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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-27

  • Investors rejoice! Bono named worst investor in America – http://bizj.us/85yxb #
  • Charlotte library board to keep all branches open. It will make other cuts instead. http://bizj.us/8615l #
  • RT @bizjournals Cutting postal service on Saturday moving closer to reality: http://bizj.us/85vd9 #
  • Small Biz Survival: Can you teach entrepreneurship? http://ow.ly/1q4cC #
  • Joe Wilcox: The Difference Between Blogging and Journalism: For the most part, blogging is not journalism. http://ow.ly/1q48f #
  • Apple iPad users say they’ll shun App Store — it's our most-read story today. http://bizj.us/85odl #
  • RT @johnhcook: Zumobi creates iPhone app for NBC's Meet the Press. http://bit.ly/bRWTb7 #
  • 10 attorneys general plan to fight new heath care bill as soon as it is signed into law. http://bizj.us/84z9f #
  • My Weekend WSJ wasn't delivered. It's my "Sunday" paper that I spend lots of time reading #

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More good quotes and statements from SXSW Interactive 2010

Kami Huyse @kamichat on Southwestern’s response to Kevin Smith removal:
“Their post was about policy. Leading with policy always fails. You can’t communicate through the lens of policy.”
Jessamyn West and Jenny Engstrom on what new internet users hate about web sites from their talk on the Digital Divide:
  • Advertising
  • Forced registration
  • CAPCHAs
  • “watch this video to learn this”
  • PDFs
  • DHTML menus and tiny triangles
Monica Guzman on corrections in Twitter with seattlepi.com: If seattlepi makes an error in a Twitter post, they note the correction in a new post and remove the old one because not everyone following the stream sees the corrected before forwarding or replying.
Jesus Diaz with Gizmodo for supplying the CNBC video about this story on the reaction to Steve Jobs’ Health Declining Rapidly, Reason for MacWorld Cancellation. This video shows what a circus media can be at times:

Becky McRay of SmallBiz Survival for how important economic development in small and rural areas are.

Among McRay’s businesses: liquor store and cattle ranch:

“I file four Schedule Cs on the personal income taxes.”

AK Pradeep for the video “Dr NeroFocus-Listen To Your Brain”

AK Pradeep on the best way for kids to study:

  1. Watch TV
  2. Eat dinner
  3. Do homework
  4. Go to bed

His reason? The brain consolidates your memories, so you want it process the homework rather the TV show.

Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter:

Openness or transparency in a company? “Openness is a door. Transparancy is a window.”

“We have always held that it was important that Twitter reach the weakest signals, which would be SMS to mobile phones.”

Mark Risher, Sr. Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! on email’s demise:

“The death of email is exaggerated. It’s still the best way to for one to few.”

Jay Habegger, founder of OwnerIQ Inc. comparing the privacy standards of BtoB web sites compared with BtoC:

BtoB word is much looser. “It behaves about five years behind the norms in the BtoC sites.”

Jim Coudal on the CPM mode of advertising:
“CPM is not the model. It’s in a downward spiral. It’s in a downward spiral. To counter it, you end up increasing the number of ads.”
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10 good quotes from SXSW Interactive 2010

Chris Shipley, Guidewire Group, on the state of venture capital and entrepreners:

“Today revenue is the new venture capital.”

“Even the state department now believes that world peace will come from entrepreneurs. So you guys are ambassadors of peace.”
Brian Solis, author of How your Brand Can Succeed on the New Web on social media :
“Social media feels like our summer of love. Twitter is our Woodstock.”
On brands and social media:
“Brands are going to have to think like media … Just checking in on the wall is not enough.”

Jesper Anderson started his business, freerisk.com from anger over the financial meltdown, the lack of information and wanted to do something about it.

“When you live in San Francisco, you’re obligated to try.”

Alan Martin, Campus Book Rentals, on why his company did not need social media to succeed:

“Luckily we had an angry audience. College students are angry about the college textbook deals. We had an audience that was angry and ready.”

Matt Chasen, uShip, on starting a new business:

“Go into a business where everyone attending the conference is over 70 and doesn’t own an iPhone.”

Paul Graham: Y Combinator, on picking the best seed accelerator group:

“It’s like picking a girl friend or a surgeon. With a girl friend you pick the one that’s right for you. With a surgeon, you pick the one that’s best. I’d pick one like I’d pick a surgeon

Naval Ravikant, Venture Hacks:

To be successful in a start-up you have to have high intelligence, high integrity and high energy. Inteligence and energy are easier to mesure. Integrity is the most important factor

David Cohen, TechStars: “If everytime you talk with the founders you get more excited. That’s a company I want to work with.”

