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What will make Twitter a billion-dollar business in 12-24 months.

Imagine if every 10th, 20th, or 100th tweet was an advertisement. Would that be so horrible? No, not at all. "your free Twitter account is brought to you by Apple's iPhone" would be perfectly acceptable more...
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Plaxo and FriendFeed: More On Presence And The Social Feed

Mike Gotta discusses how Plaxo and FriendFeed solve a very important problem with the social networking sites: there’s been no good way to see what your friends are doing on different sites around the more...
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Will it fly? Evaluating a New Product Idea

Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter and a veteran entrepreneur provides deep insight into evaluating product ideas in this post and analyzes the idea in terms of: Tractability, Obviousness, Deepness, more...
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Analyzing the Twitter-Jaiku-Pownce Business Model and Issues

Micro- or Nano-blogging, Presence Messengers and ways to share or send stuff are part of the same ecosystem: services that operate with a slightly different or overlapping focus. Tumblr, Dodgeball, Jaiku, more...
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Kawasaki looks to a new launch - Frienderati

Guy Kawasaki's Alltop is launching a counterpart to the Twitterati - called Frienderati. Celebrities like Dave Winer, Loic Le Meur, Kevin Rose, and Guy Kawasaki (who is also one of the founders of Alltop more...
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Get the Latest Twitter and FriendFeed News - ReadWriteWeb

SmashingFeeds.com is a very simple online new aggregator that displays feeds of your interest from various news/blog sources. There many advantages while using this free aggregator like no log-in required more...
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