Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. If you look at the power of Bit.ly

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

The government is a Byzantine, reactive organization plagued by its self-imposed hierarchy. Innovation in the end is about creating products, but largely the federal government doesn't make products; it buys them. One very encouraging note these organizations are trying to use "Web 2.0"

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. reinvented, with more people online and trained.

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