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Implications of Identica are Laconica

July 7th, 2008 ·

Since late last week, there’s been an echo-chamber, mini-buzz around a new “micro-blogging” service called Identica.
Usually, I’m quite weary of such buzz. For instance, you won’t see me write about a service that starts with the letter “P” and ends with “urk” because there’s no “there there.” Even though I used BrightKite for a few [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Web-trends

How Twitter Will be Worth $1.5 Billion by Next Year

June 30th, 2008 ·

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 lead in the P2P mobile payments space. They can become the next PayPal, and are more [...]

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Tags: Mobile · Web-trends