Monthly Archives: June 2008

How Twitter Will be Worth $1.5 Billion by Next Year

Twitter’s not going to make their money with advertising. So how can they be a Billion Dollar Company in a year? By listening to me. Twitter should take full advantage of their messaging platform, user base and user disposition to … Continue reading

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Chris Messina on Freedom

Chris Messina is one of the smarter, forward-thinking guys I know. Here’s a great little presentation to flip through and imagine that you were in Copenhagen with him: | View | Upload your own

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WebTV

Talk about ideas which came too early and WebTV (now MSN) might be the textbook example. Maybe one day we’ll say BricaBox was that too ;-P Anyway, I’ve written a lot about the AppleTV, and pointed out how I see … Continue reading

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Get Instinctiv

If you have a jailbroken iPhone, go download the Instinctiv app today (found in the Multimedia folder of Installer.app). Instinctiv is an “instinctive shuffle” application, which changes forever the way you look at the shuffle button on your iPhone or … Continue reading

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InternetForEveryone.org

Today, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein — along with a dozen other industry leaders, like Vint Cerf, Larry Lessig, and NYC’s Brad Burnham — announced the launch of InternetforEveryone.org, a call for universal access to high speed, broadband Internet for the … Continue reading

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Entrepreneur in Residence

Today, I am very pleased to announce my new position as Entrepreneur in Residence at Rose Tech Ventures. Loyal readers of my blog (RSS link here) will know this news only a few days old. Last week, after sadly announcing … Continue reading

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Personal Democracy Forum

I’m at the Personal Democracy Forum today, live Twittering it for Silicon Alley Insider (seriously — I have a press badge). PDF is by far one of my favorite conferences of the year. First of all, it mixes my two … Continue reading

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Wow. Thank you.

The outpouring of good wishes has been incredible today. After such a crappy thing to announce, I’m excited to say I have a positive announcement to make on Monday. Thanks everyone. This community has been truly the best to work … Continue reading

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BricaBox: Goodbye World!

“Was she being supremely Machiavellian? Or had she simply lost her mind?” – John Hielemann, on Hillary Clinton’s final weeks campaigning Today, I’m announcing my plans to close BricaBox, LLC. This decision, which has taken place over the last few … Continue reading

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Get Famous Quick

Forget “Get Rich Quick” — these are the steps you need to “Get Famous Quick” clipped from nymag.com The Microfame Game There’s a new class of celebrity powered by the Internet. The stakes are smaller, but the rewards are within … Continue reading

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