of houses, they’re buying a lot of consumer products online.”

While not everyone can join a Geeks On A Plane Tour, Dave McClure is sharing a collection of mini-documentaries from his latest trip with TechCrunch TV. The videos were shot and produced by Ben Henretig, founder of Micro-Documentaries, a new startup that creates highly polished, short (hence micro) videos for clients. The first of four episodes is on their trip to Shanghai (second video from the top). You can also watch McClure’s interview with TechCrunch TV, where he discusses his new fund and expounds on his trip to Asia (first video).



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: When Geeks Attack, Shanghai Edition (TCTV) http://t.co/2SzPejs via @techcrunch -- yea, that's me. lol. (h/t @jdrive) #goap  02.09.2010 09.32.46
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: When Geeks Attack! Shanghai Edition. A look at @davemcclure Geeks On A Plane trip to China. http://tcrn.ch/dqqDDS by @evelynrusli  02.09.2010 09.27.05
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: What I did on my summer vacation: Geeks-on-a-Plane Asia; AWESOME microdoc by @henretig w/@christinelu /cc @davemcclure http://tcrn.ch/an9XpR  02.09.2010 09.30.46
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techcrunch.com - Michael Arrington
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: The Apple event is going live: http://bit.ly/aiaEtu (via @Scobleizer01.09.2010 10.10.08
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: Almost time for the Apple Keynote! They are playing Jack Johnson :D Watch it here: http://bit.ly/bpZRHZ  01.09.2010 09.57.46
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techcrunch.com - Erick Schonfeld
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: Startup Incubator TechStars Invades New York City http://t.co/df5D26U via @techcrunch Excited to be a mentor! $$ @iaventures  01.09.2010 05.56.16
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: RT @mg: Huge news: @TechStars Invades New York City http://t.co/uoNZukg via @techcrunch <increadible list of mentors, wow)  01.09.2010 06.06.58
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: Congrats to @davetisch, @techstars and to the NYC startup world!!! Techstars is coming here! http://t.co/bBjSPnj  01.09.2010 06.01.59
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: retweet jonsteinberg: Psyched to be a mentor! Startup Incubator TechStars Invades New York City http://t.co/yhkmODE via @techcrunch  01.09.2010 06.00.52
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: retweet cdixon: great for NYC! RT @TechCrunch Startup Incubator TechStars Invades New York City - http://tcrn.ch/9N421C by @erickschonfeld  01.09.2010 05.57.40
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: Welcome to the fam @davidtisch @TechStars Invades New York City http://t.co/uoNZukg  01.09.2010 05.55.08
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: Huge news: @TechStars Invades New York City http://t.co/uoNZukg via @techcrunch  01.09.2010 05.51.07
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: Apple press conf Weds livestreaming using "open standards" yet available only on Apple HW. Head = exploded. http://bit.ly/c7mITH #cnet  31.08.2010 16.20.01
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: retweet nickbilton: Woah, Apple's going to live stream its announcement tomorrow on Web, iPhone, iPad etc. http://bit.ly/bqPdpn  31.08.2010 16.17.57
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: Woah, Apple's going to live stream its announcement tomorrow on Web, iPhone, iPad etc. http://bit.ly/bqPdpn  31.08.2010 16.17.04
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: retweet dsilverman: Apple's alert for tomorrow's livestream says it requires a Mac on OS X 10.6, iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. No Windows?? http://bit.ly/92yzFA  31.08.2010 16.09.50
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: interesting, Apple will be doing a live stream of tomorrow's special event http://bit.ly/bqPdpn via @alleyinsider  31.08.2010 16.17.34
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: Could you imagine if MSFT only streamed to Windows? Or Google to Chrome and Android? Apple is a trip. http://zd.net/9ldc3O  31.08.2010 16.16.29
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: Well, well! It looks as if SOME-one wants to demo their ability to stream live video to a massive audience! http://bit.ly/aEcwcB  31.08.2010 16.10.12
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: Apple's alert for tomorrow's livestream says it requires a Mac on OS X 10.6, iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. No Windows?? http://bit.ly/92yzFA  31.08.2010 16.09.31
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: Apple to live video stream tomorrow's event (as long as you have a Mac with 10.6, iPad or other Apple gadget) http://bit.ly/cpqYk2 #cnet  31.08.2010 16.04.49
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: RT @GlennF: Holy crud, Apple will stream live video of tomorrow's event. http://bit.ly/bcZG1i (via @slim31.08.2010 16.04.34
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: Holy crud, Apple will stream live video of tomorrow's event. http://bit.ly/bcZG1i (via @slim31.08.2010 16.01.06
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: Apple's live-streaming tomorrow's event using "open standards." So, naturally, it requires OS X or iOS http://bit.ly/c7mITH  31.08.2010 15.57.15
readwriteweb.com - Richard MacManus
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: Big news! We're happy to announce the launch of our latest channel: ReadWriteHack http://rww.tw/9oHo7j  31.08.2010 09.09.54
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: Big news! We're happy to announce to launch of our latest channel: ReadWriteHack http://rww.tw/9oHo7j  31.08.2010 09.08.20
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: ReadWriteHack: Our Latest Channel Launches http://j.mp/agqEP8 Sponsored by the Intel Atom Developer Program. Check it out.  31.08.2010 11.55.11
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: Excited about new @RWW Channel -- RWHack -- http://bit.ly/cZB8m0 spnsred by Intel Atom Developer Program http://bit.ly/dlvxIv  31.08.2010 09.02.25
techcrunch.com - Michael Arrington
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: UberCab – Napster meets Airbnb for the taxi industry http://is.gd/eNPAR  31.08.2010 12.00.18
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: What If UberCab Pulls An Airbnb? Taxi Business Could (Finally) Get Some Disruption http://t.co/KvDyabV via @techcrunch  31.08.2010 10.02.22
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: Very interesting if not entirely thought through article on the potential of democratized taxiing http://tcrn.ch/9xqJiS  31.08.2010 09.59.41
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: finally an intelligent, non-angry post from @arrington! What If UberCab Pulls An Airbnb? http://jc.is/crOwvb  31.08.2010 08.58.46
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: I will totally fund a franchise of Ubercab here in Washington, DC: http://tcrn.ch/aUWM0s  31.08.2010 07.51.16
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: UberCab to disrupt the Taxi/Limo business http://j.mp/9VaVNW  31.08.2010 07.00.05
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: RT @jgebbia: What If UberCab Pulls An Airbnb? Taxi Business Could (Finally) Get Some Disruption http://t.co/AI56tAD via @techcrunch #airbnb  31.08.2010 11.18.51
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: Counting the days... RT @techcrunch: What If @UberCab Pulls An Airbnb? Taxi Business Could (Finally) Get Some Disruption tcrn.ch/9MZR3m  31.08.2010 10.11.07
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: What If UberCab Pulls An Airbnb? Taxi Business Could (Finally) Get Some Disruption http://bit.ly/dfCWsR #gov20  31.08.2010 07.35.45
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: What If UberCab Pulls An Airbnb? Taxi Business Could (Finally) Get Some Disruption http://t.co/2lOnc9M via @techcrunch  31.08.2010 07.05.02
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: Lanyrd is brilliantly executed. They should fork it and do a site covering all events, not just conferences. http://lanyrd.com/  31.08.2010 11.03.52
