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Sponsored Status? Not Facebook

August 11th, 2009 at 7:43 am » Comments (0)

I have been a follower of the sponsored conversations and sponsored tweets and the sponsored anything for a while now and I intend to keep on top of it because it does have somewhat of a effect on my business model although indirect. TechCrunch talks about banning sponsored status updates from their application.  This will [...]



The Twitter Blessing

August 7th, 2009 at 10:19 am » Comments (0)

I was just reading this morning on Techmeme the various sites that are discussing the closing down of the URL shortener service Tr.im.  I then came across a post written by Robert Scoble called, "Twitter’s platform shortcomings."  I have written a number of posts about Twitter here and we are seeing the company mature and [...]



Arrington and Sethi are Hatfield and McCoy

August 3rd, 2009 at 1:36 pm » Comments (1)

Dennis Howlett writes today about the lawsuit involving Sam Sethi and Mike Arrington and Interserve, Inc., als known in our wrold as TechCrunch.  As a disclosure I remember this riff vividly as my friend and partner Tris Hussey was involved in this problem and other friends, Marc Orchant and Oliver Starr were also part of [...]



TechCrunch Snubbed From Twitter 101 Resource Page

July 24th, 2009 at 7:34 am » Comments (1)

I am not sure that anyone in the tech world has written about Twitter more than the popular news site TechCrunch.  You may have a hard time picking out the single most popular Twitter post since after 38 pages of search results on the subject I lost count of the number of articles.  The most [...]



Working In A Virtual World

July 23rd, 2009 at 12:53 pm » Comments (0)

I used to have an office in Downtown Denver at a place called The Hive, a co-working community office not unlike others we see across the country like Independents Hall and Citizen Agency.  It allowed me to have a place to call my office and yet it didn’t bankrupt my budget.  I do reccomentd this [...]



Want To Be Heard On Twitter? Get Added To A Twitter Roll

July 21st, 2009 at 10:41 am » Comments (0)

It used to be that in order to be seen as an influencer or to be really taken seriously in your niche or genre, you had to be on someone’s blogroll.  Being added to a blogroll gave you some credibility and it also helped you get read by others in your group.  You got to [...]



TechCrunch and The Twitter Documents

July 15th, 2009 at 12:09 pm » Comments (9)

I have been following along with the hacked or leak of confidential documents from Twitter that have somehow been sent to Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch.  I am really fascinated, not by the documents or what my possibly be in them, but how the story is being played by the folks at TechCrunch.  Mr. Arrington [...]



Twitter About To Open A Can of Tweets

July 1st, 2009 at 1:17 pm » Comments (1)

I am wondering how this will play out but I just had an opportunity to read through a TechCrunch article by Robin Wauters where it was uncovered that Twitter, Inc. may begin reaching out to people that are using Tweet in their applications or in their businesses and asking that they refrain from the practice.  [...]



Why Robert Scoble Is A Better Blogger Than Me

June 25th, 2009 at 9:14 am » Comments (0)

I have been traveling quite a bit lately and that has caused me to get seriously behind on a large amount of work that I need to accomplish.  I have finally caught up with my email inbox which usually hovers around 60 unread messages at any given time, which usually equates to the amount of [...]



A Nice Cool Dip In The Pacific

June 1st, 2009 at 11:12 am » Comments (0)

Captain Tim asked, "Are you with our group?"
"I am," I said as I looked at my phone to catch my last emails before I got aboard the raft we would be taking to Lanai. 
"How much does a boat like this cost?" Not that this was relevant to taking a snorkeling tour in Hawaii, which [...]