7 posts and columns on Ryan Sarver

Meet DataMinr, One of Twitter’s Favorite Start-Ups

in Social on October 5, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Asked about Twitter ecosystem opportunities at a recent press event, Dick Costolo brought up DataMinr, a New York-based data analysis provider for hedge funds.
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How Twitter + Apple Will Help Both Twitter and iOS Apps Grow (Q&A)

in Social on June 13, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Twitter, which has taken a lot of flack from outside developers as it has slowly built out products that compete with theirs, will soon take on a whole new developer ecosystem: Apple’s. Twitter’s Ryan Sarver says he’ll help iOS developers get what they really want: more users.
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Bebo CTO and hi5 Founder Akash Garg Joins Twitter

in Social on June 6, 2011 at 1:55 pm PT

Akash Garg, who was most recently CTO of Bebo, has joined Twitter. Garg had previously been responsible for the technology behind early social networking site hi5, where he was a co-founder. He will be part of Twitter’s API team, said team product manager Ryan Sarver. Twitter PR confirmed Garg is now an engineer on the Platform team.

No First Birthday Party for Twitter's Chirp Conference This Year

in Social on April 12, 2011 at 3:25 pm PT

One year ago this week, Twitter held its first developer conference, Chirp. But amid recent management shake-ups at the company, the event is not on the calendar yet for 2011.

Sulia Helps Twitter Sort the Tweet From the Chaff

in Media on March 24, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

There’s a lot of great stuff on Twitter. And there’s a lot more lousy stuff. Twitter thinks curation is really important, but isn’t doing it itself–yet. So it’s asking outsiders for help.

Web 2.0 Expo: Location Apps Come to Laptops, Desktops

in News on April 1, 2009 at 5:16 pm PT

Is this the year that location-based applications, already popular among mobile users, migrate to desktops and laptops as well? Ryan Sarver, director of consumer products at Skyhook Wireless, which operates a Wi-Fi-based positioning system, is betting so. “It feels like 2009 is a huge year for location on laptops,” he told the crowd of techies at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco Wednesday.