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: If you're a web nerd that goes to conferences, this is the new insane hotness: http://lanyrd.com/  31.08.2010 10.11.36
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: Hey! Nifty new conference tracking service Lanyrd launches. Quite useful and well done by @simonw and @natbat. Check it: http://lanyrd.com/  31.08.2010 09.12.21
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: And @simonw and @natbat's awesome Lanyrd launches. It's really awesome. Check it out: http://lanyrd.com/  31.08.2010 08.42.43
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: retweet Natbat: Announcing http://lanyrd.com/ The social conference directory, is live! Find conferences your friends are going to, build a speaker profile  31.08.2010 04.37.22
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: retweet Natbat: Announcing http://lanyrd.com/ The social conference directory, is live! Find conferences your friends are going to, build a speaker profile  31.08.2010 04.03.38
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: We launched http://lanyrd.com/ ! Go easy on it, the log files are going a bit nuts, who knew Twitter was viral?  31.08.2010 03.52.03
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: retweet lanyrd: ...and we are now live! Go to http://lanyrd.com/ and sign in with Twitter to find conferences your friends are going to!  31.08.2010 03.48.58
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: Tasty new conference directory @lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/ Like how it separates speakers, attendees and trackers. Nice work, @simonw31.08.2010 08.46.57
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: retweet lanyrd: ...and we are now live! Go to http://lanyrd.com/ and sign in with Twitter to find conferences your friends are going to!  31.08.2010 07.14.30
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: retweet lanyrd: ...and we are now live! Go to http://lanyrd.com/ and sign in with Twitter to find conferences your friends are going to!  31.08.2010 04.07.44
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: RT @simonw: We launched http://lanyrd.com/ Go easy on it, log files are going a bit nuts, who knew Twitter was viral? <- lanyrd's awesome  31.08.2010 04.03.22
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: They've gone and done it again. http://lanyrd.com/ from @natbat and @simonw is another great project.  31.08.2010 04.03.11
gmailblog.blogspot.com - The Gmail Team
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: RT @jeffjarvis: GOOG's priority mailbox http://bit.ly/deSARe is a step toward @marisaamayer's hyperpersonal news stream http://bit.ly/bPiT7O  31.08.2010 06.28.02
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: RT @jeffjarvis: GOOG's priority mailbox (http://bit.ly/deSARe) step toward @marisaamayer's hyperpersonal news stream: http://bit.ly/bPiT7O  31.08.2010 06.06.28
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: retweet fredwilson: dear google: can i please have priority inbox now? i've wanted this forever http://bit.ly/biiulI  31.08.2010 05.55.13
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: dear google: can i please have priority inbox now? i've wanted this forever http://bit.ly/biiulI  31.08.2010 02.45.26
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: at least Google is trying to address the email = efail problem with priority inbox. http://goo.gl/YocX it's enabled on my gmail now  30.08.2010 22.50.52
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: retweet mattcutts: Breaking news: Google releases Priority Inbox: http://goo.gl/fXK8 and http://goo.gl/YocX It rocks. Please RT!  30.08.2010 22.24.32
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: Rather amused that @Google's introduction of Priority Inbox will help users cut down on "bacn" http://j.mp/cL9MJG #infovegan  30.08.2010 21.39.30
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: New gmail feature: priority inbox. The cartoon video is nice and reminds me of @ScottMcCloud (hence visit to his site) http://bit.ly/dunROD  30.08.2010 21.32.30
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: Priority Inbox from Google:if this really works it could move me toward using gmail more http://bit.ly/cP0D8H  30.08.2010 21.19.02
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: Priority Inbox from Gmail looks great. Can't wait to try it: http://bit.ly/9iS4Rk  30.08.2010 21.17.42
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: retweet google: Got too much email? Priority Inbox in Gmail helps w/ info overload http://bit.ly/bcu3nw  30.08.2010 21.07.24
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: Breaking news: Google releases Priority Inbox: http://goo.gl/fXK8 and http://goo.gl/YocX It rocks. Please RT!  30.08.2010 21.05.23
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: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox http://j.mp/bq3U7x  30.08.2010 21.00.04
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: Gmail Priority Inbox sounds like an awesome excuse for why I never replied to your email - http://bit.ly/9iS4Rk  31.08.2010 06.06.07
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: GOOG's priority mailbox (http://bit.ly/deSARe) is a step toward @marisaamayer's hyperpersonal news stream: http://bit.ly/bPiT7O  31.08.2010 05.48.46
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: Me, three! RT @fredwilson: dear google: can i please have priority inbox now? i've wanted this forever http://bit.ly/biiulI  31.08.2010 05.46.08
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: Gmail Priority Inbox sounds delicious. No one is better positioned to get this right. Can't wait to get it. http://bit.ly/9iS4Rk  30.08.2010 22.23.09
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: retweet google: Got too much email? Priority Inbox in Gmail helps w/ info overload http://bit.ly/bcu3nw  30.08.2010 21.34.18
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: retweet google: Got too much email? Priority Inbox in Gmail helps w/ info overload http://bit.ly/bcu3nw  30.08.2010 21.24.53
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: retweet google: Got too much email? Priority Inbox in Gmail helps w/ info overload http://bit.ly/bcu3nw  30.08.2010 21.10.46
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: retweet google: Got too much email? Priority Inbox in Gmail helps w/ info overload http://bit.ly/bcu3nw  30.08.2010 21.06.55
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: Got too much email? Priority Inbox in Gmail helps w/ info overload http://bit.ly/bcu3nw  30.08.2010 21.05.43
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: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox in Gmail http://bit.ly/bcu3nw #gonegoogle  30.08.2010 20.51.53
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: Email overload? Try Priority Inbox (Doug Aberdeen / Gmail Blog) http://bit.ly/bRfNsT http://techme.me/=zGB  30.08.2010 20.45.51
techcrunch.com - Jason Kincaid
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: I must learn. RT @simonowens: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://tcrn.ch/9euVYu  30.08.2010 21.09.45
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: So Gmail priority inbox can sort my email for me. Big whoop. If it could answer my mail, then, I'd be impressed. tcrn.ch/bYNFvn  30.08.2010 20.52.41
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: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://t.co/rUUWMqE via @techcrunch  30.08.2010 20.36.58
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: retweet TechCrunch: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://t.co/FeuzLSo by @jasonkincaid  30.08.2010 20.34.30
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: Big new Gmail feature coming http://ow.ly/1qOwQH  30.08.2010 20.31.46
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: retweet parislemon: This is seriously the best feature Gmail has added maybe ever. Been using it for a few days, getting better everyday http://t.co/FFYKrqM  30.08.2010 20.28.44
