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Jul 18 2008
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Evan Williams about Twitter

Excellent interview of Mike Arrington with Evan Williams.

  • Twitter (company profile) just bought Summize (company profile) and now redirected it to Twitter Search. I fell in love with Summize and think this is a VERY good move for Twitter. The deal was most stock and some cash. The Summize-CEO left, the rest of the team relocates to San Francisco. Most of the Summize-Staff are Ex-AOL people.
  • Twitter recently raised $15M in a Series C.
  • Twitter thinks about Premium-Models for commercial use and about monetization of Twitter Search with Contextual Ads (the latter could turn out to be BIG since search can generate very high CPMs)
  • I like Evan Williams very much and would love to meet him. His style is cool. Pyra was cool, Twitter is even cooler :-).
  • Conclusion: Twitter seems to become BIG
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Oct 13 2007
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Congrats to Jaiku!

As I already pointed out, i love microblogging.

Now Jaiku has been acquired by Google. Congrats Jyri and Petteri!

What will happen with my favourite microblogging-service Twitter? How will Google leverage on the topic of microblogging?

(First seen on Techcrunch)

Links:
# Jaiku Homepage
# Jaiku on ScobleShow (Video-Interview)
# Techcrunch-Coverage

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Jul 06 2007
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Great speech: Jyri Engeström (Co-Founder of Jaiku) about Microblogging

I heard this speach of Jyri the first time at Reboot9, and now I watched it a second time after Loic pointed me to it again:

[flash]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8660680426020413852[/flash]

My Learnings:
# Social Networks that are just "Social Networks" will fail (= Butterfly effect)
# Every service needs social objects (Flickr = fotos; Amazon = books; MySpace = music; etc.)
# Define your verbs (eBay = buying & selling; MySpace = play; Dogster = add a dog)
# Make the objects sharable (have permalinks, widgets etc.)
# Turn invitations into gifts (PayPal: Free 10$ for your friends; YouTube: Free laugh; Skype: Two free headsets)
# Charge the publishers not the spectators (Habbo hotel: Buy virtual furnature) –> Freemium business model
# Next Big Thing in participatory media? Can anything disrupt blogs? Blogs seemed perfect. There is problem: Bloggers have the feeling that they don’t blog enough.
# Preconditions of a disruptive innovation: 1) Simpler or 2) Cheaper or 3) Free from need to go to inconvenient place
# Question 1: Can we imagine anything that can be simpler than a blog? Yes: Microblogging (see my Twitter-page)
# Question 2: Blogs are already free. How can you be less expensive than free? Microblogging can, because you can use almost every technology for input or output (web, mobile phone, rss, API, instant messanger, widgets etc.) which costs much less time and increases availability
# Question 3: Does microblogging frees you from going to an inconvenient place? Again, yes! You can only blog from your blog, and for this you have to be online and you need a computer. With microblogging, you can do it on your mobile phone.
# Mass-Starbuckization: Social objects "to go"
# The value of a microblogpost diminishes radically over time, much faster than the value of a blog post
# Blog posts: 1 per week; Photos: 1 per day; Jaiku/Twitter: 1 per hour
# In case of (natural) catastrophes phone networks are usually down; but SMS still goes through!

Thats exactly why i LOVE microblogging and thats exactly why I LOVE using twitter and why I believe that microblogging will not be a butterfly but will sustain for a long time.

Remember: If you visit my blog and find no new blog posts, don’t forget to check out my twitter widget to read my latest microposts.

PS: Mashable recently compared 9 microblogging services (link via Themenblog)

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Apr 25 2007
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Twitterment = Technorati for twitter

If you always wanted to know what people were twittering about you, just ask Twitterment. Example search results:

# Switzerland
# Basel
# Zurich
# Pizza
# Scoble

(via Scobleizer)

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Apr 18 2007
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Awesome: Free twittering with Cellity

Sarik is really doing a great job with Cellity. At re:publica in Berlin I got him so fired up on twitter that he instantly opened a Cellity corporate twit.

During his Cellity-Workshop on the very same afternoon he realized that 90% of the participants were live-twittering – and that an SMS to  the UK costs about 39 cents each. With his low-cost mobile-tool Cellity all SMS cost only 9 cent, and the twitterers just loved to hear this message :-).

After the workshop Sarik realized that he was the perfect enabler for twitter and gave me the information, that he was working on something cool over the weekend: free or almost free twittering.

After a long weekend and a long night, I got a call from Sarik, that the new feature was live: free or almost free twittering

Have fun and congrats to Sarik and his team!

PS: Too bad that Palm Treo isn’t supported yet. But I actually think this is a good thing for my productivity, so please DON’T support Palm OS ;-).

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Apr 18 2007
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Twitter! Twitter! Twitter!

The best gapingvoid-Posting in a long time. Had a very good laugh :-)

PS: Here is my Twitter-page

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Apr 09 2007
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Why I started using twitter

First of all, this interesting podcast with twitter co-founder Evan Williams (and co-founder of Blogger.com) made me sign up:

http://www.podtech.net/player/podtech-player.swf?bc=5a586ee5-c7f3-4d9a-9263-831d031d14c2

Things I learned:
#1: Twitter is so freakin’ easy. It just answers one simple question: What are you doing?
#2: Twitter is like mini-blogging. Because its so easy that I can do it whereever I am via SMS, I twitter more often than I write blog posts (= more content for my blog via the twitter-widget)
#3: Evan does what he is passionate about and EATS ITS OWN DOGFOOD (= one important success factor of both twitter and blogger.com)
#4: I am definitely no early adopter (since I started blogging in august 2006 and twittering in april 2007). I have to be convinced and see real value before I try something new. Thats an interesting personal insight :-).

Example of twitter power-usage:
Robert Scoble asked his 2500+ twitter-friends what tools he should install on his new MacBookPro. The 2500+ friends received an SMS/IM/RSS-alert with this question an sent Robert dozens of tips in just a couple of minutes. Thats value!

PS: I’m sure you already saw my twitter-widget in my sidebar :-).

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