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Definition of the Business Model – Twitter Has a Business Model
All this talk about how Twitter doesn’t have a business model. Let’s be clear. Twitter has a business model. What they don’t have yet is a revenue model. Their business model as Duncan Riley says is not to make money right now. That’s right on the money (pun intended). The correct conversation to have is ...
Marine 1 Compromised By P2P
UPDATE: Charles Cooper over on CNET was granted a quick interview yesterday with Tiversa co-founder and CTO Sam Hopkins. Tiversa, a company whose business is to know P2P has discovered a security breach concerning the Marine 1 helicopter that President Obama flies in. According to the the report via WPXI as well as CNET, it ...
Iranian Bloggers To Be Banned By Blue Host
While it is quite disturbing to see freedom of speech being barred once again online, heard about this via this tweet, it is also just as disturbing to see the TOS once again at the forefront of this news. The main question I have here is why did Blue Host even allow the Iranian bloggers ...
DEMO 09 Class of Demonstrators!
siliconANGLE was lucky enough to obtain (through a new loyal reader) an exclusive look into the DEMO09 Palm Desert Conference that is taking place March 1-3, 2009. Would you like to see what is in store for the conference as in – who is going to be there as well as the schedule of events? ...
Yahoo Re-Org Round-Up
There’s a lot of analysis all over the web over Carol Bartz’s newly announced re-org of the executive management. I’m not intimately familiar with every executive by name, so the best I can do is point to the most poignant analysis and share a few parallels I’ve seen drawn today. The most raw information that ...
DEMO Changing Hands – Kara Swisher Interview with Matt Marshall and Chris Shipley
I a big fan of Demo and the work that Chris Shipley has accomplished over her 13 years of stewardship with DEMO. Now the torch is being passed to Matt Marshall the founder of Venturebeat, questions will arise as to the plans for the future of the DEMO brand. Here is an interview (below) that ...
Forget InterWebs Think InterClouds
I ran into this post by Cisco’s James Erquhart on Infra20.com titled – Is the Intercloud History Repeated? James writes: definitely some of the same elements are appearing in the Cloud Computing ecosphere that once helped build the Internet. Specifically, I see three key initiatives that have an analog in the Internet’s past: 1. The ...
Panther Express and CDNetworks Merger
It was announced yesterday that content delivery network (CDN) upstarts Panther Express and CDNetworks merged. CDNetworks is a Korean based CDN, while Panther Express seemed to hold a lot of promise with a healthy venture capital backing. Perhaps this merger will strengthen Panther Express and the Korean based CDNetworks. Both companies should have the full ...
Social Media Lessons Learned – What To Do
Stephanie Miller at Mediapost has a good writeup on her site called Social Media lessons learned from email marketing. In her post she has a good “Angle” and highlights the “playbook” on how to do social media. Stephanie shows marketers how to relate to social media in an email marketing context which is a great ...
Website Number is Recovery.gov
This quick post is quite humorous, and will easily be a viral traffic driver. Watching the Vice President scramble for a supposed website number, and the host of the interview trying to keep a straight face, does invoke serious LOL. Sadly it also says something about the actual people of the government holding such high ...