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: retweet TechCrunch: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://t.co/FeuzLSo by @jasonkincaid  30.08.2010 20.25.20
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: retweet TechCrunch: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://t.co/FeuzLSo by @jasonkincaid  30.08.2010 20.23.17
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: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://t.co/FeuzLSo by @jasonkincaid  30.08.2010 20.22.06
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: @Montero @duellsy kewl. I don't see it yet on my gmail but I'm sure it will be there soon. http://tcrn.ch/c8FAbQ  30.08.2010 21.02.06
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: Reading: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://gri.ms/KTE0  30.08.2010 20.45.42
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: retweet parislemon: This is seriously the best feature Gmail has added maybe ever. Been using it for a few days, getting better everyday http://t.co/FFYKrqM  30.08.2010 20.45.16
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: retweet jasonkincaid: That said, Gmail Priority Inbox is totally amazing. http://tcrn.ch/c8FAbQ  30.08.2010 20.44.58
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: gmail priority inbox is gonna have a big impact on email marketing and fundraising. http://tcrn.ch/cJu2ir  30.08.2010 20.42.43
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: REJOICE! RT @techcrunch: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. tcrn.ch/bYNFvn  30.08.2010 20.34.21
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: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://tcrn.ch/9euVYu  30.08.2010 20.33.52
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: wow! RT @jasonkincaid That said, Gmail Priority Inbox is totally amazing. http://tcrn.ch/c8FAbQ  30.08.2010 20.32.10
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: That said, Gmail Priority Inbox is totally amazing. http://tcrn.ch/c8FAbQ  30.08.2010 20.27.29
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: retweet Ross: For those heavy days RT @parislemon: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://is.gd/eMAF1  30.08.2010 20.27.10
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: RT @Ross: For those heavy days RT @parislemon: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://is.gd/eMAF1  30.08.2010 20.26.16
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: retweet TechCrunch: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://t.co/FeuzLSo by @jasonkincaid  30.08.2010 20.26.01
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: For those heavy days RT @parislemon: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://is.gd/eMAF1  30.08.2010 20.24.32
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: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. tcrn.ch/bYNFvn by @jasonkincaid  30.08.2010 20.24.22
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: This is seriously the best feature Gmail has added maybe ever. Been using it for a few days, getting better everyday http://t.co/FFYKrqM  30.08.2010 20.24.19
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: sounds awesome! RT @parislemon: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. tcrn.ch/bYNFvn  30.08.2010 20.22.22
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: retweet parislemon: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://t.co/FFYKrqM  30.08.2010 20.21.19
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: Cool, but time stamp is more important to me so I'll pass on this one, Google http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/30/gmail-priority-inbox/  30.08.2010 20.21.02
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: Gmail Priority Inbox Sorts Your Email For You. And It’s Fantastic. http://t.co/FFYKrqM  30.08.2010 20.18.33
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: retweet mike_matas: An amazing experimental HTML 5 music video by Arcade Fire and Google. http://bit.ly/bzhT8X  30.08.2010 09.54.47
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: Arcade Fire meet HTML5 “The Wilderness Downtown” http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ /via @edial & @nalden  30.08.2010 08.27.13
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: The Wilderness Downtown – ace new project by my uber-talented friend @aaronkoblin http://is.gd/eLFco  30.08.2010 08.20.05
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: impressive html5 'interactive' movie, esp if it works with a city you know. http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/  30.08.2010 08.19.50
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: retweet blueskies: Wow, amazing experimental music video by Arcade Fire and Google made in HTML 5... http://bit.ly/bzhT8X (via @mike_matas & @JoshBuckley30.08.2010 10.45.04
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: A mind-blowing demo of HTML5: http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ (long but worth it, thanks @spartovi30.08.2010 10.43.33
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: retweet bpm140: WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW -- Arcade Fire interactive music video. Use an address that has Google Street View -- WOW WOW WOW WOW http://otf.me/10U  30.08.2010 10.25.47
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: WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW -- Arcade Fire interactive music video. Use an address that has Google Street View -- WOW WOW WOW WOW http://otf.me/10U  30.08.2010 10.23.40
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: retweet BBHNewYork: Brilliant Chrome experiment featuring YOUR hometown. http://bit.ly/cRV3WQ Well done Google CreativeLab/ Chris Milk/ @arcadefire/ @b__reel  30.08.2010 10.11.47
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: A breathtaking, emotional piece of digital art from Arcade Fire and Google. Blown away. http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/  30.08.2010 09.59.13
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: Incredible work Aaron! RT @aaronkoblin Happy to announce http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com a new project with Arcade Fire & Chris Milk  30.08.2010 09.21.01
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: Location Sites Experiment to Attract Mainstream Users - NYTimes.com http://ping.fm/ms0uX  30.08.2010 07.52.17
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: RT @NYT_JenPreston By @clairecm & @jennydeluxe: A look at geolocation sites & challenges attracting mainstream users. http://nyti.ms/c6yvOG  30.08.2010 06.40.14
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: Location services lack mainstream appeal - largely confined to pockets of young, technically adept urbanites http://ow.ly/1qOr7x  30.08.2010 04.49.18
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: Technology Aside, Most People Still Decline to Be Located http://nyti.ms/bVtUHa  30.08.2010 02.42.59
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: Nice to see the NY Times shares my skepticism about adoption rates of location-based services. http://fb.me/HTJA9xyH  30.08.2010 10.33.06
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: Not surprising that location is a tough sell to the mainstream users Why not just leave an I'm not home sign on lawn? http://nyti.ms/c6yvOG  30.08.2010 09.57.12
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: Technology Aside, Most People Still Decline to Be Located, in The New York Times http://nyti.ms/aLe8Ut  30.08.2010 09.11.19
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: “The magic age is people born after 1981,” @Loopt founder defines generational shift on privacy: http://nyti.ms/dg7ANt by @jennydeluxe  30.08.2010 09.06.16
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: Despite all the hype, location-based services still have low adoption rates http://nyti.ms/dmTUWA  30.08.2010 07.38.34
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: 4% of US using Location software. NYT says that's small. I'm not so sure. http://nyti.ms/czPomL  30.08.2010 07.32.28
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: By @clairecm and @jennydeluxe : A look at geolocation sites & challenges attracting mainstream users. - http://nyti.ms/c6yvOG  30.08.2010 06.26.41
