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"With @anywhere Twitter aims to solve two vexing problems of the increasingly crowded, noisy network: Who should I follow? And what is that person’s Twitter handle? Twitter has created recommendation lists, and there are a number of suggestion services. But compiling a crowd this way is tedious, and not conducive to serendipitous discovery. And as for who is who: Would you, for example, necessarily know that @aplusk is really Ashton Kutcher?"
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results of a pretty major analysis of how people are using Twitter.
"The bottom line is this: users are more active on Twitter; more users joined Twitter in 2009 following a massive influx of celebrities to the site; and sure enough, the criminals followed the users in a forceful way causing the overall Twitter Crime Rate to spike."
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"Our open technology platform is well known and Twitter APIs are already widely implemented but this is a different approach because we’ve created something incredibly simple. Rather than implementing APIs, site owners need only drop in a few lines of javascript. This new set of frameworks is called @anywhere.
"…When we're ready to launch, initial participating sites will include Amazon, AdAge, Bing, Citysearch, Digg, eBay, The Huffington Post, Meebo, MSNBC.com, The New York Times, Salesforce.com, Yahoo!, and YouTube. Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo! home page."
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Interesting arguments for turning existing corporations toward social entrepreneurship/mission-driven commerce.
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How to create a Google form. Useful tool!
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"The future of advertising. I pointed out that @anywhere isn't (yet another) ad platform. Twitter's trying to connect people in more meaningful ways, Ev said: better connections, better information — better choices. I put it a bit more technically: Just as the fundamental challenge of the 21st century is making authentically, meaningfully better stuff, for the 21st century media it's communicating in better ways — not simply bombarding the reader-"consumer" with more, bigger, louder ads. Erasing information asymmetries is where the future of advertising lies. But you can't get there unless you can build a 21st century business first.
"Social tools can lead, through bandwagon effects, to bubbles and crashes — just like in markets. In bubbles, assets are overvalued — in crashes, they're undervalued. This particular conversation is a bit of an undervalued asset. If you're interesting in building a next-generation business, well, there might just be a bit of gold to be mined in it."
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It's finally online…
