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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). So did the media.

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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What's the idea behind Sometrics? Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

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What's the idea behind Sometrics? Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. A decade ago the idea of even watching video online would have been laughable. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Just how transformative is broadband? THAT is disruption.