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: retweet steverubel: Location services lack mainstream appeal - largely confined to pockets of young, technically adept urbanites http://ow.ly/1qOr7x  30.08.2010 04.50.52
avc.com - Fred
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: retweet YarinHochman: What A CEO Does- great post by @fredwilson http://bit.ly/b9doyY  30.08.2010 07.11.46
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: retweet cdixon: wise RT @avc What A CEO Does http://bit.ly/9qYCKD  30.08.2010 06.38.04
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: retweet bfeld: RT @avc: What A CEO Does: http://bit.ly/9qYCKD  30.08.2010 06.37.53
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: retweet bfeld: RT @avc: What A CEO Does: http://bit.ly/9qYCKD  30.08.2010 06.37.08
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: wise RT @avc What A CEO Does http://bit.ly/9qYCKD  30.08.2010 06.09.32
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: A CEO does 3 things. Set overall vision/strategy. Recruits, hires, retains talent. Makes sure there is cash in the bank. http://j.mp/d7qSgn  30.08.2010 04.48.58
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: Fred Wilson shares advice he got from a veteran VC when he was starting out, 25 years ago. http://r2.ly/4rae  30.08.2010 04.41.49
techcrunch.com - Michael Arrington
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: RT @TechCrunch: Cisco May Be Making A Run For Skype - http://tcrn.ch/dsnVSU by @arrington  29.08.2010 20.21.32
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: retweet Cisco_Mobile: #Cisco has made an offer to acquire #Skype http://tinyurl.com/3xxv6fv #voip  29.08.2010 19.45.01
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: retweet TechCrunch: Cisco May Be Making A Run For Skype - http://tcrn.ch/dsnVSU by @arrington  29.08.2010 19.33.41
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: Cisco May Be Making A Run For Skype - http://tcrn.ch/dsnVSU by @arrington  29.08.2010 19.31.51
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: Cisco May Be Making A Run For Skype (@arrington / TechCrunch) http://tcrn.ch/cSUgvD http://techme.me/=z0I  29.08.2010 21.50.30
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: Reading "Cisco May Be Making A Run For Skype" by @arrington http://tcrn.ch/9oOIXn  29.08.2010 20.27.16
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: retweet davecarhart: RT @RobCairns: Cisco May Be Making A Run For Skype: Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before their IPO... http://bit.ly/c9o8gm  29.08.2010 20.26.22
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: retweet Cisco_Mobile: #Cisco has made an offer to acquire #Skype http://tinyurl.com/3xxv6fv #voip  29.08.2010 19.46.06
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: retweet timoreilly: 10 Ways Data is Changing the World http://bit.ly/c6SPqK This is what @strataconf is all about.  29.08.2010 13.01.51
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: retweet markshea: RT @timoreilly: 10 Ways Data is Changing the World http://bit.ly/c6SPqK This is what @strataconf is all about.  29.08.2010 12.05.19
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: retweet timoreilly: 10 Ways Data is Changing the World http://bit.ly/c6SPqK This is what @strataconf is all about.  29.08.2010 10.53.55
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: retweet pkedrosky: 10 ways data is changing how we live http://bit.ly/btcFHC (via @timoreilly29.08.2010 10.51.35
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: 10 ways data is changing how we live http://bit.ly/btcFHC (via @timoreilly29.08.2010 10.48.38
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: 10 Ways Data is Changing the World http://bit.ly/c6SPqK This is what @strataconf is all about.  29.08.2010 10.39.40
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: 10 Ways Data is changing our lives http://bit.ly/dB9kdo [HT @atul] #gov20 #opengov #opendata #g2s  29.08.2010 08.48.35
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: RT @timoreilly 10 Ways Data is Changing the World http://bit.ly/c6SPqK  29.08.2010 12.05.31
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: 10 Ways Data is Changing the World http://bit.ly/c6SPqK This is what @strataconf is all about.  29.08.2010 10.39.40
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: RT @ePatientDave Health is missing! RT @digiphile: 10 Ways Data is changing our lives http://bit.ly/dB9kdo [H... http://bit.ly/9yiT6g #ogov  29.08.2010 08.55.13
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: Health is missing! RT @digiphile: 10 Ways Data is changing our lives http://bit.ly/dB9kdo [HT @atul] #gov20 #opengov #opendata #g2s  29.08.2010 08.54.36
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: RT @hkanji: Ten ways Big Data is changing our lives http://bit.ly/dB9kdo tip @techmeme  29.08.2010 08.43.00
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: retweet louisgray: From Hacker News: What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. http://bit.ly/9r2pwe  29.08.2010 12.37.19
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: retweet louisgray: From Hacker News: What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. http://bit.ly/9r2pwe  29.08.2010 10.14.08
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: retweet louisgray: From Hacker News: What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. http://bit.ly/9r2pwe  29.08.2010 09.27.11
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: RT @newsycombinator: What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. http://j.mp/aD49ew (via @deburca29.08.2010 02.26.34
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: From Hacker News: What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. http://bit.ly/9r2pwe  29.08.2010 01.31.09
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: What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. http://j.mp/aD49ew  29.08.2010 01.00.03
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: retweet pourmecoffee: This reporter gave pre-paid credit cards to panhandlers. Here's what they did with them. http://bit.ly/aD49ew  29.08.2010 16.44.15
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: retweet karlwilding: RT @jaggeree: RT @codepo8: What happens if you give homeless people a prepaid credit card http://bit.ly/9r2pwe #toronto #nyc #inspiring  29.08.2010 13.34.45
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: RT @louisgray: From Hacker News: What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. http://bit.ly/9r2pwe | amazing stories  29.08.2010 13.09.54
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: RT @codepo8: What happens if you give homeless people a prepaid credit card http://bit.ly/9r2pwe #toronto #nyc #inspiring  29.08.2010 13.08.49
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: retweet louisgray: From Hacker News: What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. http://bit.ly/9r2pwe  29.08.2010 13.06.25
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: retweet louisgray: From Hacker News: What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card. http://bit.ly/9r2pwe  29.08.2010 12.59.06
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: Via @WeAreVisible: What happens when you give homeless people a prepaid credit card http://bit.ly/9r2pwe #MustRead  29.08.2010 11.17.40
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: RT @gregorymiller: An experiment of trust- giving a credit card to homeless. http://bit.ly/drcRB1  29.08.2010 08.35.40
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: How panhandlers use free credit cards, Toronto Star http://bit.ly/9KcgZG  29.08.2010 03.06.25
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: Somewhere, there's a business model around pre-paid credit cards for homeless. Maybe a card they can swipe or enter...: http://bit.ly/d9dZE9  29.08.2010 02.07.42
techcrunch.com - Michael Arrington
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: "Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men." by @arrington -- Laguna is female? Didn't know that. Woof. http://ow.ly/2wiQx  29.08.2010 00.16.34
