11 posts and columns on Summize

Why Betaworks Broke Up the Band

in Media on September 15, 2011 at 7:08 pm PT

Andy Weissman jumps from the incubator/holding company to become a full-time investor at Union Square Ventures. That wasn’t the plan a few months ago.
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Fired Facebook Acquisitions Exec Lands at Twitter

in Social on May 2, 2011 at 10:02 am PT

Mike Brown, the former Facebook corporate development executive who was dismissed for buying its stock on secondary markets, has taken a similar job at Twitter.

Help Wanted: Twitter Seeks Product Direction

in Social on December 9, 2010 at 8:33 am PT

As Twitter verges on raising funding that would value it at $3.5 to $4 billion, the departure of Product VP Jason Goldman seems to underscore an issue that has plagued Twitter for a long time: Product development. Aside from its well-documented reliability problems, new products and major upgrades at Twitter are few and far between.

What Will Be the Big Tweet from Twitter Event Today? A New Search Offering Would Be Nice….

in News on September 14, 2010 at 5:08 am PT

Yesterday–presumably so as not to be left out of the dueling press gatherings that Apple, Google and Facebook have all had in recent weeks to show off fancy new stuff–Twitter lobbed out an an invite for an event this afternoon: So, what, oh, what are those little elves at the microblogging service going to show off? BoomTown’s hope: A new and improved tweet search.

Twitter Goes Shopping, Comes Home With Tweetie. Next?

in Media on April 9, 2010 at 6:57 pm PT

Twitter has purchased Tweetie, a one-man company that makes a popular iPhone client for the messaging service. Given the rumblings that have been coming from the company in recent days, it’s likely to be followed by more deals down the line.

An Oversized Ruckus About Tiny Web Addresses: Bit.ly’s Bigfoot Offer to the Rest of the Business

in Media on August 10, 2009 at 10:31 am PT

Are you up in arms about the impending demise of tr.im, one of the many services that shorten long Web addresses? Here’s a possible solution, offered by bit.ly, the industry’s bigfoot: A nonprofit archive/graveyard for tr.im’s tiny addresses, along with anyone else who wants to participate.
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Just How Much Search Share Does Twitter Really Have?

in Media on June 18, 2009 at 12:04 pm PT

Twitter notched yet another milestone yesterday when it finally showed up on comScore’s index of Web search milestones. The catch: It barely registered, pulling down a search share of just 0.001 percent. But I’m sure that comScore is missing the majority of Twitter’s searches. So what’s the real number?

Twitter Guys: We’ll Still Be Running This Company in Five Years

in D7 on May 26, 2009 at 6:49 pm PT

Meet the Internet’s It Boys: Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. A year ago, their “micromessaging” platform was unknown outside of a small circle of digerati. Now the service has broken through to the mainstream, or at least to the mainstream media (thanks, Oprah!). But while Twitter has no problem generating attention, it’s still unclear how the company will actually generate revenue. Or maybe it doesn’t need to do that: Last year, Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million in cash and stock, and the service could presumably garner a much higher price today. Or at least that’s what its investors may be hoping for.
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Does Real-Time Search Make Twitter a Google Killer? Its Fanbots Think So (BoomTown Not Quite Yet).

in News on February 9, 2009 at 6:38 am PT

According the latest meme to sweep the digerati over the last several days, here are the words that should make the brainiac satraps over at Google very, very nervous: “See what’s happening–right now.” That’s the motto right below the box on Twitter’s search engine–which is essentially a light-blue-colored design rip-off of Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” mantra. Posits the new theory: It’s Google that should perhaps not be feeling so lucky when it comes to Twitter search because it is becoming the place for what is now being called “real-time” search. But the verdict on whether Twitter can kill the search star is still way, way out.

Twitterers, Bloggers Praise Motrin for Giving Them Something to Do Last Weekend

in Media on November 17, 2008 at 5:02 am PT

Good thing we’ve resolved the global financial crisis, the global terror crisis, and the global warming crisis. Otherwise the blogosphere wouldn’t have had time to rail about a Web video ad campaign from Motrin over the weekend.