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-20

  • Proposed Fed consumer bureau would operate almost like an independent agency. @bizjournals http://bizj.us/470jl #
  • The Charlotte libraries that are listed for closing. http://bizj.us/1c0px #
  • Small businesses are almost as optimistic now as before the economic crisis. http://bizj.us/waqn #
  • RT @bizjournals: We want to know which is your favorite TV network for business news? http://bizj.us/waof #
  • I'm back, luggage missed the flight. Arrive on later flight. #
  • RT @ScottHepburn: Informative video series by the FTC about the blogger disclosure guidelines released back in December http://ow.ly/1n9eX #
  • @jennylish For many people without home (corrected) access to internet access a library is their only option #digitaldivide #
  • Chris Shipley: Revenue is the new venture capital #grabyouropportunity #sxsw #
  • Rain #sxsw #
  • #fixemail better than #emailnextfrontier #
  • A journalist should have led the interview. #sxsw #
  • Broken escalator — one of the long ones. #swsw #
  • RT @jenleereeves: I want to hang out with everyone in the #processjournalism room and talk about this for the rest of the day. #SXSW #
  • RT @akeats: is that the #sxsw secret? Best panels are at 930? #processjournalism #
  • I'm divided between the journalism and business sessions. #sxsw #
  • Same here — RT @sleuth Just realized no one has mentioned Google Buzz to me. Foursquare and Gowalla are everywhere, though. #sxsw #
  • Choose a business where 70- year-olds attend the conference and no one has an iPhone @mattchasen #unsexyandprofitable #
  • #unsexyandprofitable making $$ without hype. My next session. The kind of businesses I like. #
  • Can community-funded journalism save newspaper? No. Best estate: 30% of revenue. #
  • Dennis Crowley gave nice tidbits on how small business are embracing foursquare. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-13

  • C'mon battery. Don't keep dying on me. You've got to hold your own at SXSW #
  • Brian Solis: Major media, including USA Today, getting more traffic from social media now than Google. #
  • Brian Solis panel at SXSW started in a good way. Give out 78 memosas. That was tasty. #
  • Session 1. — free cookies being passed out and sitting on the floor. #
  • Was there anyone on the plane who did not have a copy of Wired or Linux Journal? #
  • @bizjournals Toyota sales not hurt by recalls apparently. http://bizj.us/une9 #
  • RT @bizjournals: Our most-read story of the day: The politics of coffee in the office workplace. http://ow.ly/1gm5g #
  • RT @bizjournals: How much would it take for you to quit your job today? http://bizj.us/ufq5 #
  • RT @toddbishop: Twitter analysis accurately predicted big 'Hurt Locker' win http://bit.ly/aaoBNV #
  • The perils of offering coffee in the workplace — from who washes the pot to which brand. http://bizj.us/u637 #
  • Workers Rise to Lower 401(k) Fees: fighting those fees. http://on.wsj.com/d3sLKU #WSJ #
  • RT @ericengleman: As Amazon loses big ecommerce platform customers like Target, it's looking to mid-market retailers. http://bit.ly/as7m81 #
  • I'm ready for wubi. #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-13

  • This is a snow I like to watch fall — big flakes. #clt #
  • RT @bizjournals Bill Gates brushed off the iPad, but Microsoft is looking to make a buck off the device: http://bizj.us/pehz #
  • RT @yelvington Microsoft update kills XP: http://bit.ly/b82p9H How to undo the damage: http://bit.ly/cjt1nm #
  • RT @bizjournals: Most viewed on bizjournals today: Doritos Super Bowl ads top poll http://bizj.us/ou0r #
  • RT @bizjournals: We're asking how much you plan to spend on Valentine's Day — zero is 2nd most popular answer. http://bizj.us/ov2j #
  • For a local Hallmark store Valentine's Day = Christmas. The store has extended hours this weekend for last-minute card shoppers. #
  • Portfolio.com: Should you even try to keep your business and social online persona separate? http://bizj.us/ot8p #
  • RT @bizjournals From Portfolio – Is Andrew Cuomo's suit against Ken Lewis taking place in the wrong courtroom: http://bizj.us/ole7 #
  • Saw BofA's Holy Cow photo exhibit of animals in the Hearst Gallery during lunch. Pictures of dogs made me smile. #clt #
  • Coca-Cola annual profit hits $6.8 billion is our most-read story today: http://bizj.us/on1x #
  • Given a choice of romantic dinner at White Castle http://bizj.us/onib or Waffle House http://bizj.us/onil, I'd go for burgers. #
  • D.C. restaurants used Twitter during the weekend's snowstorm to let patrons know they were still open. http://bizj.us/oenz #
  • RT @Rieva: Top 5 Social Media Tools #smallbiz owners actually use. New blog post: http://ow.ly/1549m #socialmedia #
  • RT @bizjournals Today, the Boy Scouts of America turns 100. A look at the challenges it faces: http://bizj.us/ocpz #
  • WSJ sends email news alert on Saints victory. Was that necessary? #
  • RT @yelvington Forrester bans personal blogs by its analysts. The only appropriate response is to nail 95 theses to the door. #

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