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: Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. Or At Least Stop Blaming Me. http://j.mp/cvxvAj  28.08.2010 23.00.04
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: retweet TechCrunch: Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. Or At Least Stop Blaming Me. - http://tcrn.ch/c0kira by @arrington  28.08.2010 21.33.53
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: retweet TechCrunch: Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. Or At Least Stop Blaming Me. - http://tcrn.ch/c0kira by @arrington  28.08.2010 21.23.25
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: Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. Or At Least Stop Blaming Me. - http://tcrn.ch/c0kira by @arrington  28.08.2010 21.08.36
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: Mike Arrington's stunningly sexist rant http://tcrn.ch/ckdF7v Right, tech world as perfect meritocracy - keep dreaming.  29.08.2010 05.58.37
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: retweet TechCrunch: Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. Or At Least Stop Blaming Me. - http://tcrn.ch/c0kira by @arrington  29.08.2010 01.35.48
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: Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. (@arrington / TechCrunch) http://tcrn.ch/bS1ySF http://techme.me/=z02  29.08.2010 00.35.38
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: retweet newsycombinator: Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. Or At Least Stop Blaming Me. http://j.mp/cvxvAj  28.08.2010 23.54.45
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: Interesting TC column by @arrington: Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. Or At Least Stop Blaming Me. http://tcrn.ch/dyy8lD  28.08.2010 22.09.39
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: Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. Or At Least Stop Blaming Me. - http://tcrn.ch/c0kira by @arrington (via @Scobleizer28.08.2010 21.45.24
techcrunch.com - Guest Author
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: retweet parislemon: Check (In) Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo’ Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In “Off The Grid” http://t.co/s8pI40n by @hunterwalk  28.08.2010 15.24.25
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: Survey of 500 Foursquare users to better understand their check in behaviors: http://t.co/s8pI40n /by @hunterwalk tip @techmeme #geo  28.08.2010 14.45.37
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: retweet parislemon: Check (In) Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo’ Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In “Off The Grid” http://t.co/s8pI40n by @hunterwalk  28.08.2010 14.11.14
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: Check (In) Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo' Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In "Off The Grid” - http://tcrn.ch/avQw55 by @hunterwalk  28.08.2010 13.39.54
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: Check (In) Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo' Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In "Off The Grid” - http://tcrn.ch/avQw55  28.08.2010 13.39.05
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: Why Foursquare Users Check In “Off The Grid” http://tcrn.ch/c01zUf  28.08.2010 15.59.28
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: retweet TechCrunch: Check (In) Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo' Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In "Off The Grid” - http://tcrn.ch/avQw55 by @hunterwalk  28.08.2010 14.55.57
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: retweet chrismessina: Survey of 500 Foursquare users to better understand their check in behaviors: http://t.co/s8pI40n /by @hunterwalk tip @techmeme #geo  28.08.2010 14.47.07
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: RT @parislemon: Check (In) Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo’ Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In “Off The Grid” http://t.co/s8pI40n @hunterwalk  28.08.2010 14.05.44
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: retweet davemcclure: RT @TechCrunch: "CHECK(-in) Yo Self B4 U WRECK Yo Self!" http://t.co/sT82OIP by @HunterWalk #Foursquare #WhoreSquare #LBS  28.08.2010 14.05.06
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: RT @TechCrunch: Why Foursquare Users Check In "Off The Grid” - http://tcrn.ch/avQw55 by @hunterwalk tip @techmeme  28.08.2010 13.42.18
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: Check (In) Yo’ Self Before You Wreck Yo’ Self: Why Foursquare Users Check In “Off The Grid” http://t.co/s8pI40n by @hunterwalk  28.08.2010 13.41.30
huffingtonpost.com - Craig Newmark
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: "Rediscovering the American Dream," by @craignewmark - http://huff.to/b2kc2b (HT @ariannahuff28.08.2010 14.08.25
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: A big thank you to @craignewmark for his powerful and moving post! http://huff.to/b2kc2b  28.08.2010 13.22.44
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: retweet craignewmark: Rediscovering the American Dream #tcot #opengov http://huff.to/dvIBVu  28.08.2010 12.52.22
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: retweet IdeaGov: Nice piece @craignewmark! Important to hear this. RT @huffpo: Craig Newmark: Rediscovering the American Dream http://huff.to/cOBKGp  28.08.2010 12.26.20
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: Nice piece @craignewmark! Important to hear this. RT @huffpo: Craig Newmark: Rediscovering the American Dream http://huff.to/cOBKGp  28.08.2010 12.22.46
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: "Rediscovering the American Dream," by @craignewmark - http://huff.to/b2kc2b (HT @ariannahuff) /via @cheeky_geeky  28.08.2010 14.22.09
techcrunch.com - Vivek Wadhwa
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: Young vs old engineers RT @vwadhwa: Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age: http://wp.me/pNaxW-Ts9  28.08.2010 09.59.12
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: Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age http://bit.ly/a3pgXb (via @craignewmark28.08.2010 09.35.44
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: Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age http://bit.ly/a3pgXb  28.08.2010 09.32.37
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: Silicon Valley's Dark Secret: It's all about Age http://j.mp/aqvc7N  28.08.2010 09.00.04
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: retweet RobCairns: Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age: An interesting paradox in the technology world is that there is ... http://bit.ly/aH17uk  28.08.2010 07.47.09
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: retweet craignewmark: Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age http://bit.ly/a3pgXb  28.08.2010 09.52.48
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: Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age. http://r2.ly/63n7  28.08.2010 08.47.39
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: If ur an engineer in the Valley, don't age --> RT @vwadhwa Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age: http://wp.me/pNaxW-Ts9  28.08.2010 08.15.14
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: retweet mikealfred: Alternative title: SV's Economic Reality? RT @vwadhwa: Silicon Valley’s Dark Secret: It’s All About Age: http://wp.me/pNaxW-Ts9  28.08.2010 08.02.06
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: retweet sidd: Aaaand that's a wrap! For those of you who missed it, here's the summary: http://t.co/owyDv2T. Now, it's time to watch some Office.  28.08.2010 04.47.08
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: The Twitter Engineering Blog: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/Urwrg61 by @sidd  27.08.2010 16.46.40
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: retweet stop: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/kTux70h No surprises - it's all genuine, and echoed by many of us who work here.  27.08.2010 18.40.16
