This map of a Tweet courtesy of developer Raffi Krikorian is a cracker, showing just how much metadata goes with your 140 characters. And the folks at Twitter are adding more metadata all the time. (Originally via ReadWriteWeb)map-of-a-tweet [...]
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Convertible bridge loans are an investment instrument often used by startups, usually to raise a smaller amount of money ahead of a bigger round. It is called a bridge loan because it bridges the company until the full funding round (or sometimes to another event, e.g. an exit). It is called a ‘convertible’ [...] In hilarious news from UK retailer GameStation updated its T’s and C’s on 1st April as an April fools joke adding an ‘immortal soul clause’ and since then 7,500 have accepted the following: By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno [...] Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-11 http://goo.gl/fb/N9jFW # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-11 http://goo.gl/fb/IvCey # Congratulations to Plink on becoming Google’s first UK acquisition http://goo.gl/fb/zIrf9 # The potential in European venture capital http://goo.gl/fb/RYI8s # Twitter to announce its ad offering today http://goo.gl/fb/UIdN7 # Eric Schmidt plays up GOOG's mobile strategy and HTML5 over apps [...] When I come across great quotes I normally put them on my Tumblog but I like this one from Art of War author Sun Tzu so much I decided to share it with all of you. As you will notice I’ve used an excerpt from the full quote as the title for [...] Back in February I wrote about Yahoo’s deal with Nectar that takes offline loyalty card data and uses it to target ads on the Yahoo network, and then looks back again at the Nectar card data to see if the targeting has any impact. Yesterday there was more detail on this scheme on the [...]
I have been thinking some more about Twitter’s Promoted Tweets, their acquisition last week of iPhone client Tweetie, and the launch earlier this week of Twitter’s own Blackberry client. It seems to me that all these moves are about the same thing – to get more control of the user environment [...] Twitter will today announce the launch of ‘Promoted Tweets’ that will appear both in the normal stream and in Twitter search results. In the latter case they will be matched to the query in the same way that Google matches Adwords ads to web search queries. Promoted Tweets will be identified by some [...] My partner Simon Cook recently gave this data-packed presentation to a European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) conference. It does a great job of comparing the US and European venture capital industries and makes the case that Europe has all the fundamentals in place for a great decade going forward. The most important of these [...] I don’t know the guys at Plink but I was really pleased to read on the Guardian website this morning that they have been acquired by Google. Plink is a mobile visual search startup which will now contribute to the Google Goggles product. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is [...] |
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