John Borthwick, CEO of Betaworks, produced a “treatise” blog post on the now/real time web.
The article is an observation piece on what’s organically happening in terms of how Twitter is impacting news, traffic patterns and audience. The Prezi presentation page is nicely done, and has great specific information.
Succinctly, he’s saying that the most [...]
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so there’s a stream, but what to fish for
May 15th, 2009 · No Comments · My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web
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Rise of persistent data; the stream always wins
May 7th, 2009 · No Comments · My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web
I like this quote from Ron Conway mentioned in @nichcarlson’s article about Facebook becoming cash flow positive, and IPO-able:
“The next big thing is Twitter-like “persistent data,” which is “real-time data as its happening.” It’ll be a multi-billion economy.”
He predicts a huge market opening up over the next few years around recent data.
What Apple Could Do With Twitter
May 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · M&A, My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web
Apple buying Twitter is not such the uninteresting proposition it’s been called, for instance by Dan Frommer’s piece yesterday Why Apple Won’t Buy Twitter. With $29b in cash, they have a pile of cash which could be deployed over several strategic acquisitions to morph themselves to into a tech giant that could become the [...]
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the now internet
May 4th, 2009 · No Comments · My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web, Trends
I’ve been commenting on other people’s blogs for long enough on this subject, so I’m going to try to formulate my thoughts more concisely with some blogs about it. Twitter and Facebook have long been dubbed the social internet, but their true value is really that they are the pioneers of the now internet.
I think [...]