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: Sad to see @sidd head back to Harvard after his summer internship at Twitter. His telling of it is worth reading: http://t.co/kTux70h  27.08.2010 18.32.10
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: retweet TwitterEng: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/7AhwKsC  27.08.2010 17.58.53
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: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/kTux70h No surprises - it's all genuine, and echoed by many of us who work here.  27.08.2010 17.15.36
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: RT @TwitterEng: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/7AhwKsC  27.08.2010 17.14.22
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: retweet TwitterEng: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/7AhwKsC  27.08.2010 17.09.55
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: retweet rsarver: The Twitter Engineering Blog: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/Urwrg61 by @sidd  27.08.2010 17.05.23
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: The Twitter Engineering Blog: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/Urwrg61 by @sidd  27.08.2010 16.59.20
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: retweet TwitterEng: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/7AhwKsC  27.08.2010 16.52.59
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: retweet TwitterEng: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/7AhwKsC  27.08.2010 16.51.02
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: retweet TwitterEng: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/7AhwKsC  27.08.2010 16.36.01
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: My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter http://t.co/7AhwKsC  27.08.2010 16.28.11
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: Read about @sidd's Awesome Engineering Internship at Twitter http://t.co/LKy3WUY via @TwitterEng  27.08.2010 16.22.15
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: Paul Allen Sues Apple, Others Over Patents http://j.mp/9tMaa4  27.08.2010 12.00.05
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: retweet johnmscott: Paul Allen suing everyone and donating the proceeds to charity http://bit.ly/aWEwfQ how sweet, another reason to move dev out of the US #g2s  27.08.2010 11.56.20
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: Paul Allen suing everyone and donating the proceeds to charity http://bit.ly/aWEwfQ how sweet, another reason to move dev out of the US #g2s  27.08.2010 11.44.01
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: retweet WSJ: Breaking: Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, sues Apple, Google and nine other firms over patents http://on.wsj.com/aHCdVL  27.08.2010 11.43.12
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: The latest in lawsuits: Paul Allen going after $GOOD $APPL etc: http://is.gd/eH6ZJ  27.08.2010 11.39.15
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: WSJ.com - Paul Allen Sues Apple, Others Over Patents http://on.wsj.com/bbaSPa  27.08.2010 11.36.46
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: Breaking: Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, sues Apple, Google and nine other firms over patents http://on.wsj.com/aHCdVL  27.08.2010 11.27.06
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: Paul Allen sues an all-start lineup of tech companies on an August Friday: http://bit.ly/aWEwfQ  27.08.2010 11.57.36
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: The lawsuits continue. Now Paul Allen jumps into the fray! http://bit.ly/cea5PR #siliconvalley #redmond #legal #battles  27.08.2010 11.47.06
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: WSJ: Paul Allen Sues Apple, Google, Others Over Patents http://on.wsj.com/bbaSPa  27.08.2010 11.40.18
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: is Paul Allen a patent troll? he is suing Apple, Google, eBay, Facebook and half a dozen others: http://j.mp/aZzo0c  27.08.2010 11.39.20
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: Paul Allen Sues Apple, Others Over Patents (Dionne Searcey / Wall Street Journal) http://bit.ly/96WBjT http://techme.me/=yVY  27.08.2010 11.35.43
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: RT @WSJ: Breaking: Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, sues Apple, Google and nine other firms over patents http://on.wsj.com/aHCdVL  27.08.2010 11.30.34
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: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sues Apple, others over patents - WSJ http://bit.ly/azx3E7  27.08.2010 11.29.28
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: RT @WSJ: Breaking: Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, sues Apple, Google and nine other firms over patents http://on.wsj.com/aHCdVL  27.08.2010 11.28.30
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: 42% of internet users age 50+ use social network sites (up from 22% in 2009) http://pewrsr.ch/50plusSNS  27.08.2010 08.21.58
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: should this surprise anyone? http://pewrsr.ch/50plusSNS  27.08.2010 08.04.57
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: retweet Poynter: Pew Research Center finds that Internet users 50 and older are embracing social networking tools. http://journ.us/9Xj9Jb  27.08.2010 08.32.50
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: Social network site use by internet users ages 50+ nearly doubled-> 22% (2009) to 42% (2010) @Pew_Internet http://pewrsr.ch/50plusSNS #hcsm  27.08.2010 08.30.11
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: Pew Research Center finds that Internet users 50 and older are embracing social networking tools. http://journ.us/9Xj9Jb  27.08.2010 08.26.40
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: Pew Research Center finds that Internet users 50 and older are embracing social networking tools. http://journ.us/9Xj9Jb  27.08.2010 08.25.34
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: New report: Social network site use among internet users ages 50+ nearly doubled—from 22% in 2009 to 42% in 2010. http://pewrsr.ch/50plusSNS  27.08.2010 08.05.18
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: Use of SNS by older (50+) users nearly doubled in the past year. Read more in @mary_madden 's new report http://pewrsr.ch/50plusSNS  27.08.2010 08.04.24
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: RT @lrainie: New @pew_internet report with data on huge growth of social networking use by those age 50+ http://pewrsr.ch/50plusSNS  27.08.2010 08.03.37
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: New @pew_internet report with data on huge growth of social networking use by those age 50+ http://pewrsr.ch/50plusSNS  27.08.2010 08.02.37
spring.org.uk - Jeremy Dean
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: retweet jhagel: Are you an informer or a meformer? Let the Twitter psychoanalysis begin . . . http://bit.ly/bjjEB6 (via @ebertchicago27.08.2010 07.15.01
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: Are you an informer or a meformer? Let the Twitter psychoanalysis begin . . . http://bit.ly/bjjEB6 (via @ebertchicago27.08.2010 06.42.35
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: Are you an Informer or a Meformer? 10 psychological insights into Twitter: http://dld.bz/tsdS via @ebertchicago  27.08.2010 05.56.09
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: retweet jhagel: Are you an informer or a meformer? Let the Twitter psychoanalysis begin . . . http://bit.ly/bjjEB6 (via @ebertchicago27.08.2010 06.59.45
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: More 'in' than 'me' RT @jhagel: Are you an informer or meformer? Let the Twitter psychoanalysis begin http://bit.ly/bjjEB6 via @ebertchicago  27.08.2010 06.49.07
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: The FTC just took its first action under its new disclosure guidelines: http://goo.gl/pgUB Nice move to stop astroturf.  26.08.2010 19.02.54
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: Charges Settled Over Fake Reviews on iTunes http://nyti.ms/cRw1GW  26.08.2010 16.33.34
