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more about #valleywag more comments → Shadowlayer: Seems pincus here has sent a whole bunch of "friends" to spam the place... more » Alaska Miller: It's like telling a city bus to stop only at Burger King instead of McDonald's and expecting everyone to pay extra for free ice cream. more » Monty: What is more interesting than search engines paying for content is that this could ultimately save the news media business. Ignoring the concern to J... more » Magister: What happens when you look for a foreign or local story? I assume the Fox O&Os will be part of the equation, as will their Australian and UK paper... more » sweetpickles: Yes. You'll find the same news at other sites by searching through Google. This isn't only about Murdoch walling off his sites, though. This is about ... more » Hello Mister Walrus: I think this is really audience-specific. I work for a bank, so if I had to choose between Google + no WSJ and some other search engine that is 97% as... more » Gabriel Snyder: And notice in that first search that while News Corp. is saying it can live without Google, it's also buying up ad keywords like "lieberman public opt... more » manchops: but have you tried googling: "Andrea Peyser + sex goddess?" I mean, hello? more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Perfect. And if they take even one step in the direction of "You can't quote our stories" they will drive themselves so far into irrelevancy ... more » SanFranLefty: Publisher of our local fish wrap/Sharon Stone's ex piles on Mayor McDreamy and his demands to dictate all press interviews: [www.sfgate.com] more » Aatom: "if people want to enjoy a fundamental baseline of serious news media in this country, they will have to pay for it, somehow." I agree with this, but... more » drunkexpatwriter: But.... unless I'm missing something, while the original links won't turn up on Google, any story of any real interest will be linked to by a host of ... more » marcsiry: This marks the day that "branding" was officially rebranded as "wanking." more » Shadowlayer: First one to send me a book with his/her tweet farts gets a bullet between the eyes... Kidding, you'll get a golf ball (NRA took my gun, said I was "... more » Shadowlayer: BTW, Chow if you're reading this, your book is on teh torrentz now more » -
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Re-Tweet Redesign Helps the Rich Get Richer on Twitter
Twitter is offering a new way to quote other people's tweets. The new "re-tweet" feature is both less useful and more confusing than the ad-hoc system that preceded it. But that's OK, because it bolsters rich celebrities and dot-com millionaires. More » -
#conspiracytheories
Is Twitter Conspiring with Celebrities to Delete Your Mean Tweets?
Blogger Mickey Kaus likes to send nastygrams to famous people, on Twitter, when the mood strikes him. And yet these messages sometimes disappear from Twitter search, despite the microblogging service's well-established technical competence. Mere coincidence — ha! — or conspiracy? More » -
#startups
The Retreat of King Twitter
With great power comes great responsibility, and with great responsibility comes great headaches. So after years as the hottest, most talked about startup in Silicon Valley, Twitter is ready to relinquish some control of the national conversation. More » -
#mediawars
Twitter CEO's Mockery: We 'Were Laughing at Those Media Guys'
Twitter's revenues will be just $4 million this year, according to a new Wired feature story. But that's not going to crimp its co-founder's swagger: Evan Williams knows Twitter will be huge, and has words for anyone who says otherwise. More » -
#realestate
Twitter CEO's Other New House
Twitter's CEO is building a new home with his elegant, designer wife. But it won't be ready until at least 2010. The couple's existing penthouse is, perhaps, unsuitable for them and their new baby. The solution? A temporary mini-mansion. More » -
#shutuptwitter
Twitter CEO's Wife Tweeting About Her Labor, Naturally
Sara Morishige Williams, the pregnant wife of Twitter honcho Ev Williams, broke her water about an hour ago, news she shared with the world on Twitter. More » -
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Oprah's on Twitter, Twitter's on Oprah, and Everyone's So Excited!
We think we've figure out Twitter's big news tomorrow: Oprah Winfrey is joining Twitter. Here's the evidence. More » -
#forecasts
At Twitter, Tomorrow Never Dies
Twitter CEO Ev Williams is teasing his followers: "Tomorrow just became a very big day." Just? At Twitter, tomorrow is always a very big day. More » -
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#shutuptwitter
Science Proves the Obvious: Twitter Users Are Evil and Wrong
Is Twitter amoral? Scientists have probed the issue, but the answer is obvious: Of course it is. It's a blank slate, by design — empty of values except for the cultish worship of the now. More » -
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Will Google Get Shamed Into Buying Twitter?
Real-time is the future of everything, someone wrote three seconds ago. And therefore, Google will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to buy Twitter! Welcome to the way acquisitions are done in Silicon Valley. More » -
#valleyspawn
Twitter, the Next Generation
Twitter CEO Ev Williams is working on a new product release, currently in beta testing inside wife Sara Morishige's womb: The couple's first child. More » -
#feuds
Blogfather Accuses Twitter of Payola Scheme He Pioneered
Dave Winer, the old guy who takes credit for blogging, podcasting, and other tech trends, is mad at Twitter CEO Ev Williams. Why? Because Williams is making people — people who are not Dave Winer — famous. More » -
#jackpot
The Home That Google Built
Twitter CEO Ev Williams and his wife, Sara Morishige, are building a house. What took so long? San Francisco's most disorganized Internet boss dude has been rich since 2003, after he sold Blogger to Google. More » -
#braintrust
Do You Trust These People to Save the Economy?
That White House summit of young business leaders actually happened. We know because our new economic saviors are posting their cameraphone pics on Twitter. Here's noted thought leader Ivanka Trump and Twitter founder Ev Williams. More » -
#wantrepreneurs
Obama's Tech Twit Conference Will Destroy Us All
The nation is in crisis, our economy on the brink. And yet President Change is spending time with a group of technowastrels whose sole noteworthy accomplishment has been to spend other people's money.
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#twitter
I Tweet, Therefore I Am
Why do people Twitter? Even the company's CEO, Ev Williams can't answer that question. Perhaps he is embarrassed by the true reason: We Twitter to reassure ourselves that we are alive.
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#shutuptwitter
Twitter Now Worth $230 Million, According to Investors
No money? No problem! Twitter doesn't have any actual revenues, but venture capitalists have poured another $35 million into its coffers, valuing the text-update service for hipster oversharers at $230 million. More » -
#shutuptwitter
Why Twitter Is the Perfect Startup
The financial world is in ashes. But that makes adorable little startup Twitter all the more precious. It is perhaps the only Internet dream left. And any economist will tell you that scarcity creates value. More »
