Congratulations to Jack Dorsey on returning to day to day involvement at Twitter as Executive Chairman leading product development. He will continue to handle his CEO role at Square, the iPhone credit card processing system.
Check out Jack in the recent installment of Foundation, Kevin Rose's interview series that focuses on tech entrepreneurs.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
#Happy Birthday
Has it been 5 years already since the first Tweet was sent? I remember first seeing the site back in 2007 at a tech conference and not really seeing the point. Today I can't imagine life without it.
The micro-blogging site has certainly grown fast and now reports more than 140 million Tweets a day which adds up to a billion Tweets every 8 days. While it gets lots of press for the trivial (Charlie Sheen becomes the quickest to 1 million followers!!!!) and the funny that is not really the point of the platform as Wired magazine pointed out back in 2009:
"Twitter’s real impact is almost impossible to gauge other than anecdotally as it quickly permeates the mainstream, and people come up with inventive ways to use it as something more than a status update soapbox, suggestion box and complaint center."
Twitter has changed the way we share and consume information with it's open approach to empowering the individual. In it's relatively short life span the service has proven it's value in providing unfiltered, real time exchange of news, thoughts and ideas.
The micro-blogging site has certainly grown fast and now reports more than 140 million Tweets a day which adds up to a billion Tweets every 8 days. While it gets lots of press for the trivial (Charlie Sheen becomes the quickest to 1 million followers!!!!) and the funny that is not really the point of the platform as Wired magazine pointed out back in 2009:
"Twitter’s real impact is almost impossible to gauge other than anecdotally as it quickly permeates the mainstream, and people come up with inventive ways to use it as something more than a status update soapbox, suggestion box and complaint center."
Twitter has changed the way we share and consume information with it's open approach to empowering the individual. In it's relatively short life span the service has proven it's value in providing unfiltered, real time exchange of news, thoughts and ideas.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Rose no longer Diggs his startup
While some would say they saw this coming with the changes that have been going on inside Digg over the past year (most noticalbly the departure of CEO Jay Adelson) it will still be hard to think of Rose as no longer apart of the start up that put him on the map and made him the poster boy for the second generation of web innovation.
With it's founder and biggest advocate gone who knows what the future brings for Digg which has been struggling since it's peak in 2007/2008 when Google came close to purchasing the company for $200 million.
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