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: Charges Settled Over Fake Reviews on iTunes (@mhelft / New York Times) http://nyti.ms/d0m3zl http://techme.me/=yG7  27.08.2010 06.20.40
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: Charges Settled Over Fake Reviews on iTunes (@mhelft / New York Times) http://nyti.ms/d0m3zl http://mgzr.us/=yVB  27.08.2010 06.10.43
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: iTunes astroturf PR firm, Reverb gets smacked by FTC http://nyti.ms/acf17X - Good lesson for PR firms, my post last yr: http://bit.ly/905DYf  26.08.2010 21.45.33
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: Charges Settled Over Fake Reviews on iTunes http://bit.ly/9aLgzN  26.08.2010 21.37.33
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: RT @davidfg FTC forces PR firm to remove bogus app reviews from iTunes store. Just 2,656,103 bogus reviews remain. http://nyti.ms/acf17X  26.08.2010 20.32.00
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: retweet mattcutts: The FTC just took its first action under its new disclosure guidelines: http://goo.gl/pgUB Nice move to stop astroturf.  26.08.2010 19.20.02
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: RT @mattcutts: The FTC just took its first action under its new disclosure guidelines: http://goo.gl/pgUB Nice move to stop astroturf.  26.08.2010 19.05.00
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: Congrats y'all! RT @davemorin: We are excited to announce that @mvanhorn is joining @path next month: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7  26.08.2010 15.11.17
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: Digg's @mvanhorn is leaving to join @davemorin's new start-up Path: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7 (via @caro26.08.2010 15.06.08
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: RT @Megan: Congrats guys! RT @caro: Digg's @mvanhorn is leaving to join @davemorin's new start-up Path: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7 [holy cow!]  26.08.2010 15.03.57
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: retweet caro: Digg's @mvanhorn is leaving to join @davemorin's new start-up Path: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7  26.08.2010 15.33.36
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: retweet bpm140: RT @davemorin: We are excited to announce that @mvanhorn is joining @path next month: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7 (That's awesome news!)  26.08.2010 15.20.16
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: retweet davemorin: We are excited to announce that @mvanhorn is joining @path next month: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7  26.08.2010 15.19.03
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: RT @davemorin: We are excited to announce that @mvanhorn is joining @path next month: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7 (That's awesome news!)  26.08.2010 15.14.39
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: Morin just hired the best RT @davemorin: We are excited to announce that @mvanhorn is joining @path next month: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7  26.08.2010 15.13.52
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: RT @davemorin We are excited to announce that @mvanhorn is joining @path next month: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7  26.08.2010 15.13.49
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: Congrats!! RT @caro: Digg's @mvanhorn is leaving to join @davemorin's new start-up Path: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7  26.08.2010 15.05.47
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: Digg's Matt Van Horn leaving for start-up Path (@caro / CNET News) http://bit.ly/c9Kciw http://techme.me/=yFx  26.08.2010 15.05.42
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: awesome. @davemorin is getting all the good ones for @path! http://bit.ly/9cLNY7 cant wait to see it.  26.08.2010 15.03.08
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: Digg's Matt Van Horn leaving for start-up Path | The Social - CNET News http://t.co/SjgtENS tip @techmeme  26.08.2010 15.02.59
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: Congrats guys! RT @caro: Digg's @mvanhorn is leaving to join @davemorin's new start-up Path: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7  26.08.2010 15.02.55
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: We are excited to announce that @mvanhorn is joining @path next month: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7  26.08.2010 15.02.13
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: Digg's @mvanhorn is leaving to join @davemorin's new start-up Path: http://bit.ly/9cLNY7  26.08.2010 14.58.23
radar.oreilly.com - Alex Howard
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: RT @lewisshepherd: Crazy to be mentioned in the same breath w/ Vint Cerf in piece on Emerging Technologies http://oreil.ly/940VN0  26.08.2010 09.52.53
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: Space IT, the final frontier http://oreil.ly/dCugNB Tracking the signal of emerging tech http://oreil.ly/940VN0 #gov20 #NASAIT tip @techmeme  26.08.2010 09.32.35
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: Bears repeating RT @digiphile "If we don't perform fundamntal R&D here it can be performed elsewhere" -@LewisShepherd http://oreil.ly/940VN0  26.08.2010 09.27.07
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: RT @timoreilly The first NASA IT Summit: a report by @digiphile covers #augmentedreality, internet in space, more http://oreil.ly/abPChT  26.08.2010 09.00.45
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: The first NASA IT Summit: a report by @digiphile covers #augmentedreality, internet in space, tech competitiveness http://oreil.ly/abPChT  26.08.2010 08.07.03
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: "If systems are unprepared to deal with non-Latin character sets, you need to correct that deficiency"-Vint Cerf http://oreil.ly/940VN0 #g2s  26.08.2010 08.06.17
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: "If we don't perform fundamental R&D here, it can be performed elsewhere"-@LewisShepherd http://oreil.ly/940VN0 #gov20 #g2s HT @digiphile  26.08.2010 07.57.59
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: "If we don't perform fundamental R&D here, it can be performed elsewhere"-@LewisShepherd http://oreil.ly/940VN0 #gov20 #g2s  26.08.2010 07.36.30
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: Visions of the future: Context-aware computing, fluid UIs, UXP, AR & @Bre's 3D printer: http://oreil.ly/940VN0 #gov20  26.08.2010 07.18.14
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: Tracking the signal of emerging technologies http://oreil.ly/b53r3f (via @digiphile26.08.2010 07.01.39
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: "The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet"-@GreatDismal http://oreil.ly/940VN0 #gov20 #g2s  26.08.2010 07.00.35
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: "When we become immersed in a sea of data, what are the implications?"-@LewisShepherd http://oreil.ly/940VN0 #gov20 #g2s  26.08.2010 06.48.13
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: Tracking the signal of emerging tech http://oreil.ly/940VN0 @digiphile tunes into Vint Cerf, with a nod to @GreatDismal. #gov20  26.08.2010 06.43.14
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: New Post: Tracking the signal of emerging technologies http://oreil.ly/940VN0 #gov20 #g2s #NASAIT  26.08.2010 06.38.09
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: The first NASA IT Summit: a report by @digiphile covers #augmentedreality, internet in space, tech competitiveness http://oreil.ly/abPChT  26.08.2010 08.07.03
techcrunch.com - Michael Arrington
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: GroupMe, Born At TechCrunch Disrupt, Secures Funding And Launches http://frc.vc/3MF  25.08.2010 20.05.58
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: GroupMe, Born At TechCrunch Disrupt, Secures Funding And Launches - http://tcrn.ch/cc90FI by @arrington  25.08.2010 16.48.21
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: Favor? Can i get feedback on this service from non techies out there? Http://Groupme.com http://t.co/EsqcG0c  26.08.2010 05.05.05
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: retweet dondodge: RT @arrington GroupMe, Born At TechCrunch Disrupt, Secures Funding And Launches tcrn.ch/cc90FI - I was a judge at the Hackathon - awesome!  25.08.2010 19.29.23
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: RT @arrington GroupMe, Born At TechCrunch Disrupt, Secures Funding And Launches tcrn.ch/cc90FI - I was a judge at the Hackathon - awesome!  25.08.2010 18.34.36
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: Excited to be involved!! Check out GroupMe.com and start a chat with your friends http://t.co/hgbFhnV  25.08.2010 18.15.04
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: AWESOME: GroupMe, Born At TechCrunch Disrupt, Secures Funding And Launches http://t.co/J0N6RXB via @techcrunch  25.08.2010 18.12.02
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: RT @arrington: GroupMe, Born At TechCrunch Disrupt, Secures Funding And Launches http://t.co/bs4PD0c via @techcrunch  25.08.2010 18.10.31
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: retweet arrington: GroupMe, Born At TechCrunch Disrupt, Secures Funding And Launches http://t.co/bs4PD0c via @techcrunch  25.08.2010 18.08.29
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: retweet ericwashburn: @vipgrafx Cool Idea! RT @TechCrunch GroupMe Secures Funding And Launches - http://tcrn.ch/cc90FI by @arrington - this is cool.  25.08.2010 18.07.01
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: retweet TechCrunch: GroupMe, Born At TechCrunch Disrupt, Secures Funding And Launches - http://tcrn.ch/cc90FI by @arrington  25.08.2010 17.16.43
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: Me 2 great product! RT @jordancooper super excited to be a part of this RT @arrington GroupMe Secures Funding And Launches tcrn.ch/cc90FI  25.08.2010 17.11.03
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: GroupMe, Born At @TechCrunch Disrupt, Secures Funding And Launches http://t.co/l6WGE6W  25.08.2010 17.04.21
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: GroupMe, Born At TechCrunch Disrupt, Secures Funding And Launches http://t.co/bs4PD0c via @techcrunch  25.08.2010 16.51.21
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: From the hackathon! RT @TechCrunch: GroupMe, Born At TechCrunch Disrupt, Secures Funding And Launches - http://tcrn.ch/cc90FI by @arrington  25.08.2010 16.51.18
techcrunch.com - Erick Schonfeld
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: SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck http://t.co/ixmUFF3 via @techcrunch  25.08.2010 17.44.42
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: 47 cards to mix & match. SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck http://tcrn.ch/bhZ2PS  25.08.2010 17.18.27
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: SCVNGRs Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck http://j.mp/bR0bZK  25.08.2010 16.00.04
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: "Good intro to practical game mechanics for new products / services." http://tcrn.ch/bW32Uv (via @cbtacy25.08.2010 15.48.12
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: RT @TechCrunch: SCVNGR's Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck - http://tcrn.ch/bqLrpM by @erickschonfeld  25.08.2010 14.46.42
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: SCVNGR's Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck - http://tcrn.ch/bqLrpM by @erickschonfeld  25.08.2010 14.42.48
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: SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck http://tcrn.ch/cmkh9h #gameification #gamemechanics  25.08.2010 22.46.19
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: Pretty cool... This tweet needs an "epic meaning"... >> "SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck" http://j.mp/9sxP4k  25.08.2010 18.34.02
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: SCVNGR's Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck (@erickschonfeld / TechCrunch) http://tcrn.ch/9NpOQO http://techme.me/=y1=  25.08.2010 18.06.40
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: For anyone that's building game mechanics into their products, here is your definitive primer thx to SCVNGR: http://tcrn.ch/bR0bZK  25.08.2010 17.20.39
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: Nice read RT @TechCrunch: SCVNGR's Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck - http://tcrn.ch/bqLrpM by @erickschonfeld  25.08.2010 16.24.36
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: .@avantgame gets a nod in a TechCrunch post - SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck - http://tcrn.ch/bR0bZK #Gaming  25.08.2010 15.24.34
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: retweet natronbaxter: SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck: http://tcrn.ch/blliwS  25.08.2010 15.12.48
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: Exclusive RT @TechCrunch: SCVNGR's Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck - http://tcrn.ch/bqLrpM  25.08.2010 14.46.26
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: retweet timoreilly: New conference from @oreillymedia: http://strataconf.com/ The business (and science) of data. CFP open now. This should be really cool.  25.08.2010 13.58.52
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: New conference from @oreillymedia: http://strataconf.com/ The business (and science) of data. CFP open now. This should be really cool.  25.08.2010 13.58.25
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: We've just launched Strata, a new event exploring the business of data. Call for spkrs is open; details: http://strataconf.com/ #strataconf  25.08.2010 13.49.56
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: RT @edd: The Strata CFP ends Sep 28 . We want to hear about data, viz, business & more. Submit a proposal at http://bit.ly/9gXcp5  25.08.2010 13.48.58
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: retweet acroll: It's official: http://strataconf.com launches. Big data, new interfaces, and ubiquitious computing will change us forever.  25.08.2010 13.48.13
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: The Strata CFP is open until end 28 Sep. We want to hear about data, viz, business & more. Submit a proposal at http://strataconf.com/  25.08.2010 13.42.56
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: retweet edd: O'Reilly have just launched Strata – http://strataconf.com/ – a new conference focusing on data. I'm the chair, along with @acroll. Excited!  25.08.2010 13.38.42
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: I'm very excited for O'Reilly's new data science conference (coming Feb 2011)! http://bit.ly/strata2011  25.08.2010 13.32.25
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: O'Reilly have just launched Strata – http://strataconf.com/ – a new conference focusing on data. I'm the chair, along with @acroll. Excited!  25.08.2010 13.17.30
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: Get your stats on! New data science conference from O'Reilly -> http://strataconf.com/ CFP open now.  25.08.2010 13.06.57
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: New conference from @oreillymedia: http://strataconf.com/ The business (and science) of data. CFP open now. This should be really cool.  25.08.2010 13.58.25
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: retweet brady: Get your stats on! New data science conference from O'Reilly -> http://strataconf.com/ CFP open now.  25.08.2010 13.15.59
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: retweet brady: Get your stats on! New data science conference from O'Reilly -> http://strataconf.com/ CFP open now.  25.08.2010 13.09.02
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: It's official: http://strataconf.com launches. Big data, new interfaces, and ubiquitious computing will change us forever.  25.08.2010 13.08.45
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: RT @brady: Get your stats on! New data science conference from O'Reilly -> http://strataconf.com/ CFP open now. /cc: @brianshaler  25.08.2010 13.08.22
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